Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales - Climbing The Stairway To Heaven

Chapter Nine

"Climbing The Stairway To Heaven"

As previously admitted, I swindled my way into Journalism. I even blagged my way into the NUJ.

But to this day, getting my NUJ membership card is still one of my proudest achievements. I felt like a member of the SAS getting his red beret.

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Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales - Till Death Us Do Part

Chapter Eight

"Till Death Us Do Part"

Should gangster novels carry a Government Health Warning for their authors?

I wrote `Till Death Us Do Part` as Garry Jackson and got banged up in Bellmarsh top security prison.

Before me who was the last writer in the United Kingdom to be jailed for writing a book?

The answer is the genius that was Oscar Wilde.

My so-called crime?

I named the boyfriend of my ex-wife and revealed he was a former pimp and child-abuser.

I also had the lead character pump three bullets into his head.

He was slaughtered not on the streets of Wickford but in the pages of a book.

So why was I arrested.

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Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales - The Hounds Of Fleet Street

                                                                Chapter Seven

                                                      "The Hounds Of Fleet Street"


I saw David Bowie on Top Of The Pops and it changed my life.


So much so - I hung up my football boots and picked up a guitar.


I became a failed singer, a decent poet and without doubt Fleet Street`s Number One scammer.

If you want to read all about how I got close-up and personal with Tabloid legends like Piers Morgan, John Blake, Rebekah Wade, Jane Moore, Garry Bushell, Andy Coulson, Nick Ferrari, Mathew Wright.

Made a decent living as a Tabloid Terrorist then READ MY BOOK.

Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales - I Did It My Way

                                                              Chapter Six

                                                           "I Did It My Way"


The Garry Johnson story is a roller-coaster ride ( Southend, not Vegas) through the coke-fuelled world of rock stars, football, hooligans, soap actors, page 3 girls, gangsters, unlicensed boxers, family entertainers, corrupt judges, wannabee pop stars, strippers, blue comics, dreamers, porno films, nobodies and tabloid journalists.

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Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales - Talking Of Garry Bushell

                                                               Chapter Five


                                                      "Talking Of Garry Bushell"


I was a singer in a rock `n` roll band called The Buzz Kids. We looked great, but I couldn`t sing and the band couldn`t rock.

Garry Bushell witnessed our first and last gig in an East London pub. He gave us a verbal kicking and ended my career as a wannabee pop star - but that meeting resulted in me becoming a music writer at Sounds Magazine.

I also became a Punk Poet and then a Tabloid Terrorist.

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Punk Rock Stories And Tabloid Tales - Meeting Michael Jackson

More extracts in case the publicity and extracts on Twitter and Facebook have whetted your appetite.

You can read the first few Chapters for FREE on Amazon Kindle so on this page I will reveal the opening paragraph from all other Chapters.

Chapter 4

"When Johno Met Wacko Jacko"

My life was all about endless scams and getting away with murder. Some still make me smile and many make me laugh out loud.

I wonder if we have the same sense of humour?

Here are a few of my favourites.

My meeting with World superstar Michael Jackson during a private tour of Madame Tussauds.

I went along as special guest of my friend Pat Stead who was Wacko`s Head of Press in the UK.

She introduced me to the pop legend.

I said "Hello" and welcomed him to London, he smiled and whispered a reply I couldn`t actually hear.

But I turned that brief encounter into a in-depth interview.

Both he tabloids and Radio One called my story a WORLD EXCLUSIVE.

I claimed the Prince of Pop loved Eastenders, was a fan of pie `n` mash and wanted to watch West Ham play at Upton Park.

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