An excerpt from Chapter 1 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. ‘The trouble with dying is it’s so bloody final!’ I was lying flat on my back across a railway track, a hundred yards up from my local railway station with my head on the line,…
Category: Biography
Teenage Opera, ‘the’ soap opera
An excerpt from Chapter 12 of: Thinking About Tomorrow – Excerpts from the life of Keith West * The idea for the song that was to define Keith West’s professional career, in the mind of the general public at least, supposedly came from a dream which Mark Wirtz had in…
Dana Gillespie and David Bowie
An excerpt from Chapter 2 of Dana Gillespie: Weren’t Born a Man * By now, I was a regular at the Marquee Club, and whenever I could go, I would be down there, getting my fix of the Blues. One evening, Friday the 6th of November 1964 to be precise,…
Gerard Houllier
An excerpt from Champions Again. By Ian Carroll. I’ll go on record right now and say that I love, absolutely love Mr Houllier. Everything you’ll read in the next few chapters will have that mark of respect. He started out as a schoolteacher, and while he was studying for that…