Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'N' Roll [Paperback]

The son of a sheet-metal worker who led a big band on weekends, Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock ’n’ roll’s most distinctive and popular voices. With the aid of best-selling author Scott Pitoniak, Gramm poignantly recounts how he realized his dream as the lead singer and co-songwriter of the iconic band Foreigner as well as his own band and overcame a drug and alcohol addiction—along with a life-threatening brain tumor—on his path to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

“Lou Gramm is one of the great vocalists of our time.” —Nils Lofgren, lead guitarist for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Lou Grammwas the lead singer and songwriter for the band Foreigner during the height of the band’s success in the 1970s and 1980s. He wrote or co-wrote 20 songs that achieved Top 40 status. He lives in Webster, New York.

Scott Pitoniakis an award-winning journalist and the author of 14 books, includingColor Him Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story. He lives in Rochester, New York.

*updated, revealing memoir from one of rock music's legendary stars