The Soundtrack to My Life

Dermot O'Leary has always loved music. Throughout his life and career music has been a constant companion best friend confidant and at times tormentor.

The Soundtrack to My Life is Dermot's personal memoir of a life in music told through the songs that were playing at key moments in his life. With a wonderful gift for storytelling Dermot describes his journey from a childhood in Colchester with his Irish family to some of the biggest jobs in TV and radio in the UK. It's a story which is accompanied in every scene by music.

Dermot would be the first to admit they are not all great songs. This isn't Desert Island Discs; the songs chose him not the other way round. Dermot went to his first gig at the age of nine and saw Irish troubadour Brendan Shine he roller-skated to Baby I Can't Wait by Nu Shooz and got his first job in TV while the Macarana was playing everywhere. Constantly.

But other songs playing in the background to his life - songs by The Smiths Elbow The Pogues or Bruce Springsteen are tracks & artists which he truly loves and will always love and not just for the memories they evoke.

Funny engaging and full of surprises this is Dermot's memoir and his essential soundtrack to his life.