Sylvia Patterson’s I’m Not With the Man: A Writer’s Life with the Music Mavericks, her third book, is an amusingly combative, funny, and poignant celebration of an era when music journalism still had access to chaos, charisma, and the occasional disaster. Throughout each chapter, she shares her meetings with many of the greatest unhinged weirdos to have graced pop music over the last 50 years. In the end, I’m Not With the Man captures the power of pop music through some of the biggest names, giving insight into them as people – not just celebrities. This book reminds us that Patterson is one of British music journalism’s sharpest and most entertaining chroniclers. I’m Not With the Man – A Writer’s Life with the Music Mavericks by Sylvia Patterson is available in hardbook now and published by Little Brown