To everyone that’s ever helped me, tolerated me, loved me, laughed with me, cried with me, created with me and forgiven me at any time, anywhere. Thank you.
Dear Reader,
For the purposes of bespoke compartmentalisation during the course of this book, where Dickens went for episodes, Shakespeare went for stanzas and the Good Lord himself for chapter and verse, being a DJ I have gone for Top 10s.
If it was good enough for Moses and his Commandments, it should be good enough for my book.
CE
Table of Contents
Part One Mum, Dad and a Girl Called Tina
Top 10 Basic Facts about Christopher Evans
Top 10 Things I Remember about My Dad
Top 10 Best Things about Mrs Evans Senior
Top 10 Resounding Memories of Primary-school Life
Top 10 Tastes, C. Evans, 1966-86
Top 10 First Memories of Going to School
Top 10 Weird Things about Teachers from a Kid’s Point of View
Top 10 Favourite Jobs (Other than Showbiz)
Top 10 Girls—Actually Women—I Thought about Before I Had My First Girlfriend
Top 10 Things that Freak Me Out
Top 10 Things I Remember from School Lessons
Top 10 Best DJs I Have Ever Heard
Top 10 First Commercial Radio Stations in the UK
Top 10 Most Significant Cars in My Life
Top 10 Items of Technology in the Evans Household, circa 1983
Top 10 Things to Consider When Attempting to Make a Move in Your Career
Top 10 Things a Boss Should Never Do
Top 10 Things to Do When the Cards Are Stacked Against You
Top 10 Business Names I Have Been Involved in
Top 10 Dance Floor Fillers for Mobile DJ C. Evans circa 1985
Top 10 Memories of the great Piccadilly Radio exponential learning curve
Top 10 Things that Will Happen to You and that You Will Have to Accept
Top 10 Genuine Names of 80s Nightclubs in the North West of England
Top 10 Stars Recognised by a Single Name
Top 10 Records I remember from My Piccadilly Radio Days
Top 10 Things Never to Joke about on the Air
Part Three Fame, Shame and Automobiles
Top 10 Things No One Tells You about London