Lost in Music: The classic laugh-out-loud memoir

'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'

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.

'Very, very funny . . . Giles Smith is a wonderful writer' - Nick Hornby

'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' - Sebastian Faulks, 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