Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith

By: Joe Perry

Published October 7th 2014 by Simon Schuster (first published January 1st 2014)

Category: Biography

Pages: 432 pages

ISBN: 9781476714547

Description:
In the tradition of the mega-bestseller Life by Keith Richards, AerosmithÕs Joe Perry opens up for the first time about the wild, inside story of his life in the legendary band he cofounded in 1970Ñwhich is still going strong today.

In Rocks, Joe Perry exposes his unrepentant, unbridled life as the lead guitarist of Aerosmith. He delves deep into his volatile, profound, and enduring relationship with singer Steve Tyler and reveals the real people behind the larger-than-life rock-gods on stage. The nearly five-decade saga of Aerosmith is epic, at once a study in brotherhood and solitude that plays out on the killing fields of rock and roll.

With record-making hits and colossal album sales, Aerosmith has earned their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But theirs is ultimately a story of endurance, and it starts almost half a century ago with young Perry, the rebel whose loving parents wanted him to assimilate, but who quits school because he doesnÕt want to cut his hair. He meets Tyler in a restaurant in New Hampshire, sways him from pop music to rock-and-roll, and it doesnÕt take long for the ÒToxic TwinsÓ to skyrocket into a world of fame and utter excess.

From the mega-successful song and music video with Run DMC, ÒWalk This Way,Ó to the realization that he canÕt pay his room service bill, Perry takes a personal look into the human stories behind Aerosmith, the people who enabled them, the ones who controlled them, and the ones who changed them. In his own words, Rocks is the whole story: Òthe lonerÕs story, the bandÕs story, the recovery story, the cult story, the love story, the success story, the failure story, the rebirth story, the re-destruction story, the post-destructive rebirth story.Ó

Foreward by Johnny Depp.