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From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the story of a man who. . .
… is a Londoner and a Mod.
… auditioned for Roger Daltrey while sitting on a bed that hid a fugitive.
… wanted The Who to be called The Hair.
… loved The Everly Brothers, but not that drawling dope Elvis.
… wanted to be a sculptor, a journalist, a dancer and a graphic designer.
… became a musician, composer, librettist, fiction writer, literary editor, sailor.
… smashed his first guitar onstage, in 1967, by accident.
… heard the voice of God on a vibrating bed in rural Illinois.
… invented the Marshall stack, feedback and the concept album.
… once speared Abbie Hoffman in the neck with the head of his guitar.
… inspired Jimi Hendrix’s pyrotechnical stagecraft.
… is partially deaf in his right ear.
… stole his windmill guitar playing from Keith Richards.
… followed Keith Moon off a hotel balcony into a pool and nearly died.
… did too much cocaine and nearly died.
… drank too much and nearly died.
… detached from his body in an airplane, on LSD, and nearly died.
… helped rescue Eric Clapton from heroin.
… is banned for life from Holiday Inns.
… was embroiled in a tabloid scandal that has dogged him ever since.
… has some explaining to do.
… is the most literary and literate musician of the last 50 years.
… planned to write his memoir when he was 21.
… published this book at 67.
