Bozza has also written the autobiographies of Wyclef Jean, INXS, Tracy Morgan, and Mick Fleetwood, Why AC/DC Matters, a biography of the Australian rock band, as well as a follow up to his Eminem biography titled Not Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem. He has co-written bestsellers with Slash of Guns n' Roses, Tommy Lee of Motley Crue, and three books with comedian Artie Lange including the number one NYT bestseller Too Fat to Fish. His first book, Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem (2003), the definitive story of the rapper's rise to fame, was a runaway bestseller in the US and UK and was published in fourteen foreign languages.
His career began as a staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine where he wrote the first national cover story on rapper Eminem in 1999. As raucous and edgy as his music, Slash sets the record straight and tells the real story as only Slash can.Īnthony Bozza understands what it is to love music, to hear every note as if you’re by yourself and it’s being played just for you.”Īnthony Bozza is a New York City native author and journalist who has penned multiple New York Times and international bestselling books. But with a new wife, kids and new band Velvet Revolver, Slash is back on track. Guns N’ Roses spent two years builiding their reputation before Appetite for Destruction was unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Ĭhart success and global domination followed but with it came the inevitable fall – addicted to heroin, booze and cigarettes the band imploded in a rift between Axl and Slash that is as deep today as ever. Sessions with numerous local LA rock bands followed until a fateful meeting with singer W Axl Rose…and the rest was rock history. Frequent visitors to the house were David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Wood and Iggy Pop.Īt this time Slash got into BMX bikes and would eventually turn professional, winning major awards and money, but at 15 his grandmother gave him his first guitar.
He was raised in Stoke until he was 11, when he and his mother moved to LA. Saul “Slash” Hudson was born in Hampstead to a Jewish father and a black American mother who created David Bowie’s look in The Man Who Fell to Earth. These are the trademarks of one of the world’s greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. It seems excessive…but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
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