Terry Dobson – författare

The book covers the life and times of Terry Dobson...

As the drummer of chart topping band Black Lace, Terry toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe and the former Iron Curtain countries during 1969-1980.UK TV appearances include,Top of the Pops Juke box Jury, Noel Edmonds Swap Shop,the BBC''s Nationwide news program and the making of the bands first pop video as prequel to the 1979 Eurovision song contest...

Terry hasappeared in numerous TV pop shows throughout Europe.Spain, Bulgaria, France, Denmark, Poland, East & West Germany and the Shetland Isles.Terry talks about his earlyschool days, lifeon a large council estate,playingdrumsin working mens clubs andsummer seasons in Skegness and Filey 1976 & 1977...also performances with the stars of the day during his semi professional and professional career...and the effect playing in a band had on his family.

Love, lust and the meeting anddivorce of3 wives... his lovely children,Helen, Kerry, Warren, and Ashley...the sad death of his partner, the raising of his youngest son Liam, now aged7...but just a few days away from his 4th birthday when his mummy, Tricia, tragically died as a result of an asthma attack on one of thehottest days in July 2006 aged just 47.

The good and bad times, the happy and the sad...Thesuccess ofBlack Lace the band and phenominal success of the Black Laceduo.Terry''s time playing the drums in other semi and professional bands, the sad deaths of Alan Barton (Black Lace & Smokie).Mick Brassington (Method & Stormer) Richard Chappell (former Wakefield theatre club lighting man), and roadie for all the bands Terry has worked with.

Also with very little information to hand Terry records the events leading up to a verylongand frustrating search for his biological father.

Author tells story of renovating home, fighting for its survival

Terry Dobson releases second book, ''Abri''

WAKEFIELD, England - Recounting the story of working to save his family''s home, author Terry Dobson releases his new book, "Abri: My Oasis" (published by AuthorHouse UK). The book is a series of stories bringing together the ups and downs and day-to-day family life as Dobson attempts to save their Abri, or shelter.

The home was a love-at-first-sight love affair between the author and the bricks and mortar, as the property was in a terrible state, boarded up and desolate, with the owners unaware of its dilapidated and deteriorating condition. The author began to tirelessly and passionately restore the property so it could once again become a treasured family home.

However, Dobson found he would also have to fight for the home when developers launched an initiative to construct as many as 80 homes on the same land. The green-belt-land designation was removed, making the land subject to development. Dobson says this is happening because the current United Kingdom political agenda is to build more affordable homes.

"This action is removing surrounding countryside by the acre," he says, "however, my story is unique in the fact that it is my life, my family with all its limitations is attempting to fight the cause."

"Abri"

By Terry Dobson

Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 414 pages | ISBN 9781504997812

Softcover | 6 x 9in | 414 pages | ISBN 9781504997805

E-Book | 414 pages | ISBN 9781504997829

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