Rock n Roll Nanny
SilverWood Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80042-149-3 (ISBN)
In 1971, Sally Arnold takes a nannying job in Paris that will transform her life. Her charge is Mick Jagger’s daughter Jade and she is soon running more than bath-time… She is working for the giants of rock as the first woman tour manager in the business.
What’s it like to prepare Christmas lunch with Mick Jagger? To go clubbing at Tramp with The Who’s crazy drummer Keith Moon?
To deal with the WAGs in a band’s entourage?
When Sally moves on to organising charity events, she has to manage other larger-than-life personalities such as Billy Connolly and Rowan Atkinson. Sally also handles famous names from Princess Diana and the Duke of Edinburgh, to Mikhail Gorbachev and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
How did Sally survive in this world of rock and roll?
“She is tough and well experienced in dealing with show business egos.”
Pete Townshend, The Who
Sally Arnold grew up on a Wiltshire farm in the 1950s and trained as a Norland Nurse. An early client took her far from this world: Mick Jagger, who hired her to look after his daughter Jade. She then switched to minding grown-ups. As rock’s first female tour manager, she worked for The Who, the Rolling Stones, Mike Oldfield, Peter Gabriel and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and developed a second career organising the first Comic Relief shows. Alongside Pete Townshend, she went on to run The Who’s Double O Charity, which funded therapies for addiction. Sally was named one of the Women of the Year in 1997 for her charity work. She sustained her lifelong love of classical music, singing with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Chorus, and as Concert Manager for Classic FM, along with her passion for travel. This included a pioneering trip to China by train in 1973. Through the years Sally has met and worked with royals – from Prince Charles and Princess Diana to the late Duke of Edinburgh – Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Chou En-lai, and great musicians such as Anne-Sophie Mutter. She now lives in Devon. Find out more at www.rocknrollnanny.co.uk
Author Biography
List of Photographs
A Note from Sally
Introduction
Prologue
Part One: Becoming
Chapter 1: My Family – and Other Animals
Chapter 2: The 1960s – London and Freedom
Chapter 3: Adventures Abroad
Chapter 4: Life with the Jaggers
Chapter 5: To Los Angeles
Chapter 6: New Horizons
Part Two: Rock n Roll Nanny
Chapter 7: The Who
Chapter 8: Duties of a Tour Manager
Chapter 9: The Who as People
Chapter 10: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Chapter 11: The Love of my Life
Chapter 12: The Rolling Stones
Chapter 13: Lynyrd Skynyrd Again
Chapter 14: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
Chapter 15: Crawler
Chapter 16: The Rossington Collins Band
Part Three: Giving Back
Chapter 17: Festivals and Charities
Chapter 18: The Double O Charity
Chapter 19: Down to Earth
Chapter 20: Around the World
Chapter 21: Friends and Unsung Heroes
Chapter 22: Sally Arnold Events Management
Chapter 23: I am one of the Women of the Year 1997
Chapter 24: Wonderful World Travel
Chapter 25: Cancer, and Recovery
Chapter 26: Life’s Lessons
Epilogue
Final Word
Appendix 1: From Professional Builder 24th May 2019
Appendix 2: Brian Croft’s history of the technical information in the early days of rock and roll
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 44 black and white photographs |
| Verlagsort | Bristol |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80042-149-4 / 1800421494 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80042-149-3 / 9781800421493 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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