Fantastic Days : My Story

The long overdue autobiography from singer-songwriter and '80s pop sensation Nick Heyward.

The long overdue autobiography from singer-songwriter and '80s pop sensation Nick Heyward. In 1981, Nick Heyward and school friends Graham Jones and Les Nemes signed their band Haircut One Hundred to Arista records. Less than two years later, frontman and principal songwriter Heyward had left. But within that short period, they scored four Top 10 singles, a number two platinum album with Pelican West and countless magazine covers for Heyward who had become both a pin-up and a star. Forty-four years later and the original reunited Haircut One Hundred are about to release their follow-up album. This is Nick’s story. It is a book about childhood dreams and jealousy, about international fame and being a commercial outcast, about depression and enlightenment and about the longest overdue comeback in pop music history. In Fantastic Days, singer-songwriter and ’80s pop sensation Nick Heyward tells the story of his time as frontman and songwriter for Haircut One Hundred, his depression and breakdown following the band’s split, time spent on Creation Records in the mid-’90s, his (non-denominational) spiritual reawakening and the subsequent reformation of the band he left in 1982. Having reformed in 2023, Haircut One Hundred will release their highly anticipated new album in 2026. Fantastic Days is a funny, self-deprecating and soul-searching read.