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was published by Strata Books in 2014, and an updated edition was published in 2017 by Route
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album (on which he was credited as "John' S. Woolstencroft") and remained in the band for over a decade, occasionally adding keyboards and programming to his role as well as co-writing the group's only self-penned Top 40 single, "Free Range", from their
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as he was still hankering after having
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2014 and 2016 Louder Than Words literary festival and said that inspiration for writing his memoir came when a contestant on
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on additional guitar. In the same year, he made his acting debut in a video for the
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