Simon Napier-Bell

I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch (eBook, ePUB)

A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pop manager extraordinaire Simon Napier-Bell had had enough. He'd had enough of pop groups. He'd had enough of the constant grief at home with his two ex-boyfriends bickering and bleeding him dry; and most of all he'd had enough of the music biz. But then he fell in love with a new passion - the Far East; and a dynamic new duo - George and Andrew - jointly called Wham! Soon, in an audacious attempt to have the best of both worlds, he found himself offering to arrange for Wham! to be the first ever Western pop group to play in communist China - a masterstroke of PR which, in one swift stroke, would make them one of the biggest groups in the world.

What follows is an exciting, unpredictable and hilarious romp around the more curious corners of the world as Napier-Bell dives into the unknown, attempting to achieve the unachievable. We soon find ourselves in the company of a wonderful cast of petulant pop stars, shady international 'businessmen', and a hilarious confusion of spies, students and institutionalised officials and ministers as he edges ever closer to inadvertently becoming one of the first Westerners to break down the walls of communist China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ebury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446491560
• Artikelnr.: 38092933

Autorenporträt

In the 1960s Simon Napier-Bell managed the Yardbirds and co-wrote Dusty Springfield's huge hit 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' (also the title of his first book - 'The classic hidden history of Sixties pop' Jon Savage). He subsequently managed Marc Bolan, Japan, and Wham! as well as many other laughably less successful groups.

www.simonnapierbell.com

Inhaltsangabe

Part I April 19831 Happy birthday 32 Cherry blossom 73 Such a remnant 134
Fresh as daisies 215 A bit steep 386 Soyoung 467 Muscle Shoals 558 Messing
about in Asia 609 Belly dancing 7110 Berlin 8211 Sore throat 8912 Black
fairies 9913 Broken glass 10814 Settlement 117Part II April 198415 Happy
birthday 12716 Quite excited 13517 A painfully pointless meal 14518 A very
bad thing19 The truth20 Because you're delicious21 So grand, so bitchy, so
broke 18122 Red telephone 19423 Not so famous 20624 Somersaults 21625 No
photos 22326 Invitation 23027 Tears 23728 This sporting life 24429 Stay in
your seats 25230 The last post 259Part III April 198531 Happy birthday 269
32 Talent night at the Apollo 277
33 Six thousand bicycles 288
34 Bit of a nutcase 296
35 Rough cuts and helicopters 306
36 Funeral rites 319
37 Selling up 324
38 American Music Awards 333
39 Sun City
40 Kites and anchors
41 Freedom
Part IV April 1986
42 Happy birthday
43 And then?