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Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

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The third son of the Labour Party politician Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea and his missionary wife Dorothy, herself the daughter of Bolivian missionaries, he was raised at his parents' London home in Notting Hill. Anderson was educated at Fox School in Notting Hill and Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. [2] Taking a gap year in Asia, Anderson says he lived the hippy life and smoked cannabis. He then undertook a degree in history at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, and then an MA in revolutions at Sussex University. Thereafter, he went to Goa, India, where he eked a living as a hippy selling trinkets on Goa's beaches. Minkyu Jung and Sunny Gho really bring the city to life around City Boy. How much fun was it to work with them on this project?

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Now that I've written this book, I'm becoming the artist I've always wanted to be. Except I'm not. I'm just a deluded gobshite who's sold his soul for a second time. a b c "City Boy - History". The London Paper. 18 June 2008. Archived from the original on 22 June 2008 . Retrieved 18 June 2008.Mike Slamer went on to record and work as a session musician and staff composer after a stint with American band Streets fronted by Kansas vocalist Steve Walsh in the early to mid-1980s. They recorded two albums for Atlantic Records, 1st and Crimes in Mind. Later with bass player Billy Greer (ex-Streets and currently a member of Kansas), he formed the band Seventh Key. At that moment in 2004 I realised I couldn't take any more of the City. For some reason, I managed to hang on for another three and a half years of bonuses that were 10 times the GDP of some third WORLD COUNTRIES. I had this notion that somebody who was tapped into all of that, everything that this city knows ... Somebody who could know everything the city knows could be a pretty interesting thing to explore in a sci-fi or superhero book. I have this image of this kid walking down the street with the streets curling up around him, and this kid would not only know what the city knows but be able to tap into and control the city. That image had been in my head for years. You'll always be a loser," he yelled with a surprising DEGREE OF INSIGHT, as he drove off in the seven Ferraris.

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Roy Ward went on to release a remake of Del Shannon's "Runaway" under his band name Tokyo Charm in 1982. [2]

I hope folks will feel like they're seeing something that they haven't seen before. That's always the thrill of comics and movies. I remember years ago when I was in college, I went to the movies with a friend of mine. He was a very funny person, but as the credit started to roll, he said, "Welcome to the world of fantasy." I don't know, he was a goof, he was messing around — but there is something to that. Every time we open a book, every time we go to a movie, every time we take a shot on a new story, we want to be transported, we want to go somewhere, and we want to see something we haven't seen. Cities are always a place where people reinvent themselves and find community or get lost. That's the other big part of it. Thematically, the book is a celebration and also a critique of this whole fantasy of the city as this thriving place of community. Because it is that way, absolutely, but it's also not. Cities will eat you alive. Cities will save you, but also destroy you, and that happens every day for millions of people. Cities are the only place a lot of people can find their community; cities are also places where people are lost.

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