[2014-10-07] Joe Perry "Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith" hardcover autobiography

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

Product Description
In the tradition of the mega-bestseller Life by Keith Richards, Aerosmith’s Joe Perry opens up for the first time about the wild, inside story of his life in the legendary band he cofounded in 1970—which is still going strong today.

In Rocks, Joe Perry exposes his unrepentant, unbridled life as the lead guitarist of Aerosmith. He delves deep into his volatile, profound, and enduring relationship with singer Steve Tyler and reveals the real people behind the larger-than-life rock-gods on stage. The nearly five-decade saga of Aerosmith is epic, at once a study in brotherhood and solitude that plays out on the killing fields of rock and roll.

With record-making hits and colossal album sales, Aerosmith has earned their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But theirs is ultimately a story of endurance, and it starts almost half a century ago with young Perry, the rebel whose loving parents wanted him to assimilate, but who quits school because he doesn’t want to cut his hair. He meets Tyler in a restaurant in New Hampshire, sways him from pop music to rock-and-roll, and it doesn’t take long for the “Toxic Twins” to skyrocket into a world of fame and utter excess.

From the mega-successful song and music video with Run DMC, “Walk This Way,” to the realization that he can’t pay his room service bill, Perry takes a personal look into the human stories behind Aerosmith, the people who enabled them, the ones who controlled them, and the ones who changed them. In his own words, Rocks is the whole story: “the loner’s story, the band’s story, the recovery story, the cult story, the love story, the success story, the failure story, the rebirth story, the re-destruction story, the post-destructive rebirth story.”

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Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

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Aerosmith’s Joe Perry Publishing Autobiography in 2014
by Jeff Giles

Now that Steven Tyler‘s memoir has been on the shelves for a couple of years, it looks like his Aerosmith bandmate Joe Perry is ready to follow suit with an autobiography of his own.

The new book, titled ‘Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith,’ is due on store shelves Oct. 5, 2014, and Perry’s reportedly currently working on it with co-writer David Ritz, a novelist, rock writer, and lyricist who’s ghost-written and/or co-written books with a long list of stars that includes Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Etta James, and B.B. King. Blabbermouth quotes Perry as saying “It’s going to be my story, but it’s also entwined with Aerosmith and relationships there and the how and the why of that kind of stuff.”

According to Perry, he’s been mulling the idea of an autobiography for a long time. “People have been asking me about it for the last probably five or 10 years,” he explained. “I’ll definitely take a different path than the other guys, the way they put their books together. I read probably 40 biographies and autobiographies, musical ones. I can see how some worked and some didn’t. I hope this one works. There’s a lot to fit into 600 pages or whatever it’s gonna be. I’m pretty excited.”

One thing the book probably won’t focus on is American constitutional law, judging from comments Perry recently made on Twitter regarding the ongoing brouhaha surrounding A&E’s decision to suspend ‘Duck Dynasty’ star Phil Robertson from the show for disparaging remarks he made about homosexuality and the civil rights movement in a recent interview with GQ. “So what do you think about this Duck Dynasty hoopla?” asked Perry in a Dec. 22 tweet. “More crackin’ down on Freedom of Speech in the US or what?”

‘Rocks’ will serve as the third memoir to come out of the Aerosmith camp, following books published by Tyler and drummer Joey Kramer. Bassist Tom Hamilton is also reportedly at work on his own autobiography.

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:07 pm

Bump: Added pre-order details to the first post.

[2014-10-07] Joe Perry "Rocks: My Life In And Out Of Aerosmith" hardcover autobiography

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