Wild Tales, Graham Nash
Wild Tales, Graham Nash
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Wild Tales
A Rock & Roll Life

Author: Graham Nash

Narrator: Graham Nash

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2013


Synopsis

From Graham Nash—the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies—comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.
 
Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock and roll—he’s written over 200 songs, including such classic hits as "Carrie Anne," “On A Carousel,” "Simple Man," "Our House," “Marrakesh Express,” and "Teach Your Children." From the opening salvos of the British Rock Revolution to the last shudders of Woodstock, he has rocked and rolled wherever music mattered. Now Graham is ready to tell his story: his lower-class childhood in post-war England, his early days in the British Invasion group The Hollies; becoming the lover and muse of Joni Mitchell during the halcyon years, when both produced their most introspective and important work; meeting Stephen Stills and David Crosby and reaching superstardom with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and his enduring career as a solo musician and political activist.  Nash has valuable insights into a world and time many think they know from the outside but few have experienced at its epicenter, and equally wonderful anecdotes about the people around him: the Beatles, the Stones, Hendrix, Cass Elliot, Dylan, and other rock luminaries. From London to Laurel Canyon and beyond, Wild Tales is a revealing look back at an extraordinary life—with all the highs and the lows; the love, the sex, and the jealousy; the politics; the drugs; the insanity—and the sanity—of a magical era of music.

About The Author

GRAHAM NASH is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee—once with CSN and once with The Hollies.  He was also inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame twice—both as a solo artist and with CSN. And, he is a Grammy award winner. In 2010, Nash was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth for his contributions as a musician and philanthropist. An activist for social and environmental justice, he is also an artist, acclaimed photographer and photography collector. His company Nash Editions’ original IRIS 3047 digital printer lives in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in recognition revolutionary accomplishments in the fine arts digital printing world. He lives in Hawaii with his wife, Susan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie on May 06, 2021

Don't do coke. I participated in a memoir writing workshop recently and the guy across from me — a reporter from a local paper — talked about the memoir he's planning. He's met a bunch of 60s and 70s rock stars and his chapters would be built around those musicians and what their music meant to him......more

Goodreads review by Snidely on October 22, 2013

You know how sometimes you read a book or a story about someone you like and afterwards you like them less? That's what this book did for me. Nash told many details of starting his adult years as an under-educated lad from a blue-collar family. Today, he is still an under-educated lad who has spent......more

Goodreads review by Eric on November 13, 2013

The warts-and-all history of one of the 1970's most iconic musical groups, told by the sanest member of the quartet. Nash is admirably honest about both his failings and the struggles that each member of CSNY overcame during their 40 year journey. The most striking thing about the tale is the love t......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on October 17, 2013

As a long-time fan of Graham Nash's work first with The Hollies and then as part of Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young), I came to the reading of "Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life" with a bit of apprehension. Would it be another self-indulgent memoir from an aging rocker? (Regrettably, it is.)......more

Goodreads review by Larry on August 11, 2016

Right up front, I can recommend this book ... although with some reservations. Nash is brutally honest (or at least I think he's honest) about himself, Crosby, Stills and Young. I think he gives more credit to the other three than he claims for himself artistically. The book is especially good about......more


Quotes

"Provocatively honest." –New York Daily News
 
"There are indeed wild tales to tell...Nash wasn't pulling back on the lurid details." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
"Shockingly candid." –Daily Express (UK)       
 
"Though CSN and CSNY made more than their share of beautiful music together and lived in a kind of hippie heaven replete with mansions, money and free love, Nash doesn't hesitate to share the dark side of stardom, too, particularly the drug-fueled ego trips and meltdowns that so often derailed the group....[But] the reader is inclined to believe that the drugs, the women, the accolades and the money were never the point. 'It always comes down to the music,' Nash says. And that's what makes this trip worth taking." –USA Today
 
“A no-holds-barred, fiercely honest chronicle of the glories, excesses, disappointments, and joys of the rock-and-roll life. . . Nash’s tour-de-force tale reveals a soul who is ‘a complete slave to the muse of music.’” –Publishers Weekly
 
“The story of a man’s life and his unshakeable passion to express himself through his art. Fans might say the book is long overdue, but it was definitely worth the wait.” –Booklist