- Published: 15 August 2014
- ISBN: 9780099558552
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $19.99
Boy About Town















- Published: 15 August 2014
- ISBN: 9780099558552
- Imprint: Windmill Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $19.99
Wearing the right clothes, liking the right bands – this book summons up what it meant to be a teenager in the 70s.
Guardian
Brought back happy memories when bands and their fans were as one.
Damian O'Neill, The Undertones
Brought back happy memories when bands and their fans were as one.
Damian O'Neill, The Undertones
[A] compelling and evocative memoir …full of great memories of bands, gigs, clothes, girls and parties. It celebrates the vitality of youth and the spirt of the times.
Sabotage Times
Even if you weren’t there when all this happened, the fast paced narrative will make you feel as if you were … An excellent read and I really would urge anyone with even a passing interest in punk, The Jam, The Who or what it was like being a music mad teenager in London in the late seventies to check it out.
Faith Magazine
[An] excellent memoir of adolescent angst and musical obsession … it is surprisingly candid, wryly funny, occasionally harrowing, yet always honest in its descriptions … brilliantly written.
All Mod Icon
Even if you weren’t there when all this happened, the fast paced narrative will make you feel as if you were … An excellent read and I really would urge anyone with even a passing interest in punk, The Jam, The Who or what it was like being a music mad teenager in London in the late seventies to check it out.
Faith Magazine
A must for anyone with an interest in the 1970s and 80s music scene … Featuring a vibrant cast of supporting characters … Boy About Town in an evocative and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.
City Life
Funny, fascinating, and at times quite moving
The Bookbag
A must for anyone with an interest in the 1970s and 80s music scene … Featuring a vibrant cast of supporting characters … Boy About Town in an evocative and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.
City Life
Funny, fascinating, and at times quite moving
The Bookbag
Fletcher paints a vivid picture of the time – both through the eyes of a boy dealing with growing up and into the underground music scene of bands, fanzines, small record labels, and a staunchly independent spirit …It’s a great read and one which potentially invites the difficult second album syndrome.
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