Brilliantly written, there is certainly a touch of Hunter S. Thompson in the writing style here, and a little sympathy for the devil. Tales of Tucson is a fun, blast-from-the-past read that takes place in the late 's Anthony Randall describes food as if he were a chef, every affair as if he were a romance novelist, and what it's like to be a struggling English musician far away from home as if it he lived it himself.
Fun to travel with them and get the feeling of wonder and enjoyment from the beautiful Western scenery that they were experiencing for the first time. Anthony has taken the warmest of friendships and used it as a backdrop to his tale of ambition, music and love.
Tom and Seamus will transport you back to the s in this lively volume, reminding you of how marvellous and terrible that decade was! Their passions are fun, sex, drugs, and music and their day job which is borderline criminality seems to be the major thing getting in the way of their musical ambitions. I was immediately transported back to my youth, as the author brings alive the heady lifestyle of the s, so much so, I was compelled to dig out my '80s mixtape to listen to while I read.
Doug Goddard and I started writing together back in , Doug is Dyslexic and originally asked me to first decipher his scrawl, and then to correct his spelling in order to turn his story into a book. As an avid book reader I realized instantly the lack of content in his writing and proposed that we write together, his stories, my words, I believe the synergy works well, the analogy I have given it is of him giving me a pencil sketch and me turning it into an oil painting.
My back ground is music, I have been a song writer and singer for more than thirty years, yes I'm really that old, and I still pen the odd tune now and then, but I have found a new addiction in the form of novelist. We have published two novels on Amazon in the English Sombrero series, 'Nothing to do but run' and 'The Little White Ball'.
