Getting Lost is Part of the Journey

Steve Blame's first book has just been released on Bastei-Luebbe. Described as humourous, self-effacing and uplifting it is the story of an icon of the MTV generation growing up.

1994. Steve Blame, presenter and news editor at MTV Europe, with a life, the envy of millions: His lifestyle resembles that of a pop star. He's become one of the best-known faces of MTV. His job? Jet-setting around the world, interviewing celebrities. He's become a celebrity himself and no one can tell him what to and what not to do: He's become a part of pop culture, and MTV is in its heyday. He lives in the world of music television where the realities of the stars coincide with the dreams of the fans. In these days, it's MTV that decides a musician’s fate. It's MTV that determines who will become a pop star and who will remain a nobody. It's MTV that decides what is in and what is out. And Steve is in.

After several years of this fast paced existance, and ignoring the effects of the excesses of the pop world, Steve still believes in his own indestructability. Looking for new challenges, he accepts an offer to set up VIVA 2, the new German music channel, and moves to Cologne. The following two years in Germany are a disaster for Steve. He lurches from one personal crisis to the next, and by the middle of 1996, Steve hits rock bottom. Slap bang in the middle of a drink and drugs binge, he realises that he has to change his life – urgently. Laced with irony, this humourous and inspiring biography is by someone who gave everything to achieve fame but in the process lost himself. Because as Steve Blame says, Getting Lost is Part of the Journey.

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Steve Blame reads (in german) from of his autobiography Getting Lost is Part of the Journey: MTV, Deutschland und Ich.

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Wie man mit Vaseline die Welt betört?

(German version - English version underneath)

Steve Blame zeigt in einer der unterhaltsamsten Shows seit langem, wie sehr wir alle auf die Wirkung bestimmter Symbole reagieren und warum Pop-Stars sie für sich nutzen. Der Fund von Vaseline bei Jean Genet erboste die Gefängniswärter so sehr, dass sie den berühmten Autor und politischen Aktivisten fürchterlich verprügelten. Ein fehlinterpretiertes Symbol zog schlimme Folgen nach sich. Doch auch im Positiven funktioniert dieser Mechanismus. Also welche Vaseline haben Stars wie Madonna, die Rolling Stones oder Lady Gaga? Wie können sie dem Vergessen entgehen und wie werden sie immer wieder zu einem wandelbaren Erlebnis? Mit handverlesenem Material aus den MTV Archiven, charmanten Auszügen aus seinem Buch Getting Lost is Part of the Journey: MTV Deutschland und Ich sowie einigen mit scharfem Verstand gezogenen Parallelen zu sich selbst, führt Steve Blame sein Publikum in die psychologischen Abgründe und Höhenflüge der Stars unserer Zeit. Der Abend mit der MTV Ikone Steve Blame, musikalisch fein getunt mit DJ Dennis Bigell ist ein multimedialer Ritt durch die abgefahrenen und bewundernswerten Welten, die Stars für uns erschaffen. 

Vaseline - the new show!

In an entertaining multi-media show based on his book Getting Lost is Part of the Journey: MTV, Deutschland und Ich, MTV Ikone Steve Blame shows how pop stars have defined themselves and how a re-definition of their own brand may need to take place to stop their star appeal fading and dying.

With archive footage from MTV and musical accompaniment from DJ Dennis Bigell, Steve also reads excerpts from his book and relates stories of the world's biggest stars and shows how he found his own brand.

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