Look
Wot I Dun
Don
Powell: My Life in Slade
Lise
Lyng Falkenberg & Don Powell
Look What I Dun is the story of Slade
told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell whose life was shattered when, in
1973 at the height of the group’s fame, he was involved in a horrific car
crash.
Unflinching
in his honesty, Powell deals frankly with the aftermath of the accident that
took the life of his girlfriend and left him with injuries that affect him to
this day.
Leaders
of the glam rock movement, Slade were the UK’s biggest singles band in the
years 1971-74.
Their
many hits have become rock’n’roll standards, not least ‘Merry Christmas
Everybody’, arguably Britain’s all-time favourite Christmas song. For Don
Powell, though, success came at a price.
Lucky
to survive, the aftermath of his accident included alcoholism, financial woes
and a life of reckless promiscuity.
Now
sober and settled in Denmark with an adopted family of his own, Don Powell’s
story – as told to Lise Lyng Falkenberg – is a no-nonsense journey to the
heights and depths of the rock world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lise Lyng Falkenberg is a Danish author of mostly
fiction and biographies. Since her debut in 1983 a dozen of her novels and
biographies have been published in both Danish and English along with hundreds
of short stories, poems, essays, articles and reviews.
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