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    One Train Later: A Memoir
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    One Train Later: A Memoir

    By Andy Summers and The Edge

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    About this ebook

    "The train jerks to a halt, and as I get out at Oxford Circus, Stewart gets out with me. We look at each other, laugh, and make the standard remark about it being a small world. But this is the brilliant collision, one train later and it might all have turned out differently."

    In this extraordinary memoir, world-renowned guitarist Andy Summers provides a revealing and passionate account of a life dedicated to music. From his first guitar at age thirteen and his early days on the English music scene to the ascendancy of his band, the Police, Summers recounts his relationships and encounters with the Big Roll Band, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, the Animals, John Belushi, and others, all the while proving himself a master of telling detail and dramatic anecdote.

    But, of course, the early work is only part of the story, and Andy's account of his role as guitarist for the Police---a gig that was only confirmed by a chance encounter with drummer Stewart Copeland on a London train---has been long-awaited by music fans worldwide. The heights of fame that the Police achieved have rarely been duplicated, and the band's triumphs were rivaled only by the personal chaos that such success brought about, an insight never lost on Summers in the telling.

    Complete with never-before-published photos from Summers's personal collection, One Train Later is a constantly surprising and poignant memoir, and the work of a world-class musician and a first-class writer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429909297
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    One Train Later: A Memoir
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    Andy Summers

    Andy Summers is a Grammy Award winner and an inductee in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Guitar Player Hall of Fame. He has followed his work with the Police with a career that encompasses more than twelve solo albums, soundtracks, and collaborations in addition to concerts and exhibitions of his photography around the world. He lives in California.

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    • 5/5
      I have read lots of biographies and autobiographies of rock 'n' rollers. I felt closest to the flame in this reading. Summers is a surprisingly good writer.
    • 5/5
      Excellent! Very well written and funny too! All you want in good bio.
    • 5/5
      This is probably the best musician autobiography I've ever read. It is non-pretentious, enlightening and inspiring.Andy has witnessed and participated in far more that just The Police musically and skirted the edge of superstardom for decades. If you're a guitarist, get ready to start practising again.