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Author of Julius Pam Beyond Reason and When the Cuckoo Cries

About Andrew Ridgeon

As an author I started my writing journey in 2016. The inspiration to write the first book came from my experiences performing with a Bury St Edmunds Band in 1970/71. As a result Julius Pam: Beyond Reason was published in 2021. A great deal of pleasure and satisfaction came from writing this book. Inspired, I wondered if I could write a novel. With a modest B stream secondary education, I had my doubts. Mr Styles, my English teacher, gave enthusiastic encouragement. I paid little attention. But I thought, let’s give it try. So in late 2022 I started out on this new adventure. Initial inspiration came from both my grandfathers participation in the Great War, fighting in Belgium and France. When the Cuckoo Cries is the novel I have written over the past three years.

Julius Pam Beyond Reason

Julius Pam Beyond Reason. Placed at number 3 in the msn 3 Best Rock Band Biographies June 2022. Results are Based on 5,098 Reviews Scanned.

Based on the true story of a Bury St Edmunds band and its rollercoaster ride into the early 1970s music scene with its evolutional changes just on the horizon.

In September 1970, four teenage musicians, by calamity and chance, come together to form an insolvent pop group. It seems that fortune is on their side. In just a short space of time they go from complete unknowns to their region’s headlining act and an introduction as “the next Beatles”. 

Julius Pam, billed as “East Anglia’s Number One Pop Group”, are booked back again and again by many venues on the eastern circuit, never short of work… and very popular with the girls.

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