This should be on your radar

Posted by Tom Gormer at 14:50 on 18 Mar 2008

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EVERYBODY should go out and buy, beg or borrow this book.

It is brilliant.

I know... why don't we read the press release:

'London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. Twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public - 'Yeah, those animals'.

'Fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine Stelfox blithely criss-crosses the globe searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cut-throat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

'Kill Your Friends is a dark, satirical and hysterically funny exposé of the music business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where talent means nothing, ambition means everything, and anything can be achieved - as long as you want it badly enough.'

So there you have it.

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