Dimensions
162 x 240 x 37mm
'England won the World Cup in 1966 which I didn't really comprehend at 3 months . . . Ten years later I was cycling everywhere and wanting to go out more which I was allowed to do as I was 11. In 1978 the leash was further slackened and I started to develop my own tastes and pretended not to like Terry & June any more (though Hi-De-Hi was irresistible). I was starting to grow up. This book covers that growing up from 1978 to 1988. It is intended to be a nostalgia trawl with a little anecdotal back-up. An attempt to remember who and what I liked as a boy/youth/idiot and to work out why. There are also some pictures.'
From Starsky and Hutch to Arthur Scargill, and from John McEnroe to Paul Weller, the people who inspired Alan Davies were a reflection of his own changing enthusiasms. They didn't always last that long: Adam and the Ants, just a few weeks. Or necessarily appear with much consistency: on the day the Tories won the 1979 election, Alan, aged ten, phoned his Dad to tell him: 'We won! We won!'. A decade later, he was marching outside Greenham Common and listening to Billy Bragg, UB40 (and Amazulu ...). And visibly flinching every time he remembered that earlier phone call . . .
Warm, personal and laugh-out-loud funny, My Favourite People a hugely affectionate trip through a decade that gave us Barry Sheene and Debby Harry, Jimmy White and Chrissie Hynde, and Diego Maradona and Kylie Minogue.
