Gareth Gates : Right from the Start By Gareth Gates With Sian Solanas
Gareth Gates: Right from the Start
The Inspiring, Illustrated First-Person Chronicle of a Pop Idol Phenomenon's Triumph Over Speech Difficulties
The Inspiring, Illustrated First-Person Chronicle of a Pop Idol Phenomenon's Triumph Over Speech Difficulties
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Gareth Gates: Right from the Start
- Author: Gareth Gates with Sian Solanas
- Publisher: Virgin Books Ltd, London
- Publication Date: 2002
- ISBN-10: 1852279141
- ISBN-13: 9781852279141
- Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Hardcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium illustrated laminated glossy boards, issued without a traditional dust jacket (As Issued).
- Physical Format: Quarto (4to), 128 pages. Lavishly printed on high-grade heavyweight gloss art paper. Extensively enhanced with exclusive new studio portraits, intimate schoolday snapshots, and early family archival photography.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's illustrated glossy boards are in an excellent condition. The panels remain flat, true, and bright, displaying only very slight, microscopic signs of ambient storage shelf friction on the extremities. The spine is completely straight, uncreased, unbroken, and perfect.
- Interior: The internal text block is secure, tight, and robustly bound. Pages are clean, intact, crisp, and flat throughout. The high-quality photographic illustrations remain bright and vivid. The entire interior is completely free of text highlighting, previous owner signatures, library stamps, or dealer pencil margins.
- Preservation: This volume has clearly been exceptionally well maintained and looked after thus far, fully protected within an archival-grade, clear, removable Cellophane cover to safeguard the gloss panels from surface scuffing.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued for this pictorial hardcover release)
Synopsis & Historical Value
Gareth Gates: Right from the Start is a deeply moving, highly inspiring illustrated autobiography that documents the phenomenal rise of one of the millenium's most celebrated young musical talents. Capturing the massive cultural wave of the very first season of the UK's ground-breaking reality television show Pop Idol, where over four million devoted fans cast their votes for him in the historic final, Gareth takes his readers on an intimate journey back to his childhood roots in Bradford.
Writing with absolute candour alongside Sian Solanas, Gareth opens up about his lifelong battle with a severe stammer, revealing how he has suffered from speech difficulties since he first learned to talk. Refusing to let his communication barriers hamper his musical ambitions, the text charts the courageous, deliberate steps he took to overcome his speech impediments in order to chase his dream. Gareth reflects on the electrifying build-up to the Pop Idol phenomenon, his immense pride at securing a historic Number 1 hit with his debut single "Unchained Melody," and his personal artistic thoughts behind his debut album. Filled with rare, personal photographs and stunning studio imagery, this first edition serves as a definitive pop-culture document of the early 2000s reality music revolution.
Author Profiles
- Gareth Gates: Gareth Gates (born 1984) is a highly successful British singer-songwriter, musical theatre actor, and speech coach. After shooting to international fame as the runner-up on the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002, he went on to sell over five million records worldwide and secure a string of chart-topping hits. He later achieved critical acclaim on the West End stage, starring in major productions such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Les Misérables, and became a prominent public advocate for the McGuire Programme to assist individuals with speech impediments.
- Sian Solanas: Sian Solanas is an accomplished British entertainment journalist, ghostwriter, and collaborative biographer known for her skillful documentation of contemporary pop-culture figures and rising musical icons.
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