Book description
'I go in my bedroom and lie on my bed and soon as I set eyes on
Nick it's like magic...' (Alison, 14) Starlust is a stunning oral
history of pop music fandom in all its glorious, unexpurgated
ecstasies and deliriums. Through first-hand accounts collected from
interviews, diaries, letters and confessions Fred Vermorel presents an
unprecedented, multi-faceted portrait of 1980s-era pop adoration and
obsession - from lonely teens love-struck by Nick Heyward, to the
androgynous disciples who claim psychic connections with David Bowie,
to the housewife-devotees who share 'lashings of Manilust' for Barry
Manilow. 'This book, at first glance full of the fantasies of maniacs,
is really full of the wonderful dreams of people just like you and
me.' Pete Townshend Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a
wealth of lost/neglected classics and authors of distinction. The
range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books.
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