Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond - Brossura

Radcliffe, Mark

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9781847373502: Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond

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ISBN 10: 184737350X ISBN 13: 9781847373502

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2009

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Approaching 50, Mark Radcliffe decided to write about his life, most importantly, his time in music. But crucially, he only wanted to write about the most interesting days and not the dull ones in between. With predictable good taste, Mark takes his title from the Kinks' song and has written an entertaining, funny book worthy of such a pedigree.
Mark's family life is covered by 'The Day My Mother Hit Me With a Golf Club' , his school life by 'The Day I Ruined a Perfectly Good Suit' and 'The Day I Got My First Guitar'; through his epiphany of the power of music in 'The Day I Met the Band Who Changed My Life' and his star struck meeting with childhood hero, David Bowie. Many other stars are covered too, for example in 'The Day I Went to Kate Bush's House for Cheese Flan', and 'The Day Mick Jagger Was Taller Than Me'. He's very funny when recounting his days working at the BBC in '80s and '90s (how, when bored, he and colleagues invented a fictional department), winning Stars in Their Eyes as Shane MacGowan and so on. Yet, among the laughter are more sober days, such as the one when he learned John Peel had died.
A cracking read and a potted history of both one man's life and his love affair with music, THANK YOU FOR THE DAYS is a uniquely entertaining memoir that will appeal not just to music fans but to connoisseurs of British popular culture.

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Recensione:

'This memoir is an amiable wander through the interesting bits of Mark Radcliffe's life, loosely linked by the theme of music... There are some good anecdotes, such as the time Mick Jagger stood on tiptoe just as a photo was taken, so as to appear taller than Radcliffe'
Independent on Sunday 5/4

'Radcliffe's blunt, unfussy prose very much captures the spirit of what makes him such an enticing proposition on the radio: that ability to ramble whilst remaining both funny and compelling'
The List, 2/4

'Mark Radcliffe is, I fancy, a born raconteur and whether you're lucky enough to be in his company or perusing the pages of his book there's always a touch of nostalgia in his tales'
Interview, Manchester Evening News 6/4
'With self-effacing charm, a keen eye for a joke and John Peel-esque adulation for great music, he tells us about how he met Tony Blair dressed as a Victorian undertaker, and how Paul McCartney told him that before he had words for Yesterday he sang the opening beats as "scrambled eggs." He remembers being Shane McGowan on Stars In Their Eyes and reflects on why Keith Richards might just be more rock'n'roll than Mick Jagger. Entertaining and touching yarns unfold within yarns and Radcliffe... proves himself an eminently likeable chap, one with whom you'd be chuffed to share a few jars and a chat about his funny old life behind the mic'
London Lite 31/1
'Enough of Radcliffe's everyman persona shines through to make him as companionable on the page as he is on air'
Metro 15/4

'Radcliffe's memoirs aren't salacious, or savage, or titillating just for the hell of it. In a world where book deals are offered to any celebrity falling out of a cab, it's reassuring there's still room for a personal reflection like this, in which the completion of a coast-to-coast ramble across the north of England is valued as highly as introducing a boyhood hero David Bowie on stage. All in all, Mark Radcliffe's in quite a good place, really; at ease with middle age, it seems, and still not averse to a bit of the new'
Word Magazine, May issue
'[Radcliffe] is 50 now, looking back nostalgically at several decades (two of them at the BBC) of a life pretty much devoted to pop music and amiable blokeishness in the traditional British manner'
The Times 25/4

'Fans of Radcliffe's rambling, chatty style will love this easy-going read - but it is the glimpses of his humble family background that prove the most revealing'
News of the World, 26/4

'Radcliffe effortlessly transfers the self-effacing, avuncular persona that serves him so well on air to the printed word'
Waterstones Books Quarterly
'The Radio 2 Presenter is Wowed by the Magic of David Blaine and Waterstone's during a Booksigning Trip to London...
Visiting bookshops recently has been life-reaffirming. The people who work there I've found to be, without exception, welcoming, enthusiastic, interested and interesting'
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Diary, The Times 23/5

'Mark Radcliffe, this year's Sony Gold winner for music broadcasting, loves working in radio...The subtitle, "a Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond", carries the stamp of his particular brand of Northern humour, being ironic (he's 50), allusive (echoes of books his father might have read), with just a hint of the grand, the "beyond" being where he meets such stars as David Bowie... This is an honest and intelligent guide to the way music, heard in adolescence, will run through your life thereafter'
Daily Telegraph 23/5
‘Pitch-perfect’
Independent on Sunday 11/7

‘Always a refreshing breath of down-to-earth amiability on the airwaves, DJ Mark Radcliffe brings the same chatty, Northern tone to this memoir of life in broadcasting.’
The Herald 26/6

‘Anyone who enjoys the broadcaster's warm, waggish radio patter will devour this book, as Radcliffe clearly relishes the role of raconteur, and keeps the juicy showbiz anecdotes coming thick and fast’
Sunday Express 04/07

‘Pitch-perfect’
Independent on Sunday 11/7

‘Always a refreshing breath of down-to-earth amiability on the airwaves, DJ Mark Radcliffe brings the same chatty, Northern tone to this memoir of life in broadcasting.’
The Herald 26/6

‘Anyone who enjoys the broadcaster's warm, waggish radio patter will devour this book, as Radcliffe clearly relishes the role of raconteur, and keeps the juicy showbiz anecdotes coming thick and fast’
Sunday Express 04/07

L'autore:

Mark Radcliffe is a DJ for BBC Radio 2.

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