Here you will find book reviews that Classic Dudes and Wonderful Women should know about. Topics include primarily rock-star autobiographies and biographies.
These topics are often discussed elsewhere, however, they are presented here for the consumption of regular folks. Real-world terminology. No overwhelming data requiring a doctorate to unravel. Nope. Just common-sense advice for regular folks because you deserve an awesome life.
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A Journey Tell-all? Has keyboardist/songwriter Jonathan Cain written the tell-all Journey book we’ve been waiting for? Do we hear the dirt on Steve Perry and why classic members were unceremoniously dumped? Does Cain reveal how the band felt hiring a singer from a Journey-esque cover band found on YouTube? Nope. Not even close. Now...
The Heart Sisters Kick It Out! I will admit up front that I did not read the hard copy or the e-book version of this autobiography. Instead, I listened to the audio book and was thoroughly surprised from the outset. The narrators are none other than the leaders of the band Heart, the sisters-Wilson. Rather...
Ozzy Has a Problem with Winged Animals! I have been thrilled to see the slew of rock-star auto biographies coming out in recent years. It seems more of our aging rockers want you to enjoy their memories in print while they can still remember half of them, or at least make up some believable...
Sammy Hagar Is the Man! Although I was a moderate fan of Sammy Hagar over the years, reading his autobiography transformed me into a full-fledged red head. So I write this while drinking his latest brand of rum and humming along to his excellent Chickenfoot recordings. Consequently, I have drunk the red Kool-Aid folks,...
The Black Sabbath Guitarist Speaks Out Having previously read and reviewed Ozzy Osbourne’s autobiography, I was intrigued to see what Tony Iommi, the driving force behind Black Sabbath, would have to say about the same events. Frankly, I was impressed at how often the two band members were in near agreement. They especially align...
Steven Adler and It Books Delivers! With rock-scribe Lawrence Spagnola as co-writer, Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N’ Roses, delivers the rocker-autobiography we expect from publisher It Books. And that’s a good thing. Adler makes it obvious he has read other similar memoirs and is willing to mimic the better ones with only the occasional...
Glenn Hughes-The Voice of Rock! I only came to be a Glenn Hughes fan in the mid 2010s. Somehow I totally missed him during the years covered in this excellent autobiography. I am still unsettled by his frank descriptions of drug addiction and how it crushed so many of his relationships. Too many recent...