Rock Bottom - Revealed by Geoff Baker

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Rock Bottom- revealed by Geoff Baker 
Feb 8th 2:30 pm- Feb 9th 11:30 pm Press Release Below : Subject to frequent updates- 

Geoff Baker- finally reveals, Rock Bottom

Geoff Baker- Rock Bottom

Out February 14th 2011- Stay tuned

Oh man, finally, after all these years; Geoff Baker writes   about the music industry - sounds naughty- ha! Bet, haters might think it's about-Paul McCartney -Geoff writes book about the Rock world and it's dark side.~ intriguing..
SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCKIN  n ROLL- I Love it! This ain't your grand mama's book,,,

So what's the book about?

a lonely and loveless fan of a rock star turns to blackmail

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Sex and drugs and rock and roll as you've never read about them before - this time the FAN is the heroine in a roller coaster read of what happens when it all goes bottoms up in the music business.

Drawing on 30 years in tabloid journalism and music business PR, Geoff Baker creates a moving, entertaining [and utterly fictional] tale which reveals the damned life inside the celebrity circus - as Rock Bottom pokes holes in the pop culture of our age and gives a grim warning to those who dream of X-Factored fame.
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Ragabond Press

Well where can I get my Copy? update March 1st

Rock Bottom available email:
sales@ragabondpress.com.dircet from the publisher-cheaper via the publisher-
( Geoff has pulled the book from Amazon- for major F UP's)- 
Rock Bottom available at Amazon.co.UK Kindle edition

We've heard there's a limited edition to 1000 copies as of this posting

" Id Rather stick a lite cigarette in my eye than to write a tell all book- on Paul McCartney" -Geoff Baker

 LOL Priceless!


 hb: Sounds tantalizing~ can't wait for my copy! Brilliant Geoff.,  Well done, Damn you have some goodness coming to you .. You sure do deserve it..I wish you a HUGE success .. I wonder- if Macca will read the book? Who are  Rock Bottoms - characters?! xx Thoughts- anyone? :)
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This Just IN Rock Bottom Press Release - ( cos I forgot to check my emails thoroughly )

RAGABOND PRESS

Lyme Regis    

pressoffice@ragabondpress.com

Tel 44 1297 44 3932 or 44 1892 864 520

Mob 44 7966 473 919 or 44 7533 900 537

PRESS RELEASE

BAKERBACK WRITER!

BEATLES EX-PR PUBLISHES

RUDE ROCK ‘N’ WOE BOOK

After a six-year struggle to get it into print, Geoff Baker - former PR to Paul McCartney, The Beatles and Oasis - is finally publishing his rude, racy and irreverent novel about the music industry.

Rock Bottom is Baker’s black-humored but fond satire which pokes a tongue behind the scenes and between the sheets at almost every aspect of the record business.

The first, limited edition of 1,000 copies will be available on Amazon from February 14th, priced £7.99. It will be published by Ragabond Press, a micro publisher that Baker set up with another former journalist, Jill Newton, after the UK’s mainstream publishers refused to touch his book.

Baker says Rock Bottom is ‘a work of complete and utter fiction’. The 400-page paperback romps and ruts through the conjoined stories of a flagging rock star, his demented PR and a blackmailing fan who threatens to ruin the pop idol’s reputation by unmasking a long-hidden sexual secret.

‘The star, Birmingham-born genius Ian Taylor, is not remotely based on anyone I’ve known,’ said Baker, ‘I made him up and he is as fictional as Henry the Horse who dances the waltz.’

Instead of writing about actual people I’ve worked with, it was more interesting for me to create fictional types of that rock world – the musicians, managers, record company execs – and to have a laugh at what fame can do to people and how it can disastrously affect those who work around the famous.

‘But what was of most interest to me was to make the fan the central character of the book; the fans’ feelings are often overlooked in the music game so I made the fan the heroine for a change.

‘Rock Bottom is basically a celebrity love story, but it’s quite sad in parts – rock ‘n woe, we call it. It is also the flipside of The X-Factor, revealing the madness and misery of making it big, so in some ways it’s a cautionary tale for those who long to see their name in lights.

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‘The book is also rather rude. We were thinking of having a Parental Advisory sticker on it as the vernacular of the business is certainly not kids’ stuff and as a word search revealed there are 864 f-words in the book those who dislike bad language might be better off reading Trainspotting instead.’

Although Ian Taylor’s genius but mercurial temperament was drawn from Baker’s imagination,

he admits that various journalist characters who play supporting roles in the lurid drama were partly inspired by old pals from his newspaper days on Fleet Street.

