Jacqui Abbott’s tale of how she joined the Beautiful South is a movie in waiting

.... a story that involves “slinging Maris Pipers onto a supermarket shelf”. Much of her early life in Merseyside would make a movie actually, not least the moments where she takes home the trophy after winning a disco competition dancing to the Pointer Sisters, and when she first hears Sly & the Family Stone while skating in a roller-rink. And possibly when her brother storms into her bedroom and smashes her John Taylor of Duran Duran mirror to settle a score. This is thoroughly entertaining, all of it, and so well told - the music she discovered on the Beautiful South tour bus, the records that offered “a window to escape”, her pigeon-racing Dad and the birdmen of Blackpool and the life-changing effect of the Cocteau Twins and  the Pet Shop Boys.

Jacqui and Paul Heaton have a new album, N.K-Pop, and are touring again from November.

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott tour dates …
https://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/pau...

N.K-Pop…
https://www.amazon.co.uk/N-K-Paul-Hea...

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