by Garry Holland (Author)
Music is a fickle mistress. Especially when you're useless at it. But as this music memoir shows, it can lure you into some comic places. In 'Big Dreams, Bum Notes: How Music Led Me to Eurovision Oblivion', Garry Holland recounts a tale of bumbling incompetence dating back to the 1970s - from garage band metal-punk beginnings, through the bewildering world of folk music, to two failed bids for Eurovision glory and one small claim to fame: an adult life spent being the guy who got beaten by the guy behind 'Blame it on the Boogie'. The moral is very simple: a futile desire to emulate ABBA, Bucks Fizz, Brotherhood of Man and Teddy Scholten may result in a life less glamorous than theirs, but it can be an awful lot funnier.
Author Biography
Garry Holland is a freelance writer - and an unapologetic fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. He chats about Eurovision on national, local and community radio. Even though (outrageously!) he wasn't asked any questions about Eurovision, he was a semi-finalist in the 2017 series of BBC Radio 4's music quiz 'Counterpoint' and once won a splendid digital radio on Ken Bruce's 'Popmaster' quiz on BBC Radio 2. He's currently preparing his third Eurovision book - a comic novel - for publication in January 2018. Garry lives in Oxfordshire, UK, with his wife, daughter and son. He's sort of on twitter a bit but not much: @GarryHolland2
Number of Pages: 238
Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 23, 2015
