Lou Gramm,Scott Pitoniak
Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rockâ€™s most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and â€™80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as â€œCold As Ice,â€ â€œI Want to Know What Love Is,â€ â€œWaiting for a Girl Like You,â€ â€œDouble Vision,â€ â€œUrgent,â€ and â€œMidnight Blueâ€ are among 20 Gramm songs that achieved Top 40 status on the Billboard charts and became rock classics still played often, nearly three decades after they first hit the airwaves and the record store shelves. ,Juke Box Hero: TheÂ My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll,Â chronicles, with remarkable candor, the ups and downs of this popular rockerâ€™s amazing lifeâ€”a life which saw him achieve worldwide fame and fortune, then succumb to its trappings before summoning the courage and faith to overcome his drug addiction and a life-threatening brain tumor. Gramm takes the reader behind the scenesâ€”into the recording studio, back stage, on the bus trips and beyondâ€”to give an insiderâ€™s look into the life of the man ,Rolling Stone, magazine referred to as â€œthe Pavarotti of rock.â€
Music,Music,Rock N Roll,Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir
Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll