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Guns N’ Roses Worker-Traveller: Amazon UK 80% Off Bargain Price

After seeing a story on Louder Sound that Guns N’ Roses were suing a brewery (https://www.loudersound.com/…/guns-n-roses-take-legal-actio…) I looked up my Guns N’ Roses Worker-Traveller memoir about European hobo beat hippy rock n’ metal travel in 1987-88 and saw it’s on offer at £1.95 from £10 in the UK. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Roses-Worker-Tra…/…/1849913986

A genuine bargain I think, so I thought I’d let you know. I doubt if I’ll get any royalties; especially at that price!
I don’t know why, but guess it could be because its mental health awareness week.

Appetite for Destruction Before Leaving Blighty Nearly Thirty Years Ago

I think the first stamp is when I left the U.K. on August 25th, 1987 but I’m not sure. It fits in with my departure date, so probably is. There weren’t many stamps after that, until I got to Greece at the end of the continental Europe journey just over a month later.

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Keeping a Diary to Write like Kerouac

I kept a diary on loose paper at first, before buying exercise books along the way. I posted them home. Here’s the first day and its eve, when I wrote of listening to Guns N’ Roses’s Appetite for Destruction (30th anniversary tomorrow!) before leaving:

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Here’s an exercise book from later in the trip, where I reference Ozzy (Diary of a Madman), Anthrax (NFL: Nice F***ing Life) and Lynyrd Skynyrd/Blues Brothers (Sweet Home Alabama or Chicago) and proclaim my ambitions to write a Kerouac On The Road (updated to the highest musical level by Guns N’ Roses’s Appetite for Destruction, following other street living songwriters such as AC/DC, Van Halen, Rose Tattoo and Motley Crue) style memoir (I’ve Lived It So You Can Read It).

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My first travel memoir, The Guns N’ Roses Worker-Traveller, was published by Chipmunka, and I have since written several more books, available on Amazon.