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Tears and Laugher in the Bookshop

posted by [personal profile] devilgate at 03:36pm on 21/10/2005 under , ,
I knew I would buy it, of course.  I just didn't necessarily know I would buy it today.  But I popped into Waterstone's at lunchtime, and had a look at Margrave of the Marshes, John Peel's autobiography.  It was posthumously completed by his wife, Sheila (once better known as "The Pig", fact fans) and their (grown-up) kids.

Even reading the acknowledgements was curiously moving, listing as it did the likes of Billy Bragg, Andy Kershaw and Tom Robinson.  So I read the introduction, which was written by the four kids.  I found myself laughing and my eyes filling with tears just from those three or four pages.  So obviously I had to buy it.

I'm now thoroughly looking forward to tomorrow's Home Truths, which is a special edition featuring Sheila.

I also seem to have bought Singularity Sky, but I've been meaning to get that for ages.

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John Peel

posted by [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 21/10/2005
Oooh, please do continue to report back on that! I would like to buy a biography of John Peel but I don't want to buy a cash-in rip-off one. This one sounds like the one to go for.
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Re: John Peel

posted by [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com at 03:02pm on 21/10/2005
Yeah, there were two cash-ins out before Christmas last year. Bastards. Though when I was looking for links for the above, I saw something that seemed to be saying that one of them had been pulped because of libel fears (threat of action from a third party, I think it said).
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Re: John Peel

posted by [identity profile] zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com at 03:18pm on 21/10/2005
That's good news.

BTW, your Home Truths link isn't working.
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Re: John Peel

posted by [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com at 01:00pm on 24/10/2005
Thanks. It looks like I had pasted the URL twice. Fixed now.
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