The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer's Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the '70s Rock Scene

by Laura Davis-Chanin

Book Overview

ASCAP Deems Taylor Award Winner and named one of 2018 Top Ten Music Books by Billboard

Nineteen seventy-seven. New York City. Dark. Dangerous. Thrilling. Punk Rock. Blondie. David Bowie. Drinking. Drugs. Happening at the speed of light.

Seventeen-year old Laura, quaking within her skin while the bursting punk rock revolution explodes around her, starts a band with her teenage friends called the Student Teachers. She's the drummer. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617136875
• ISBN13: 9781617136870
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Backbeat Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"