Book description
Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all.
New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Ticket to the World as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Stop. Before you say, “Spandau Ballet? Rock Stars?” let me, or even better, Martin Kemp (in his book) tell you that he and his Blitz Kid brothers gave Motley a run for their money in their eighties rock star behavior, so yes, he’s on my list.
He’s also not so different from Seb Hunter and I, in that he wanted to be in a band, just like his friends Steve Strange, Midge Ure, Boy George and George Michael (their names may be familiar). Again, it’s his passion for the era that makes this compulsive reading as he chronicles the rise…
From Richard's list on wanting to be a rock star in the eighties.
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