Duff McKagan to release memoir

This April, Guns N’Roses, the iconic hard rock group, which has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Touchstone is proud to publish the paperback edition of founding member Duff McKagan’s highly praised memoir IT’S SO EASY (and other lies) (Touchstone / Simon & Schuster; March 20, 2012; 978-1-4516-0664-5; $15.99) in time for this exciting and historic event. Duff is one of the smartest, most compassionate guys in rock and in his new memoir he discusses his twelve years as the bass player for GN’R as well as his nearly fatal struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction, his unusual path to sobriety, and his success as a savvy business investor and loving husband and father.

Now sober and happily married to supermodel Susan Holmes McKagan with whom he has two daughters, Duff heads up his own band, Loaded. Along with fellow GN’R member Slash, he is a founding member of the multi-platinum hard rock band, Velvet Revolver. In IT’S SO EASY one of rock’s most articulate personalities relates his remarkable story in his honest, funny, and indelibly original voice, taking readers on a harrowing journey through the dark heart of one of the most notorious bands in rock and roll history and out the other side.