The London Apprentice

FANCY A JOB AS AN APPRENTICE COMPOSITOR*?

(*a snotty-nosed subclass of the primitive species Homo erectus)

A tongue-in-cheek autobiography of an apprentice compositor learning his trade in London's Old Covent Garden during the so-called swinging 'Sixties, when youth culture was, for the first time, finding an identity in a post-war Britain.

Chapters include:

• The composer (music critics need not apply).
• Trots and trotting (Deli belly? Worse than that!).
• A wet lunch (bring your own blotting pape...