Scotland's greatest music journalist to release memoirs detailing encounters with the biggest international music celebrities of the 20th century

Billy Sloan’s little black book is a who’s who of the music industry over the last five decades. After a working life spent as a music journalist for two of Scotland’s biggest papers, the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, and with his own BBC Radio Scotland Saturday night show still on air each week – as well as bylines in The Sunday Times, Daily Express, Sunday Post and Glasgow Herald, to name but a few – Billy Sloan knows a thing or two about getting access to the stars.

Having started out in 1979 with a groundbreaking Radio Clyde show that gave many soon-to-be stars, from Billy’s native Scotland and beyond, their first play on air, Billy went on to be the Music Correspondent for STV and produced their coverage of T in the Park as well as Scotland Today.

As a music biographer, Billy’s CV includes projects with Simple Minds, Cliff Richard, Wet Wet Wet, Hue and Cry and The Associates, and the endorsements for One Love, One Life are a testament to the personal relationships he has built up with so many giants of the music industry: Rod Stewart, Fran Healy, The Proclaimers, Simple Minds, Midge Ure, Paul Buchanan of the Blue Nile and even Bono.

One Love, One Life is full of jaw-dropping tales from Billy Sloan’s phenomenal career, and reads like a how-to guide: first to infiltrating the music industry and then to staying at the pinnacle of it for decades to come.