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It’s Not What You Think
Chris Evans
The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale…Chris Evans’s extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV landscape during the ‘90s; and on Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio, BBC Radio 1’s Breakfast show and as owner of Virgin Radio he ushered in the age of the celebrity DJ.But this is only part of the Chris Evans story. In this witty and energetically written autobiography, Chris describes the experiences that shaped the boy and created the man who would go on to carve out such a dazzlingly brilliant career. Born on a dreary council estate in Warrington and determined to escape, Chris started out as the best newspaper boy on the block, armed with no more than a little silver Binatone radio that he would take to the newsagents each day and through which he would develop a life-long and passionate love affair with the music and voices that emerged.From paperboy to media mogul, It’s Not What You Think isn’t what you think - it’s the real story beyond the glare of the media spotlight from one of this country’s brightest and boldest personalities.
It's Not What You Think
Chris Evans
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Version: 2017-05-04
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.
Note to Reader (#ulink_1cfcb48b-078b-552b-8b7a-63d14e454fef)
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
Cover Page (#ueb0308bd-baf2-5dec-a2cd-95af3118f524)
Title Page (#u991f2bb0-daa8-5a21-af78-ea5f73357a1d)
Copyright (#u3cbcc195-3dae-573e-8073-1ac9a0601c55)
Dedication (#ubfa4a8e4-ec82-523d-976f-58d5de7817a1)
Note to Reader (#uaee4a000-3a04-5ad4-b38e-b175cbe738cb)
Preface (#u77912344-fa9f-50d1-93b8-e8df3a49043b)
Prologue (#u9825b110-d152-5712-b9d4-a2859c84628e)
Part One Mum, Dad and a Girl Called Tina (#ufd5b0a5a-b665-590a-8065-7a239b87f3f5)
Top 10 Basic Facts about Christopher Evans (#u9c2d3935-322f-5c8e-a33d-492a2f374d3a)
Top 10 Things I Remember about My Dad (#uc48676c6-64e4-5a38-8ddf-e34a41fd1391)
Top 10 Best Things about Mrs Evans Senior (#ub14830c4-f1a1-543c-a5ce-ae267eb0d505)
Top 10 Double Acts (#ua512cac8-ec5a-5e99-ad3f-7da26e9904b4)
Top 10 Resounding Memories of Primary-school Life (#ub170af1c-1de2-57d8-bb5d-34c556d0d850)
Top 10 Tastes, C. Evans, 1966-86 (#uc76a6a20-9b45-5f56-953b-4e40d0f73239)
Top 10 First Memories of Going to School (#ua9ea3619-25bf-5318-b4ca-2531f6a82dd0)
Top 10 Weird Things about Teachers from a Kid’s Point of View (#u4709f9b0-9035-52e1-bbd1-2c1d14cb351f)
Top 10 Deaths (#u80dbd871-3578-573d-a350-f18c2ee0678f)
Top 10 Favourite Jobs (Other than Showbiz) (#u06ce02da-a684-56d0-990b-1e3d8682d849)
Top 10 Bosses I’ve Worked For (#ucede2c24-e7ac-5a8b-8bc5-341c5f42a63f)
Top 10 Treats (#ufbbcc44e-aaea-5e30-85bf-778aaf4839e5)
Top 10 Girls—Actually Women—I Thought about Before I Had My First Girlfriend (#u2be7ad4b-89c5-5c20-95e8-0d99996d15dd)
Top 10 Schoolboy Errors (#u6575cacc-649f-5a7b-a05b-5af0b90143d2)
Top 10 Things I’m Rubbish at (#u416a8083-5e80-59e5-8828-96d05b81d8ad)
Top 10 Things that Freak Me Out (#u48d83043-0a92-556f-9221-20c3f9f565c7)
Top 10 Things I Remember from School Lessons (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Two The Piccadilly Years (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Best DJs I Have Ever Heard (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 First Commercial Radio Stations in the UK (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Most Significant Cars in My Life (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Items of Technology in the Evans Household, circa 1983 (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things to Consider When Attempting to Make a Move in Your Career (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things a Boss Should Never Do (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things to Do When the Cards Are Stacked Against You (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Business Names I Have Been Involved in (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Dance Floor Fillers for Mobile DJ C. Evans circa 1985 (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Memories of the great Piccadilly Radio exponential learning curve (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things that Will Happen to You and that You Will Have to Accept (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Genuine Names of 80s Nightclubs in the North West of England (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Stars Recognised by a Single Name (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Records I remember from My Piccadilly Radio Days (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things Never to Joke about on the Air (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Christmas Presents (#litres_trial_promo)
Part Three Fame, Shame and Automobiles (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things No One Tells You about London (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Legends I Have Worked With (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Books that Have Inspired Me and at Times Kept Me Sane (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Jobs at a Radio Station—in My Very Biased Opinion (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Pivotal Moments in My Career (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things that Make a Successful Radio Show (the type of shows I do, that is) (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Seminal Items of Technology that Had the World Aghast (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Pads (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things to Take to a Meeting if You Think You are Going to get Shafted (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Memories of The Big Breakfast (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Female Pop Stars (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things to Consider When You Split Up with Someone (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Songs Regularly Murdered at Karaoke (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 TV Shows (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Expletives (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Great Questions to be Asked (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Reasons to Stay Friends with Your Ex (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Memories of Radio 1 (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Bands on Radio 1 During Our Watch (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 TFI Moments (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things that are True about Showbiz (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Signs You Are Losing the Plot (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things a Celeb Should Never Do (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things I Think About—Other than My Wife and Family (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Offers I Have Declined (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Best Bits of Advice (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Most Useless States of Mind (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things that Help Get a Deal Done (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Mantras (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Things People Put Off (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Reasons Why I Presume Capital Never Took Us Seriously (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Human Responses I Experienced Leading up to the Deal (#litres_trial_promo)
Top 10 Houses I Have Found Myself In For One Reason Or Another (#litres_trial_promo)
