BOOK REVIEW FOR: Oasis: The Truth: My Life As Oasis’s Drummer
Author: Tony McCarroll
What’s the Story, Morning Glory: from the mean streets of Manchester to the heights of Supersonic success
Who Are You: original drummer setting the record straight
Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About: sibling rivalry, the agony & the ecstasy, the real Noel
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy: LG, I think I love you
Paperback Writer: a genuinely funny author with a knack for spinning a tale
Add It Up: a Spartan of a book
I do a lot of reading in my spare time. Obviously I am super into books about music, but I also love young adult fiction. It’s one of my favourite forms of escapism. I order lots of books online and as such I receive e-mails all the time from my bookstore, generally with titles such as “Sizzling Summer Reads for Teens” and the like. I usually delete these (my go-to source for YA book recos is the awesome blog Forever Young Adult) but one e-mail caught my eye recently, as it had the words “Nikki Sixx” in the title.
It would be an understatement to say that I’m a huge fan. Mötley Crüe: The Dirt is my favourite music bio of all time and pretty much the inspiration for this site, and Nikki Sixx is the top grade in my Book Review Grading system. So you can imagine my excitement when I opened the e-mail to find out that the man himself was appearing live in person at my local Chapters to autograph copies of his new book, This Is Gonna Hurt. To be honest with you, it wasn’t even on my radar that he had a new book published. But I read The Heroin Diaries a few years back and really enjoyed it, so I was stoked to get my hands on a copy of This is Gonna Hurt, and the added bonus of coming face to face with one of my idols was an opportunity not to be missed.
Author: Mark Oliver Everett
What’s The Story, Morning Glory: The life & times of an indie rocker
Who Are You: Awesomely weird
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy: Most definitely
Let’s Give Them Something To Talk About: Mental illness, suicide, quantum theory
Paperback Writer: Like talking to a new old friend
Add It Up: An absolute pleasure, sir
Let Them Eat Vinyl 