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A Rock & Roll Life
Crown
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
368 pages
ISBN: 0385347545
EAN: 9780385347549
Kindle: B00C4BA6KC
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From Graham Nashβthe legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Holliesβcomes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.
Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock and rollβheβs written over 200 songs, including such classic hits as "Carrie Anne," βOn A Carousel,β "Simple Man," "Our House," βMarrakesh Express,β and "Teach Your Children." From the opening salvos of the British Rock Revolution to the last shudders of Woodstock, he has rocked and rolled wherever music mattered. Now Graham is ready to tell his story: his lower-class childhood in post-war England, his early days in the British Invasion group The Hollies; becoming the lover and muse of Joni Mitchell during the halcyon years, when both produced their most introspective and important work; meeting Stephen Stills and David Crosby and reaching superstardom with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and his enduring career as a solo musician and political activist. Nash has valuable insights into a world and time many think they know from the outside but few have experienced at its epicenter, and equally wonderful anecdotes about the people around him: the Beatles, the Stones, Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Dylan, and other rock luminaries. From London to Laurel Canyon and beyond, Wild Tales is a revealing look back at an extraordinary lifeβwith all the highs and the lows; the love, the sex, and the jealousy; the politics; the drugs; the insanityβand the sanityβof a magical era of music.
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