Premise: Persuasion was the planned fifth studio solo album by Adam Ant, planned for 1992-3 but never released. The album has however surfaced as bootlegs, and nowadays circulates on file sharing networks. This album is one of the 20 written about in "The Greatest Music Never Sold" by Dan Leroy, a book that revealed information on the lost recordings of many famous musicians.
Hypothesis: Dan Leroy, before writing his book, was a musician himself.