Still Alright
A Memoir
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- ¥1,900
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Enjoy the stories behind Kenny Loggins' legendary five-decade career as a celebrated songwriter, chart-topping collaborator, and “The Soundtrack King” with this pop icon’s intimate and entertaining music memoir.
In a remarkable career, Kenny Loggins has rocked stages worldwide, released ten platinum albums, and landed hits all over the Billboard charts. His place in music history is marked by a unique gift for collaboration combined with the vision to evolve, adapt, and persevere in an industry that loves to eat its own. Loggins served as a pivotal figure in the folk-rock movement of the early ’70s when he paired with former Buffalo Springfield member Jim Messina, recruited Stevie Nicks for the classic duet “Whenever I Call You ‘Friend,’” then pivoted to smooth rock in teaming up with Michael McDonald on their back-to-back Grammy-winning hits “What a Fool Believes” and “This Is It” (a seminal moment in the history of what would come to be known as yacht rock). In the ’80s, Loggins became the king of soundtracks with hit recordings for Caddyshack, Footloose, and Top Gun; and a bona fide global superstar singing alongside Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson on “We Are the World.”
In Still Alright, Kenny Loggins gives fans a candid and entertaining perspective on his life and career as one of the most noteworthy musicians of the 1970s and ’80s. He provides an abundance of compelling, insightful, and terrifically amusing behind-the-scenes tales. Loggins draws readers back to the musical eras they’ve loved, as well as addressing the challenges and obstacles of his life and work—including two marriages that ended in divorce, a difficult but motivating relationship with the older brother for which “Danny’s Song” is named, struggles with his addiction to benzodiazepines, and the revelations of turning seventy and looking back at everything that has shaped his music—and coming to terms with his rock-star persona and his true self.
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Legendary songwriter Loggins brings the energy of his live performances to the page in this exhilarating look at his career. His lively recollections whisk readers from his rise to fame as a member of the 1970s rock duo Loggins & Messina through his peak as a solo artist, his decline into drug addiction and depression, and his triumphant return to the stage as a legacy artist. While he hits all the requisite details—writing his two most famous songs ("House at Pooh Corner" and "Danny's Song") at age 17, the creative differences that led him and Jim Messina to dissolve the band and later cut ties, his "post L&M life," the excesses of touring (including an addiction to benzodiazepines)—Loggins's frank reflections on his craft are what beg an encore. In one particularly memorable passage, in which he fondly recalls the recording sessions that led to the release of his 1977 hit album Celebrate Me Home, he even admits to "blow it" with James Taylor: "I'd brought the guy in specifically because nobody plays acoustic guitar like James Taylor, then, through some combination of ego and insecurity, proceeded to tell him how to play." Fans won't want to skip this one.
