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I thought this new book might interest you and the Book Review section, see below.
I had my first book ‘Secret Child’ published with Harper Collins 5 years ago and became a Sunday Times newspaper Top 10 bestseller. Because my second book is out, the first book will come out again in December in North American.
My new follow up book ‘Secret to Sultan’ is self-published and came out few weeks ago on Amazon. The story is from the streets of 1950s Dublin, disowned by society, to the dizzying heights of a London music video producer and beyond. Amazon Link on paperback & Kindle:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KH3RFVN
Your readers can watch the awarding wining short film ( 19 minutes ) from part of the book, Secret Child. https://vimeo.com/278806719/6928870456
It is a book which follows the true journey of the boy, Gordon Lewis, who was born in a hostel forever 100 single mothers but desperately wanted more for his family and stopped at nothing to achieve it. After developing an interest in music and pop culture, young Gordon set about immersing himself in the world he would eventually become a top player in. However success doesn’t happen overnight – something Gordon learned the hard way.
‘I was riding on the crest of a wave but also flying by the seat of my pants’
My journey from a secret child to ‘The Sultan of Soho’ was filled with colourful characters, A-list celebrities in the entertainment world. I was producing so many music films.
I’m looking for press and publicity for the book and happy to offer an exclusive to the right person / publication.
I’ve made some short promotional films for the book, you will get a feel for the many artists I work with and the stories are in the book.
Music: https://youtu.be/Ki2qq5dCcdE
Freddie Mercury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzfSTprfZ3Y
More information on my website http://www.secretchild.com
Saw below the Amazon reviews for the new book.
Look forward to hearing from you
Many thanks
Gordon Lewis
Top reviews from United Kingdom
default._CR0,0,1024,1024_SX48_.jpeg Michael McDonagh
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read for locked down times
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 October 2020
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This is the second volume of Gordon Lewis’s amazing story. His first told how he was brought up in Regine Ceoilli the only hostel in Ireland that allowed unmarried mothers to keep their baby with them in those cruel Catholic repressive times in the 1950s. When he was about 10 his mother contacted an ex boyfriend , who was not Gordon’s father and they left Dublin to live in Finsbury Park when the mother married. Gordon anglicised his name as he was bullied at school and took the name of his new dad who brought Gordon up as is own on the Broadwater Farm council estate in Tottenham. That book , his mother’s story was the first book Secret Child and now he has produced a second volume Secret to Sulatan that takes the tale on from when he was a cheeky uneducated dyslexic school boy leaving school to get a job first on Irish Building sites but then as a runner at London Weekend Television. This is a remarkable story of how he overcame adversity and his challenged background to first work with the celebrated pop director Mike Mansfield on countless pop videos with famous stars but then had the vision to open up his own Production business at a time when MTV and the pop video was changing the Music Business . This venture took off and he produced countless famous videos for Queen and Soft Cell, Paul Weller and others. He then went on to open offices in LA becoming one of the top video production companies in the world. Then typically, Gordon having achieved success, he sold up and looked for a new challenge . Having now ‘come out’ as gay he saw a need for well run bars and clubs to open to cater for the burgeoning gay scene and more or less single handed he created what we now know as Gay Soho with his numerous clubs and bars around Compton Street and Brewer St. When all that was a huge success again he sold up.
Whilst Gordon is no Colim Tobin as a writer these two slim volumes offer a fascinating insight into the life of a young Irish illegitimate lad tranported to a new life in busy London and then how his determination and ambition to succeed and how his cheeky chappy boyish charm got him to be top of his game in TV production. Eventually he became known as and the ‘Sultan ‘ of gay Soho. This book is full of fascinating background and stories like back stage rock parties or some of the seedier elements of opening bars in Soho but also shows his kindness in looking after and bonding with his ‘step father’ after his mother died.
If you are locked down at home with time on your hands and are not up to reading a heavy 800 page tome like Hilary Mantel you might enjoy dipping into the fascinating and remarkable life of Gordon Lewis . It is a ripping yarn but as I was around and knew Gordon in those ear