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KING DEATH/ I AM STILL THE GREATEST SAYS JOHNNY ANGELO noeXit2 Ace Double

MARKETING & SALES POINTS NIK COHN Pub. Date: 23 February 2017 Nik Cohn is a respected rock journalist, often deemed 'the father of rock criticism' Price: £12.99 From the writer of the short story Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night, on which the ISBN: 978-1-84344-897-6 blockbuster movie and cult classic Saturday Night Fever was adapted Binding: Paperback Format: Royal (234 x 153mm) Part of the noeXit2 'Ace Double' series of two books in one, with striking new covers and sprayed edges Extent: 352 Weight: 270g It is thought that I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo, was based on P.J. Proby, and Publishing UK & Commonwealth only, excl. influenced David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character Rights: Canada: Exclusive. RoW.: Open Market THE BOOK Sales Exclusive: UK & Commonwealth excl. I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo - Despite presistent rumours of his death fifteen years ago, Johnny Canada. Open Market: RoW. inc. North Rights: Angelo's legend continues. Johnny Angelo is a rock singer, and this is his story from the beginning. As a child he is a America dreamer and a solitary, a thief, a killer of birds and cats. As a man he is a god to his fans, an emperor to his cronies, a Market: hoodlum to his enemies. Girls lie at his feet. He becomes rich. He commits murder. At the end, police shoot him down BIC Code: AVH: Individual composers & musicians, in the street. specific bands & groups FF: Crime & mystery In a cool and highly original style Nik Cohn has written a bizarre fable for our time, capturing its sickness and horror yet AV: Music staying true to its grandeur and allure. KNTF: Music industry AVGP: Rock & Pop music King Death - Eddie is a strange man with an extraordinary talent that makes him the 'performer' he is. Eddie BISAC Code: MUS050000: Music : Individual administers Death. His subjects, he explains, are not afraid, but are thrilled and transported. To Eddie, Death is Composer & Musician completion, and he finds fulfilment, satisfaction, and pride in each job he carries out. FIC050000: Fiction : Crime FIC021000: Fiction : Media Tie-In When Seaton Carew, America's most successful TV entrepreneur, chances to witness Eddie in action, Eddie's career MUS035000: Music : Genres & Styles : is altered. Overcoming many obstacles, he and Seaton literally ride to glory on the Deliverance Special, a train carrying Rock King Death and his huge entourage all over America. But then a disturbing change comes over Eddie and threatens to THEMA Code: AVP: Musicians, singers, bands & topple him from his grisly throne... groups King Death is part nightmare, part modern fairytale and wholly original. FF: Crime & mystery fiction Rpt. Code: NP PRAISE FOR NIK COHN

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noexit.co.uk/king-death-johnny-angelo NIK COHN @noexitpress Nik Cohn is the original rock & roll writer. Arriving in London from Northern Ireland in 1964, aged 18, he covered the 2 Swinging Sixties for The Observer, The Sunday Times, Playboy, Queen and the New York Times and he published the classic rock history Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom in 1968. Later he moved to America and wrote Tribal Rites of the Saturday Night that inspired Saturday Night Fever. His other books include Rock Dreams (with Guy Peellaert), Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen (which helped inspire the Who's Tommy) and Yes We Have No. OTHER TITLES BY NIK COHN

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