Product Description

How do you make it as a pop star? Why does one boy band make it big and another disappear off the pages of the magazines altogether? Why do girls cost more than boys? And who should you sleep with to get to number one? Packed with scandal and intrigue, Pop Babylon takes you to the dark heart of one of the world's most wicked and secretive industries. It's a world where money talks, bullshit walks and drugs are a way of life. And where talent isn't always at the top of the list of priorities...Tracking a year in the making of a brand-new boy band, "Pop Babylon" is pure, unadulterated reading pleasure - stuffed with stories about pop's most demanding divas, which jocks do shock and just how long you can chop a line of cocaine. Disgraceful, revelatory and great down-and-dirty fun, it's essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it really takes nowadays to be top of the pops.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9065 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

City Am
Pop Babylon is a true guilty pleasure, leaving readers both appalled and longing for more.

Evening Standard, July 14, 2008.
A Babylonian expose of the excesses of the music industry should be required reading for all X Factor wannabes

Love it!
An essential and shocking read if you want to be a pop star - talent isn't really essential.

Customer Reviews

Bloody funny unless you're Simon Cowell
I've now read all of the Babylon books and this one is definitely my favourite after Beach, Hotel, Fashion and Air. She has once again managed to create a hilariously funny fictional world, this time it's a wannabe boy-band and their awful management team, that seamlessly intertwines with the real world of modern Pop muisc and all it's heroes and villans (simon cowell especially!.) If you're a fan of TV shows like the X Factor and have wondered how these manufactured bands are really put together then it's essential reading. And if you just want to read something that's really really funny, I couldn't recommend it more. Definitely one for reading whilst sitting by the pool this summer and equally great at spilling lots and lots of juicy secrets just like the original Hotel Babylon.

Pop Babylon - a guilty pleasure!
Yeah I admit it - Imogen Edwards-Jones's 'Babylon' series are a guilty pleasure of mine. And why not? They're well-written witty and fun with more than a liberal sprinkling of truth from the mysterious 'anonymous' - the author's various industry moles.

This particular book tells the story of a music manager who decides to go for broke and audition, shape, manage and ultimately manufacture a boy band. There's loads of insider gossip - I especially liked the bit about the optimum number of boys a group should have which is five because one's bound to leave and you can fit the rest of the band in one taxi, also the fact that two of the mikes are usually 'dead' to compensate for the more physical members of the group and their lack of vocal expertise! All in all, it's a brilliant read for those of us who love a bit of gossip and scandal and let's face it, isn't that most of us?

Drugs, sex and rock and roll
This book follows a failing indie manager last hope of trying to get back in the game, he tries to make it into the pop world by making a boy band! It's based over a 12 month period starting from the auditions to the Christmas number one against Simon Cowell (who's not liked in the industry). There are plenty of scandals, gossip, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
I have just finished this book and read the rest of the Babylon books and I found this one more of `I remember....' `Did you know...?' Its pure gossip with a fictional boy band second.
This book is great if you love x-factor, gossip, and is a great insight in to the industry of music.