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Comeback of the rock stars on tap as Weiland, Love pen memoirs
Two of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest stars -- Courtney Love and Scott Weiland -- are using memoirs
to help launch comebacks after years of drug addiction, and literary
agent Celeste Bernadette Fine
told WORD’N’BASS.com that she cut foreign rights deals for both singers.
Velvet Revolver singer
Weiland is writing his book, a "haunting, no-holds-barred memoir of the
years when he scaled the pinnacle of stardom" as frontman of Stone Temple Pilots. Fine, a
literary agent at Vigliano Associates who also handles foreign rights,
said she cut a deal with Canongate in the UK to publish the memoir,
titled Desperation No. 5.
Weiland made headlines throughout the 1990s for his drug misadventures
and served a prison sentence after cops busted him on cocaine and
heroin possession charges. But he’s gotten his act together since
joining Velvet Revolver, and Desperation No. 5 will reflect how he was
able to claw his way back up.
In contrast, Courtney Love’s memoir appears to be the first part of a
concerted effort at rehabilitating a once fantastic career. Years after
her commercially and critically successful Live Through This album with band Hole, Love has floundered in and out
of rehab, jail stints, and album flops.
Perhaps 2005 represented the bottom for Love. A good start to this year
came as Fine sold her untitled journals to three publishers in foreign
rights deals: Picador in the UK, Kiepenheuer in Germany, and Sperling
in Italy. Earlier this month, a Los Angeles judge released her from a
court-ordered outpatient drug treatment program that stemmed from
several arrests last year.
"I feel like I’m getting my creativity back and that I’ve put a very
gnarly drug problem behind me," Love said in a court transcript.
Agency founder David Vigliano
earlier sold the US rights to both books, Fine said. Publication dates
for Desperation No. 5 and Love’s memoir weren’t
immediately available.
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