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SOMETHING TO DO WITH LUCK?: Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N’ Roll Has Never Been Told Like This Before
Best friends Jimmy Steel, Sid Hughes, and Bobby McGee are hurtling towards their 40th year on planet earth with a speed that they’re only too keen to deny.
Having formed a band whilst at high school in the mid 1990s, they had thought they’d be spending their more mature years enjoying the trappings of fame and fortune from within their California mansions, having just completed another sell-out world tour with their amazing band Champions Of The Underdog, not slogging away at mundane 9-5 jobs and playing live to half-empty pubs in their dreary hometown in Scotland.
Why have they not signed their first record deal?
Maybe it’s the songs, maybe it’s the way they look, it could be down to their age, it may even be a combination of all three or perhaps it’s just got something to do with luck.
Jimmy narrates this terrific tale as the pals decide on one last (rock ‘n’) roll of the dice in their quest to find fame and fortune by embarking on an epic six-month tour of Scotland, playing to anyone and everyone who will host them.
In this daring attempt to gain recognition from the music world, Sid sells his flat to fund the tour and the friends all quit their boring jobs to commit to the cause of being signed by a major record label, what could possibly go wrong?
When every other recording artist seems to be making music in their home studio and releasing it via the internet, will touring the way it was done in the 1960s really be the solution to drumming up some much-needed interest for the band so that they will finally receive the recognition they deserve and hit the big time?
Find out in this sensational tale of chasing the dream at any cost.
Having formed a band whilst at high school in the mid 1990s, they had thought they’d be spending their more mature years enjoying the trappings of fame and fortune from within their California mansions, having just completed another sell-out world tour with their amazing band Champions Of The Underdog, not slogging away at mundane 9-5 jobs and playing live to half-empty pubs in their dreary hometown in Scotland.
Why have they not signed their first record deal?
Maybe it’s the songs, maybe it’s the way they look, it could be down to their age, it may even be a combination of all three or perhaps it’s just got something to do with luck.
Jimmy narrates this terrific tale as the pals decide on one last (rock ‘n’) roll of the dice in their quest to find fame and fortune by embarking on an epic six-month tour of Scotland, playing to anyone and everyone who will host them.
In this daring attempt to gain recognition from the music world, Sid sells his flat to fund the tour and the friends all quit their boring jobs to commit to the cause of being signed by a major record label, what could possibly go wrong?
When every other recording artist seems to be making music in their home studio and releasing it via the internet, will touring the way it was done in the 1960s really be the solution to drumming up some much-needed interest for the band so that they will finally receive the recognition they deserve and hit the big time?
Find out in this sensational tale of chasing the dream at any cost.
503 pages, Hardcover
Published November 4, 2021
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