A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock’s Most Dangerous Man

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‘I don’t think I used to be ever sober for long enough to get a hangover. I thought it used to be normal to inject drugs. I saw it as an approach to life – my job. But it becomes pretty sad when you find yourself in, say, Vienna and spending your entire time trying to find a needle exchange.’ – Pete WayThere are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast Ride Out of Here tells a story that is so shocking, so outrageous, so packed with excess and leading to such uproar and tragic consequences as to be almost beyond compare. Put simply, with regards to jaw-dropping incident, self-destruction and all-round craziness, Pete Way’s rock’n’roll life makes even Keith Richards’s appear routine and Ozzy Osbourne seem positively mild-mannered in comparison. Not for nothing did Nikki Sixx, bassist with LA shock-rockers Motley Crue and who ‘died’ for eight minutes following a heroin overdose in 1988, believe that he used to be a disciple of and apprenticed to Way.All over a forty-year career as founding member and bassist of the venerated British hard rock band UFO, and which has also included a stint in his hell-raising buddy Ozzy’s band, Pete Way has both scaled giddy heights and plunged to unfathomable lows. A heroin addict for more than ten years, he blew millions on drugs and booze and left at the back of him a trail of chaos and carnage. The human cost of this runs to six marriages, four divorces, a pair of estranged daughters and two dead ex-wives. Latterly, Way has fought cancer, but has survived it all and is now ready to tell his abnormal tale. By turns hilarious, heart-rending, mordant, scabrous, self-lacerating, brutally honest and entirely compulsive, A Fast Ride Out of Here will be a monument to rock’n’roll debauchery on an epic, unparalleled scale and also to one man’s sheer indestructability. ‘They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I’m out of my league.’ – Ozzy Osbourne

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