Tales of a Ratt: Things You Are Not Supposed to Know

by Bobby Blotzer · 2010 · 402 pages

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Tales Of A RATT traces the history of Bobby Blotzer's personal journey of becoming an 80s rock legend while taking the reader through a conversational blow-by-blow of what it was like to manage fame, fortune, and the realities of an era's end and rebirth. Packed with personal friends who make up nearly all the famous bands of the 80s, this book is the backstage story that all fans of 80s rock have always longed to hear, but have never heard.

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Subject
biography
Themes
music
Audience
adult
Length
long · 402 pages

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