Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
&#8220;[Tyler] offers a colorful glimpse into his head as well as his life.... It&#8217;s got everything you want from a guilty pleasure: obscenity, revelation, bad behavior and humor. And, oh yeah, a beat you can dance to.&#8221; (NPR's All Things Considered)&#8220;[A] colorful all-access pass to the rocker&#8217;s storied past&#8230;replete with hilarious Tylerisms, tales of debauchery and detox and Aerosmith&#8217;s fabled climb to superstardom...as well as warmer memories of relationships with his children, wives and friends...particularly Tyler&#8217;s toxic tangles with guitarist Joe Perry.&#8221; (USA Today)&#8220;Steven Tyler has a way with words&#8230;Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? Is 376 pages of pure, unfiltered Tyler&#8230;Noise is compelling stuff&#8230;Tyler&#8217;s at times gripping, often hilarious voice keeps things moving&#8230;.&#8221; (Rolling Stone)&#8220;Tyler&#8217;s turbulently high-spirited cheer holds it all together.&#8221; (New York Times Book Review)&#8220;Revealing&#8230;fascinating.&#8221; (Entertainment Weekly)&#8220;Steven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, who&#8217;s been influential for a whole generation of Rock-n-Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!&#8221; (Sir Paul McCartney)&#8220;Steven Tyler is an unalloyed genius.&#8221; (New York Times)&#8220;[Tyler&#8217;s] forays into music theory are absorbing snapshots of what goes into making great songs. When Tyler is able to articulate what went into Aerosmith&#8217;s music, the book becomes fascinating.&#8221; (Washington Post)&#8220;[Tyler] delivers the goods&#8230;[his] surprisingly insightful and entertaining voice brings the familiar contours of this story alive.... What on the surface seems clich&#xE9;d...manages somehow to rise above that and be a fun ride [and] separates a Rock Star from a merely ordinary pop star.&#8221; (The Hollywood Reporter)&#8220;Roll &#8216;em: Tyler&#8217;s memoir is a wild ride. Explicit and filled with expletives, it reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richards&#8217; best-selling &#8220;Life.&#8221; Tyler, 63, settles back and tells story after story about life in the &#8220;most decadent, lecherous, sexiest, nastiest band in the land.&#8221;&#8221; (Associated Press)&#8220;Sex, drugs, and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll&#8230;gets a booster shot of head-spinning authenticity in Steven Tyler&#8217;s brash memoir Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?...a frank, full, and colorful accounting of the band&#8217;s tumultuous history.&#8221; (USA Today)&#8220;The Aerosmith frontman and American Idol judge delivers a no-holds-barred, ripsnorting (and rail-snorting) memoir that&#8217;s a crazy excursion into his entertaining mind.&#8221; (Entertainment Weekly)&#8220;One of the book&#8217;s charms is Tyler&#8217;s lack of guilt or regret for anything in his life&#8230;Music fans will enjoy Tyler&#8217;s remembrances of the New York scene, dating from clubs like The Scene and Max&#8217;s Kansas City.&#8221; (New York Daily News)&#8220;Strewn thought the book &#8230;are dozens of patented &#8220;Tylerisms&#8221; that can only come from his well-endowed motor-mouth.&#8221; (Houston Chronicle)&#8220;Explicit and filled with expletives, the memoir&#151;titled Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?&#151;reads like an even wilder and louder version of Richards&#8217; best-selling Life.&#8221; (The Oregonian (Portland))&#8220;At turns completely hilarious, surprisingly (perhaps, to some) coherent, poignant and sordid -- a heart-rending read. Once you&#8217;ve started it, putting it down is not an option. It would be easier to ignore Tyler from the front row of an Aerosmith concert.&#8221; (Buffalo News)&#8220;Tyler&#8217;s memory for detail makes for good reading.&#8221; (Detroit News)