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    Stories We Could Tell

    Written by Tony Parsons

    Narrated by Matthew MacFadyen

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    About this audiobook

    Tony Parsons writes for the first time about his rock and roll years in a touching novel about friendship and growing up

    This is the UK of the summer of 1977 – in the midst of the Silver Jubilee celebrations, a generation are trying to grow up and discovering the limits of freedom. It is 16th August 1977 – the night Elvis died – and for the heroes of STORIES WE COULD TELL, this night is where their adult lives begin.

    Terry has returned from Berlin glowing in the light of his friendship with ageing rock star Dag Wood, the only man to be booed off stage at Woodstock.
    But when Dag turns up in London, he sets his sights on a photographer called Misty, the young woman who Terry plans to have children with. Will Terry's relationship survive the night?

    Ray is the only writer on The Paper who refuses to cut his hair and stop wearing flares. He still believes in peace, love and the Beatles. But John
    Lennon is in town for one night, en route to Yoko and Japan, and Ray believes that if he can interview the reclusive Beatle, he can save his job.
    Can John Lennon really change a young man's life?

    And Leon has annoyed the group of fans you do not want to annoy – the Dagenham Dogs, a bunch of hooligans who follow a group called the Sewer
    rats, who have just been given a right royal slagging by young Leon. Hiding out in a disco called the Goldmine, Leon meets the girl of his dreams. Will true love find Leon before the Dagenham Dogs?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 19, 2005
    ISBN9780007228379
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    Tony Parsons

    Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels – One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife – were all bestsellers. He is also the author of the Max Wolfe thrillers. He lives in London.

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    • 3/5
      This book is set in 1977, 3 young friends Terry, Ray and Leon all work for a music paper. They love music and girls, they all kind of come of age one crazy summer night. This book was very far fetched I wanted to enjoy it more but was disappointed with it.
    • 4/5
      This has been on my shelf for some while. I think I have found Parsons too sentimental in the past, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Set in the day when I was still a teenager, I wallowed in the nostalgia. This novel was rammed with period details - even gonks (and yes, my niece didn't have a clue what I was talking about).I loved the reminders of my youth, and am glad to say my memories have more of a rosy glow than the punk-glamour of drugs and violence that Parsons evokes.But it brought back how important music was for me then, both as a companion and something to identify with. And yes, I do remember how I felt my life was over, having met the one (and where is he now?). Funny, sharp, sad, and beautifully overlaid with the benefit of hindsight from a middle-aged man looking back on his glory years.
    • 3/5
      Sometime around 1970's, Elvis. John Lenon, towrads the end of Hippie era, revolving around genres like rock, Punk & Disco and finally Growing up.
    • 2/5
      I didn't grow up in the UK, I was born around the time this book was set, I am not a young male.. (nor have I ever been). For these reasons I think I did not identify well with this book. I found it artifically stuffed full of experiences that were glossed over. It had too many characters who seemed to almost be the same at times... I struggled on but did not get the resolution I hoped for. On the plus side it filled in some historical evetts for me...