Sylvia Patterson: ‘The famous can be fairly obnoxious’

The music journalist’s frank memoir, chronicling her time at Smash Hits, details encounters with the likes of Prince and Amy Winehouse… and a few class AsAfter three decades of interviewing pop stars, Sylvia Patterson is “deeply uncomfortable” with it happening to her. With the imminent publication of her memoir, I’m Not With the Band: A Writer’s Life Lost in Music, there’s going to be a lot of being on the other side of the tape recorder, and she&rsquo