{"product_id":"giles-smith-lost-in-music-2023-paperback","title":"Giles Smith: Lost in Music [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about hearing it, buying it, loving it, and attempting to play it in public for money. A brilliant combination of the confessional and the unapologetic, this is a book for anyone who has ever treasured vinyl, or sung into a roll-on deodorant in front of the bedroom mirror and dreamed of playing Wembley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLost in Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Very, very funny . . . Giles Smith is a wonderful writer' \u003cb\u003eNick Hornby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderfully funny pop-music memoir . . . You don't have to know who Nik Kershaw is to laugh out loud at the chapter about him' \u003cb\u003eSebastian Faulks, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the best books about music that you will ever read . . . It is impossible to read Lost in Music without laughing out loud' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smith, Giles","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48843203674451,"sku":"9781804940297","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/smith-giles-giles-smith-lost-in-music-2023-paperback-9781804940297-56695865114963.jpg?v=1718202365","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/giles-smith-lost-in-music-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}