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EMMERDALE
WRITTEN BY JANE PEARSON
25 April 2018
Start the week with Jane's latest episode of EMMERDALE on Monday 30th April at 7pm on ITV. Rishi is nervous about going on a date so Frank steps in to help. Daz tells Kerry about his past.
HALFWAY TO PARADISE: THE LIFE OF BILLY FURY
BY CAROLINE AND DAVID STAFFORD
17 April 2018
Following hot on its launch at the London Book Fair last week, Caroline and David Stafford's new biography, HALFWAY TO PARADISE: THE LIFE OF BILLY FURY is published in hardback by Omnibus Press on 19th April and available in all good bookstores and on-line retailers. Here's the Press Release: ""There's only ever been two English rock 'n' roll singers," Ian Dury said, "Johnny Rotten and Billy Fury." Butter adverts have tainted Johnny's status, but Billy's combination of beauty, sex, innocence, talent, charisma and vulnerability has never been matched. The Sound of Fury, his first L.P., is still widely revered as the best British rock'n'roll record ever made. When he first appeared on TV, a generation of teenagers found true love, and his post-rock'n'roll heartbreak ballads were the essential soundtrack to adolescent angst. In 1973, he was brought out of semi-retirement to play Stormy Tempest - to some extent a parody of himself - in the movie “That'll Be The Day”. The magic rose above the parody. He never knew how not to be magnificent. David and Caroline Stafford guide the reader through Billy's troubled childhood in Liverpool, via gold and silver lame, to his later years as a farming ornithologist, and his comeback cut short by his premature death. Billy Fury was a key figure on that watershed between post-war privations and sixties excess. He knew everybody, auditioned the Beatles to be his backing band, met and outhandsomed Elvis, partied with Keith Moon and hosted acid parties. Yet, throughout the mayhem, he always remained true to himself- diffident and amused. Halfway To Paradise tells the full story with the compassion and affection due to an artist who, decades after his death, still has the power to command admiration and adoration."
ODDBODS: The Amazing Slicko
written by Lee Pressman
15 April 2018
Slick recruits Newt to be his magician's assistant - but will he be willing to share the stage or does he want to hog all the limelight for himself? find out in Lee's episode on Wednesday 18th April on CITV at 2.50pm