Alan Edwards : The John Robb interview
The UK’s primary PR on the artwork of PR and his life working with David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Spice Women, Marc Bolan and his roots in punk working with the Stranglers, 999 and plenty of extra on this fascinating interview.
Alan Edwards’s memoirs ‘I Was There’ is an excellent learn and reviewed on Louder Than Battle right here.
LTW overview of ‘I Was There’
Alan Edwards gives a captivating different angle on the music scene, chronicling the beginning of recent PR with loads of behind the scenes entry to acts he’s labored with over time.
Having began as a author for Sounds and unintentionally fallen into the nascent PR trade within the UK, Edwards is uniquely positioned to chart its evolution, from muddling by way of early press journeys with journalists to see The Who and the daybreak of punk proper by way of to promoting wedding ceremony photos for a Spice Lady and the loss of life of David Bowie.
It begins at a time when the one interactions music followers had with acts have been by way of the music press and newspapers and options stunts equivalent to an act with a faux damaged arm that will have been debunked virtually immediately in an age of social media sceptics and ubiquitous digicam telephones.
There are 4 key characters within the e-book all evolving in numerous methods – Edwards (from squats to success), his acts (from Punk to the Spice Women), the media (from the music papers to telephone hacking) and London itself, from when Covent Backyard was only a fruit market to the O2 Area.
It’s to his credit score as a author and the colorful life that he’s led that when the main target shifts from the acts to the writer it doesn’t lose the reader – nevertheless it’s exhausting to be boring whenever you went to highschool with Billy Idol, travelled the hippy path at 16, performed soccer with Bob Marley and bought sacked by Mick Jagger.
Whereas a biography of a publicist may not appear as instantly engaging a prospect for music followers as one for a favorite artist, it’s strongly beneficial, alongside Barbara Charone’s current memoir for anybody who needs a greater understanding of each how the music world works, PR has advanced and the way their favorite artists work together with the media. Followers of Bowie, Blondie, Prince and The Stones specifically received’t wish to miss this for perception into what made these acts tick and the way they relate to the media.
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