Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Description
This candid memoir traces a determined musician’s journey from postwar Akron, Ohio, through the transformative rock scene of the 1960s and the volatile birth of punk in 1970s London. Along the way, she recounts her years as a music journalist, boutique worker, and aspiring band member before finding her place at the center of a groundbreaking group and its sudden rise to fame. With unsparing honesty, the book explores ambition, rebellion, love, loss, addiction, and survival, including the devastating deaths that reshaped her band and career. Wry, direct, and vividly observed, it offers an intimate portrait of a rock life built on persistence and refusal to conform.
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hardcover
Doubleday
Published Jan 1, 2015
312 pages
ISBN: 9780385540612
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First Published
2015
Language
eng
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