“Oh, sure, there was this other guy: the one who sang the songs, who got the girls, who wore the shirts, who broke the hearts. But the story of David Cassidy really had very little to do with pop music, or pop culture, or even the culture of fame; it was something much simpler than that. It was a love story. And I wrote it. I left university in 1973 with a degree, a girlfriend and a half share in a Mini Clubman. It turned out that I had only a half share in the girlfriend, too, and that she pref...erred the other half, but it took a shouting match in a mews off Bayswater, at three o’clock in the morning, to learn the truth. My degree was in English, with particular emphasis on the Romantic poets. Proof that I had gained it came with a diploma, in a roll of fake vellum, and a blank space where my future was meant to be. Not only did Keats fail to get me a job: he practically guaranteed that no one would employ me. Employers would sit there with my one-page, double-spaced CV on the desk between us, curl their lips and pronounce the words English Literature as if they were saying “criminal convictions”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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