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In the Long Grass

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just seen this on amazon.bit odd i thought


http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843171562/qid=1138559821/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/203-8613613-9082306


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'Everything you know is wrong' - this was the message to the world that Paula Yates posted above her doorbell. Once upon a time, a rock god met a brainy bombshell TV presenter who was married to a media 'saint'. When their lives collided, the events that unfolded were too bizarre even for fiction; the very public seduction and intense love affair, the fights, the drugs bust, heartbreaking custody battles, financial deals and the deaths of Paula and Michael were front-page news for months. But the vital facts of the web the lovers wove together were kept secret, and the reasons for their deaths were never clear, even to their family and friends. Only one person was there to witness every aspect of the story - Gerry Agar. A former publicist and Paula's long-term friend, Gerry's life, both personal and professional, became inextricably tied to those of the star-crossed lovers, and to the one who would be left behind. This is the stuff of modern legend; a red-blooded tragedy played out in the merciless glare of the media spotlight. Now - five years after Paula's death, on the eve of INXS's comeback, and the twentieth anniversary of Bob's Live Aid triumph - here are the facts, divulged in painful and deeply moving detail, and told with an intimacy that could only be disclosed by one caught in the centre of the storm. Published for the first time in paperback, this is Gerry Agar's story of Paula, Michael & Bob.



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I wonder how the girls will feel about somebody making money out of their mother's death? There is nobody around now to verify any of his "true story". Since he was a close friend of Paula's, I dont think Bob's side of the whole tragedy will be heard. It surely will be very painful for him and his family to read and I for one will not be buying it. The same could be said for Michael's family. Has he consulted them at all? Maybe this will force Bob into writing a sequel to "Is That It?" Why drag all this up now? Let them both rest in peace.

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This book has been out a couple of years now I think. I don't wish to comment on it at all on here, but I think it is a female Gerry who wrote it.

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Thanks for the info, Jules. Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall some publicity about it at the time. I have never seen it in any book shops, so hopefully it has not been the success hoped for.

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thanks for the info guys.i just nedded to see what it was all about

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I remember when that book first came out.  The magazine "Vanity Fair" had an excerpt; I was really ticked at them for running that.  It was very unbalanced and exploitive.


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