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Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
(2012)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 20, 2013, 1:27 pm
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Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
may be a Rock and Roll memoir, but at its heart, it's a story
about family. A lot of who and what Ann and Nancy Wilson were
during the height of their careers and even today can all be
attributed to their upbringing. Very revealing look into their
childhood and the issues of body images, stuttering and
loneliness is addressed in the book. It has been years since I
saw their episode of Behind The Music, and I really can't
remember a lot from that. But even back when it aired, I knew
there were a lot of missing pieces within the episode. You can
only squeeze in so much information into 44 minutes. This book
fills in those missing pieces and does it one better by really
going to great lengths to flesh out their story.
There's a lot of stuff that I didn't even have a clue about at
all. I would say about 90% of the book was new information and
the other 10% was stuff I already knew, but more detail was
provided for the reader. This book really isn't what I would
call a "Kiss and Tell All" book. Yes, those famous moments
surrounding their breakups with their exes are covered in
detail, but it never comes across as character assassination or
gossipy. It is what it is. I loved reading how Ann and Nancy
were and still are geeks when it comes to meeting people they
have idolized over the years. This just proves they put their
pants on one leg at a time. The stories involving Courtney Love,
Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Jerry Cantrell and many, many
more. Too many to list here.
Kicking and Dreaming is a very easy and very fast read. Both Ann
and Nancy write their own perspectives within the book and
anyone else that has better insight to the story being told also
gets in on the action to flesh out more details as well. This
book is definitely worth checking out from you library.
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Re: Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and R
oll (2012)
By: Mac Date: December 20, 2013, 1:47 pm
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Thanks for an enlightening review.
I may check it out.
I bought Joe Vitale's book some years back and everything was
peaches and cream. Not that I look for dirt, but page after page
how everybody is cool and fun and average, gets boring.
Hell, I know Joe Walsh was way more than anything Joe Vitale
wrote about.
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Re: Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and R
oll (2012)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 20, 2013, 1:51 pm
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One thing I forgot to mention in my review was how clever some
of the writing is on Ann's part. She is telling a story, which
seems like any other story at the time of reading it and then
BOOM, you have just gotten insight into how Magic Man or
Barracuda came to be. Sneaky. Now when you go back and listen to
the songs or read the lyrics, everything she just talked about
POPS out big time.
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Re: Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and R
oll (2012)
By: Mac Date: December 20, 2013, 1:53 pm
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cool... very cool.
I love clever folks.
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