'The Alternative Guide To Eurovision - A Parody' a new book by Silverscope lecturer Richard Rogers - Out NowEurovision Book out now in Malta price €10.99 + €2.50 postage. (£9.99 + £2.75 for the UK). Send cheques payable to 'RMR' to 53 Triq Ta Mellu, Mosta, MST 3780, Malta
July 2010 saw the release in mainland Europe of a book based on the Eurovision Song Contest called 'The Alternative Guide To Eurovision - A Parody' released by UK publisher Input Output Publishing. January 2011 sees the availability for a short period of the book in Malta with a limited number of copies on sale through this website. At 204 pages this book is a wonderful spoof book chronicling the most compelling of contests.
Richard saw the need for a humorous book on the subject of Eurovision after countless years in the music industry working on Eurovision in many capacities as a judge (4 times in the UK), as a songwriter, as a publisher and as an analysist. Below is an outline of the book contents.
‘A cross between Monty
Python, Viz, Carry On Films & Spinal Tap’ – Luton Enquirer
The Eurovision Song
Contest, that wonderful yearly music festival and institution. Here you will
find an excellent guide to how it didn’t happen. So this book is a parody. Or is it? This guide is a
wonderful adventure for the reader to attempt to define what is real in this
book and what is not and maybe the answers will surprise you whilst suppressing
a giggle or two.
In the 57 years of
Eurovision we bring you the deaths, the donkeys, the disqualifications, the
drugs and the disappointed. The artists and the animals, the politics, the Pope
and the presenters. The Siamese twins, the winning mannequin, the kidnapping,
the missing mermaid, the banned puppet, 400 ecstatic traffic wardens, the
transgender and the missile attacks. Well, the list goes on.
Don’t just take our
word for it. Read a page at random while the girl at the till is engrossed in
her nail varnish and a packet of midget gems and you’ll be smitten. Not with
her! With this book we hope.
With a fantastic introduction
from Sir Timothy Alcerselser and a brutally honest foreword by veteran
Eurovision commentator Malachy O’Sideburns this is a fabulous guide that should
be up on the shelves sandwiched between The Best of Delia and The Victoria
Beckham biography ‘I’m Posh, I Is’.