The publisher of “Light & Shade” calls it an “oral autobiography,” because the bulk of the book is conversations with Mr. ![]() October saw the release of more rock memoirs: Pete Townshend’s “Who I Am: A Memoir” ($32.50, Harper), Rod Stewart’s “Rod: The Autobiography” ($27, Crown Archetype) and “Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page” ($26, Crown). And the same publisher released Neil Young’s “Waging Heavy Peace” ($30, Blue Rider Press). ![]() Soon after, gritty R&B/soul singer Bettye LaVette released hers, “A Woman Like Me” ($26.95, Blue Rider Press), co-written with David Ritz. The same day “Kicking & Dreaming” came out, so did “Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir” ($26, Atria Books). Colvin’s join a gushing river of recently published rock memoirs. Cross, has a conversational tone, as if the sisters sat down and talked about their lives with Mr. The book, which was written with Charles R. In it, the sisters take turns telling the story of their rise to rock fame with their early hits such as “Barracuda,” “Magic Man,” “Straight On,” “Even It Up,” “Kick It Out” and “Crazy On You.” They pull no punches about how they struggled to be respected as musicians in a male-dominated industry that saw female singers as sex objects. “Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock & Roll” ($27.99, It Books/HarperCollins) hit bookstores Sept. Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have recently released one too. Colvin hits the stage in Florida, she won’t be the only one there one with a memoir. And she writes about composing “Diamond in the Rough” early in her career, which helped her discover her voice. She performed with various groups before realizing she was best when it was just her, her guitar and her voice. She also writes about discovering the guitar as a young girl and falling in love with music through the songs of Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro and The Beatles. The only thing I could decipher was, ‘Wu-Tang is for the children!’ …The next day I received the biggest bouquet of flowers from Ol’ Dirty Bastard with a note that read, ‘Sorry for messing up your night, Love, Ol’ Dirty Bastard.’ That’s something not just anyone can lay claim to.” He was shaking his fists and yelling - about what, we had no idea, because we couldn’t understand a word, being behind him. “Ol’ Dirty Bastard… chose this particular moment to storm the stage and rant about not having won an award earlier that night. “We only made it a few steps onstage, though, when our moment of glory was hijacked,” she writes. She relays incidents from her up-and-down career, such as the time Ol’ Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan interrupted her acceptance speech at the Grammys. ![]() She writes about her romantic problems and struggles with depression and alcoholism. ![]() (That fire wound up melting the synthetic carpet underneath the cookie tin of burning pictures.)Īnd her chapter names are all phrases from the lyrics of “Sunny Came Home.” Her opening lines: “Who doesn’t have a bit of pyromania in them? There’s something thrilling about making fire - it’s primal, right?” She goes on to recall a fire she set as a child on the South Dakota prairie, as well as another when she was older and attempting to burn photos of a guy she’d been in love with. The memoir begins with a firethemed prologue, recounting various fires Ms. Whatever repairs that woman was making were neither few nor small.” She writes: “Wasn’t that me, really, a girl setting the prairie on fire? Far, far in the distance, on the horizon, there was a very large fire… and when we applied ‘A Few Small Repairs’ to the fiery landscape painting, the effect was, to us, a riot. Colvin describes how she wrote the song, explaining how she was inspired by the cover art: Julie Speed’s painting of a woman standing in front of a prairie, lit match in hand.
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