The music world has seen some of the most iconic partnerships of all time the reader feels almost on a first-name acquaintance with many of them: Sonny and Cher, Mick and Marianne, Elvis and Priscilla, Ike and Tina…Rock n Roll Love Stories looks at 14 of the best, taking us from the 1950s all the way up to the early 2000s. Along the way we see behind the public face of a whole range of relationships, from the straightforwardly romantic to the messily divided, and from the famous (and infamous) to the relatively unknown. All are engaging, full of contemporary detail, and come imbued with the energy and the spirit of the music world over the last half century.
When it comes to reading rock’n roll books or just memoirs of your favorite rockstars, I have one simple rule: Don’t.
Don’t read them because you will sadly find out that your precious rockstar is a human being and he makes mistakes (like big ones) and his life is not exactly how you’ve imagined it to be. But when I first saw this book in the hands of my bestfriend I’ve freaked out. She gaved me this gem as a birthday present and oh my God she couldn’t had gaved me a more awesome one.
The book is a complete riot from the start to the finish. I love it more than any rockstar related book I’ve ever read and I’ve read a Hell of a lot. As you can see, I don’t listen to my own rules either but nothing about this book made me lose the magic that shines around rock’n roll. Romance like Cher’s or Johnny Cash’s love story went with me to sleep at night and followed me throughout the day until I’ve finished reading this book (which took me like a day and a half).
Let me tell you something about rockstar lovers, they hit it hard and they are always in a threesome – them and the heroin/cocaine/LSD/other women. Now, you may say nothing is romantic about that… but the feelings were real even for a short while. Not all rockstar lovers are the same that’s for sure, but did you knew Mick Jagger was the soft one in the relationship, Cher was the baddie and Sid Vicious was actually a lost kid with a big heart that also embodied in the character who made punk actually matter?
I could not recommand a better book about rock’n roll right now and I don’t even want to. This book is enough and I love it to the core.
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