Welcome to the Heady Heights
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It's the year punk rock was born, Concorde entered commercial service and a tiny Romanian gymnast changed the sport forever. Archie Blunt is a man with big ideas. He just needs a break for them to be realised. In a bizarre brush with the light-entertainment business, Archie unwittingly saves the life of the UK's top showbiz star, Hank 'Heady' Hendricks', and now dreams of hitting the big-time as a Popular Music Impresario. Seizing the initiative, he creates a new singing group with five unruly working-class kids from Glasgow's East End. Together, they make the finals of a televised Saturday-night talent show, and before they know it, fame and fortune beckon for Archie and The High Five. But there's a complication; a trail of irate Glaswegian bookies, corrupt politicians and a determined Scottish WPC known as The Tank are all on his tail… A hilarious and poignant nod to the elusivity of stardom, in an age when 'making it' was 'having it all', Welcome to the Heady Heights is also a dark, laugh-out-loud comedy, a heart-warming tribute to a bygone age and a delicious drama about desperate men, connected by secrets and lies, by accidents of time and, most of all, the city they live in
Book information
ISBN: | 9781912374618 |
Publisher: | Orenda Books |
Imprint: | Orenda Books |
Pub date: | 21 Mar 2019 |
Edition: | Paperback original |
DEWEY: | 823.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 276 |
Weight: | 272g |
Height: | 130mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 21mm |