One Hit Wonderland - Tony Hawks

...– an artist who has one hit record and is never heard from again. Tony Hawks, however, isn’t happy with being a “One Hit Wonder”, as he feels he has the talent, if not as a singer, then as a songwriter, to hit the charts again. So he takes on another bet – to have a hit record, either as a writer or a performer, within 2 years. As with his previous books, we follow Tony as he aims to win his bet. This takes him to the heart of country in Nashville, ...
...or the £5.59 Amazon price. If you’re new to the amusing travelogue style of writing or to Tony Hawks, I’d recommend “Round Ireland With a Fridge” over “one Hit Wonderland”, but advise you to come back to this one once you’ve decided if the genre is to your taste. ...

Soho_Black 27.02.2005 · Read full review
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...football team at tennis), this one is almost verging on the normal. Although everything's relative, clearly - most sane people wouldn't take off around the world for two years with a mission to get themselves a hit record, all for the sake of "honour". But then, as it quickly becomes clear in One Hit Wonderland, Tony Hawks isn't at all representative of most sane people. "' I bet that you can't have a Top Twenty hit - anywhere in the world, either ...
...though, it is clear why one would want to do this; although Hawks is not after fame or money as a musician, plenty of others are, and the lack of innocence or "for-the-sake-of-it" good will adversely affects One Hit Wonderland. The second failing, somewhat related, was the lack of a consistent direction in the book ~ several times, Hawks would come up with an idea, pursue it, watch it fail, then sit back and think "what next?". In Round Ireland ...

Puggers 04.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of One Hit Wonderland - Tony Hawks

...suggested that Tony is a One Hit Wonder. That he will never have a hit again. Ever. Really? Well we’ll see about that… Over the next two years Tony battles against all the odds to have a hit, somewhere – anywhere – in the world. He changes acts and styles with a bewildering lack of integrity. He travels to Nashville, song writing capital of the universe; to Amsterdam for that elusive Euro anthem; to Eastern Europe to duet with a Romanian beauty ...
...Amidst all the uncertainty only one thing is clear – in One Hit Wonderland anything is possible… ISBN 0 09 188208 7 Pages: - 308 Price: - £10.99 Websites: - www.onehitwonderland.com www.tony-hawks.com I personally believe that Tony Hawks should stay away from Parties and pubs as these are the places he usually ends up being cajoled into taking up challenges put to him in a half drunken state. Indeed he says himself that he is worried that he ...

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...single. He already has had one - Top Five infact! Back in the eighties, under the guise of Morris Minor and the Majors, Hawks reached number 4 in the British charts with the "Stutter Rap". In the intervening years, Hawks has made his name as a stand-up comedian, appearing on radio quiz shows and appearing asa contestant on TV's "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Years later, whilst at a dinner party, the subject of Tony's brief pop career arises and in ...
...by hundreds of fans including one lady who is determined to have Norman pose for a photograph with her daughter - even if she has to stop the traffic to do it. Hawks gets you so involved that you outwardly groan each time there is a setback beyond Tony's control. In all of his books, he has shown a knack for drawing in the reader and making you back him all the way. I wouldn't normally write such a short review of a book but really all you need ...

fizzytom 09.01.2004 · Read full review
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