<p><em>Illusions of Happiness</em> picks up the story as John recovers from his injuries and returns to performing and recording. On this often turbulent journey back, he is heckled by The Sex Pistols, negotiates a tricky Criminal Injuries Compensation case, has his portrait hung in The National Portrait Gallery and makes a series of singles with Trevor Horn (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) and Steve Levine (Culture Club), along the way, being briefly managed by Tom Watkins (Pet Shop Boys, Bros) and re-signing with CBS.</p><p>The flame of ambition, having been extinguished once before, briefly flickers - but life is busy making other plans. Offered the chance to move to &lsquo;the other side of the music business desk&rsquo;, John seizes the chance and begins a fruitful new career in A ' R, &ldquo;when I finally began to take hold of my own destiny&rdquo;.</p><p>The book - and this to-be-continued story - ends in 1986; John has a new career, a new apartment and exciting new prospects. The future&rsquo;s looking bright. But, hovering over the horizon like a gathering storm, is the realisation that the initially ignored AIDS epidemic is a crisis which is only just beginning.</p>