Jim Bob from Carter: In the Shadow of My Former Self (Jim Bob) (Book)

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Between 1987 and 1997, Jim Bob rode a decade-long rollercoaster from the UK'€™s pub and club scene to the top of the album charts and back again, leaving behind a trail of hit records, legendary gigs and enough t-shirts to clothe a small nation. As recounted in his first autobiography, the critically acclaimed Goodnight Jim Bob, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine toured the world and sold the records, during the UK'€™s last period of genuine musical free-for-all, mutating from a two man and drum machine combo to an extensive six (sometimes seven) piece group along the way. But then the rollercoaster stopped... So what next for a recovering former rock star? Whatever happened to that bloke from Carter?

Jim Bob from Carter: In the Shadow of My Former Self documents Jim's ongoing journey as a solo artist and author - a man in search of who he is, while constantly being reminded who he was.

Whether he's singing in a disco-pop band, performing solo acoustic ballads, writing novels or acting in a musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, it'€™s clear he is still, for many people, Jim Bob from Carter. At first Jim sees this legacy as a burden and something to escape from, but gradually he learns to accept, embrace and eventually celebrate (hooray!) his glorious past.

This is a funny music book - the funniest music book ever written, according to the author -“ about Jim Bob's extended gap year between the acrimonious break-up of Carter in 1997 to their eventual reformation in 2007 (and acrinomious break-up again in 2014). Find out how bands choose their names, what it's like to be sworn at by Ian Dury, how it feels to discover yourself on a pub trivia machine under the category 'Where are they Now?' and why there isn't a prime time Saturday night TV show called 'Britain's Got Authors.' There's also the usual boring stuff about lyrics and a few music business clichés, like earlier in this blurb where the word 'journey' was unnecessarily used.

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- 220 PAGES