Memoir covering 1947 'til 1976 of a gay man growing up as a teenager in provincial England and, after a spell at the brand-new University of Kent, finding his feet in London in the nineteen sixties and seventies where he worked in the world of music, film and theatre as, at first, lowly gopher and pen-ultimately general manager of an artiste's management company tending the careers of such as Cat Stevens, Colin Blunstone, Mike d'Abo, Twinkle and finally the John Reid Management working with Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Kiki Dee, Kevin Ayers and Queen, whose lead singer, Freddie Mercury, became a lifelong friend.