Dream rocker bios for Canadian publishers
In the wake of the mammoth contract granted to Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards for the story of his life, The Globe and Mail’s Matt Hartley asked three Canadian publishers which Canuck rockers’ memoirs they would most like to publish. McClelland & Stewart’s Doug Pepper thinks autobiographies by Neil Young or Rush singer Geddy Lee would be highly desirable; Kim McArthur of McArthur & Company, which has printed memoirs by Randy Bachman and Natalie MacMaster (to be released this fall), dreams of publishing Joni Mitchell; Jack David of ECW Press, which has already done three books by Rush drummer Neil Peart, would like to print Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies.
No one seems to want to touch anything written by Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger, but surely it’s only a matter of time.
(Neil Young photo courtesy of CanadianContent.)
