Like a Tabloid

The blurb on the front is pretty cool and reads like a tabloid.

"LIKE our Saviour Jesus Christ, I rose from the dead. Only I went one better and did it twice.

After 20 days in a coma and on a life support machine I`ve come back and I`m enjoying a second lease of life.

At first it was strictly nostalgia and talking about the past. Like a guest on Desert Island Discs.

But then as most things in my life - fate stepped in.


Published by NEWHAVEN BOOKS

THE COVER OF THE BOOK

Great line about Jesus Christ on the cover...this will grab peoples attention...

AT LAST and after many false starts my autobiography is finally finished ... all up to date and now includes my Album with Sulo , the meeting with Nick and all about how my recent arrest for `demanding money with menaces` which was downgraded to making threats and how yesterday all charges were dropped.

IT HAS taken a long time to get published ... but well worth the wait as it will soon be on sale everywhere from AMAZON to Waterstones ... available all over the Internet and in every High Street.

READ about my life as a Schoolboy Football star , teenage tearaway , Punk Singer , Punk Poet , Music Writer , Manager of The Stone Roses , Tabloid Journalist , Pornographic Film-maker and songwriter.

BANGED-UP in Bellmarsh Top Security prison.

TAKING-ON and beating Social Services.

MY BRUSH with death , my comeback and making a Rock Album with Soren Sulo Karlsson.

AS Garry Bushell writes "My life has been a roller-coaster ride"

NOW YOU CAN READ ALL ABOUT IT.

Q Magazine

2pm THE PUNK POET will be interviewed by Q Magazine ... great exclusives about THE STONE ROSES and great publicity for PUNK ROCK STORIES AND TABLOID TALES my album and my book .
All about my showbiz career discovering THE STONE ROSES and porn actress JULIE JOHNSON and my life as a Punk Poet and songwriter.
Sex and drugs and Rock and Roll.

PICTURE OF THE YEAR

Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales

Press Release / Quotes to be used in interviews .

PUNK ROCK STORIES AND TABLOID TALES

They will ask what is each song about ?

The tracks in order:

1. The New Face Of Rock And Roll ...... "A song about the new Bowie , Rod , Elvis or Jagger ... a rock hero for the new generation ... just a great rock an roll song to kick-off the album ... soundwise it`s Mott The Hoople...meets The Clash"

2. The Boys Of The World ... "anti-war anthem ... about UK politicians not sending working class youngsters off to war to kill another countries poor ... the song basically states the obvious that war is wrong ... a hard-hitting lyric ... but with Idde`s sweet female vocal it softens the raw aggression of the song without softening the anti-war message"

3. The Gangster Of Slang ... "partly autobiographical in parts ... plus references to Robin Hood ... TV`s Arthur Daley and celeb Gangster Dave Courtney ... my personal choice for the single."

4. From Oxford Street To Gretna Green ... "A love song ... quite slow that tells the story of two lovers fleeing the civil war and bombs of London to getting married in Gretna Green ... the vocals of Idde make this a moving love song" 

5. Beat Of The Street ... "A old punk lyric transformed into a SKA song ... it is like The Specials meets Lovers Rock"

6. National Service ... "Classic lyric from Boys Of The Empire turned into a classic pop song ... best described as The Jam meets The Small Faces ... the sound is poppy but the lyrics are still hard-hitting and scathing"

7. Father`s Day ... "Written for my children ... started life as the hard-hitting punk song Fathers 4 Justice ... but now it`s almost a ballad ... could well became a anthem all around the world for both Mums and dads ... a very personal lyric"

8. Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales ... "My life story told in a rock and roll song ... my favourite track on the album"

9. Suburban Rebels ... "The hardest-hitting lyric on the record ... it`s a re-working of the classic lyric I wrote for punk band The Business ... but this is more Bob Dylan then Johnny Rotten ... people will either love or hate the new version ... I love it ... it grows with every play ... and I defy you not to sing along ... it puts the boot into champagne socialists , the Royal Family and middle class scum "

10. The Deadend Yobs ... "Again this is autobiographical ... it`s the story of my teenage years and love of girls, drugs, football and having a laugh ... a brilliant lyric"

11. United ( The Voice Of Oi) ... "This is the 3rd and best version of my classic poem ... the lyric loved by real punks and kosher Skinheads ... the message is Black and White youth unite against authority and attack the establishment ... the true message of punk ... a two-tone , multi-racial anthem "

12. Newton Brown ... A very personal song attacking corrupt social services and the Family courts ... I love the chorus which goes `Your a ponce a nonce a pervert Peter Brown , Judge Newton you a ponce a nonce a pervert` ... A brilliant tune with a hard-hitting lyric."

13. The One That Got Away ... "My most personal lyric and written about my ex-wife ... it`s a out and out love song ... and I`m not embarrassed ... as two of my hero`s suffered the same heartbreak and also went to pieces ... Rod Stewart when Rachel Hunter walked out ... and Reggie Kray when wife Frances Shea left ... the song was inspired by my own story and from reading their books"

14. The London Boys ... "probably the poppiest song on the album ... its like Blur meets The Kinks ... with the chorus `From North to South to East and West it`s always smart to look your best / If ya wanna be a London Boy` ... "

15. Ballad Of The Young Offenders` ... "all about my time in Borstal, Detention Centre and Approved School ... hard-hitting lyric ... 100 per cent punk"

16. Boys Of The Empire ... "My classic lyric attacking Tory Toffs , Nazi Bastards and The Royal Family ... Pure punk"

17. The Chelsea Girls ... "A love song with a cutting edge .... the lyric rips apart stuck-up, sex mad , posh Chelsea Girls who hangout in West End clubs"

Enough short answers for all the music magazines and punk fanzines.

Garry Johnson & Nick Welsh

Garry Johnson & Nick Welsh

Click on the link and move the dial along to 38 minutes ... and hear the GARRY JOHNSON interview.

He talks about PUNK , David Bowie , The Kray Twins , Tabloid Newspapers , Drugs , his brush with death , his new album and book.

THE PUNK POET also performs National Service live in the studio andyou can hear two of his classic anthems UNITED and The New Face Of Rock And Roll...

Garry Johnson Live On The Radio

Litopia Radio

60-MINUTE SHOW

INTERVIEW

PLUS

2 SONGS AND A POEM