My Appetite for Destruction

Forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, a debilitating stroke . . . Now, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering, untold truth. Once upon a time, Steven Adleralong with four uniquely talented but very complicated and demanding musicianshelped form Guns N Roses. They emerged from the streets, primal artists who obliterated glam rock and its big hair to resurrect rocks truer blues roots . . . and took sex, drugs, and rock n roll to obscene levels of reckless abandon. By the late 1980s, GNR was the biggest rock band in the world, grabbing headlines and awards while selling out huge arenas. But there was a price to pay. For Adler, it was his health and sanity, culminating in his brutal public banishment by his once-beloved musical brothersa humiliating act of betrayal that caused him to plunge into the dark side and spend most of the next twenty years in a drug-fueled hell. In My Appetite for Destruction, Adler digs deep, revealing the last secretsnot just his own but GNRs as well.