Books about music.
And some other things probably.
Writer. Ghost writer. Collaborator. Editor. Researcher. Fact-checker. Manuscript fixer-upper.
UK-based author, collaborator, ghost-writer, editor, researcher, autodidact, music lover.
Former peripheral music industry nobody. Biographies. Collabs. Rewrites. Editorial. Email for availability.
Recent projects (editorial): Mike Joyce – The Drums (New Modern Books), Tom Doyle – Ringo: A Fab Life (New Modern Books), Justin Currie – The Tremelo Diaries – Life on the Road and Other Diseases (New Modern Books)
Recent projects (writer) : Mania – Tartan, Turmoil and My Life as a Bay City Roller (with Stuart Wood) – Out June 19th 2025. Published by Blink/Bonnier
Upcoming projects (additional editorial support) : Justin Currie – The Tremelo Diaries – Life on the Road and Other Diseases
Recent projects (writer): Triggers – A Life in Music – Glen Matlock (with Glen Matlock)
Recent projects (editorial): Friend of the Devil – My Wild Ride with Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead – Len Dell’Amico (2025), 1984 – The Year Pop Went Queer – Ian Wade (2024), Hercules! – The A-Z of Elton John – Mick Wall (2023), Reach For the Stars: 1996-2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party – Michael Cragg (2023); Lead Sister – The Story of Karen Carpenter – Lucy O’Brien (2023); Season of the Witch – The Book of Goth – Cathi Unsworth (2023); Rave New World – Confessions of a Raving Reporter – Kirk Field (2023); Shooting Star – The Definitive Story of Elliott Smith – Paul Rees (2023); Soul Survivor – The Autobiography – PP Arnold (2022); When Does the Mind-Bending Start? – The Life and Times of World of Twist – Gordon King (2022)
Forthcoming event:
Coming Soon
August 31st 2023 – New book alert! Out October 12th 2023 on NineEight Books – Triggers – A Life in Music – Glen Matlock (with Glen Matlock)
Recent posts from the ‘drownded’ blog:
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The Ballad of William Shears
Extract From: Across the Universe – Beatles on Infinite Earths. Everyone calls me Paul these days, but my name is William Shears.That is to say, it says William on my birth certificate, but I was always Billy or Bill to my friends. Such as they were, you understand. I could maybe count the number of…
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Twenty Years Ago. Maybe More. Maybe Less. Inside the M25.
In Search of Hardcore. A Book about Bonkers. Chapter 1. Outside my window, the tree line is peppered with bright-coloured parakeets, picked out against the grey sky like watercolour splashes. They’re illegal aliens, I’m told. Someone on the 555 bus through Walton told me as me much. Some old Hersham boy who caught me looking…
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The New New Guy.
(Work in progress.) The worker bees only knew something had gone sideways when Director Hakiro broke with protocol and interrupted the eternal stream. Wearing an unnatural, contradictory smile, Hakiro breached the fourth wall and delivered the melancholy news in his hallmarked, optimistic style. “Code Red,” he said. Like his throat was coated with wisps of…
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The Dead Famous.
Extract From: David Wild & the Very High Numbers (A Rock Opera.) For the first three years of my life, I lived with my mother and father in a single room above a bakery. We were happy enough, I gather, living as we did, under foggy skies. We lived on working class streets, unaware of…
Peter Stoneman - Freelance Writer and Researcher 