Dan Synge
Rosaville Publishing, UK
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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!
About the author
After a stint as lead guitarist with pop wannabes Daniel Takes A Train (famous for crashing the 1987 Brit Awards), Dan taught English in Barcelona before becoming a journalist going on to write for the arts and lifestyle pages of The Guardian, Financial Times and Independent then working for magazines such as GQ, Time Out and Esquire.
His freelance journalism is focused largely on music, pop culture, travel and design, a career he has balanced alongside being a senior university lecturer teaching Journalism and Media Studies. More recently, Dan branched out into publishing himself, launching The Weekender magazine in Kent and Map My Village, a series of illustrated travel guides.