‘I’ll be interested to see if any mates from the hack pack that I used to run with recognize anything of themselves in the book,’ said Baker, 54, ‘A number of them are editors now.’

It has taken Baker more than six years to publish his novel.

‘I wrote the original story in three months, back in 2004. I got a leading literary agent and he enthusiastically sent the manuscript to every major publisher – but none of them would touch it with a bargepole. Four years of rewrites followed, my funds ran out and if it hadn’t been for the support and belief of my wife Amanda throughout it all, I’d be rotting in debtor’s prison.’

‘Pissed off but unbowed’, Baker and Newton – an old Lyme Regis school pal  - formed their own micro publishing company, Ragabond Press.

‘Jill and I re-met by chance after having not seen each other for more than 35 years. We talked about the book and realized that as she was trained as an editor and a sub and I was trained as a hack, maybe we could combine our skills for the book’ said Baker.

‘So between us we took on every aspect of getting a book done – editing, proofing, type-setting, layout, design, photography, distribution, marketing, PR, the lot.’

Now Ragabond Press, which is based in Newton and Baker’s home town of Lyme Regis, has seven self-penned books in production and is considering publishing other writers.

‘Rock Bottom comes out on Amazon on February 14 and we’re going to take several months to slowly plug it, just like I used to with a rock album,’ said Baker, whose next project is Ragabond Press’s The Beatles Fanthology, the story of the Fab Four told through the memories and stories of Beatles fans.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT

Geoff Baker                                                    Jill Newton

07966 473 919 or 01297 443932                    07533 900 537 or 01892 864 520

geoffbaker@dsl.pipex.com                           jillnewton@btinternet.com


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Geoff's Rock Bottom Covers

 

Alternative photo shot Geoff Baker Rock Bottom-2011

Feb 17th  I"30pm

Just received Geoff Bakers
Rock Bottom in the post on this lovely raing day .I think I'll be reading it to The Ramones- ahh in the authors notes,: he thanx Paul McCartney- for giving the book the "Green Light" sweet!!!!

Rock Bottom review soon to come~ :)


hb~

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Harley darling, what am I meant to write here?

Geoff Baker New Blog~

Thank you darling, what am I meant to do now? I got this invite to join your blog [very kindly] and I do click and now I'm sitting my English exam. Err...am I supposed to post a link?

I think it is Geoff Bakers Book Blog

Anyway, what a fucking laugh eh? After all this bloody bloody bloody long time, Rock Bott is coming. Tell me about it, I feel like I'm on acid. But honest to god, it will be available possibly within the fortnight. Btw, does anybody else read this?
XXXX GB

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hb: Well kids, Geoff Baker, has kindly accepted my offer to join in on the Sir Paul McCartney & The Beatles Purplemelon blog~ Yes, that Geoff Baker. Former publicist for Paul McCartney- so from time to time you might find something. interesting, written by him
( hopefully) be on the look out for Geoff, here -wooohoo welcome Geoff ..

By the way you ARE such a brilliant fucking writer!!!~ Geoff, has just started a new blog called Geoff Bakers Book Blog- simple and too the point ~ Geoff, has 5 books in the works as of this posing; one being, Rock Bottom & Beatles Fanthology.. about Beatles fans for the fans~ too inquire about Rock Bottom or Beatles Fanthology - see links above.. Rock Bottom is NOT about Paul McCartney as some have suggested or speculated~..

note:
Beatle fans, who would like to contribute to the Beatles Fathology book should email Geoff @
geoffbaker@beatlesfanthology.com

Ohh hot note now!:

Paul and the band in London

Brian Ray, just posted he and the band are in London, this very minute, rehearsing for their Up & Coming Tour to South America!~ damn how cool would that be, to actually be at those rehearsals? that would be something !.. One could only dream right- could you imagine being at such a rehearsal? I could imagine them all goofing off between songs- heheh I could! says Brian:

Greetings from London, it's freezing cold here but rehearsal was hot ~ forgive me for being cheezy... but this Paul guy is good. Very good.

hb~

Ex-Macca Rep To Write The Beatles Fanthology

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OK, alright!! Geoff Baker, too write a Beatles Book about the Fans~ see Press Release below~ You freakin Go Geoff~ woohoo!!~

GEOFF BAKER

PR for Linda McCartney 1990-1998

PR for Paul McCartney 1989-2004

PR for Apple Corps 1995-2004

FAN-MEDIA RELEASE

EX-MACCA REP TO WRITE THE BEATLES FANTHOLOGY

with a little help from their friends

Geoff Baker, former PR to Linda and Paul McCartney and The Beatles, is to write a history of Beatles fans - using the fans' own words and calling it The Beatles Fanthology.
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Baker, who worked at Apple Corps as press assistant under Derek Taylor on the actual Beatles Anthology projects, is asking Beatles fans around the globe to send him their stories, memories and moments about their love for the world's most-enduring rock band.

