It`s Not a Rumor: A Rock and Roll Journey Through Life and Alzheimer`s 9781644281833

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Автор: Moore Frederick
Название: It`s Not a Rumor: A Rock and Roll Journey Through Life and Alzheimer`s
ISBN: 9781644281833
Издательство: Rare Bird Books
Классификация:

Композиторы и музыканты, музыкальные группы

Автобиографии деятелей искусств и развлечений

Болезнь Альцгеймера и дименция

Организация жизни в состоянии нетрудоспособности

ISBN-10: 164428183X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 09.06.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 214 x 138 x 28
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Reading my story is like watching The Three Stooges--you probably shouldnt laugh at my bad luck, but you do anyway. Its okay Its funny to me, too. Just after World War II, I was born free, literally, when my father negotiated a free birth in exchange for naming me after the delivery doctor. From that moment on Id live on next to nothing and have a blast doing it. I spent my 1950s Minneapolis childhood obsessively teaching myself guitar and writing songs, while dodging my mothers metal spatula and a brother out to get me. In the 1960s my band Skogie and the Flaming Pachucos reached local stardom, and while touring in our Winnebago we crashed it like an accordion into a mountain in the Ozarks. I was nearly killed hitchhiking--my main mode of transportation my whole life. After getting some career advice from The Tubes, in the 1970s we put everything we had in our cars and caravanned to Los Angeles. From a garage in suburban Arleta I penned an all-new sound for the band, a rock opera that starred Freddy the Kat, a punky, nerdy kid who desired city life but was stuck in suburbia. We evolved Skogie into a new band called The Kats. In the 1980s we sold out every major club in L.A., from Madame Wongs to the Whisky a Go Go, the Starwood to the Troubadour. We were offered dozens of record contracts while headlining alongside The Police, The Knack, Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, and The Motels. We turned down every single one. The 1980s also saw the end of my first marriage and the beginning and end of my second marriage--to Demi Moore. The 1990s and early 2000s led me to the computer-programming world. Coding and music seemed to go hand in hand, and I found myself rising through the programming ranks quickly. Of course I started an office band as well. I enjoyed taking history classes in my spare time, and in 2014, after I couldnt easily ace my tests, my wife, and the love of my life, Renee, took me to the neurologist. We were given terrible news--that I had developed early-onset Alzheimers.

This is the story of how Ive rocked and rolled through life, almost becoming famous. Of composing nearly 1,000 songs, working with some of the biggest names in the music industry, and how Renee has helped me battle Alzheimers, so these adventures arent hidden in my brain forever.

My book is not a typical, chronological biography. My stories move around in time and place. Theyre woven together with photos, drawings, song lyrics, rock and roll memorabilia, and excerpts from press articles. In one story a reader might experience the time I got trapped under the ice as a child in Minnesota to the time I got arrested in my twenties in Europe after giving Paul McCartney a demo tape. Readers will feel like were mates sitting in a bar chatting about my lifes misadventures--except Im drinking water, since Ive never had a drink of alcohol in my life.

There are people in the world who have the Midas touch. Im not one of those people. I dont even have a tin-foil touch. To endure, Ive had to create three alter egos that readers will get to know through my memoir: Rick, Skogie, and Freddy.

My memoir is an unorthodox, hysterical story of survival--of making it big in music and life, without ever making a dime. Of getting diagnosed with one of the most frightening diseases known to man. Of how treating my memory loss through writing, music, diet, exercise, and natural supplements, and my wife Renees tireless research and love, I was able to hold on to these memories as long as I can to share them with you.

It`s Not a Rumor: A Rock and Roll Journey Through Life and Alzheimer`s, Moore Frederick