
Thank You for the Days
A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond
Mark Radcliffe(Author)
Simon & Schuster Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 8. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84739-370-8 (ISBN)
Description
Approaching 50, Mark Radcliffe decided to write about his life and his love of music. But crucially, he only wanted to write about the most interesting days and not the dull ones in between. From 'The Day My Mother Hit Me With a Golf Club' to 'The Day I Met the Band Who Changed My Life' he charts the peaks and troughs of his life and career with wit, panache and insight. He is very funny when recounting his days working at the BBC in the 1980s and 1990s (including how, when bored, he and his colleagues invented a fictional department), and on winning Stars in Their Eyesas Shane MacGowan. Yet amongst the laughter are more sober days, such as the day 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 Daysis a uniquely entertaining memoir that will appeal not just to music fans but to connoisseurs of British popular culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
20 integrated b-w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84739-370-8 (9781847393708)
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04/2009
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
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Person
Mark Radcliffe was born in Bolton and attended Manchester University. He has been employed by the BBC to talk in between records for over twenty years, many of these with Lard (aka Marc Riley) and currently with Stuart Maconie on Radio 6. He has won 6 Gold Sony Awards plus Sony's Music Broadcaster of the Year 2009, and has recorded five albums with two bands. He has three daughters and lives in Cheshire.