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Does the noise in my head bother you? : a rock 'n' roll memoir / Steven Tyler, with David Dalton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Ecco Press, c 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 390 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0061767891
  • 9780061767890
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Contents:
Semiprologue -- Peripheral visionary -- Zits and tits -- The pipe that was never played -- My red parachute (and other dreams) -- Confessions of a rhyme-a-holic -- Little Bo Peep, the glitter queen, and the girl in the yellow Corvette -- Noise in the attic (snow days) -- Ladies and genitals-- I'm not a bad guy (just egotestical) -- The hood, the bad, the ugly-- hammered with Hemingway -- Food poisoning at a family picnic -- Getting lost on your way to the middle -- Where you end and I begin-- again (the goddess) -- Trouble in Paradise (losing your grip on the life fantastic) -- The bitch goddess of Billboard -- Holy smoke, quest for the Grand Pashmina, and the big chill of twenty summers -- To Zanzibar and back -- Falling in love is hard on the knees -- Take a walk inside my mind....
Summary: The frontman of the classic rock band Aerosmith tells his story, including his rise to rock stardom in the 1970s, the band's drop in popularity, and their comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Biography Tyler, S. T984 Available 33111006525915
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"Steven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, who's been influential for a whole generation of Rock 'n' Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!"

--Sir Paul McCartney

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? is the rock memoir to end all rock memoirs -- the straight-up, no-holds-barred story of Grammy Award-winning, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and all around superstar legend Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith (and celebrity judge on American Idol).

The rock and roll epic that is Tyler's life begins with Tyler's youth in the Bronx, tracing his early music career and influences, his legendary partnership with Joe Perry, the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades, their music, Tyler's battles with substance abuse, his epic romantic life, his relationship with his four children (including actress Liv Tyler), life on the road and in the spotlight, the economics of the rock star business --and all the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that anyone could ask for.

In Tyler's own words: "I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-daughtered, I've been Led Zepped and 12-stepped. I'm a rhyming fool and so cool that me, Fritz the Cat, and Mohair Sam are the baddest cats that am. I have so many outrageous stories, too many, and I'm gonna tell 'em all. All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex & drugs, transcendence & chemical dependence you will ever want to hear. And this is not just my take, this is the unbridled truth, the in-your-face, up-close and prodigious tale of Steven Tyler straight from the horse's lips."

Includes index.

Semiprologue -- Peripheral visionary -- Zits and tits -- The pipe that was never played -- My red parachute (and other dreams) -- Confessions of a rhyme-a-holic -- Little Bo Peep, the glitter queen, and the girl in the yellow Corvette -- Noise in the attic (snow days) -- Ladies and genitals-- I'm not a bad guy (just egotestical) -- The hood, the bad, the ugly-- hammered with Hemingway -- Food poisoning at a family picnic -- Getting lost on your way to the middle -- Where you end and I begin-- again (the goddess) -- Trouble in Paradise (losing your grip on the life fantastic) -- The bitch goddess of Billboard -- Holy smoke, quest for the Grand Pashmina, and the big chill of twenty summers -- To Zanzibar and back -- Falling in love is hard on the knees -- Take a walk inside my mind....

The frontman of the classic rock band Aerosmith tells his story, including his rise to rock stardom in the 1970s, the band's drop in popularity, and their comeback in the late 1980s and 1990s.

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