{"id":4210,"date":"2012-09-21T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:03","slug":"dick-wagner-at-book-beat-sunday-nov-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2012\/09\/21\/dick-wagner-at-book-beat-sunday-nov-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Wagner at Book Beat Sunday, Nov.11!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/shop\/product_info.php?products_id=25064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4212\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" title=\"151531343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/151531343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Legendary musician and newly-turned author, <strong>Dick Wagner<\/strong> will be stopping by the <strong>Book Beat (26070 Greenfield Rd. Oak Park, MI)<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday, November 11<\/strong> from <strong>2-4pm<\/strong> to promote the release of his memoir, <strong><em>Not Only Women Bleed<\/em><\/strong>. Dick will be signing as well as performing some songs. Books will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy or for any further questions, please call Book Beat (248) 968-1190.<\/p>\n<p>In his foreword, longtime collaborator <strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong> proclaims, \u201cDick isn\u2019t JUST a guitar player&#8230; He\u2019s a gifted writer, and I wrote most of the Alice Cooper Hits with him&#8230;. Most of them all Top 40 Hits. My personal and musical friendship with Dick goes on and on, and thankfully it\u2019s not over yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Honored by Gibson.com for one of the Top 50 Guitar Solos of All Time, legendary lead guitarist and hit songwriter Dick Wagner releases his highly-acclaimed memoirs ,\u201cNot Only Women Bleed, Vignettes from the Heart of a Rock Musician.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wagner, the often &#8220;Invisible Virtuoso,&#8221; takes readers on a literary journey as he shares a lifetime of experience as lead guitarist and songwriter for international rock icons including <strong>Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Air Supply<\/strong>, and more. In his captivating, witty, literate, and often touching memoir, Wagner delivers colorful tales of reckless behavior and intimate debauchery with an emotional reverberation that resonates with a wide reading audience. It\u2019s not just &#8220;sex, drugs and Rock &amp; Roll.\u201d From industry successes and failures, to personal struggles with family and relationships, \u201cNot Only Women Bleed\u201d is a hard-driving, heart-driven life scripture, vividly and joyfully conveyed.<\/p>\n<p><video>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rygrz8q7Aj4<\/video><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary musician and newly-turned author, Dick Wagner will be stopping by the Book Beat (26070 Greenfield Rd. Oak Park, MI) on Sunday, November 11 from 2-4pm to promote the release of his memoir, Not Only Women Bleed. Dick will be signing as well as performing some songs. Books will be available for purchase at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detroit","category-music","category-punk-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}