King Pink guitarist and vocalist Jakko Jakszyk has introduced that he’ll unencumber his autobiography, Who’s The Boy With The Beautiful Hair? The Not likely Memoir Of Jakko M Jakszyk, thru Kingmaker Publishing on October 10.
Impressed via Jakszyk’s 2022 Edinburgh Pageant one-man display The Street To Ballina, which itself evolved from a 1996 Radio 3 presentation of the similar identify.
Who’s The Boy With The Beautiful Hair? is a component rock’n’roll memoir, charting Jakko’s lengthy and sundry musical profession, which incorporated a stint with Degree 42 and naturally King Pink, and comprises anecdotes together with Michael Jackson, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard and Gene Simmons, to Uri Geller, Jack Charlton, Audrey Hepburn and the Dalai Lama.
It additionally explores Jakszyk’s heritage, born Michael Curran, in Highgate, North London, son of the singer in one in all Eire’s greatest display bands, who, after adoption, was Jakko Jakszyk. He strains his mom to Arkansas and discovers revelations set towards the backdrop of Nazi Germany and discovers white supremacists nonetheless within the circle of relatives line.
“It is a voyage of self-discovery from an orphanage in rural France, a Polish mining village, to a terraced area in Hertfordshire,” says Jakszyk.
Who’s The Boy With The Beautiful Hair? The Not likely Memoir Of Jakko M Jakszyk shall be revealed as a 400-page hardback together with 48 pages of pictures documenting Jakko’s existence and profession.
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