Let's Make Lots of Money My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop

Name: Let's Make Lots of Money
Author: Tom Watkins

Auteur: Tom Watkins

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Tom Watkins

Engels
Paperback
9780753541975
06 juli 2017
336 pagina's

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The author is the famously entertaining pop Svengali with killer commercial instincts and prodigious talent for design who propelled the Pet Shop Boys, Bros and East 17, among others, to global stardom. His fingerprints are all over 80s and 90s pop. In this book, he takes us through his colourful life into the inner-circle of 80s pop-culture.

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Tom Watkins is the famously entertaining pop Svengali with killer commercial instincts and prodigious talent for design. He propelled the Pet Shop Boys, Bros and East 17, among others, to global stardom, all whilst maintaining a savage hedonistic lifestyle and a stellar art collection. His fingerprints are all over British pop, and he’s decided the time has come for a tell-all autobiography about the business behind the stars that shaped your life in the 80s and 90s.

Follow Tom’s journey from his humble boyhood in post-war South-East London, to his teenage misdeeds and the birth of Rock and Roll; his days as a design student under the tutelage of Terence Conran and Rodney Fitch, to the excesses of the 80s and 90s where he became one of the original boy band innovators – the driving force behind the pop icons plastered on the walls of teenage girls’ bedrooms.

Funny, unstoppable and outspoken, a razor-sharp and greatly respected businessman, marketing visionary, designer and art collector, Tom takes us through his extraordinary and colourful life into the inner-circle of 80s pop-culture. From hobnobbing with Bruce Sprinsteen to bust-ups with Bros, Tom has seen it all.

Expect a gripping, gossipy, meticulously researched memoir of the drug-addled 80s and 90s, layered on top of an insightful and intelligent portrait of a recent but very different age, from the singular perspective of a man who played a huge role in defining the era and paved the way for industry moguls like Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 juli 2017
Aantal pagina's: 336
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Tom Watkins
Hoofduitgeverij: Virgin Books

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Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 26 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 126 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 22 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 355 g

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EAN: 9780753541975

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Categorieën: Kunst & Fotografie

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Managementboeken

Media & Entertainment

Muziek

Muziekstijlen

Populaire muziek

Muziek

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Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Stroming of stijl: Rock, Popmuziek
Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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