Billy Sloan, the man who interviewed Grace Jones in a bath

Billy Sloan, Glaswegian broadcaster and music columnist, has written his memoir, ‘One Love, One Life’, about a career that’s 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 …

 

… the moment that changed his life.

 

… why the London Press Corps were “a pack of hyenas”.

 

… Rod Stewart v Michelle Mone – a classic revenge saga that ticked every box.

 

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

 

… the exquisitely “horrible” Chuck Berry.

 

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

 

… the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, “boo-ed onstage, roared off”.  

 

… a trip to the Reeperbahn via Rory Gallagher.

 

… life at the Sunday Mail and the Daily Record.

 

… the great Scottish rock boom of the early ‘80s “when if you had a floppy fringe and desert boots you’d expect to be flagged down by an A&R man with a chequebook”.

 

… and the star that made him feel and “you’re only one duff question away from getting a right hook”.

 

Order Billy’s book here …

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

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