Once A King, Now A Prince:

As I do my book trailers for my memoir, Once A King, Now A Prince, I will be posting them as well here, in my blogs. Please enjoy and please buy my book. You can purchase the book at BookBaby using this link: AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT: Amazon.com see Q Code, or https://www.amazon.com/Once-King-Now-Prince-dysfunction-ebook/dp/B0GFFPTWKJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1TY9VDMHI38J3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cidroCLb2N1RUmyi3s_DBunfzj_Yx3MbXkk8VwLPHGtTV3HQcriGP6R91x3OzsU8Zf7-qZQo6Qg8GnVBymxHwEB54oKzEyCR1oSeZcFUXkOWdYTRaWWZ_h1fnVdV7I08ku6cINVg6aDUlcVTtXieT-LHuBByL0ZbfRzlW7mtSC7D1447u1dIMbHPip7msGa2JB00R6qHMH1kCO4wfzzcq-8YdhHqdTFya-BFQo9ynNg.b_73u5XQxx7zYzUHIAEU7BoR4PLIz4OnmQEhu6NnZmQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=once+a+king%2C+now+a+prince&qid=1768066803&sprefix=once+a+king%2C+now+a+prince%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1 Also available for purchase at BookBaby.com BookBaby.com: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/once-a-king-now-a-prince?srsltid=AfmBOoraz6-E5T-Cv1Tg-1I27djmwe-5fNcQGDKw2xTQWFB-NsZjmuGZ Info: https://onceakingnowaprince.com, where you can find updates and interesting stories under the blogs tab. It’s amazing what AI could do, as on this trailer, each person speaking started with a single photograph. I love this video, which is a tongue and cheek presentation of two people who you would never see coming together on anything political, but have done so for my memoir, Once A King, Now A Prince.com. This one is an excellent job of combining the music videos of my former clients into the book trailer for…

The Story Of My Life Begins In Disorder Some people are born onto smooth pavement. Others are dropped onto broken glass and told to run. The story of my life began in chaos, confusion, and emotional instability that would have broken most people before they ever reached adulthood. There was no roadmap, no safety net, and certainly no guidance on how to survive a household ruled by dysfunction instead of love. When you grow up surrounded by volatility, your early education isn’t academic. It’s emotional triage. You learn how to read moods, how to stay invisible, how to endure. The story of my life didn’t start with dreams of success. It started with survival. That reality shaped everything that followed. The Story Of My Life And A Childhood Without Guardrails By the time most kids are learning confidence, I was learning defense. The story of my life includes long stretches…

I didn’t write Once A King, Now A Prince to romanticize the past. I wrote it because the truth has weight, and the best rock & roll books don’t float above reality. They dig into it. They bleed a little. They tell the parts most people skip when the lights come on and the applause starts. When people talk about rock & roll books, they usually expect fame, excess, and backstage stories. Those are in here, yes. But what drives my book are stories from my life, that began long before music entered the picture. Long before talent agencies, major bands, or rooms where everyone suddenly turns to look at you. At its core, Once A King, Now A Prince is the story of my life. It starts with childhood abuse, control, and fear. It starts with being raised to believe I was evil, worthless, and disposable. That foundation matters,…

From left to right in the photo above, taken in the 70’s at the Capitol Records signing party for Kraftwerk, are Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk, my sister Tina, myself, Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk, Al Coury and Rupert Perry of Capitol Records. My choice of Kraftwerk as the main photo here was “tongue-in-cheek.” As to sex, well, I was not aware of them being chased by the groupies. ——————————————————————————————————————– There are phrases that feel less like words, and more like a backstage pass, and sex, drugs, rock and roll is one of them. It hums with distortion, sweat, neon lights, and the low thud of a bass line felt in the chest before it’s heard. For decades, this phrase has framed the public imagination of rock culture, shaping how fans understand the lives lived just beyond the stage lights. What makes sex, drugs, rock and roll endure isn’t shock value. It’s…

There comes a moment when memory refuses to stay silent. For me, that moment became my story of my life, written honestly and without disguise in Once A King, Now A Prince. This is not a polished fairy tale or a glossy celebrity recap. It is a lived account of pain, ambition, survival, and transformation told through a deeply personal music memoir, which actually started as a journal for myself, and over 10-15 years expanded to the book. Writing my story of my life was never about nostalgia. It was about truth. About understanding how a childhood shaped by cruelty could coexist with a life spent at the center of rock & roll history. That tension is what gives my memoir its pulse. The Beginning Of My Story Of My Life The foundation of my story of my life begins in Brooklyn, where fear and confusion arrived early. My father’s…

