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Stories to Tell - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Stories to Tell - A Memoir (Hardcover)
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Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening,
entertaining look at his life and career. Richard Marx is one of
the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular
music. His self-titled 1987 album went triple platinum and made him
the first male solo artist (and second solo artist overall after
Whitney Houston) to have four singles from their debut crack the
top three on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up, 1989's Repeat
Offender, was an even bigger smash, going quadruple platinum and
landing two singles at number one. He has written fourteen number
one songs in total, shared a Song of the Year Grammy with Luther
Vandross, and collaborated with a variety of artists including
NSYNC, Josh Groban, Natalie Cole, and Keith Urban. Lately, he's
also become a Twitter celebrity thanks to his outspokenness on
social issues and his ability to out-troll his trolls. In Stories
to Tell, Marx uses this same engaging, straight-talking style to
look back on his life and career. He writes of how Kenny Rogers
changed a single line of a song he'd written for him then asked for
a 50% cut-which inspired Marx to write one of his biggest hits. He
tells the uncanny story of how he wound up curled up on the couch
of Olivia Newton-John, his childhood crush, watching Xanadu. He
shares the tribulations of working with the all-female hair metal
band Vixen and appearing in their video. Yet amid these
entertaining celebrity encounters, Marx offers a more sobering
assessment of the music business as he's experienced it over four
decades-the challenges of navigating greedy executives and grueling
tour schedules, and the rewards of connecting with thousands of
fans at sold-out shows that make all the drama worthwhile. He also
provides an illuminating look at his songwriting process and talks
honestly about how his personal life has inspired his work,
including finding love with wife Daisy Fuentes and the mystery
illness that recently struck him-and that doctors haven't been able
to solve. Stories to Tell is a remarkably candid, wildly
entertaining memoir about the art and business of music.
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