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Found posts tagged as "Books"
Maybe writing his just-released, warts-and-all memoir, No Regrets, left his arm weak. But former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley has been sidelined with a fractured left wrist after apparently taking a tumble at his home last week.
As such, the guitarist has been forced to cancel an upcoming UK tour and, presumably, any more in-store appearances promoting No Regrets, which contains multiple startling revelations… even by 70s-era rock and roll standards. Among them:
One guitarist-cum-author accuses his former bandmates of being “rotten whores.” Another chronicles a career bursting with “dungeons, drugs and debauchery.” So which rock and roll memoir was a bigger hit with Joe Public?
Stand up and take a bow, Ace Frehley.
His dynamite, must-read autobiography Life has already sold in excess of one million copies, making it an all-time bestseller. Now Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards can crow about something else (besides the fact that was able to recall anything despite his Herculean consumption of drugs): his book is an award-winner.
Having spent the better part of the weekend heads down reading former Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver founder/bassist Duff McKagan’s just-released memoir, It’s So Easy (And Other Lies), I am pleased to report that the book lives up to its promise of offering the unvarnished truth about McKagan’s horrific addictions, his hard-won sobriety and rare glimpses into life with the onetime biggest rock band on the planet.
But the wholesale consumption of the book wasn’t just for kicks. We’re preparing to interview the American musician, columnist and now author sometime in the near future, and we would LOVE to hear from Sympatico fans who would like to have us ask McKagan a question, which we will post along with our Q&A hopefully very soon.
He’s not the first rock star to vent at former (or even current) band mates in a tell-all memoir – see also Slash, Sammy Hagar, Keith Richards et al. But outspoken former and founding KISS guitarist Ace Frehley definitely has the most to work with when it comes to compiling a laundry list of complaints against his former partners in rock.
Former Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist/songwriter, columnist and wealth management expert Duff McKagan recently added another title to his resume – memoirist – and today he hit the promotional trail, chatting with Dr. Phil about his various addictions and how he got clean.
There have been plenty of books written about legendary metal gods Black Sabbath but if the reality lives up to the advance hype, the forthcoming memoir by Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi could be the mother of all tales.
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