Steve Jones "Lonely Boy" Autobiography!!
It was written with the help of Ben Thompson, a music journalist who has quite a good reputation. It will cover everything from Steve's extremely rough, abusive and poverty stricken childhood, to his troubled young adult life, discovering and the love of Glam Rock with the likes of David Bowie, Mick Ronson and Roxxy Music, the chaos and madness of The Sex Pistols and the destruction of the band, to his post Pistols life and his struggles with drug, sex and alcohol addiction and his solo career in the 80's, sobriety, record producing and his acting career, and life as a DJ with his hit radio show "Jonesy's Jukebox", among a million other things.
Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock released " I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol", and John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten released " No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs" and "Anger Is An Energy", so it will be interesting to finally be able to see at least The Sex Pistols side of Jonesy's life compared to the others.
Steve Jones is the absolute number #1 reason why I got in to music, and play guitar. He's the reason for my love of Les Paul Customs. If he and The Sex Pistols never happened, or if I never discovered them in the early 00's on The North American Piss Off Tour, my life would completely different. He and The Pistols saved my youth, otherwise without the music to escape to, I would have been in a very troublesome way, so to say the least I am very excited and look forward to this read!
-Tate Thompson 5/31/16
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