I am an experienced author, ghost-writer, journalist and editor. I started out in the mid-1980s as a music journalist, initially on Melody Maker, then later Time Out, Q and the Guardian. In the late 1990s, I moved into books and, after publishing life stories by Eddie Izzard, Ike Turner and Meat Loaf, began writing them myself. I collaborated with Nikki Sixx from Mötley Crüe on his ground-breaking New York Times bestseller, The Heroin Diaries, co-wrote Over the Moon with David Essex, and ghosted Sir Billy Connolly’s homage to his homeland, Made in Scotland. I’ve written official BBC histories of both Top of the Pops and Desert Island Discs, helped Judas Priest singer Rob Halford pen his staggering tell-all memoir, Confess, worked with Sir Cliff Richard on two books including his life story, The Dreamer, written three with Jay Blades, and ghosted Petula Clark’s remarkable autobiography, Is That You, Petula? and Jimmy Tarbuck’s memoir, Laughter is the Best Medicine. In total, my books have sold more than one million copies. If someone has a great story, I love helping them to tell it.

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