THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid,Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade'DAILY MAIL'One of the most entertaining,revealing,captivating books of the year'INDEPENDENT___Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths,ranging from gravedigging to professional football,it was music that truly captured his heart - and he never looked back.Rod started out in the early 1960s,playing the clubs on London's R&B scene,before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear of the iconic front man Long John Baldry,who approached him while busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men,Steampacket,and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed,paving the way into a raucous five years with the Faces,the rock star's rock band,whose offstage antics with alcohol,wrecked hotel rooms and groupies have become the stuff of legend.And during all this,he found a spare moment to write'Maggie May',among a few others,and launch a solo career that has seen him sell an estimated 200 million records,be inducted into the Hall of Fame twice,and play the world's largest ever concert. Not bad,as he says,for a guy with a frog in his throat.And then,there is his not-so-private life: marriages,divorces and affairs with some of the world's most beautiful women - Bond girls,movie stars and supermodels - and a brush with cancer which very nearly saw it all slip away.Rod's is an incredible life,and here,thrillingly and for the first time,he tells the whole thing,leaving no knickers under the bed. A rollicking rock'n'roll adventure that is at times deeply moving,this is the remarkable journey of a guy with one hell of a voice - and one hell of a head of hair.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9780099574750Number of pages: 384Weight: 315 gDimensions: 200 x 130 x 25 mm
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He is enjoyably gossipyabout friends such as Elton John and about his many exes - including Britt Ekland,who loved making eggy bread for his bandmates,and his former wife Rachel Hunter,the only one to have broken his heart. Written in a cheery,faintly ironic style (there's even a chapter devoted to his haircut),this is a very enjoyable romp....amiably and self-knowingly told... the tone pitched right and the jokes good...He writes articulately about music: where a drummer sits on the beat,or what makes a song bombproof. It's the work of someone who really knows his craft,and loves it.Behind the rock'n'roll persona,vividly portrayed in his new memoir,is a self deprecating man of manners...highly entertaining.Quite the life you've led... the stories in here,I mean,I blushed a littleIt really is a rollercoaster ride...It's a proper book. It's not frothy. It's not candy flossy...It is no holds barred. You wrote it yourself,it's so obvious. It's your voice all the way through
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