Tommyland - Rilegato

Lee, Tommy

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ISBN 10: 074326391X ISBN 13: 9780743263917

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

Tommy Lee is known for any number of things: as the drummer for Motley Crue; as the husband and very public lover of Pamela Anderson; as a convicted felon; as the man who saw a child drown in his pool during a birthday party; and as a celebrity who continues to put his life back together after so many public trials and tribulations. It's been a life like no other - and now he's baring it all in a memoir like no other. Lee takes readers back to his childhood, when his penchant for misbehaviour got off to an early start, and brings them through the dizzying highs and abysmal lows of a life shaped by decadence and super-stardom. He shares what really happened during the Motley Crue days, reveals what it's like to film your own honeymoon and freely discusses his days in jail and how they changed his life. Often hilarious, always shameless, this is every bit the shocking memoir you'd expect from a man whose least interesting experience was being married to Heather Locklear. In an age of celebrity exposure, TOMMYLAND is the ultimate dish on the most notorious musical miscreant ever to dominate the headlines.

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'A rollercoaster read that's full of fire and fun' Andrea Henry, DAILY MIRROR
'Tommyland is the world inhabited by the heavy metaller Tommy Lee... Appropriately, the opening chapter is constituted of a Socratic dialogue between Lee and his own penis ("Bro, don't disrespect me," says the penis. "I've always been a big fan of yours.") Read alternate chapters of this and Pammy's autobiography Star and you'll know what Heloise and Abelard would have been like if she'd been an air-head swimwear model and he'd been a member of Motley Crue with a passion for firearms and intimate shaving' Matthew Sweet, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'What a wonderfully modern take on the picaresque . . . and, man, is it a wild ride. If 2002's Motley Crue biog THE DIRT was the last word in hot tubs, blow jobs and hairspray, then TOMMYLAND is a much more personal, intimate journey . . . the chapter on his four-month jail term for spousal abuse is handled with a great deal more weight and seriousness than you might expect' Natalie Moore, TIME OUT

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I am Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass in Athens, Greece, on 3 October 1962, and raised in a suburb of California by an American father and a Greek mother. At seventeen, I joined Mötley Crüe and we became one of the baddest-ass rock bands in history. We sold over 40 million albums, we wreaked havoc, we scared parents, and we titillated too many fathers' daughters. I've been married three times: once for just a few days to a Penthouse Pet; for seven years to Heather Locklear; and then for five years to Pamela Anderson with whom I have two beautiful sons. I've gotten in a lot of fights and I've been to jail a few times.
But this book isn't your typical journey in a straight line from day one to day now. I'm more interested in revealing what's most important about my life - like how I cook my steaks, what I think of the tabloids, the truth, my ex-wives, my ex-band, my music, and what an innocent observer might find hanging around my house any given Sunday. You'll get plenty of facts and I'll tell you a story, but my real mission here is to paint you a picture of my life. I want to show you how my memories smell.
I'd like to begin now, so please take your seats. I advise you to keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. If you have a pacemaker, a heart condition, or if you are pregnant or too damn short to reach the safety bar, I ask that you turn back immediately. Those with weak stomachs, strict morals, or chronic indigestion should put the book down now. For the rest of you, there's one truth that's real across the board: what you send out is what you get back. Send out the good, people, and it will come back to you. There's another thing I've learned over the years, in court, in fights, and in arguments with people I love: there isn't one truth, there are many. This book is my truth.

ommy Lee was born in Athens, Greece, and moved with his family to California at the age of one. In his musical career he is famous for being the wild drummer of one of the most successful and outrageous bands of the 1980s. A master showman, Lee's antics included performing onstage with a revolving drum kit. Since Mötley Crüe, he has devoted himself to the rap-metal act Methods of Mayhem, on which he collaborated with Scott Humphrey and TiLo. Lee's most recent album, Never a Dull Moment, was released in 2002. He lives in Los Angeles. Visit his website at www.tommylee.tv.
Anthony Bozza is native of Brooklyn and Long Island, New York. In the past few years he has worked as a writer and editor at Rolling Stone magazine. In his cover features alone he has covered Eminem, Jennifer Lopez, Slipknot, N'Sync, and Trent Reznor. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem. He lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 074326391X
• ISBN 13: 9780743263917
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320