Read this rollicking rock 'n' roll memoir of the last 50 years of rock history from David
Bowie's longest serving lead guitarist and legendary sideman Earl Slick. He's played with
everyone from John Lennon to the New York Dolls - and he's got the stories to prove it.
----'Earl is a legendary guitar star. His playing is earth timeless and never less than
stellar' DAVID BOWIE 'You play mean ass blues for a skinny ass white boy' BUDDY GUY 'Had a good
night out did we . . .?' JOHN LENNON Earl Slick was barely out of his teens when David Bowie
hired him to play guitar on the ground-breaking 1974 Diamond Dogs tour. It marked the beginning
of a relationship that would endure through thick and thin for the next forty years. Gracing
classic albums like Young Americans Station to Station and the 2013 comeback The Next Day
Slick played on the tour that followed Bowie's smash hit Let's Dance album and was at his side
for the epic Glastonbury show in 2000. But it wasn't just Bowie. The young guitarist was in
John Lennon's band at the time of the former Beatle's tragic murder. Other collaborations read
like a roll call of rock 'n' roll royalty including Mick Jagger The Cure George Harrison
Ringo Starr Joe Cocker Buddy Guy Ian Hunter David Coverdale and Eric Clapton. And in the
'80s he became an MTV star in his own right with the success of Phantom Rocker and Slick.
Through it all he lived the rock 'n' roll life to the hilt. Until it nearly killed him. One of
rock's great sidemen Earl Slick was in the room when music history was made. Guitar takes us
there shining a light on superstars like Bowie and Lennon while recounting the extraordinary
story of the boy from New York City who became a real-life Johnny B. Goode.
