Education
He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School.
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Lost in Music
(Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music -- about...)
Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music -- about hearing it, buying it, loving it, and attempting to play it in public for money. A brilliant combination of the confessional and the unapologetic, this is a book for anyone who has ever treasured vinyl, or sung into a roll-on deodorant in front of the bedroom mirror and dreamed of playing Wembley. 'A wonderfully funny pop-music memoir ...You don't have to know who Nik Kershaw is to laugh out loud at the chapter about him' Spectator 'One of the best books about music that you will ever read ...It is impossible to read Lost in Music without laughing out loud' Daily Telegraph
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(Lost in Music ) Author: Giles Smith Jul-1996
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Lost in Music
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Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel
(Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging...)
Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties; everybody else beating England on penalties, name any one of the defining sporting moments of the last decade, Giles Smith wasn't there. He was at home, watching on the television. like most people. And then he wrote about it. "Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel" collects the best of Smith's award-winning columns for the "Daily Telegraph" into a single volume of fearless, hard-hitting and not always entirely serious reports from sport's front-line - the living room.
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Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel by Giles Smith (2001-06-08)
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Giles Smith
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In 1998 he was named best journalist of the year. Additional tracks were recorded at Dave Hoser"s house in Wivenhoe (Terry and Jean"s Fast Fruit and Vegetable Centre). The tracks were edited ( there were over 200 edits ) and mastered at Octopus Studio by Dave.
This cassette featured 36 tracks - including "Helluva Break By Ray Reardon", "You Lawn Tennis", "The Babylon Shuffle", "Love Maine Love My Rabbit", "Guru Guru Guru", "Icarus Dicarus, I Smell A Nail", "Tree Mouse", "Banana Legs" and "Rock "North" Roll Orphans".
The artwork for the cassette was produced by Lorna Oakley. The album was remastered by Dave Hoser in 2014.
In 1986 Giles joined the Dumb Mermaids for a one-off concert at the Quay Theatre Sudbury. Smith"s career in journalism began when he joined The Daily Telegraph in 1990 after a spell as one half of the 1980s band The Cleaners From Venus with Martin Newell.
Since then he has written chiefly for The Times He has published two books,, about life and growing up with music, and Midnight In The Garden Of Evel Knievel, a collection of extracts from his sports columns.
He currently writes a motoring column in The Times, and a thrice weekly sport column in The Times. He is a regular contributor to The Word Magazine. He also writes for the Chelsea Football Club website.
Smith is a notable ghost writer of music autobiographies, having performed this role for Rod Stewart, and Tom Jones.
Works
book
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Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel
(Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging...)
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Lost in Music
(Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music -- about...)
- (Lost in Music ) Author: Giles Smith Jul-1996
- Lost in Music
- Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel by Giles Smith (2001-06-08)
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Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel
Membership
Smith was one of the members of a band called Orphans Of Babylon who in 1983 produced the cassette Pinch Maine - I Think I"m In Kent, which was recorded and Produced by their friend, Dave Hoser at Future Studios in Chelmsford.
