STEVEN ADLER's Tell-All Biography: More Details Revealed

From Steven Adler, the original drummer for GUNS N' ROSES, comes "My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses", the inside story of GN'R. Offering a different perspective from the bestselling "Slash", Adler chronicles his life with the band, and own intense struggle with addiction, as seen on Dr. Drew's "Celebrity Rehab" and "Sober House".

After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a debilitating stroke, Steven Adler, the most self-destructive rock star ever, is ready to share the shattering untold truth in "My Appetite for Destruction".

When Adler was eleven years old, he told his two closest friends he was going to be a rock star in the world's greatest band. Along with four uniquely talented — but very complicated and demanding — musicians, Adler helped form GUNS N' ROSES. They rose from the streets — primal rockers who obliterated glam rock and its big hair to resurrect rock's truer blues roots.

They were relentless rock stars, onstage and off, taking "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" to obscene levels of reckless abandon. By the late 1980s, GN'R was the biggest rock band in the world, demanding headlines, awards, and sold-out shows, with one of the greatest rock albums of all time: "Appetite for Destruction". But there was a price to pay. For Adler, it was his health and his sanity, culminating in a brutal banishment by his once-beloved musical brothers. Adler digs deep, revealing the last secrets, not only his own but GNR's as well: Slash's betrayal, Axl's unpredictable temper, and Duff's revenge. He bares it all with this shocking fuck-the-fates exposé that charts his meteoric rise and devastating collapse.

Adler was humiliated and disgraced when Axl Rose kicked him out of GN'R in front of an MTV audience of millions. Adler plunged into the dark side, spending most of the next twenty years in a drug-fueled hell. But he finally beat his epic addiction to crack and heroin under the care of Dr. Drew Pinsky.

With Adler's newfound clarity comes a fierce determination to tell it all. Revelatory, heartbreaking, hilarious, and ultimately inspirational, you will never read anything more jaw-droppingly honest than "My Appetite for Destruction".

Steven Adler will sign copies of "My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses" at Bookends in Ridgewood, New Jersey on Wednesday, July 28 at noon.

Bookends
232 East Ridgewood Avenue
Ridgewoood, NJ 07450
Phone: (201) 445-0726
www.book-ends.com

"My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses" will be released on July 27 via HarperCollins. The 304-page hardcover book is available for pre-order for $25.99 at the HarperCollins.com web site.

The other members of GUNS N' ROSES band threw Adler out in 1989, saying his drug use was harming his performance. In 1993, the band agreed to pay him $2.3 million to settle Adler's lawsuit claiming a 1990 agreement by which he gave up his interest in the band was read to him and signed without his attorney present.