Ronnie: The Autobiography by Ronnie Wood
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Book Summary Author: Ronnie Wood Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-10-02 ISBN: 0312366523 Number of pages: 384 Publisher: St. Martin's Press |
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Book Reviews of the Ronnie: The Autobiography
Customer Review: Seriously impaired memory. Too much substance abuse, or old age?
Summary: 1 Stars
In August 1968, The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page on lead guitar play their last ever gig at Luton Technical College in England. The band then breaks up. Page begins looking to form a new band. Manager Peter Grant agrees to continue working with Page. Teri Reid suggests Robert Plant. Plant suggests John Bonham. John Paul Jones, a colleague from Page's session days offers his services. The New Yardbirds are born, soon to change their name to Led Zeppelin. Why this history lesson? Ron Wood is so completely out of it, he actually believes that Grant forms the New Yardbirds, that Grant recruits Plant and Bonham, and that Grant then asks Ronnie to be their guitarist, which Ronnie turns down, followed by Grant "hiring" Jimmy Page. If Ronnie Wood is this completely historically inaccurate, how can we trust anything else he says? Sure it's possible that this is his only inaccuracy. But for an error, or memory lapse, or whatever it is, of this magnitude, so easily corrected, it is remarkable that it slipped passed the editor(s). Bottom line: purchase this book with caution as to it's accuracy.