My Appetite For Destruction - Sex & Drugs & Guns N' Roses
| Copyright Holder | Steven Adler, Lawrence J. Spagnola |
| First Published by | itbooks |
| Printed and Bound by | Clays Ltd, St Ives plc |
| Designed by | Jamie Putorti, Milan Bozic |
| About/Subject | Guns N’ Roses |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | UK |
| Copyright | 2010 |
| This Edition Published | 2010 |
| Pages / Font | 286 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-00-736846-4 |
| Barcode | 9 780007 368464 > |
| Price | £20.00 |
| Notes | Jacket design by Milan Bozic Front jacket photograph © Magicinfoto/Shutterstock Back jacket photograph © Marc Canter "I'm the undisputed all-time booze-chugging, pill-gobbling, drug-shooting, Katrina-caliber f*** up. Throughout my wretched life there isn't a friend, family member or fantastic opportunity that I haven't shoved into a blender and mutilated" After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler is ready to share the shattering untold truth in My Appetite for Destruction. When Adler was eleven years old he told his two closest friends he was going to be a rock star in the world's greatest band. Along with four uniquely talented - but very complicated and demanding - musicians, he helped form Guns N' Roses. They were relentless rock stars, onstage and off, taking "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" to obscene levels of reckless abandon. By the late 1980s, GNR was the biggest rock band in the world, with one of the greatest rock albums of all time: Appetite for Destruction. But there was a price to pay. For Adler, it was his health and his sanity, culminating in a brutal banishment by his once-beloved musical brothers. Revealing Slash's betrayal, Axl's unpredictable temper and Duff's revenge, Adler bares it all with this shocking fuck-the-fates exposé. Humiliated and disgraced when Axl Rose kicked him out of GNR in front of an MTV audience of millions, Adler plunged into darkness, spending most of the next twenty years in a drug-fuelled hell. But he finally beat his epic addiction to crack and heroin. "With Adler's newfound clarity comes a fierce determination to tell it all. My Appetite for Destruction is revelatory, heartbreaking, hilarious and ultimately inspirational. You will never read anything more jaw-droppingly honest. Steven Adler was the drummer for Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1990. In 2003, he started Adler's Appetite, with whom he released an EP and continues to perform live. He participated in the second season of VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew and the premiere season of Sober House, a Celebrity Rehab spin-off focusing on a sober living environment. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Carolina Adler. Lawrence J. Spagnola is active in film, music and literature. He contributed to The Billings Collection, a tribute to Lem Billings, a close friend of President Kennedy. He received the 2010 Christopher Award for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, a Holocaust film starring Anna Paquin and Marcia Gay Harden. Spagnola plays the keyboards and sits in with his favourite band, Mike Dugan and the Blues Mission. |
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