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One year Andy Kershaw was Billy Bragg's roadie the next he was presenting Live Aid on TV to 400 million people: the new voice of youth. A passionate enthusiast for music he is a man with an obsessive curiosity about the world. Over a twenty-five year career he has worked for the Rolling Stones shared an office with John Peel and introduced world and roots Music to Radio 1 (and later Radio 3). He has won more Sony Radio awards than any other broadcaster. He has visited 97 countries and as a foreign correspondent filed numerous reports for Radio 4 in particular from the 'axis of evil' countries and from Africa. He was one of the very few journalists present during the Rwanda genocide. ; ; In 2007 he separated from his partner had a breakdown and spent time in prison on the Isle of Man for his non-violent breaking of a restraining order. But he has put this behind him writing this book and returning to the airwaves fronting the BBC's Music Planet series. Andy Kershaw writes about his life with candour insight immediacy and humour. This is a real book by a man who has no truck with celebrity nonsense. ; ; Andy Kershaw was born in Rochdale in 1959 and became (as did his big sister Liz) a Radio One DJ. He presented The Whistle Test and Live Aid for the BBC and for most of the past twenty-five years has had a weekly radio show. He is also a serious foreign journalist having filed reports for From Our Own Correspondent and for the Observer Telegraph and Independent. This year he returned to presenting with Radio 3's Music Planet series. He lives in the Isle of Man with his dog Buster. You can visit his website at www.andykershaw.co.uk. ;Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Britain's maverick radio DJ and foreign correspondent is back on air and in print with this no-holds-barred autobiography of a full-throttle life. One year Andy Kershaw was Billy Bragg's roadie, the next he was presenting Live Aid on TV to 400...

  • 1846687446
  • 9781846687440
  • Andy Kershaw
  • 1 July 2011
  • Serpent's Tail
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 432
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