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Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile

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At that moment in 2004 I realised I couldn't take any more of the City. For some reason, I managed to hang on for another three and a half years of bonuses that were 10 times the GDP of some third WORLD COUNTRIES.

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It wasn't that he didn't join in with the hedonist spend, spend, spend culture of the City - or the unsavoury behaviour that went with it - but rather that deep down he struggled with the uneasy thought that he might have sold his soul to the devil. A shot in the arm for fighting HIV: ViiV Healthcare boss believes annual jabs can replace daily tablets in next decade Yes," I brayed. "And I'm also fundamentally stupid, because I HAVE NO SENSE OF PERSONAL responsibility and believe THE CITY just chews you up and spits you out." Three years ago I looked around me and saw loads of blokes in their mid-40s who were really struggling with kids/marriage/mortality. I thought it would be interesting to explore this subject via an ex-gangster who’s been ‘domesticated’ but having a mid-life crisis and fantasizing about a return to ‘the good old days’. The film starts with his estranged brother turning up at his home claiming to have drunkenly run someone over, but all is not as it seems…Everyone sells their soul to the devil. I just decided I'd get a damn good price for mine, as I walked along Bishopsgate one evening in 1996 for my interview with David Flynn at Banque Inutile (Ha ha). Up until my brother's intervention the previous day I'd been a genuine leftwing hippy having been to Glastonbury once, but now I was going to be an investment banker. For the next five years I became everything I'd always despised as I made my way up from Vauxhall Conference also-ran at Banque Inutile to Premier League trader at Schiessebank (Ha ha again). I cheated on my girlfriend, I shafted my colleagues and I lied to and brown-nosed clients. But still I couldn't outdo Hugo. How exciting was it to get City Boy to debut in the first two short stories and then connect him with the wider DC Universe? In 1998, the first four City Boy albums were reissued in two double-CD sets by Renaissance Records. However, I must also add that the book comes across as an exaggeration. Obviously having never worked as an investment analyst or a trader, I can't truly state that the book is true or false. But still many sections do come across as "over the top".

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In October 2009, Renaissance Records released City Boy's seventh and final studio album, It's Personal (1981), for the very first time on CD. A general view of the festival centre ahead the 13th Zurich Film Festival on September 28, 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland. The Zurich Film Festival 2017 will take place from September 28…But his family had other ideas. 'I think my parents thought: "We've done alright with the other two, but this one's going off the rails,"' he says. It was his older brother, Hugh, a City fund manager, who set up an interview for him with Dutch investment bank ABN Amro in 1996. Not long after, Hugh left the City to train as a Baptist minister. 'He swung that job for me,' says Anderson. 'At that time, the most I knew about banking was asking for an overdraft extension at Barclays.' I decided I'd spend the next five years travelling the world, selling trinkets from India,' says Anderson. 'I had it all worked out. I was going to learn karate so I could defend myself and learn Spanish so I could go to South America.' Such lyrical talk inevitably leads to the question of whether he'd like to follow his father into politics. 'Are you crazy?' he says. 'I've got so many skeletons in my closet. I wouldn't last two seconds.'

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