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"Pop music claimed Giles Smith early. He was just nine when he joined his friend John Taylor's band. (Not the John Taylor who ended up playing bass in Duran Duran; another one.) That was only the beginning. Later he was in Pony. Then the Orphans of Babylon. And then the Cleaners from Venus, who nearly made it big, but didn't. This is his story - one man's journey into rock, and back to his mum's.
"Lost in Music is a book about growing up with pop music - about hearing it, buying it, loving it, and attempting to play it in public for money. Smith conducts us through the soundtrack to his life, pausing to consider some of pop's great imponderables. Who listens to Pink Floyd? Can a CD box ever be an adequate substitute for a 12-inch record sleeve? What is it about Stevie Wonder's voice? And, most importantly, how does one apply for Sting's job? A brilliant combination of the confessional and the unapologetic, Lost in Music is for anyone who has ever treasured vinyl or sung into a roll-on deodorant in front of the bedroom mirror and dreamed of playing Wembley."
Cleaners from Venus
, Martin Newell, Home, Postal address
