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  • Rockers & Rollers

  • A Full Throttle Memoir from AC/DC's Legendary Frontman
  • By: Brian Johnson
  • Narrated by: Brian Johnson
  • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (155 ratings)

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Rockers & Rollers

By: Brian Johnson
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Summary

By night, Brian Johnson sings in the biggest rock 'n' roll band on the planet. But by day, AC/DC's charismatic, flat-capped frontman gets to indulge his passion for all things automotive. Cars and rock 'n'roll - they were made for each other.

Car racer, car collector, and all-round car enthusiast, Johnson is an incurable, certifiable petrolhead who can't remember a time when four wheels didn't feature as large in his life as music.

Starting, as a young boy growing up in Tyneside, with an old steering wheel and his imagination, a lifelong passion took root early. And through cramped teenage fumbles in an old mini and clapped-out, hygienically challenged tour vans, to chauffeur-driven, leather-trimmed limos and a sideline as a successful racing driver, it's been there ever since.

By turns, surprising, joyful, poignant, and usually laugh-out-loud funny, Rockers and Rollers is the story of man with an insatiable appetite for life and a glimpse into the extraordinary world of AC/DC, set soon to overtake the Beatles as the biggest-selling band in history.

Packed with hair-raising anecdotes and revealing a God-given talent for comic writing on every page, Brian Johnson has written the most unique, entertaining autobiography of the year. And essential reading for car nuts and rock fans. Well that'll be most of us then....

Assistant producer, Ben Jones.

Recording engineers, Ben Jones, Sam Navel and George Harris

Recorded at Eastcote Studios, London, One Golden Square, London and Panda Productions Recording Studio, Florida.

Text and production copyright: Serious Comedy.

©2013 Brian Johnson (P)2013 Serious Comedy
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Critic reviews

"A fast, fun read. In each of its 90 short chapters, Mr. Johnson recounts a memory relating to cars or transportation in some way. As a boy, he dreamed of becoming a racer, not a rock star.… Enriching his narrative are recollections of a childhood spent in England’s gritty industrial northeast. Mr. Johnson’s gifts for storytelling and humor shine in colorful anecdotes about self-loathing co-workers from past jobs and in obscenity-laced rants about the British car industry." ( New York Times)

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Dunston to Saratoga

Fucking class, it’s like top gear with gold teeth and the radio on full blam

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Absorbing and enjoyable!

Absorbing, interesting, funny, well presented and addictive. A great listen. Leaves you wanting more from this thoroughly entertaining and engaging man. A must for fans of one of the greatest geordie’s to ever live!

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absolutely brilliant

houmous funny what a great story teller! I have been in stitches listening to this!

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Motoring fan must read

Excellent book on how people’s lives run around cars
Packed with stories and experiences that many can relate to

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A laugh a minute

A great snap shot into the thoughts of a rock and rolling petrol head. A great mix of cars, life growing up in the north east and rock & roll. His geordie accent makes for easy listening and a laugh a minute with the way he tells the stories of his life. Please bring out more books Mr Johnson

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More, more , more please Brian

Fantastic laugh out loud listening. Wonderful stories but most of all, a lesson in real life.......just live it, with humour and a good heart, just like the author.

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Brilliant audio book

As well as being a legend Brian Johnson reads this book with a great sense of humour, some great tales to tell his voice is fantastic to listen to with his Geordie accent. It’s one of my top books and would thoroughly recommend it fo any one.

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Brilliant

Loved the honesty, excellent delivery and the good old fashioned way the story was delivered by a legend. Could literally listen for hours more.

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Let there be Rockers & Rollers.

A fantastic listen. a must for your library.
Very funny and im from the NE too so totally get his crack.
Brians narration is outstanding especially when he chuckles before he reads the next line or makes a mistake. what an interesting guy, i could listen to him for ages. well done.

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A great book for Petrol heads

I'm not much of a AC/DC fan, But i listened to Brian's first book as it was on sale and enjoyed it. It's ready by Brian himself which is a great start, and it's genuinely funny, so funny at times you can hear Brian and his sound engineer laughing in the background.

Chapters are short, so it's almost bite sized. I listened to it in a full, 5 hour single sitting while doing some work on my own car and enjoyed it very much.

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