If you want to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth from the horse’s mouth, read my book. It’s opened a few wounds, made some people grin, and shone a light into the goings on behind the curtains, in the dressing rooms and between the sheets of the short and stylish, and the famous and the infamous!
Published in hardback in the UK by MACMILLAN in November of 1998, ‘All The Rage’ started as a collection of remembered funny stories which then developed into an account of my life: As I looked back in time, doors seemed to open on all sides and memories came flooding into my head. That old chestnut, ‘If you remember the sixties, you weren’t actually there,’ is a lot of old codswallop!
Whether writing about my childhood summer holidays in Ireland, art school days in Twickenham, first band The Muleskinners’ revelatory gigs with blues legends Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter, or big-time Small Faces, Faces, Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan tours, I’ve definitely been around the block a few times and met some very colourful people.
PAN published it in paperback in the UK in 2000 and are already on the second printing. I updated the last chapter, added stories, oiled the brakes, watered the plants, corrected mistakes, fixed the index and put together a thoroughly detailed discography that was already out of date before it got to print, but check my discography page now!
Now published in the UK for worldwide distribution. I wrote ‘All The Rage’ over a two and a half year period in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Holland, Hounslow, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Romania, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the USA, on planes, trains and buses, in airport terminals, hotel rooms and dressing rooms, bathrooms, toilets and pissholes, on tour, on vacation and at home near beautiful Austin, Texas, USA.
Available to buy in the UK exclusivley on this website.
Bonnie Raitt:”All any of us has to do is think of Mac and a big grin spreads across our face. His brilliance as a keyboard player is as legendary as his hilarious sense of humor and wit. I’ve loved his playing since his days with The Faces and The Stones and still can’t believe my good fortune to have gotten to play with him for a while in the eighties. If I could pick one pair of eyes through which to see that whole rock and roll era from the sixties on… It would definitely be Mac’s.
maybe you can judge for yourself.
Have a look, have a laugh, have a listen!