My Life And The Beautiful Music
Los Angeles, 1988. In a summer of hedonism, everyone wants their share.On Sunset Strip, undiscovered bands dream of emulating their heroes- Motley Cr3e, Van Halen, Poison and all the other chancers who got lucky... Above them in the canyons, the city's privileged youth already live like rock stars. Drifting between these separate worlds is a journalist on the trail of stories that grow darker by the day- a rock star wannabe who may or may not be who he says he is, a guitar player who will do anything to succeed, crossing the line between reality and fantasy.Then comes beautiful Iris, distant Brenna, ambivalent Blair, Lana the singer - taking their chances, losing their way, doing whatever it takesaSet in the glory days when the music business was a vast and amoral empire where stardom seemed arbitrary and sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll were the lifestyle of choice, My Life and the Beautiful Music blurs memoir, myth and reality to recreate the last, lost era of a now-vanished world.
Industry Reviews
"Here's a book you just want to be true... A heady slice of disturbing joy." * Sunday Sport *"An off-kilter, part-autobiographical account of the hedonistic Hollywood rock scene... An odd book, then, but weirdly compelling all the same." -- Geoff Barton * Classic Rock *"Brilliantly orchestrated... Hotten is a natural-born journalist and excels in telling such stories in controlled, compelling prose - as anyone who has read his superb non-fiction book The Years of the Locust can attest." * Dabbler *"Brilliantly orchestrated... Hotten is a natural-born journalist and excels in telling such stories in controlled, compelling prose - as anyone who has read his superb non-fiction book The Years of the Locust can attest." * Dabbler *
ISBN: 9780224077835
ISBN-10: 022407783X
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 256
Published: 15th June 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 21.8 x 13.7
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.28
Edition Number: 1