The Power and The Glory

by Garry Bushell (Sleeping Dog Books)

Legendary rock writer Garry Bushell cut his teeth on Sounds, helping the much-loved music mag overtake the NME to become Britain’s best-selling rock weekly. He managed bands, compiled albums, documented youth cults and even notched up a Number 1 single.

In volume one of his hilarious rock ’n’ roll memoirs, Garry recalled his times on the road with Ozzy Osbourne, The Specials, Iron Maiden, the Cockney Rejects and many more.

Here you will find true stories involving perplexed cops, persistent groupies and barking mad fans. There is joy, sadness, and protest along with rib-tickling anecdotes from the giants of popular music. Even Paul Weller is funny…

Garry writes: ‘1978 to 1985 were my golden years. I had the best job in the world –I got paid to write about the bands I loved. ‘Of course it helped that this was the time when 2-Tone, Mod, street-punk and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal exploded onto the scene. ‘NME said punk was dead in 1977, but we never found the corpse…’