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Anyone can start a band. Anyone can be famous.
Not everyone can wait a lifetime...
Here’s a real rock memoir. An honest, warts and all portrayal of what it’s like to fall in love with music and start your own band (or indeed several bands) spanning the eras of glam, punk, new wave and 80s pop.
Whatever happened to the teenage dream?
Find out by joining guitarist and songwriter Dan with his band Stranger Than Paradise as they chart their rise to the top alongside a cast of outrageous characters and oh, so many disapproving grown-ups.
A no holds barred, tragi-comic ride through the euphoric triumphs and near misses of raw creativity and joyous music making. OUT NOW!
Praise for
Whatever Happened to
the Teenage Dream?
"All the fun of the 80s"
Living In A Box
"For lovers of music and style"
Don Letts
"Possibly the best book about being
in a guitar pop group"
Firestation Records
"Heartbreaking, poignant...
beautifully told"
C86 Show music podcast
"An absolutely brilliant book"
Graham Coath, My Music podcast
"Captures the spirit of the 1980s
in forensic detail"
David Sinclair, music critic
"A very honest book"
South London Press
"Total page turner"
Amazon reviewer
"Conjures up a lost world of tape
recorders and Top of the Pops"
Genevieve Fox, novelist
"A fender-fanging journey through
the teenage indie dream"
Jane Cornwell, arts and music writer
"Hang on tight for a ride on the
rock 'n' roll rollercoaster"
Suzi Quatro
Further publications
Order them here
Cold War thrillers, a journalist's handbook and the definitive
guide to 20th century collectables
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