I am grateful, of course, to my family, for no end of things, but mostly for abandoning quite early the idea that I was ever going to pull myself together and get a real job. Finally, everybody thinks their friends are the finest and funniest people in the world, but everybody else is just plain wrong: mine are, and I thank them all, for being themselves.
Copyright © 2010 by Andrew Mueller. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
An earlier version of this book was published in 1999 in Great Britain by Virgin Books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mueller, Andrew.
Rock and hard places : travels to backstages, frontlines and assorted sideshows /
Andrew Mueller.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-593-76379-4
1. Mueller, Andrew—Travel. 2. Music journalists—Travel. I. Title.
ML423.M84A5 2010
781.66092—dc22
2009052518
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