Category:Danny Ryan

Danny Ryan began writing novels and poetry at the age of twelve, but it was to take him a further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of hope over experience . . .

This is a memoir from someone you have never heard of.

A Catholic education abandoned at the end of the Sixties and a naïve, delusional dream of becoming the next Beatles throughout the Seventies proves to be the perfect apprenticeship for reluctant survival in a local authority and its Alice-in-Wonderland environment of social care where;

Along the way, as a member of what must surely be the most dysfunctional ‘pop group’ of all time, faithfully adhering to the bizarre commandments of a mythical Hindu Godman, he performs on national television, hunts down the primeval forces of Lucifer and tours behind the Iron Curtain during the last decade of the Cold War. In this true story of broken dreams, disillusionment and an uneasy accommodation with mortality and utter failure, some names have been changed to protect the incompetent.