{"product_id":"walking-back-home","title":"Walking Back Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1986 Ricky Ross started a full-time career in music which has lasted for over 35 years. His earlier working life was spent in youth work  and teaching in his home city of Dundee and his adopted home of Glasgow. It was in these two cities where  he spent his formative years learning how to write and play songs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving always written about the people and places who've made an impact on his life it's no surprise that this is how he has approached \u003ci\u003eWalking Back Home \u003c\/i\u003ehis first ever memoir which takes the reader on a journey from Ricky's childhood to the rollercoaster of leading his band Deacon Blue to top of the charts and the band's eventual break-up and his solo career.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I  started to write about the years I spent putting the band together on  the first time we ever played in America and about some of the musical  characters I've met along the way. I gave some thought to growing up in  suburban Dundee in a family with no record player and no sense that  someone like me could one day make a record. That's  one part of the story. However I still want to talk about the smell of  Born To Run when I first got it home and how I saw the Buzzcocks  looking at a Cliff Richard album sleeve in a Dundee Record Shop window. I  still want to tell the stories of my Grandparents and parents and the  woman whose voice was so vulnerable when she got up to sing at our  church.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor  all these years I've told stories. Sometimes these days I also tell  them on the radio. I've met some amazing people and their stories need  told too. The first time Deacon Blue ever played Wembley Arena I started  to introduce a song only to hear 'Get on with it' shouted from Row Z.  We proceeded with the song but I often thought I'd quite like to  finish that story.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44787577585843,"sku":"9781472289278","price":1279.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477410749781472289278.jpg?v=1762821889","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/walking-back-home","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}