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One Hit Wonderland

Tony Hawks author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:3rd Jul '03

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Tony Hawks' unique assault on the world of music

It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit 'Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor and the Majors. We'll have to see about that ...

For two years Tony struggles to have a hit somewhere, anywhere, in the world, changing acts and styles with a bewildering lack of integrity.

It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit 'Stutter Rap' by Morris Minor and the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache is Tony Hawks.

Fast forward to the 21st century and those heady days of pop stardom are a distant memory. That is, until it is suggested that Tony is just another One Hit Wonder. Really? We'll have to see about that ...

For two years Tony struggles to have a hit somewhere, anywhere, in the world, changing acts and styles with a bewildering lack of integrity. From Nashville to Amsterdam, from Eastern Europe to Africa, he travels the globe in search of that elusive hit.

But it's only after a chance encounter with Norman Wisdom that things get really strange. Is it really possible that together they could storm the Albanian charts?

In One Hit Wonderland anything can happen ...

Extremely entertaining * Observer *
Unbeatable * Hot Stars *
A smashing book -- Norman Wisdom
Great fun * Daily Express *
A wonderful shaggy dog story-all the more wonderful for it actually having happened * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780091882105

Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm

Weight: 240g

352 pages