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<i>People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy.</i><br/><br/><i>Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can't complain. I've been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I've done good... and I've done bad. But right now, I'm not ready to go anywhere.</i><br/><br/>At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world.<br/><br/>Then disaster.<br/><br/>In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.<br/><br/><i>Last Rites</i> is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career - including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath's reunion, his friendships with Slash and Zakk Wylde, and the harrowing final moments he spent with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister.<br/><br/>Unflinching but surprisingly life-affirming, <i>Last Rites</i> demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.

Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the <strong>official and fully authorised</strong> biography of the world's most revered and celebrated drummer. <br/><br/> <strong>Mid-1962. The newly formed Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known within London's rhythm and blues clubs. Fortunately for future Stones fans the world over, they persuade him to take on the job. </strong> <br/><br/>Once installed at the drum seat, Charlie would not miss a beat for the rest of his life. He was there throughout the swinging sixties as the Stones reached superstardom and for the well-documented debauchery of the 1970s, typified by the iconic album <em>Exile on Main St</em>. Battling his own demons by the eighties, Charlie emerged unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured but no less compelling counterpoint to his more raucous bandmates. <br/><br/>For almost 60 years - through all the band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel both on stage and off - Charlie remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he was the antithesis of the rock-star archetype, an intensely private man who valued his family above all else. <br/><br/>Drawing on new interviews with his family, friends and former bandmates - including <strong>Mick Jagger</strong> and <strong>Keith Richards</strong> - <em>Charlie's Good Tonight</em> is the remarkable life story of <strong>Charlie Watts</strong>: official, authorised and as it's never been told before.

<b>Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley was never truly understood...until now. Before her death in 2023, she'd been working on a raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir for years, recording countless hours of breathtakingly vulnerable tape, which has finally been put on the page by her daughter, Riley Keough.</b>

<strong>The hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' (<em>New York</em> magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'Intense and compelling'</strong> SUNDAY TIMES <br/><br/><strong>'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story'</strong> TELEGRAPH <br/><br/><strong>'A masterpiece'</strong> GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1 <br/><br/>Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film <em>Uncut Gems</em>; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is <em>most</em> famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. <br/><br/>This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in <em>Down the Drain</em>. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents' volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs "The Artist"; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. <br/><br/>Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn't just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience-it's all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. <br/><br/>More than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as "a masterpiece" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. <em>Down the Drain</em> is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

Shocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook. <br/><br/>Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebooks potential and knew it could change the w orld for the better. But, w hen she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.<br/><br/>From w ild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, Careless People exposes both the personal and political fallout w hen boundless pow er and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders w ith Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and w orld leaders, revealing w hat really goes on among the global elite and the consequences this has for all of us.<br/><br/>Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid pow erful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those w ho control it, Careless People w ill change how you see the w orld.

The two persons, besides my parents, who influenced my path in life were an American president and a Swedish murderer.<br/><br/> If it were not for these two people, my life would have gone in a different direction I would have lived in a parallel universe I would have lived a different life.<br/><br/> But now my life had been given a direction. This is the life I am going to tell you about in this book. A life in the fast lane. A life on the move. A life in many countries.<br/> This is the story of a man who left his country to explore the world.

<b>An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the bestselling author of </b><i><b>Beautiful Boy</b></i><br/><br/> John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world's most famous unknown artist. 'Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.' She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity and often a villain - an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon / Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing - hidden in John's formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono's life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centre stage. <br/><br/> Yoko's life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. <i>Yoko</i> spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her refugee status during the war, and her arrival onto the avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless and cynical microscope as she was saddled with the most heinous crime imaginable then: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. <br/><br/> We see Yoko Ono through her own eyes, from a vantage point we have never seen before. Drawing from Yoko's personal letters, journals, films and videos and unpublished manuscripts, as well as access to her surviving family, closest friends, past collaborators and enemies, David Sheff covers the 90 years of Yoko's rollercoaster life.<br/><br/><b><i>Yoko </i>is a harrowing, moving, propulsive and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono's reputation but elevates it to iconic status.</b>