Sylvia Patterson
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
― I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
“A small rumpus erupted over a review of ‘Where The Streets Have No Nameâ€� by U2, the biggest-band-in-the-world and drearily po-faced windbags forever blubbing on a cactus. There were, I pointed out, ‘no streets in the desertâ€� and deemed Bono, somehow, ‘a goonâ€�. Sackfuls of hate mail arrived from U2-devoted Smash Hits viewers while a headline in an Irish newspaper bellowed, ‘GOON BONO BLASTED BY TOP POP MAG.”
― I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
― I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
“I was reviews editor, which I was hopeless at seeing as it required organisation, decisions, delegation and ability to decipher which singles, albums, films, videos, concerts, books and competitions were best suited to the viewers from an actual Alpine avalanche of Jiffy bags permanently engulfing the reviews desk. This was music industry boom time,”
― I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
― I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
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