Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life in Rock

Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life in Rock

A jaw-dropping tell-all from the lead singer of the 1980s supergroup Ratt: the groupies, the trashed hotel rooms, the drugsâ€”and just how much you can get away with when youâ€™re one of the biggest hair metal stars of all time.

Women. Spandex. Drugs. Hair spray. . . . Welcome to heavy metal rock â€™nâ€™ roll, circa 1980, when all you needed was the right look, burning ambition, and a chance. Stephen Pearcy and supergroup Ratt hit the bullâ€™s-eye. What they did with their fame and fortune is a riotous tale of . . .

SEX, DRUGS, RATT & ROLL

Pearcy was a scrawny, horny, thrill-seeking teenager with an electric guitar who had graduated from backyard parties in San Diego to half-empty dives in Los Angeles before he and his band broke through at Whiskey a Go Go. Cranking out metal just as metal got hot, Ratt was the perfect band at the perfect time, and their hit single â€œRound and Roundâ€ became a top-selling anthem. The bigger Ratt got, the more excessive Pearcy and his â€œpussy piratesâ€ became. There was nothing these guys wouldnâ€™t snort, drink, bed, or break. And the fans were just as bad, as husbands and mothers offered up nubile wives and daughters as tribute to their rock â€™nâ€™ roll idols.

On a journey that could happen only in America, Pearcy met everyone from Michael Jackson to Drew Barrymore (at age twelve, at a New York nightclub, at 2 a.m.) to Rodney Dangerfield. His infamous partner-in-crime, Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby, a blond Viking with an unsurpassed appetite for drugs and women, cuts a towering and tragic figure throughout.

As Ratt scrambled up a wall of fame and wealth, so they experienced the gut-wrenching free fall, after too many hours in buses, planes, and limos; too many women; too many drugs; and all the personality clashes and ego trips that marked the beginning of the end. Pearcy offers a stunningly honest selfportrait of a man running on the fumes of ambition and loneliness as the party crashed. His rock â€™nâ€™ roll confessional, by turns incredible, hilarious, and lyrical, is a story of survivalâ€”and a search for the things that matter most.
Country USA
Manufacturer Gallery Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-05-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451694567

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Gallery Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-05-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451694567

Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life in Rock

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