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Chris Moyles then. The Man. The Mouth. ‘The Saviour of Radio 1’, and
now, ‘The Author’.
Indeed, Chris has taken time out from entertaining his millions of
listeners every morning to pen a book.
Part autobiography, part irreverent, page-filling ramble, ‘The Gospel
According To Chris Moyles’ is a decent, light-hearted affair that is
very easy to read and, for the most part, very enjoyable.
Fans of Moyles’ breakfast shenanigans will no doubt be chuffed to find
that his bold, brash and uncompromising attitude has been brought
brilliantly to the page as he rants and raves about everyone from his
former radio bosses to current friends and colleagues.
With some hilarious, insightful anecdotes about how he became one of the
country’s best loved DJs, ‘The Gospel…’ does a great job in separating
Chris Moyles, the shy, hard working Leeds lad from Chris Moyles, the
loud mouthed, obnoxious bloke from the radio.
However, it’s not without its flaws.
Whilst the biographical account of how he went from sitting in his mum’s
kitchen trying to win radio competitions to hosting the most successful
Radio 1 Breakfast Show in years is funny, informative and actually quite
sweet in parts, sadly, this is broken up by huge chunks of waffle that
make for very incoherent reading.
Get through a few pages of his early years, and we’re suddenly
introduced to Aled, Rachel and of course, Comedy Dave amongst others
from his hit show.
And though these are quite nice and funny, they seem to be inserted at
random into the book, as do sections about his encounters with
celebrities and page after page of waffle about how he isn’t really an
author and is struggling to nail down 70,000 words….which naturally
shaves off a few thousand for him.
Many folk have also complained about how short this book is; you can
easily get through it in an hour, two hours tops. Yet we’re willing to
let that slide since, despite its flaws, ‘The Gospel According To Chris
Moyles’ is an interesting, entertaining insight into the life of a man
and his mouth.
Recommended Links:
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www.chrismoyles.net
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www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles - The official pages for Chris
Moyles on BBC Radio 1.
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