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Book SynopsisDON''T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON''S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL, COMING SPRING 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016
''Celebratory and elegiac'' Guardian
''A roller-coaster memoir'' Sunday Times
''Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very touching'' The Pool
''Patterson fillets out the pretentious bones of pop, leaving its glistening meat'' Observer
This is a three-decade survivor''s tale . . . a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music, magazines, silly jokes, stupid shoes, useless blokes, hopeless homes, booze, drugs, love, loss, A&E, death, disillusion and hope.
In 1986, Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full of vinyl records, a peroxide quiff and a dream: to write about music, for ever. She got her wish.
Escaping a troubled home, Sylvia embarks on a lifelong quest to di
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A roller-coaster memoir, which also works as a paean to a lost era, when pop (and pop journalism) was flush with cash and kudos * Sunday Times (Music Book of the Year) *
Great journalism, and also written with a clear, unsentimental eye * The Times *
Patterson hilariously recounts life on Britain's Brightest Pop Magazine (TM). Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very touching * The Pool *
Celebratory and elegiac, I'm Not with the Band documents the last three and half decades in pop and gives an honest account of an exhilarating and grueling life. Top read. * Guardian *
