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The first memoir by Deacon Blue singer and music icon Ricky Ross

In 1986 Ricky Ross started a fulltime 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

Having always written about the people and places whove made an impact on his life its no surprise that this is how he has approached Walking Back Home his first ever memoir which takes the reader on a journey from Rickys childhood to the rollercoaster of leading his band Deacon Blue to top of the charts and the bands eventual breakup and his solo career

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 Ive 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 Thats 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

For all these years Ive told stories Sometimes these days I also tell them on the radio Ive 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 Id quite like to finish that story

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