[2013-05-01] Lou Gramm "Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades In Rock 'N' Roll" hardcover autobiography

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:45 pm

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Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock’s most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and ’80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as “Cold As Ice,” “I Want to Know What Love Is,” “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” “Double Vision,” “Urgent,” and “Midnight Blue” are among 20 Gramm songs that achieved Top 40 status on the Billboard charts and became rock classics still played often, nearly three decades after they first hit the airwaves and the record store shelves. Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll chronicles, with remarkable candor, the ups and downs of this popular rocker’s amazing life—a life which saw him achieve worldwide fame and fortune, then succumb to its trappings before summoning the courage and faith to overcome his drug addiction and a life-threatening brain tumor. Gramm takes the reader behind the scenes—into the recording studio, back stage, on the bus trips and beyond—to give an insider’s look into the life of the man Rolling Stone magazine referred to as “the Pavarotti of rock.”

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Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

If his interviews are any indication, expect Gramm to tear Mick Jones a new one. No love lost between those two, to be sure.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/foreigne ... biography/

Foreigner’s Lou Gramm Announces Autobiography
by Nick DeRiso

A new autobiography details the courageous battle that ex-Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm waged against an egg-sized brain tumor that nearly killed him in the late 1990s.

Even after a then-revolutionary surgery, he writes in the forthcoming ‘Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ Gramm was forced to keep written lyrics to hit songs he’d written for Foreigner like ‘Waiting for a Girl Like You’ and ‘Juke Box Hero’ at his feet during live appearances, because of memory lapses. He also suffered through a notable weight gain, the result of a damaged pituitary gland and prescription steroids.

‘Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ co-written with Scott Pitoniak and due May 1 from Triumph Books, details a dizzying rise to fame from working-class Rochester, N.Y., as Gramm joins Foreigner and begins writing and performing a string of hits with Mick Jones. In fact, Foreigner’s initial eight singles all made the Billboard Top 20. Eleven years after first auditioning for the band, Gramm issued his initial solo album, and then continued an on-again, off-again relationship with Foreigner. He’s been solo since 2003, while Foreigner has gone forward with vocalist Kelly Hansen.

Still, a defining moment remains Gramm’s life-threatening battle with craniopharyngioma, which began with several physicians telling him he’d never recover from the tumor in 1997. After undergoing laser surgery, Gramm then had to struggle through radiation treatments and years of rehab.

He eventually returned to touring and recording, though it was with a different perspective. A Christian since the early 1990s, around the time he went into rehab, Grammy placed a newfound focus on faith-based compositions — notably on 2009′s ‘The Lou Gramm Band.’ He will be inducted, along with Jones, into the Songwriters Hall of Fame awards ceremony in New York City on June 13, where the two erstwhile bandmates are finally scheduled to perform on stage together again.

[2013-05-01] Lou Gramm "Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades In Rock 'N' Roll" hardcover autobiography

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