The Lonely Planet Boy

by Barney Hoskyns

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Kip, a lonely provincial boy with a large record collection, comes to London in the early 1980s to enlist as a hack reviewer for a pop weekly - and to fall in love with torch singing vamp Mina. Mina?s cult melange of Goth, Euro-Disco and nihilism becomes the next big thing on both sides of the Atlantic and the besotted Kip?s career soars: while covering Mina?s first US tour, Kip goes into a mental and metaphysical freefall... Barney Hoskyns has written a bittersweet tale of youthful angst which will move anyone who has ever been a pop fan - or had their heart broken.
  • ISBN10 1852423870
  • ISBN13 9781852423872
  • Publish Date 15 July 1995
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 July 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Serpent's Tail
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Language English