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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
SLY STONE

Phenomenal word play. A brutally honest account of pain , who's to blame, temperature & survival.
🔥☄️⛈️🌡️💔📶💫

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Some reviews ~ [not in full, since supporters may not have read /bought this yet]

💫Frank, illuminating, and at turns harrowing, the book tracks a momentous arc. It’s a wild ride through heady excesses of the 1960s and 1970s ... The book’s voice is the purr and pacing of clever DJ patter and artful wordplay, as if he is back-announcing the sweep of his life ... Stone comes to the page candidly, even if, at first, it comes served with a curve.


💫A brisk, crackling tour through the highs and lows of Sly’s life, from his career beginnings as a radio DJ and aspiring producer to his imperial period with the Family Stone to his long fall from grace. It’s a fascinating, revealing, and sometimes difficult read.
As a stylist, Sly is conversational and often quite funny. His voice comes through loud and clear, ragged but unmistakably sharp.
For those of us who love Sly’s music and have wondered and worried after him for years, Thank You is a bittersweet book, both a welcome indicator that Sly is very much still here and...

💫Not only a welcome surprise, it’s written in a voice that will be so familiar to fans that its first few chapters are like a visit from a long-absent friend. Sly writes like his lyrics ... As exciting and life-affirming as the book’s early chapters are, the second half is...
 
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