From heartbreak to the best mistake they'll ever make... When Layla Rivers' boyfriend of 12 years skips out on their round-the-world trip of a lifetime โ without her โ she does what experience has taught her to do best, hide away in the cosy Cornish village she calls home. But any hopes of laying lo
Reach for the Stars
โ Scribed by Michael Cragg
- Book ID
- 113230798
- Publisher
- Blink Publishing
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 673 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781788707251
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
'This really is a wonderful book for pop kids everywhere' - RICHARD OSMAN
'No one's going to read this' - LOUIS WALSH
Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006. A double-denim-loving time before the glare of social media and the accession of streaming.
The bastions of '00s pop - armed with buoyant, immaculately crafted, carefree anthems - provided entertainment, escapism and fun for millions. It was a heady, chorus-heavy decade - populated by the likes of Steps, S Club 7, Blue, 5ive, Mis-Teeq, Hear'Say, Busted, Girls Aloud, McFly, Craig David and Atomic Kitten, among countless others - yet the music was often dismissed as inauthentic, juvenile, not 'worthy' enough: ultimately, a 'guilty pleasure'.
Now, music writer Michael Cragg aims to redress that balance. Using the oral-history...
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