![]() You know, with some of the names that I put in. And also, I think a little bit young, maybe. And everything we’ve taken out was only to make the book smoother.”ĪNTIHERO: Were they musical people, though? That knew you? Or was it a case more of, what will sell copies?īernie Marsden: Yeah, I think 70/30. And also, but of course, what they’ve done is they said, “no, look, why don’t you think about it. But there is, I’m still finding if you’re reading this on the road, the new one, I’m still finding a few things that may well go back into the … when the softback comes out. They took that out on the edit.ĪNTIHERO: It’s a good story, you would have thought.īernie Marsden: Yeah, and how many people get that close to those kinds of people, and be able to call them a friend? So, I did stamp my foot a bit. That’s one where we’re at a Whitesnake party, and we had some dancers there and the girls sat in his lap and we all burst into She Loves You. To make it … but some of the stuff, there was a lovely story with George Harrison which they did take out when to this day I don’t quite know why they took it out. That’s been kind of edited out a little bit. And how … the excitement of it, and stuff like that. Or did you have a lot of input into the complete editing process?īernie Marsden: Yeah, but it would be stuff like when I’m 15 or 16 and I’m describing what it was like to get my first guitar. Some of the stuff they took out, I did get put back in.ĪNTIHERO: So, literally a case of them going, have that out, that out. Because they’ve taken out quite a lot of what they obviously considered to be, not unimportant, but not good for the narrative. But having the two sounds a bit like buy two books, but you get the whole picture. So, there’s quite a lot more stuff in there. But can we get involved professionally?” So, I said, “well, it’s two years since the first edition so there’s a lot more to put in.” And then, only about nine months ago, Harper Collins came into the fray and said, “we’d like to do this. And that’s why it’s kind of heavy-handed writing-wise, but it’s very honest. So, the first edition that you have is all put together really by me and a couple of other people. ![]() I think it was three months, yeah, 90 days. And because I was so, kind of ignorant about it, I didn’t know much about it, I said, oh, that’s it then? He said, no, no, we keep going. So, we did it and raised the figure very quickly. They set a target figure, and that was reached in about 14 days. And they set a target, I think it was for 18 weeks. But it’s a different kind of world out there, social media-wise and stuff. They would kind of, not giggle, but they would say, yeah, guys from your generation, they all pretty much all say that. It was crowdfunded, and I did it because I got involved with a guy who knew the people at Pledge and I thought, I was kind of old school, and I said … asking fans for money, it didn’t seem … And there are all these very young people at Pledge. ![]() I originally bought this a couple of years ago and just wondered if you’d tell me, what’s the difference between the two versions, and what prompted the decision to republish?īernie Marsden: Well, the first edition is, as you know probably, Pledge. ![]() ANTIHERO: Hi Bernie, it’s a real honour to be able to have the opportunity to speak to one of the members of my favourite bands ever – well, pre-’87, shall we say?īernie Marsden: Yeah, because there are two eras – Just like Fleetwood Mac really, isn’t it? I’m a Fleetwood Mac fan and I say, “Oh, ‘Rihanna’.” And they go, “No, ‘Tango in The Night’ era.”ĪNTIHERO: Yeah, before commercial hits.
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