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Get acquainted with a northern soul ...
Jimmy Nail has been a household name since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet hit our screens in the 1980s. since then, his career as an actor and a musician has put on him on the silver screen alongside Madonna and given him a No. 1 hit single.
Success on this astonishing scale was beyond the wildest dreams of the working class lad whose harsh childhood and brutal schooling put him on a collision course with Strangeways. But a short spell in prison helped propel Nail onwards and upwards. With the support of his friends and family, it wasn't long before Jimmy's unique talents and single-minded determination brought him attention of a different kind - and changed his life for ever.
In A Northern Soul, Jimmy Nail tells his own vivid story in this intriguing, inspiring and sometimes confounding account of how one man rose to fame and fortune by refusing to be anything but himself.
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An example of how Nail's attitudes have changed is that he now seems to think he was wrong in telling a seedy old man (Francis Bacon) where to go for coming onto him in a club. Bacon eventually said to Nail that all he wanted to do was "paint" him, but grubby old (or young for that matter) men propositioning strangers - male or female - in bars is sleazy and creepy, and it's odd why Nail now thinks he was "prudish" in rebuffing Bacon.
You can't help getting the impression from this book that Nail has moved from one extreme to another, in that he's gone from being a hard drinker forever getting into fights to a quiet-living teetotaller who's been tamed by a nice middle class girl. I'm sure Nail much prefers the latter existence, but to the outsider his life in recent years comes across as bland and boring. To summarise, Nail's book provides a cautionary tale, in more ways than one.
He also states in the book that when they visited the North East to film the 3rd series of Auf W in Middlesbrough he was reminded of how grim the north really is. That is maybe so but its that grimness that made him the person he was (past tense) and got him the incredibly luck break and passport to better things. He also has not lived anywhere near the North East since his unexpected break back in the early 80's. Didn't take the Northern Soul long to up sticks and go did it?
alot of book's but this one
was good. i took it
on holiday to spain and
read it around the pool
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