Ronnie Wood Autobiography
I’m a sucker for pretty much any book on the music industry. Especially when it is filled with tales from the wild and crazy days of Rock N’ Roll.
So when St. Martin’s Press became a client of mine and they asked if I was interested in helping with their upcoming Ronnie: The Autobiography how could I say no?
I’m not the biggest of Rolling Stone fans, but since this guy has also played with The Faces, Rod Stewart and The Birds I’m thinking he has got to have some pretty good stories on tap. I’ve got a copy coming that I’m looking forward to reading. I’ll let you know how it is.
I was happy to find when I got involved that there was a Ronnie MySpace page and an official website. Lately I’m finding this more and more which is good. People are playing in the space and figuring out different ways to try out social media. Hopefully more companies will get people like myself involved earlier so that formal strategies can be put in place. It’s a lot of fun working with a publisher and finding out how this world works. it is new to me so I’m learning a bunch. Good fun and a good client.
There is a landing page for the book on St. Martin’s site if you want to give it a look. If you read the book be sure to let me know what you think.
The book hits shelves on October 30, 2007 and should be available wherever you buy books. I know I’ve seen it for pre-order on all of the major online book stores.
October 8th, 2007 at 1:44 pm |
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October 10th, 2007 at 6:38 am |
Hi CC,
What are your favorite music industry books?
Thanks,
David
October 10th, 2007 at 7:59 pm |
I have a friend who loves the Stones like I love REM and Robyn loves Weezer… when I told her this was coming out, she asked me if you’d get to meet Ron. I think she wants to go with you if there is an official meet & greet.
What a cool job! I’m so jealous.
April 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm |
In August 1968, The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page on lead guitar play their last ever gig at Luton Technical College in England. The band then breaks up. Page begins looking to form a new band. Manager Peter Grant agrees to continue working with Page. Steve Marriott suggests Robert Plant. Plant suggests John Bonham. John Paul Jones, a colleague from Page’s session days offers his services. The New Yardbirds are born, soon to change their name to Led Zeppelin. Why this history lesson? Ron Wood is so completely out of it, he actually believes that Grant forms the New Yardbirds, that Grant recruits Plant and Bonham, and that Grant then asks Ronnie to be their guitarist, which Ronnie turns down, followed by Grant “hiring” Jimmy Page. If Ronnie Wood is this completely historically inaccurate, how can we trust anything else he says? Sure it’s possible that this is his only inaccuracy. But for an error, or memory lapse, or whatever it is, of this magnitude, so easily corrected, it is remarkable that it slipped passed the editor(s). Bottom line: purchase this book with caution as to it’s accuracy.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:02 pm |
Hey everyone my dad is cousins with him so hes my 2nd cousin i have seen him with my uncle kevin and my aunty linda so he rocks my nan has his biography and autobiography you can trust what he says cause ive met him and he told me stories this is acutally no lie he is my 2nd cousin !!!