Let's Make Lots of Money av Tom Watkins

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<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZE 2017</b><br><br><i>The coke-fuelled mania behind pop¿s greatest successes </i><br><br><br>Tom Watkins is the famously entertaining pop Svengali with killer commercial instincts and prodigious talent for design. He propelled the Pet Shop Boys, Bros and East 17, among others, to global stardom, all whilst maintaining a savage hedonistic lifestyle and a stellar art collection. His fingerprints are all over British pop, and he¿s decided the time has come for a tell-all autobiography about the business behind the stars that shaped your life in the 80s and 90s. <br><br>Follow Tom¿s journey from his humble boyhood in post-war South-East London, to his teenage misdeeds and the birth of Rock and Roll; his days as a design student under the tutelage of Terence Conran and Rodney Fitch, to the excesses of the 80s and 90s where he became one of the original boy band innovators ¿ the driving force behind the pop icons plastered on the walls of teenage gi