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Billy Sloan, Glaswegian broadcaster and music columnist, has written his memoir, \\u2018One Love, One Life\\u2019, about a career that\\u2019s allowed him to point his microphone at an astonishing array of musicians and started back in the old analogue world of tight-deadline newspaper journalism where you hammered out your Chuck Berry interview as the rolls of film were biked back to the office to be processed. This covers a lot of ground including \\u2026

\\u2026 the moment that changed his life.

\\u2026 why the London Press Corps were \\u201ca pack of hyenas\\u201d.

\\u2026 Rod Stewart v Michelle Mone \\u2013 a classic revenge saga that ticked every box.

\\u2026 interviewing a naked Grace Jones (and how Dame Edna got involved).

\\u2026 the exquisitely \\u201chorrible\\u201d Chuck Berry.

\\u2026 queuing all night for 85p Who tickets, aged 15.

\\u2026 the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, \\u201cboo-ed onstage, roared off\\u201d.  

\\u2026 a trip to the Reeperbahn via Rory Gallagher.

\\u2026 life at the Sunday Mail and the Daily Record.

\\u2026 the great Scottish rock boom of the early \\u201880s \\u201cwhen if you had a floppy fringe and desert boots you\\u2019d expect to be flagged down by an A&R man with a chequebook\\u201d.

\\u2026 and the star that made him feel and \\u201cyou\\u2019re only one duff question away from getting a right hook\\u201d.

Order Billy\\u2019s book here \\u2026

https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Love-Life-Stories-Stars/dp/178530481X

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