Half The World Away or HTWA to those in the know was written over sixteen years and rejected by more than 30 publishers! I think The Beatles were rejected by about the same number of record labels so that must be a good omen. Here are some more classic chapter titles - try and guess the subject matter - its not that hard!
Calling America by
ELO is a guilty pleasure -- you're not supposed to admit to liking ELO. Their 1976 song
Livin’ Thing topped a UK magazine
poll in 2006 as the number 1 “guilty pleasure” as in the un-cool record it’s
okay to love. Well no one has ever accused me of being cool.
Main Street is classic American rock
and no one personifies that genre better than Bob Seger. His lyrics accurately
describe the typical Midwest town–my home for last nineteen years.
Davy’s on the Road Again by Manfred
Mann is all about my working life.
Sweet Child of Mine is the definitive
Guns n’ Roses song; it should really be Sweet Children of Mine since I have two
of them.
Eight Days a Week by The Beatles.
Written by Paul McCartney based on one of Ringo’s absurd comments, think also
of A Hard Days Night. The Fab Four
were my first musical love as I apparently used to sing She Loves You while sitting in my high chair, as a three year-old
back in ’64.
I’m Going Home is 11 minutes 40
seconds of over the top R’n’B by Ten Years After and their lead guitarist,
Alvin Lee—Brits who rocked at Woodstock.
You’re so Vain could be the theme
song for modern America. Whether Carly Simon wrote this about Warren Beatty
remains unknown, but it accurately describes the cult of personality that pervades America.
I Can’t Stand the Rain is Tina at her best. Surely the sexiest 40, 50 and 60
year-old ever? Those legs set atop the towering stilettos…
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