ROY MOZLEY: REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE BOOK REVIEW BY TONY FLYNN

Do you have memories of The Condron Club, The Wishing Well, Blighty's ,Fagins, Talk Of The North, The Willows, Rainbow Rooms, Embassy Club, Clowes Club, Mr Smith's, Rafters etc, if so the long awaited autobiography of Roy Mozley, Reflections Of My Life is the ideal book for you.

It's a roller coaster ride, telling of a young boy born in an asbestos prefab in Winton, Eccles rising to a multi million pound mansion in Mere Cheshire, who has a burning ambition to be a pop star and see his name in lights.

Like many young men, he was infatuated with pop music and armed with his, Bert Weedon, Play In A Day book, taught himself how to play, often with hilarious results, this results in him joining such local bands as The Emeralds and Karls Marals, and then finding themselves playing the pubs on Cross Lane Salford.. what a tough place to learn your trade.

Following in the footsteps of The Beatles and so many other beat groups they make their way to Germany looking for the proverbial big time.....hard lessons are learned and Roy returns home determined to learn the ropes and become an entertainment agent, booking artistes for clubs throughout the North West of England.

This is where the warts and all stories tale really takes hold as we are introduced to such artistes as, Bernard Manning, Ken Dodd,  George Best,  Bob Monkhouse, Dusty Springfield, Tony Monopoly, Roy Chubby Brown, Shirley Bassey, Grumbleweeds, , Little and Large, David Essex and his somewhat ridiculous demands in his rider. did I mention Rudolf Nureyev?

It's not all glamour as we see the inner workings of nightclubs and the dirty tricks often employed by business rivals to scupper plans, fall outs over money and find that an honourable man is often hard to find, very hard and Roy's upbringing has certainly stood him in good stead in tricky situations until he realises his dream by buying the rundown Talk of the North Club, Eccles and building it up like a Phoenix from the flames.

Roy's career was not limited to nightclubs, he owned The Casserole Restaurant, Worsley, several pubs including The Water side, Monton and The Swinging Bridge, Barton even a barge called The Cheshire Lady which was fitted out for meals and cabaret and all making a big, financial success for him, and lets be honest, he has worked long and hard for it.

There is so much too talk about in this book, but I will urge you to buy it and I can guarantee that you will find it a great, entertaining read with a roll cast of hundreds of household names and venues and I for one, cannot wait for a follow up if only to learn how he managed to get, Take That to perform two sets at The Talk of The North Club in Patricroft for a peppercorn fee!

The book is dedicated to his late wife, Patricia who sadly passed away a few years ago and who urged him to get the book written, in her honour Roy will be giving 25 per cent of the profits from the sales to Christies Hospital.

The book is available by contacting Roy Mozley on his Facebook page or from jrrobertsshowbiz@gmail.com priced at £12.95