Forward - My Life With & Without Boney M.
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| First Hardback Printing | 2018 |
| Publisher | Constable |
| Copyright Holder | Marcia Barrett, Lloyd Bradley |
| Copyright Holder (Foreword/Preface) | Eddy Grant |
| Typeset by | Hewer Text UK Ltd |
| Printed by | Clays Ltd |
| Bound by | Clays Ltd |
| Imprint | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Cover photo | Peter Bischoff |
| Photography Archive | Getty Images |
| Designed by | Tracey Winwood |
| Designed at | LBBG |
| About/Subject | Marcia Barrett, Boney M., Marcus James, Frank Farian, Eddy Grant, Liz Mitchell, Maizie Williams, Bobby Farrell |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, Great Britain |
| First Hardback Printing | 2018 |
| Pages / Font | 338 pages / Bembo |
| Printer's Key | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 |
| ISBN | 978-1-47212-441-8 |
| Other | FSC C104740 |
| Price | UK £20.00 |
| Barcode | 9 781472 124418 > |
| Barcode | 9781472124418 |
| Chapters | Foreword
'It was hard not to be overwhelmed'
PART ONE: STARLIGHT
1 You just have to get on with it
2 Suddenly everybody everywhere wanted Boney M.'
3 'We kept bumping into Abba'
4 'It was our job to look amazing'
5 'The Boney M. Bubble'
6 'Frank Farian came in with a bag of chains'
7 'Two drinks and that's definitely it'
8 '200,000 people started to chant "Rivers of Babylon'
9 'All these black people enjoying themselves in Red Square'
10 'We were all looking for different things out of Boney M.'
11 'Blimey! He's handy!'
12 We'd become our own tribute band'
PART TWO: ROOTS
13 'Ours was a rural existence'
14 'Kids are more adaptable than people realise'
15 'A bus with two storeys!'
16 'Baby? What baby?'
17 'My first taste of real show business'
18 'I grabbed the mic and started singing'
PART THREE: PERSEVERANCE
19 'We were just having fun and feeling brilliant'
20 Cancer! The word jumps out of the sentence at you'
21 'How could I start feeling sorry for myself?'
22 'My legs were like two pieces of dead meat'
23 'We got out of the cab and our beautiful home literally stank!'
24 'I borrowed money from the gardener to bury my mother'
25 'Cancer is following me from country to country'
PART FOUR: SATISFACTION
26 'I refuse to act my age!'
Appendix - Boney M.: The Golden Years
Acknowledgments Foreword
'It was hard not to be overwhelmed'
PART ONE: STARLIGHT
1 You just have to get on with it
2 Suddenly everybody everywhere wanted Boney M.'
3 'We kept bumping into Abba'
4 'It was our job to look amazing'
5 'The Boney M. Bubble'
6 'Frank Farian came in with a bag of chains'
7 'Two drinks and that's definitely it'
8 '200,000 people started to chant "Rivers of Babylon'
9 'All these black people enjoying themselves in Red Square'
10 'We were all looking for different things out of Boney M.'
11 'Blimey! He's handy!'
12 We'd become our own tribute band'
PART TWO: ROOTS
13 'Ours was a rural existence'
14 'Kids are more adaptable than people realise'
15 'A bus with two storeys!'
16 'Baby? What baby?'
17 'My first taste of real show business'
18 'I grabbed the mic and started singing'
PART THREE: PERSEVERANCE
19 'We were just having fun and feeling brilliant'
20 Cancer! The word jumps out of the sentence at you'
21 'How could I start feeling sorry for myself?'
22 'My legs were like two pieces of dead meat'
23 'We got out of the cab and our beautiful home literally stank!'
24 'I borrowed money from the gardener to bury my mother'
25 'Cancer is following me from country to country'
PART FOUR: SATISFACTION
26 'I refuse to act my age!'
Appendix - Boney M.: The Golden Years
Acknowledgments Show all ▾ |
| Notes | Includes 16 pages of photos, in full colour (when available) on glossy paper. Papers used by Constable are from well-managed forests and other responsible sources Constable / An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group / Carmelite House 50 / Victoria Embankment / London EC4Y ODZ An Hachette UK Company Dimensions: 16,0 x 24,1 x 3,1 cm Weight: 628 g |
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