RJB Landing - My Life On A Stick

22 years to achieve
‘overnight success’

is a poignant human and memorable music business story about Ria John Bob’s 25 year journey through the music business. It gives a first-hand rare insight into the music busines’ …“how it works and how it really is”.

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THE BAND WHO DISCOVERED SAM SMITH
It is also about ‘When Sam Met Bob’. Bob discovered, now global popstar, Sam Smith in a musicals’ class. Sam had no professional experience and no creative or personal direction. Bob spotted their potential before anyone else, introduced them to their first label Venus & Mars Music and helped develop Sam into a pop star.

Sam recorded Ria John Bob songs for their first album ‘Sam Smith Diva Boy’. Sam emerged like a butterfly from a cocoon as an informed person, conceptual artist and burgeoning pop star.

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Review: ‘Ria John Bob Walking To A Different Beat’

Written and produced by Dee O’Reilly, Betty Kane (RIP) John O’Reilly – who were also the dedicated team of Ria John Bob for their entire music-biz journey.

Some stories are too powerful to be contained by pages alone.

‘Ria John Bob Walking To A Different Beat’ is one of those stories and thankfully, in our modern times, we finally have the tools to experience it all. Yet, while technology has long offered us the possibility of combining book, music and video, rarely has anyone truly used this potential to such an immersive effect … until now. The groundbreaking DocuVideoBook from My Life On A Stick is more than a book – it’s a living, breathing multimedia journey. From the very first page, Ria’s voice reaches out and greets you. The title, a poetic nod to one of Ria John Bob’s songs, sets the tone for what follows: a human and deeply moving insight into the unique life of a musically entrenched trio …- ‘Ria John Bob’. Music, words, vision and sound come together seamlessly, not as afterthoughts or clunky additions, but as integral parts of the storytelling. The narrative unfolds with rare intimacy. It’s an insider’s view of the music industry: the blissful highs, the crushing lows, the grind, the battles, and the beauty. Throughout the book, Ria conveys all of this with eloquence, passion and artistry through her lyrics and commentary. A typical quote from the spirited Ria follows.

“This is not a sob story; it’s about highs and lows, ducking and diving to survive. Ultimately a story of creative endurance, to which many people will relate, and unveils what is hidden behind the mask of people’s perception of what making it in the music business is about.” Ria

The book does not shy away from the darker realities of the business. There are no fairy tales here, only resilience, reinvention, perseverance and a refusal to be silenced. Being dropped, wrestling for music rights, battling disappointment and disillusionment – all of it turns into fuel for new songs, sharper lyrics, and a deeper artistic voice from the magnificent trio of Ria John Bob “There are people I’ve worked with that I feel privileged to have met as a result of my experiences, But no true and honest story is complete without the darker days and how we made it through, So, as well as reading this story, read between the lines of this chronicle and the backdrop of people who fought together, had fun together, the ones that ran away, the ones that died, the ones that survived and everyone who quite simply made this story what it is”. Ria

“Of course, it’s not fair, it’s the music industry” Simon Cowell

And then there are the layers: rare footage from Ria’s first music video in 1989, a rich mix of unreleased material. Then there is the untold story of ‘When Sam Met Bob’, a quiet reflection on the early, unrecorded and, only now about to be released, musical beginnings of a then-unknown and now global popstar Sam Smith… discovered by Bob. Dee, Betty and John haven’t just written a book – they’ve redefined what a music biography can be. Describing it as ‘reading’ doesn’t quite capture the essence – it’s more akin to experiencing a documentary within the pages of a book! This DocuVideoBook doesn’t just tell Ria John Bob’s story… it lets you feel it. For anyone passionate about music, stories of perseverance or innovative storytelling itself, this is a must-have experience. Anne Palmowski – creative, archivist, Kung Fu Practitioner Erfurt Germany.