Ron wood autobiography review

This is his story, in his own words, about his life, loves, family, friends, music, art and survival against the odds.
This too slight, slightly self-justifying, frequently honest and altogether typically disappointing rock autobiography has taken on much more meaning since its.
There is one serious omission — the death of his first wife — and a few misapprehensions and typos, but the story feels truthful and carefully.

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RONNIE, an autobiography by RONNIE WOOD

This too slight, slightly self-justifying, frequently honest and altogether typically disappointing rock autobiography has taken on much more meaning since its 2008 publication, especially with Ronnie's new solo album in late 2010.

In the closing chapters here especially he spends a lot of time proffesing his love for his wife Jo, how she rescued him, is his rock, how he is content as a family man with his art and so on . .

Her motto is, he writes, "Never show jealousy, don't nag about alcohol and always have sex".

Ronnie adds: "Believe me I know how lucky I am".

And within months of publication he was off on another alcohol and drugs bender, this time leaving the long-suffering Jo (right) for the 18-year old "model" Ivana whom he met in a club. Jo filed for divorce in late '08, a year later there was "a domestic incident" between Ronnie and Ivana and they went their separate ways.

All of which makes the solo album I Feel Like Playing by this terrific musician (the Faces/the Rolling Stones/

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Ronnie by Ronnie Wood. Pub. Pan Macmillan, 2007.

I wondered whether I should review this adult book by Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, but then I thought Why Not? The Stones along with The Beatles and the other 60’s bands, were one of the biggest influences in my life. So what did they get up to while I was Getting off of my Cloud?

This 358 page Autobiography tells you what you thought was going on and more. Ronnie Wood provides an insight into what it was like to be a Rolling Stone and the debauched world in which they so often performed.

While it is very candid about his own life as a musician, as a husband and father and as a friend to countless people to whom Ronnie could never say no Ronnie does not blow the gaff on the countless showbiz people he met. There is no “little todger” in this book.

He was generous to a fault and went through several fortunes until his recent antics with a Russian girl have left him in limbo again. This latest fiasco is not covered in the book which ends with Ronnie praising his wife Jo and family for persisting with him and st

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Ronnie by Ronnie Wood

As a member of the Rolling Stones for over thirty years, Ronnie Wood has become virtually synonymous with the term 'hellraising'. Despite a burning-the-candle-at-both-ends lifestyle, though, he has reached his sixtieth birthday intact. Moreover, unlike Pete Doherty and the late Sid Vicious, he will always be remembered for his music than for merely making the wrong sort of headlines.

In this memoir, he tells of a childhood listening to jazz and skiffle records which blossomed into a stint with the Birds, thus threatening a legal run-in with more successful American contemporaries the Byrds. From there it was a short step to the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart on vocals, before Ronnie and Rod found the mercurial guitarist impossible to work with. His lively account of those heady days when British rock came of age paints a good picture of those frenetic times, be it a gruelling time on the road as a hard-gigging band, or enjoying the club scene around Oxford Street and Christmas parties where all the rock aristocracy would bump into each other as a matte