{"id":3741,"date":"2013-11-06T05:50:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/stories-of-excess-by-a-former-rock-star-turned-tribute-singer\/"},"modified":"2013-11-06T05:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T05:50:54","slug":"stories-of-excess-by-a-former-rock-star-turned-tribute-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/06\/stories-of-excess-by-a-former-rock-star-turned-tribute-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"STORIES OF EXCESS BY A FORMER ROCK STAR TURNED TRIBUTE SINGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/neildanielsbooks.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/its-my-life-final-cover.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"173\" \/><br \/>This fictional rock memoir tells the story of Johnny Cannon; an Alice Cooper tribute singer and former frontman for The Druids, one of the most exciting and distinctive bands of the \u201880s hair metal era. They released two albums (The Flight Of The Druids and Kingdome Come) and toured the UK, Europe, America and Japan before folding.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Johnny Cannon narrates the story of The Druids and the history of the hair metal genre from the early \u201880s to 1991. Hair metal was big business in the \u201880s until grunge exploded and it consequently became universally derided and a \u201cthing of the past.\u201d Many bands lost their record deals, folded or suffered constant line-up changes and were reduced to playing in tiny clubs or going back to the real world and working for someone else. They got \u201cproper\u201d jobs. Johnny Cannon was there and he can tell you everything.<\/p>\n<p>Vividly recalled and entertainingly written, this \u201cmock rock memoir\u201d is filled with hilarious anecdotes, candid diary entries and tales of unrelenting honesty. It is also a moving tribute to a bygone era. It\u2019s My Life is filled with stories of excess by a former \u201880s rock star turned tribute singer and is Britain\u2019s answer to M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u2019s hugely successful autobiography The Dirt.<\/p>\n<p>NEIL DANIELS has written about classic rock and heavy metal for a wide range of magazines, fanzines and websites. He has written three previous Createspace titles and is the author of numerous rock biographies, including titles on Journey, Bon Jovi, AC\/DC, Metallica and Iron Maiden. His websites are http:\/\/www.neildaniels.com and neildanielsbooks.wordpress.com. Cover photo by Sue Ashcroft.<\/p>\n<p>Buy from Amazon UK: http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Its-My-Life-Fictional-Memoir\/dp\/149212270X\/ref=la_B0034OPPEK_1_28?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1383492054&amp;sr=1-28<br \/>Buy from Amazon US: http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Its-My-Life-Fictional-Memoir\/dp\/149212270X\/ref=la_B0034OPPEK_1_21?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1383492147&amp;sr=1-21<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources<br \/>: http:\/\/www.neildaniels.com<\/p>\n<p>neildanielsbooks.wordpress.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fictional rock memoir tells the story of Johnny Cannon; an Alice Cooper tribute singer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}