Radio host, YouTuber, writer and producer, Tokyo-based Mike Rogers has many incredible connections in the world of rock and roll.
I’ve been in contact with Mike on numerous occasions in connection with my music PR work, representing other artists. This time, however, I was the guest on the Mike Rogers Show, talking about my recently-published book on Slade.
You can catch my interview with Mike below, where I talk about my love of ’70s glam, my new book on Slade, my two previous books on Suzi Quatro and The Sweet and my segue from London politics to music writing.
Actually, as The Times noted last weekend I’m not the first ex-London politician to write a book on Slade. Before turning my hand to music writing, I did a sixteen year stint as an elected member of the Greater London Authority (GLA), representing the Green Party. But the first person to write a book on Slade was George Tremlett, a Conservative member of the predecessor body, the Greater London Council (GLC), whose own Slade book came out in 1975.
And below Here we have George Tremlett’s 1975 book ‘The Slade Story’, alongside my own book which came out on 26th May this year.
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Congrats on another great interview, Darren. You’re getting some decent publicity on your new book. Mike Rogers seems to be a nice guy. I find it hard to believe a conservative politician wrote a book about Slade! 🙂
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Yes Mike is a great character. Conservative politicians writing books about Slade? – well it was the 70s I suppose!
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While I haven’t read the book, at least one could say their was a certain coolness factor to him – something I thought I would never say about a British conservative, especially after the Iron Lady!😆
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It’s a pretty superficial book repeating many of the fictions that appeared in the teen pop press at the time – but it was the first one.
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