Pop Idle Book

Waking up to his worst hangover in over a week Dave Grant greeted his thirty-fifth birthday. Once Dave was one of the hotshots of the Music Biz, an A&R whizzkid who had hits (yeah and the odd large miss but who's counting) through the 80's and 90's. But Dave hadn't had what you might call a smash in the last five years - Platinum was way back there somewhere and even Gold was heading for the hills... He'd worked at all the major record companies and managed to get out just before a merger, a takeover or more often his own incompetence had cost him his job. Now he was at Miles Hi Records, a small but voraciously ambitious indie label owned by Miles Brandon gamely determined to 'crack the UK like a watermelon.' Dave was in the last chance saloon and in desperate need of a break (or at least an extremely large vodka). Enter Big Stewy Black a mean Brummie and manager so old school he should be wearing shorts, touting his new discovery Gary Gray, a kid so devoid of talent the word 'fuckwit' should have been invented for him. Under pressure to sign a new act or lose his job for the last time Dave joins Stewy to hatch a plan to make Gary the NEXT BIG THING...Read More