This talking book CD features six CDs & is narrated by Johnnie Walker & his wife. Once you start listening to it you won't switch it off, the story takes the listener from his school days with the conflicts with his father regarding his eductaion to his first steps as a disc jockey. He takes ... Read review
Young Johnnie Walker was obsessed with music and loved to share that passion. So it wasn't ... more
long after he'd started DJing in dance halls and pubs that he got his big break: he talked his way into a slot with newly founded station Radio England - and launched his career. This autobiography tells of forty years at the heart of British broadcasting.
Advantages: Great story, very well narrated Disadvantages: No pictures supplied with the package unlike the book
...you won't switch it off, the story takes the listener from his school days with the conflicts with his father regarding his eductaion to his first steps as a disc jockey. He takes us through his period with Radio Caroline & the early days with BBC Radio One until the mid 1970s.
His free spirit attitude & love of good music takes him to America with his family, as you wait for the story to unfold on how successful he became there you quickly ... .../>
On his return to the UK his story plunges into his battle with cancer, here his wife takes up the story & only a hard hearted person could not feel emotional on the battle he had. Just a pity that the CD talking book doesn't come with the pictures that are supplied with the paper book version. A great story about one of the best DJ's in the business. ... more
This talking book CD features six CDs & is narrated by Johnnie Walker & his wife. Once you start listening to it you won't switch it off, the story takes the listener from his school days with the conflicts with his father regarding his eductaion to his first steps as a disc jockey. He takes us through his period with Radio Caroline & the early days with BBC Radio One until the mid 1970s. His free spirit attitude & love of good music takes him to America with his family, as you wait for the story to unfold on how successful he became there you quickly realise that it never quite worked out like that. On his return to the UK his story plunges into his battle with cancer, here his wife takes up the story & only a hard hearted person could not feel emotional on the battle he had. Just a pity that the CD talking book doesn't come with the pictures that are supplied with the paper book version. A great story about one of the best DJ's in the business.
Advantages: Soul-baring and quite moving in places Disadvantages: He comes across as rather intolerant at times
with his second wife and their daughter Victoria. Both of those, as well as his sister Jackie and son Simon, also get to write a few paragraphs of their own in the book.
There are many better media memoirs than this; for example JohnnieWalker's Autobiography, which was published at about the same time and is in my view a must-read in this field. But it's an honest and entertaining read, and I suspect that even some radio listeners who found him not their cup of tea might find this book worth their while.
(This is a modified version of a review originally posted on Bookbag) ...
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Product details
Type
Audio CD
Title
The Autobiography
Author
Johnnie Walker
Genre
Biography
Subgenre
Radio Shows
Number of Pages
3
Publisher
Penguin Audiobooks
ISBN
0141024283; 0718148533
Manufacturer's product description
The reader and I are only interested in the truth. Recklessly generously illustrated. This is the book I've been secretly longing to write. There is so much in my overstuffed life that I've never talked about publicly before. All the things I love and dread are here: objects, photographs, people, letters, ideas, regrets, memories, journeys, being a model in the sixties, a daughter of the regiment, a friend of Dirk Bogarde; things I believe in, people I've met and can't forget; slumming it, lording it, failure and survival. I wanted to write about eyeliner as well as sleeping under shrunken heads in a longhouse; being an honorary New Yorker, death (and why I think about it daily) and how to get thinner fast. To give it structure I have devised a framework which is in fact, My House. I shall show the reader into every room, from front door to attic window, walking through the (colossally) sustained metaphor of my life, answering questions (which I have cunningly put) about all the stuff in the place; my things: me. Why are you photographed with the Dalai Lama? Is this the teddy bear you had on your bed at school? Did you draw this picture of your son?Why did you make these pathetic curtains? Who are you? Do you lie to the press?
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