The book is what every official biography should be: it covers all aspects of the subject's life and is brutally honest without white-washing facts, and it is unputdownable, excerpts...
For fair-minded readers, this book will be a fantastic surprise: erratically written, full of self-mythologising vanity and carefully calculated candour, it is also funny, ruthless and unputdownable.
But in whatever template it comes, it has a tendency to be intoxicating, unputdownable, the chameleonic faeces syndrome and tantalizing on most people.
However, our musicians don't generally write and it is an extremely pleasant surprise to find two utterly unputdownable books written by two practising musicians.
