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Tracks of My Years [Audio Download]

by Ken Bruce (Author, Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 2 hours and 52 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Abridged
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 14 Sep 2009
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQFFA4
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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A funny, charming memoir by Radio 2's much loved DJ Ken Bruce.

From his childhood in 1950s Glasgow, when he was affectionately known to his older brothers as 'the wee bastard', to his wildnerness years as an accountant when he longed to achieve his dream and join the BBC, Tracks of My Years tells the story of Ken Bruce's remarkable career.

Starting work for Radio Scotland in 1977, he was soon interviewing legends like Sean Connery, Billy Connolly and Peter Ustinov, and in the 1980s was lured to Radio 2 to take over Terry Wogan's spot. He has been with the station ever since.

Ken writes with insight into the world of radio and delivers lots of brilliant anecdotes from his interviews with celebrities as diverse as Rod Stewart, Keane and Burt Bacharach, who came out with the immortal line (edited out of the final version) "Phil Spector never put a foot wrong", before adding thoughtfully, "until he shot that girl, of course."

He also writes about bringing up his autistic son and - unusually - the happiness it brings him and his wife and the many positives of what is so often portrayed as a heartbreaking situation.

©2009 Ken Bruce; (P)2009 Macmillan Digital Audio
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Bantam Dave VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Because his show follows that of `living legend' Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce tends to get overlooked. In a way you could say he is a bit like Oliver Hardy to Wogan's Stan Laurel. This is unfair because anybody that regularly listens to Ken Bruces programmes will realise that, like Hardy, he is a consummate performer. He his highly skilled at his art, possessing the happy ability of being able to make the listener believe that he is talking to them alone, chatting to them as if he were sitting in the same room as them.

This autobiography is like that too. This is a warm, good natured book full of amusing anecdotes gathered first from his pre-radio days as a trainee accountant and a hire car company employee and then from his long career as a broadcaster, where he started on hospital radio before graduating to Radio Scotland then moving on to his spiritual home, Radio Two.

This being Ken Bruce, we don't expect and don't get any dishing of the dirt about his fellow broadcasters, he his obviously too decent a bloke to go down that road. This and the fact that he hasn't really had a very eventful life may make this book a little dull for some tastes but the millions that enjoy his mid-morning show will doubtless enjoy this book as well.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Great book about a great presenter. I have had the pleasure of being of his legendary Popmaster quiz a couple of times - I even made the final one year! Full of anecdotes and dry humour as a regular Radio 2 listener of his show would come to expect. As radio biographies go, this is a good one. Also interesting about how BBC has ran Radio 2 throughout as most radio biographies tend to focus mainly on Radio 1 - particularly the Bannister fallout of 1993! I have not just ordered the man himself reading the autobiography which will be even better!!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By EssexReader VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Ken Bruce is one of my favourite Radio 2 presenters so I was really interested in reading this. Unfortunately, it didn't quite hit the spot for me. The book charts his rise to radio fame from his days in accountancy and working for a hire car firm to jobbing for BBC Scotland and then on to Radio 2. Its not the most exciting of lives to write about, particularly early on, but there are some amusing anecdotes. The most interesting part for me was the behind the scenes politics and sometimes pettyness at the BBC.
If you're interested in radio then you would probably enjoy this a lot more. His family barely get a mention throughout the book and if you hadn't read early on that he was married with a family, you could form the impression that he was a single man. At the end of the book, he mentions his autistic son which I found very moving. On balance, I would have liked to have learnt a bit more about the man and a bit less about radio.
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A good time to read!
A present for the father in law! Which he loved! Sent quickly and well packaged! Very happy with this item! Thanks!
Published 6 months ago by Tammy_Laird13
Ken Bruce
This will make a fab present for dad, as he listens to his radio show. Has an attractive cover and is not to long so the reader will not get bored. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Emma
Good Humour
I feel sorry for the reviewer who felt this book was dull, it has gone beyond my expectations and the humour is brilliant and has me shaking with laughter. Read more
Published on 15 May 2010 by K. Johansen
Mighty Bruce
Thought there would be a tad more on his childhood but it was more about his radio career. That might have been my fault though for reading about the content of it first, so was a... Read more
Published on 3 April 2010 by C. Murphy
Christmas pressie for my significant other
Ken's book seems to keep her attention. She keeps showing me the pix and re-playing memories from yesteryear on Radio 2, identifying long-departed presenters, etc. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2010 by NH34
Ken Bruce biography
My sister was very please with this as she listens to him on Radio 2 every day at work and loves him. She hasn't read it yet though as she only got it today. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2009 by Susan Knight
I'm not as think as you drunk I am...
I must admit, from the way Mr Bruce had spoken of his autobiography on the radio, I was expecting better. Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2009 by M. Haskell
Not much to say
The early chapters about Mr Bruce's youth are interesting history, especially to someone of the same age like myself, but his career in broadcasting produces a tedious chronicle of... Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2009 by John Hulme
Ken Bruce - The Tracks of my Tears
Book well worth a read.
Thoroughly enjoyed
For anyone involve in radio or a fan of Ken Bruce
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by G. F. Logan
well worth the wait
i throughly enjoyed this book. kens sense of humour and dry wit are excellent, i had to stop reading it in public as i often got funny looks when i burst out laughing, if you enjoy... Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2009 by elliotts mum
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