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First to Leave the Party : My Life with Ordinary People … Who Happen to be Famous. Extraordinary memoir by Salah Bachir (He/Him) gets outed October 17, 2023

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September 8, 2023

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First to Leave the Party : My Life with Ordinary People … Who Happen to be Famous. Extraordinary memoir by Salah Bachir (He/Him) gets outed October 17, 2023

First to Leave the Party : My Life with Ordinary People … Who Happen to be Famous. Extraordinary memoir by Salah Bachir (He/Him) gets outed October 17, 2023

TORONTO, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – Penguin Random House is proud to announce the October 17, 2023, publication of of one of the year’s most anticipated memoirs First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People … Who Happen to be Famous by activist and philanthropist Salah Bachir.

Elton John and David Furnish call Bachir “the biggest-hearted philanthropist with a rock star life”. This delightful memoir is uniquely told through the author’s friendships — and a few love affairs — with more than 54 of the biggest stars of the last century.

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First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People... Who Happen to be Famous, is the first major book release to use pronouns on the cover (CNW Group/Phamous Characters) — First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People… Who Happen to be Famous, is the first major book release to use pronouns on the cover (CNW Group/Phamous Characters)

Salah hanging with André Leon Talley (CNW Group/Phamous Characters)

Salah Bachir with the great Eartha Kitt in 2004 as she kicks off a capital campaign for The 519, a community centre committed to the health, happiness and full participation of the 2SLGBTQ+ communities. (CNW Group/Phamous Characters)

Salah Bachir singing "They Can't Take That Away from Me" to Ginger Rogers. Fred Astaire sang it to Rogers in the 1937 film Shall We Dance. (CNW Group/Phamous Characters) — Salah Bachir singing “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” to Ginger Rogers. Fred Astaire sang it to Rogers in the 1937 film Shall We Dance. (CNW Group/Phamous Characters)

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