Baker will edit anecdotes and observations from the fans into the first full and illustrated biography of The Beatles fan phenomenon.

'I have a lot of respect for them, there is absolutely nothing like a Beatles fan and I love 'em,' said Baker, who worked for 15 years as Paul McCartney's publicity chief.

'The fans made the band and they have continued to make the band through five decades - but I feel their crucial side of the story that Derek called 'the 20th century's greatest romance' has never been told properly before. I'm reasonably qualified to write this book and it is the only Beatles book that I shall ever write.'

Baker said he was spurred to do the book after attending the Beatles Week festival in Liverpool and after a Beatles fan wrote to him and suggested that he did it.

'I've always been fascinated by the fans. I did three world tours with Paul McCartney and on each one it was the dancing fans with their cheeky banners, friendly faces and expert knowledge who made each show a smash.
I have no interest in the posh people who buy the expensive seats and then just sit in them throughout the gig.

'The kind of things I'm interested in are what was it like for a Beatles fan in the Sixties, what was it like seeing them in Liverpool, what's it like being a Beatles fan now, what's it like having a son as a Beatles fan, or a grand-daughter, what's special about them above every other band, how did they affect your life -
I want to know what the fans think about The Beatles, not the biographers' opinion or the critics', the fans. Other than forever admiring their screaming, we've not paid enough attention to their voice.'

Baker is asking fans who want to put their voice in the book to tell him their stories - by email to geoffbaker@beatlesfanthology.com

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'I want to cover the whole Beatles period, from the beginning of the birth of the band in 1957 up to the current day. The fans can send me as much or as little as they like. Email me pix or anything they want, but don't send me originals because everybody knows I'll lose them,' said Baker.
'I'm looking for those little moments that may be personal to one but will be understood by us all. I want to get in as many voices as possible from as many places as possible.'

Although Baker has been kicking fan-related book ideas around in himself for years, it was his business partner Jill Newton who came up with the name The Beatles Fanthology after the fan's prompt. The pair, both former journalists, recently formed a books-writing partnership, Newton & Baker Books. The Fanthology will be their fourth book currently in production.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Geoff Baker 07966 473 919

geoffbaker@dsl.pipex.com

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New books Broken Saint: a Story of a Brillaint Failure

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New books Broken Saint: a Story of a Brilliant Failure

Hey people, are you an avid reader? well, I have something new for you. Just a few short months ago, my friend-
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Mark, had mentioned, years ago, he had been writing such a book, (but was pretty low key about it- all ) and now, his dream of becoming a published Author, has come to fruition. Right on, Mark! I Love, when that happens!

I cannot wait to read the book myself. Below, is the press release to Broken Saint-

says Mark "The Beatles are mentioned in the book" I didn't ask him what chapter tho? :) I will just have to read it- for myself. I am proudly, happy for Mark's- most recent, accomplishment.... way to go! well done!


E L O Q U E N T B O O K S
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Vietnam Vet Struggles with Post-War Life, Religion, Sexual Orientation, and
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much more.
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From his first breakdown during the war through his attempts to navigate
the rough seas of post-military life, Tom struggles to reconcile the different facets of his life. In Tom’s story, there are incidents of trueugliness, with no sugar coating. There are also interludes of peace when Tom, for a time, knows true contentment.

Ultimately, this is a story of intolerance and how it is internalized and
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good man who should have been a productive and successful member of society.

Publisher’s website: www.eloquentbooks.com/BrokenSaint.html


About the Author: Mark E. Zamen met the man upon whose life this novel is
based on their first day in the Army. Mark was inspired to tell Tom’s story after
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have a 24-year-old daughter.

For media inquiries, appearances, or other publicity —

please contact: Ellen Green — PressManager@aegpublishinggroup.com

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845 Third Avenue, 6th floor-6016 – New York, NY 10022

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1-888-808-6190 - Corporate Office
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Where to find Copies of Broken Saint- you can find it on Amazon or see my widget to the left on sidebar yu can click there - also Barnes & Noble.

Good Luck, Mark, I wish you, HUGE Success on the road to the Bestsellers list!

xx

harleyblues~