{"product_id":"9780552174763","title":"In My Life : A Music Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Johnson, Alan, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 27\/06\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages, 8pp colour + black \u0026amp; white photos,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Corgi Books,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Transworld Publishers Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Memoirs, Autobiography: arts \u0026amp; entertainment\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780552174763\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eFrom the moment a young Alan Johnson first twanged the strings of his plastic 'Tommy Steele' guitar, he was determined to become a rock star. Alan's life has always been lived to a musical soundtrack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis earliest memories of the bleak, post-war, pre-rock 'n' roll west London landscape into which he was born are suffused with the melodies that wafted from the rented Bakelite wireless in the slum where he lived with his frail mother and dauntless sister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis love affair with pop music blossomed alongside the music itself, which exploded into being in the mid-1950s and came to embody the iconoclastic spirit of a new era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir, Alan looks back at his pursuit of rock stardom through the music that accompanied it - on vinyl, cassette tape or blasting from the stages of the Marquee club in Soho or the Wimbledon Palais; the sounds of Chuck Berry and Lonnie Donegan, of the Yardbirds and Dylan, of Bowie, Elvis Costello and Springsteen...not forgetting the Beatles, the band he has worshipped since 1963.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn My Life recalls with affection a vanished world of Flower Power and platform shoes. Honest, poignant and very funny, it is more than just a nostalgic celebration of music: it offers a new perspective on the singular life of Alan Johnson the man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021928071321,"sku":"9780552174763","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780552174763_f04c55a1-4293-4326-98b1-b0ece7e3da73.jpg?v=1601397398","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780552174763","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}