CONTENTS

1. dedication
3. preface
4. prologue
5.                  PART 1   THE BEGINNING
   1.                      ONE   I was a serial runner
   2.                     TWO   Thunderbolt’s Rock
   3.                  THREE   take the shirt off their backs . . . or rip your head off your shoulders
   4.                    FOUR   Deep Purple overdosed on methedrine
   5.                      FIVE   this is what you have to be prepared to do
   6.                        SIX   play every show like it is your last
   7.                  SEVEN   Pig, Bear, Beaver, Spider . . .
   8.                   EIGHT   very positive fucking forward movement
   9.                    NINE   a reputation for being very volatile
   10.                      TEN   you clowns had your chance
   11.                ELEVEN   I’ll be in the pub if you need me
   12.               TWELVE   do yourself a favour
   13.            THIRTEEN   not really groupies
   14.           FOURTEEN   your taxi is here
   15.               FIFTEEN   what a girl she was
   16.               SIXTEEN   Rising Sun
   17.          SEVENTEEN   this hotel’s a cesspool
   18.            EIGHTEEN   what are we doing with our lives?
   19.            NINETEEN   a small fish in a big sewer
   20.              TWENTY   good evening, Red Rocks
   21.     TWENTY-ONE   love your single
   22.    TWENTY-TWO   we weren’t young boys singing for free drinks and chicks anymore
   23. TWENTY-THREE   we’ve got a lot of very sick people in here
   24.   TWENTY-FOUR   they’ll fucking miss me when I’m gone
6.                  PART 2   THE BEGINNING OF THE END
7.     TWENTY-FIVE   this is not a song
8.       TWENTY-SIX   rock is dead
9.  TWENTY-SEVEN   it’ll sound better when I sing it properly
10.  TWENTY-EIGHT   this business is full of crooks
11.    TWENTY-NINE   harder than Chinese algebra
12.                THIRTY   chemicals can do strange and wonderful things
13.       THIRTY-ONE   what’s it going to take
14.       THIRTY-TWO   this was a racing car and I was a lousy driver
15.   THIRTY-THREE   out of control like a bushfire
16.     THIRTY-FOUR   higher and higher
17.       THIRTY-FIVE   we’re not getting any fucking younger
18.                  PART 3   A NEW BEGINNING
    1.          THIRTY-SIX   wipe the slate clean
    2.     THIRTY-SEVEN  love songs don’t sell anymore
    3.     THIRTY-EIGHT  it’s a gift from God
    4.      THIRTY-NINE   let’s ride
    5.                  FORTY   read my lips
    6.         FORTY-ONE   world record time
    7.        FORTY-TWO   keep your nose out of trouble, son
    8.     FORTY-THREE   everybody in this place was crazy
    9.       FORTY-FOUR   I’d been nobbling myself for years
    10.        FORTY-FIVE   all roads seemed to lead to me
    11.           FORTY-SIX   I’ll live forever
    12.     FORTY-SEVEN   your dog is always happy to see you
    13.      FORTY-EIGHT   we’d had a second chance
    14.        FORTY-NINE   lost at sea
    15.                   FIFTY   we share good times and bad
    16.           FIFTY-ONE   I can feel the change
19. epilogue
20. acknowledgements
21. lyric credits
22. photos section
23. about the author
24. praise
25. copyright