Bobby Keys memoir to publish

Bobby Keys has been the sax player with The Rolling Stones since the 1970s. In his memoir Every Night's a Saturday Night: The Rock 'N' Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys (Counterpoint Press, March 2012) he shares his amazing life story.


The saxophone player with The Rolling Stones for the last forty years,
Bobby Keys has lived the rock 'n' roll dream, with all of its highs
and lows. Along with the Stones, Keys has played with John Lennon,
Eric Clapton, Buddy Holly, Joe Cocker, Sheryl Crow, and many others.
In EVERY NIGHT'S A SATURDAY NIGHT: THE ROCK 'N' ROLL LIFE OF LEGENDARY
SAX MAN BOBBY KEYS (Counterpoint Press, March 2012, Trade Cloth,
Foreword by KEITH RICHARDS) he tells his remarkable story of working
with, partying with, and sometimes even living with rock 'n' roll
royalty.

Born in Slaton, Texas, some 15 miles southeast of Lubbock, Keys bribed
his way into Buddy Holly's garage band rehearsals. He took up the
saxophone because it was the only instrument left unclaimed in the
school band, and he convinced his grandfather to sign his guardianship
over to Crickets drummer J.I. Allison so that he could go on tour as a
teenager.

Keys spent years on the road during the early days of rock 'n'roll
with hitmakers like Bobby Vee and the various acts on Dick Clark's
Caravan of Stars Tour, followed by decades as a top touring and
session sax man for the likes of John Lennon, George Harrison, Joe
Cocker, and on to, most famously, his gig with The Rolling Stones
beginning in 1970. EVERY NIGHT'S A SATURDAY NIGHT finds Keys setting
down the many tales of an over-the-top rock 'n'roll life in his own
inimitable voice.

Augmented by exclusive contributions with famous friends and fellow
travelers like Keith Richards, Joe Cocker, and Jim Keltner, EVERY
NIGHT'S A SATURDAY NIGHT paints a unique picture of the coming-of-age
of rock 'n' roll itself while celebrating how Keys's raw talent and
outsized personality have elevated him from sideman to rock 'n' roll
icon.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Bobby Keys has been an in-demand session and touring saxophone player
since the 1950s. He has toured and recorded with the Rolling Stones
since 1970, and has played on record or onstage with Elvis Presley,
Buddy Holly's Crickets, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, John Lennon and Yoko
Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Warren Zevon, and
Sheryl Crow, among countless others. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bill Ditenhafer is the former editor of Nashville Lifestyles magazine
and has worked as a features writer, arts writer, critic and editor at
weekly newspapers from Nashville, Tennessee to Warsaw, Poland. He
lives in Nashville with his wife and two children.

WEB: www.BobbyKeys.net/

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: Every Night's a Saturday Night

Subtitle: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys

Authors: Bobby Keys with Bill Ditenhafer; Foreword by Keith Richards

Publisher: Counterpoint Press

ISBN: 978-1-58243-783-5

Format: Trade cloth, 6 x 9, 272 pages

Pub date: March 2012

US Price: $25.00

Canada Price: $27.50

Category: Music & Performing Arts