This rock memoir has everything:sex,drugs,stardom and Andy Warhol

This rock memoir has everything:sex,drugs,stardom and Andy Warhol

Chris Stein’s memoir of growing up in New York and finding fame – and love – in pop-art band Blondie is a compelling portrait of music,fame and 1970s and ’80s New York.

  • byMichael Dwyer

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