When it comes to books about crazy families, there is often an unspoken competition over who had it worse. Whose father raged louder. Whose mother vanished longer. Whose childhood felt less like childhood and more like a long-running endurance test. I do not claim victory lightly, but my family makes a serious showing, particularly my father, who ruled our home with volatility, volume, and a sense of entitlement that made daily life feel like a hostage negotiation. What still surprises me is not the dysfunction itself, but that I lived through it at all. SURVIVAL WAS NEVER NOBLE AS IN MOST BOOKS ABOUT CRAZY FAMILIES Survival is a recurring theme in books about crazy families, yet it is rarely portrayed honestly. Survival is not noble in the moment. It is clumsy. Improvised. Often unhealthy. The tools I used were not chosen from a shelf of good options. They were scavenged…

When people ask me why I wrote Once A King, Now A Prince, the answer always starts with stories from my life — raw, unfiltered, and unforgettable. Its authenticity is intact, as it really started as my journal, without any intention at the time to turn it into my autobiography. My memoir isn’t just a recounting of events; it is a tapestry of the experiences that shaped me from a boy living in a turbulent home to a man navigating the dizzying heights of rock and roll fame, danger, and redemption. From the very first page, the reader steps into the story of my life filled with loss, reinvention, conflict, and triumph. If you’ve ever wondered how someone goes from a childhood filled with abuse and confusion to standing backstage with rock legends, then you’ll find stories from my life here that are both heartbreaking and exhilarating. A Childhood Defined…

ROCK N ROLL BOOK: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY A serious rock n roll book doesn’t come wrapped in nostalgia or fantasy. It doesn’t pretend everyone was brilliant, sober, and well-behaved. It tells you what happened, who was there, and what it cost. That’s why the phrase Life in the Fast Lane fits this story. Fast money. Fast decisions. Fast consequences. My memoir, Once A King, Now A Prince, is one rock n roll book in a crowded field, but it stays in its lane. It documents life inside the music business as it actually worked. No varnish. No revisionism. No pretending every choice was smart. If you’re looking for a rock n roll book built on memory, records, and accountability, this is how it’s done. WHAT MAKES A ROCK N ROLL BOOK WORTH READING A real rock n roll book isn’t written to impress anyone. It’s written…

Fifteen years ago, I wasn’t writing a celebrity memoir. I was trying to survive my own history. I grew up inside volatility. A family dynamic that could flip without warning. Loyalty and fear sometimes shared the same oxygen. Chaos was not an event. It was atmosphere. That world shaped me long before recognition ever entered the room. Long before Once A King, Now A Prince became a published celebrity memoir book, it was a stack of journals written in the quiet aftermath of impact. Because when you grow up in dysfunction, silence becomes strategy. Writing becomes oxygen. That is where this celebrity memoir began. Not in a publishing office. In private pages written after nights that left marks no spotlight could soften. Every meaningful celebrity memoir has a moment before the public story begins. In this case, the celebrity memoir started long before the music industry, long before influence, and…

Where Memoirs Celebrity Truly Begins When readers open a memoirs celebrity, they often expect the bright lights and applause. What they rarely see are the quiet rooms where careers are shaped. Every meaningful memoirs celebrity is built not only on public recognition, but on private decisions, instincts, and crossroads that define direction long before fame settles in. A thoughtful memoirs celebrity story rarely begins with success. It begins with the unseen groundwork of relationships, instincts, and professional risks that slowly shape a career behind the scenes. These early moments often become the most revealing chapters in a celebrity memoir book. My own memoirs celebrity perspective began in the 1960s when I entered the music business working at Associated Booking for Joe Glazer, prior to founding American Talent International. Joe was not simply an employer; he was a formidable presence in the live entertainment business. Associated Booking Corporation represented major talent…

This rock musician memoir explores the real stories behind rock and roll, revealing the ambition, chaos, and resilience that shape the lives of artists both on and off the stage. Some lives are lived quietly. Others are lived under stage lights, fed by feedback and midnight highways. A Rock musician memoir sits right at that intersection, where sweat meets spotlight and legend meets humanity. A great Rock musician memoir is never just about chart positions or platinum records. It is about the first cheap guitar, the rehearsal rooms that smelled like dust and ambition, the van rides that felt like exile and promise at the same time. When done right, a Rock musician memoir becomes cultural history with a pulse. Why Readers Crave a Rock Musician Memoir There is something magnetic about peeling back the curtain. A Rock musician memoir offers access to the unfiltered interior life behind the persona….

After completing my music book memoir, and reflecting on its content, my life in the music business and the musicians that I represented, the thought came to me that nice guys finish last in our business. At the time I was running American Talent International (ATI) in New York, the booking agency I founded with partners Jeff Franklin and Sol Saffian. Many of the artists appearing in this music book memoir — including Rare Earth, Badfinger, Rory Gallagher, Savoy Brown and Deep Purple — were part of the same roster we were representing during those years. Because of that, my dealings with them were not distant industry encounters but part of the day-to-day business of working with musicians, their managers, and the promoters bringing rock shows across America in the early 1970s. ATI itself came out of the remains of Action Talent, Inc., which meant that when we took over…