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B0CMC68W24 M4B@64 kbps English | 06 June 2024 | ASIN: B0CMC68W24 | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 25m | 256 MB Author and Narrator: Alan Edwards I Was There is a memoir by Alan Edwards, the godfather of modern music PR, whose stellar list of clients has ranged over the years from the Rolling Stones to the Spice Girls via the Stranglers, Blondie, Prince, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse and, outside of music, David Beckham and Naomi Campbell. Edwards describes getting his break in the mid 1970s as a scruffy, stoned 20-year-old just back from the hippy trail his encounter with London's thriving punk scene, which inspired him to set up his own PR company finding success and broadening his horizons as his work with the likes of Blondie and Bowie takes him to the US and beyond. He brings the listener up to the present day through a series of vivid, funny, always insightful behind the scenes vignettes, whether it's playing a spontaneous game of football with Bob Marley, listening to Prince discuss the future of civilisation in a nightclub VIP area, or being used as a pawn in the power struggle between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Even as Edwards grows into the consummate PR, playing a crucial background role in the lives and careers of some of the world's biggest stars, he retains a powerful sense of being an outsider - never forgetting how lucky he is to look back on decades of music and culture and say, 'I was there'.