LOZ
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Post by LOZ on Apr 9, 2019 17:26:46 GMT
I only make that comment cos when I did the tv prog I asked a question about one of their books and francis turned to rick and said "that's your department" and went and sat down.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Apr 10, 2019 4:41:51 GMT
I doubt he sat down and physically wrote it. I don't think anyone writing an autobiography does that. Well, maybe one or two. He'll have sat down regularly with Mick Wall, given him some stories or anecdotes and let him put it together. I dare say he vetted the content and the publishers edited it. Mick Wall will also probably have 'interviewed' him given his journalist profession and taken material from that. He'll have accessed online sources as well. A joint effort shall we say. I imagine Francis will have had more of an input than before because Rick isn't there. He'll have had to get a bit more involved. Then again, I know nothing of the publishing world so all of the above could be off the mark Actually, I tell a lie; Ali's step-mum is a novelist and she tells us some horror stories about publishers.
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Post by snakelady on Apr 10, 2019 7:50:00 GMT
Actually this book (as opposed to the previous one) left me with the impression they're indeed his words a lot of the time. It's a very different style when compared to XSAA which Mick Wall too had written for both Rick and Francis. Doesn't come across like it has been written by a professional writer this time IMO. More like Francis has maybe dictated it and Mick put it down to paper computer and smoothed it out. The sentences are shorter and simpler, the language is simpler and there's Francis humour in it too.
Maybe I'm naive and Mick is merely showing his versatility, but I'd say there's a lot more of Francis in this book than in the previous one.
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Post by frozenhero on May 1, 2019 12:08:23 GMT
I doubt he sat down and physically wrote it. I don't think anyone writing an autobiography does that. Well, maybe one or two. I think Eric Clapton did a lot of writing for his autobiography. He even talks about it in the book near the end, how he was manically hacking into the computer keyboard with one finger like a crazy chicken (that's how he described it, more or less).
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