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Rock and Roll dispatches: Publicist Alan Edwards talks Bowie and Beckham in new memoir

Source: Simon & Schuster/Dave Hogan

Playing football with Bob Marley, admiring the Sistine Chapel with David Bowie, being mentored by Mick Jagger... these are just some of the many stories told in a new memoir from publicist Alan Edwards.

is a first-person account from Edwards, the “godfather of modern

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