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I'm Not With The Man

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A Writer’s Life with the Music Mavericks

By Sylvia Patterson

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From the Costa-shortlisted author of I'm Not With The Band, a collection of interviews with the weird and wonderful musicians who defined an iconic era. Whatever happened to the weirdos? The rock'n'roll rebels? The children of The Revolution who not so much raged against The Man... Read More

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I'm Not With The Man

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From the Costa-shortlisted author of I'm Not with the Band, a collection of interviews with the weird and wonderful musicians who defined an iconic era

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From the Costa-shortlisted author of I'm Not With The Band, a collection of interviews with the weird and wonderful musicians who defined an iconic era.

Whatever happened to the weirdos? The rock'n'roll rebels? The children of The Revolution who not so much raged against The Man as barely acknowledged the concept of authority?

Sylvia Patterson remembers them. The freaks, geeks and oddballs who picked up microphones and instruments not to become rich or famous but because they were too mad (or unemployable) to do anything else.

I'm Not With The Man is the flipside to Sylvia's award-winning memoir I'm Not With The Band, celebrating the era of 'the rock 'n' roll nutter' through her own encounters with some of music's most uncompromising mavericks. From a cursing Adam Ant to a formidable Chrissie Hynde, from a carousing Liam Gallagher to a coruscating Sinead O'Connor, from a comedy Wu Tang Clan to an unrepentant Marianne Faithfull, and many, many more.

Hilarious, revealing and poignant, I'm Not With The Man heralds a farewell fanfare to the heroically unhinged, those who lived on the edge of not only society but their own precarious sanity. We will not see their like again.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349728087

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Fleet

Illustration: integrated b/w photos tbc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Sylvia Patterson is one of pop journalism's best-known voices. Born in Scotland, she moved to London aged twenty, to join Smash Hits as Staff Writer, going on to freelance for NME, The Face, Glamour, Q, Sunday Times and many other publications across the UK and US.