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I'm Coming To Take you to lunch - A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China

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Pop impresario Simon Napier-Bell tells the colorful story of how he arranged for Wham! to be the first Western pop group to play in communist China - a masterstroke of PR which, at a stroke, made them one of the biggest music acts in the world. Originally published: 2005.

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Part I April 19831 Happy birthday 32 Cherry blossom 73 Such a remnant 134 Fresh as daisies 215 A bit steep 386 Soyoung 467 Muscle Shoals 558 Messing about in Asia 609 Belly dancing 7110 Berlin 8211 Sore throat 8912 Black fairies 9913 Broken glass 10814 Settlement 117Part II April 198415 Happy birthday 12716 Quite excited 13517 A painfully pointless meal 14518 A very bad thing19 The truth20 Because you're delicious21 So grand, so bitchy, so broke 18122 Red telephone 19423 Not so famous 20624 Somersaults 21625 No photos 22326 Invitation 23027 Tears 23728 This sporting life 24429 Stay in your seats 25230 The last post 259Part III April 198531 Happy birthday 269
32 Talent night at the Apollo 277
33 Six thousand bicycles 288
34 Bit of a nutcase 296
35 Rough cuts and helicopters 306
36 Funeral rites 319
37 Selling up 324
38 American Music Awards 333
39 Sun City
40 Kites and anchors
41 Freedom
Part IV April 1986
42 Happy birthday
43 And then?

Info autore

Simon Napier-Bell has been a film composer, songwriter, record producer, and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!. Under his management, Wham! became the first Western pop group ever to play in Communist China. He is the author of three other books about the music industry: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Black Vinyl White Powder and The Business, as well as the forthcoming memoir Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom. He is CEO of the Pierbel Entertainment Group, and continues to consult, write and broadcast on the music industry. @SimonNapierBell

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“A veteran manager of groups like the Yardbirds, Napier-Bell was just about ready to retire when Wham! fell into his lap…those interested in what goes on backstage and behind the scenes will find Napier-Bell's stories worthwhile and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly

A gossipy, rollicking music memoir about bringing Wham! to communist China in the ‘80’s—now, in paperback

London, 1983. Pop impresario Simon Napier-Bell has had enough.
Tired of managing groups, and sick of the constant grief at home, with his two ex-boyfriends bickering and bleeding him dry, he’s ready to give up the music business for good. But before he gets the chance, he falls in love with a new passion: a dynamic young duo, George and Andrew, jointly called Wham!.

Soon, he finds himself offering to arrange for Wham! to be the first-ever Western pop group to play in communist China – a masterstroke of publicity which, in one swift move, would make them one of the biggest groups on the planet.

What follows is an exciting and unpredictable globe-trotting adventure in the company of a cast of petulant pop stars, shady businessmen and a confusion of spies, students and officials, as Napier-Bell edges closer to inadvertently becoming one of the first Westerners to break down the walls of communist China.

As one reviewer put it, “some of it reads like a big, gay Bond thriller.”

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MARKETING AND PUBLICITY
Galleys and e-galleys (Edelweiss, Netgalley) widely available
Author available for interviews and features
The author is very well connected and there will be rolling bursts of publicity and podcast appearances