A Northern Soul: The Autobiography

by JimmyNail (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $4.19

  Get acquainted with a northern soul Jimmy Nail has been a household name since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet hit our screens in the 1980s. since then, his career as an actor and a musician has put on him on the silver screen alongside Madonna and given him a No. 1 hit single. Success on this astonishing scale was beyond the wildest dreams of the working class lad whose harsh childhood and brutal schooling put him on a collision course with Strangeways. But a short spell in prison helped propel Nail onwards and upwards. With the support of his friends and family, it wasn't long before Jimmy's unique talents and single-minded determination brought him attention of a different kind and changed his life for ever. In A Northern Soul, Jimmy Nail tells his own vivid story in this intriguing, inspiring and sometimes confounding account of how one man rose to fame and fortune by refusing to be anything but himself.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.19

  Since Auf Wiedesehen, Pet first captured the public's imagination, musician and actor Jimmy Nail has been a household name. And yet, as a working class lad growing up in Newcastle, it was beyond his imagination. But a few people made a difference - encouraging, nurturing and believing in Nail: his mother; the salt-of-the-earth brothers who supported him when he was at his lowest ebb; the young arts student who became his wife; and the writers, actors and producers who saw something special in him. This is a story that will confound, intrigue and inspire in equal measure.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $15.51

  Get acquainted with a northern soul Jimmy Nail has been a household name since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet hit our screens in the 1980s. since then, his career as an actor and a musician has put on him on the silver screen alongside Madonna and given him a No. 1 hit single. Success on this astonishing scale was beyond the wildest dreams of the working class lad whose harsh childhood and brutal schooling put him on a collision course with Strangeways. But a short spell in prison helped propel Nail onwards and upwards. With the support of his friends and family, it wasn't long before Jimmy's unique talents and single-minded determination brought him attention of a different kind and changed his life for ever. In A Northern Soul, Jimmy Nail tells his own vivid story in this intriguing, inspiring and sometimes confounding account of how one man rose to fame and fortune by refusing to be anything but himself.