Falling Upwards: Scenes from a Life

Tim Dry’s virtuoso memoir of a life in arts, rises and falls through the worlds of art school, mime and New Romantic pop, to the cinema of Star Wars and the theatre of Steven Berkoff, internationally-prized photography, a globetrottery of commercials and a career in literature. From a childhood encounter with a UFO to playing an alien monster in the cult film, Xtro; and from seeing The Beatles as a boy to working with Angie Bowie and performing in front of 100,000 people with Gary Numan, Tim Dry breaks into a theatre to see Kate Bush, makes a highwire appearance on stage with Duran Duran, photographs Mick Jagger; has a week-long near nude scene in a film with Ann-Margaret; encounters Her Majesty The Queen; takes on Baudelaire drug-for-drug in poetry adventure in Paris, and presents a food programme on Channel 4. All this and much, much more.