My Life And The Beautiful Music

Jon Hotten

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 June 2015

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Long before Coldplay went vegan, there was another way- Sex. Drugs. And Rock 'n' roll.

Los Angeles, 1988. In a summer of hedonism, everyone wants their share.

On Sunset Strip, undiscovered bands dream of emulating their heroes- M tley Cr e, Van Halen, Poison and all the other chancers who got lucky... Above them in the canyons, the city's privileged youth already live like rock stars. Drifting between these separate worlds is a journalist on the trail of stories that grow darker by the day- a rock star wannabe who may or may not be who he says he is, a guitar player who will do anything to succeed, crossing the line between reality and fantasy.

Then comes beautiful Iris, distant Brenna, ambivalent Blair, Lana the singer - taking their chances, losing their way, doing whatever it takes...

Set in the glory days when the music business was a vast and amoral empire where stardom seemed arbitrary and sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll were the lifestyle of choice, My Life and the Beautiful Music blurs memoir, myth and reality to recreate the last, lost era of a now-vanished world.

By: Jon Hotten
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 274g
ISBN: 9780224077835
ISBN 10: 022407783X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Hotten is the author of four books, including Muscle and The Years of the Locust, and writes the popular cricket blog The Old Batsman. He co-wrote the award-winning documentary Death of a Gentleman, and his collaboration with the former England bowler Simon Jones, The Test, won the Wisden Almanack's Book of the Year award in 2016.

Reviews for My Life And The Beautiful Music

Brilliantly orchestrated... Hotten is a natural-born journalist and excels in telling such stories in controlled, compelling prose - as anyone who has read his superb non-fiction book The Years of the Locust can attest. * Dabbler * Brilliantly orchestrated... Hotten is a natural-born journalist and excels in telling such stories in controlled, compelling prose - as anyone who has read his superb non-fiction book The Years of the Locust can attest. * Dabbler * An off-kilter, part-autobiographical account of the hedonistic Hollywood rock scene... An odd book, then, but weirdly compelling all the same. -- Geoff Barton * Classic Rock * Here's a book you just want to be true... A heady slice of disturbing joy. * Sunday Sport *

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