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Index
Cover
About the book
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue: ‘Screw it. Let’s do it.’
1 ‘A family that would have killed for each other.’
2 ‘You will either go to prison or become a millionaire.’
3 Virgins at business
4 ‘I am prepared to try anything once.’
5 Learning a lesson
6 ‘Simon made Virgin the hippest place to be.’
7 ‘It’s called Tubular Bells. I’ve never heard anything like it.’
8 ‘To be second choice means nothing.’
9 Never mind the bollocks
10 ‘“I thought I’d move in,” Joan said.’
11 Living on the edge
12 ‘Success can take off without warning.’
13 ‘You go ahead with this over my dead body.’
14 Laker’s children
15 ‘It was like being strapped to the blade of a vast pneumatic drill.’
16 The world’s biggest balloon
17 ‘I was almost certainly going to die.’
18 ‘Everything was up for sale.’
19 Preparing to jump
20 ‘Who the hell does Richard Branson think he is?’
21 ‘We would have about two seconds to say our last prayers.’
22 Flying into turbulence
23 Dirty tricks
24 ‘I wouldn’t do this for Madonna.’
25 ‘Sue the bastards.’
26 Barbarians at the departure gate
27 ‘They’re calling me a liar.’
28 Victory
29 Virgin territory
30 Diversity and adversity
Appendix: Virgin group of companies – corporate history
Acknowledgements
Index of Searchable Terms
Picture Section
Picture credits
Copyright Page
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