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Absolutely fabulous! - Sir Ray Davies.The Kinks We Danced On Our Desks offers a window on another lost world, a silver age of journalism when a magazine could please itself and celebrities would wait to be invited into its charmed circle. It's also an unbeatable portrait of a writer finding his voice amid the distractions of a dementedly sybaritic decade. - The Observer It's wonderful. It intrigued and amused and delighted ... done with wit, verve, charm and self-deprecation. - bestselling author Anthony Quinn

Absolutely fabulous! - Sir Ray Davies.The Kinks We Danced On Our Desks offers a window on another lost world, a silver age of journalism when a magazine could please itself and celebrities would wait to be invited into its charmed circle. It's also an unbeatable portrait of a writer finding his voice amid the distractions of a dementedly sybaritic decade. - The Observer It's wonderful. It intrigued and amused and delighted ... done with wit, verve, charm and self-deprecation. - bestselling author Anthony Quinn A classic of its genre. - author David Taylor

Plaudits (for both fiction and nonfiction) include: Extremely original and very funny P.G. Wodehouse The Historian of Cool Sunday Times One of the wittiest and sharpest writers of his generation Vogue Gleaming prose The Guardian on Shout! Phenomenal Publishers Weekly on Wild Thing: the Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix The Stones are lucky to have a biographer of Philip Norman's class Pete Townshend He's got me spot-on Elton John

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PHILIP NORMAN has an international reputation as a chronicler of pop music and culture. Shout!, his ground-breaking biography of the Beatles, has remained continuously in print, selling more than one million copies, and was recently listed by Waterstones bookshops as one of the 100 best biographies in any genre. He has since written acclaimed books about the Rolling Stones. Elton John, Buddy Holly John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Philip is also an award-winning fiction-writer (included among the first Top 20 'Best of Young British Novelists') and a playwright whose works have appeared on BBC2 and Radio 4. He has also written two musicals. Philip currently lives in London.

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