<p>From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the story of a man who. . .</p><p>... is a Londoner and a Mod.</p><p>... auditioned for Roger Daltrey while sitting on a bed that hid a fugitive.</p><p>... wanted The Who to be called The Hair.</p><p>... loved The Everly Brothers, but not that drawling dope Elvis.</p><p>... wanted to be a sculptor, a journalist, a dancer and a graphic designer.</p><p>... became a musician, composer, librettist, fiction writer, literary editor, sailor.</p><p>... smashed his first guitar onstage, in 1967, by accident.</p><p>... heard the voice of God on a vibrating bed in rural Illinois.</p><p>... invented the Marshall stack, feedback and the concept album.</p><p>... once speared Abbie Hoffman in the neck with the head of his guitar.</p><p>... inspired Jimi Hendrix's pyrotechnical stagecraft.</p><p>... is partially deaf in his right ear.</p><p>... stole his windmill guitar playing from Keith Richards.</p><p>... followed Keith Moon off a hotel balcony into a pool and nearly died.</p><p>... did too much cocaine and nearly died.</p><p>... drank too much and nearly died.</p><p>... detached from his body in an airplane, on LSD, and nearly died.</p><p>... helped rescue Eric Clapton from heroin.</p><p>... is banned for life from Holiday Inns.</p><p>... was embroiled in a tabloid scandal that has dogged him ever since.</p><p>... has some explaining to do.</p><p>... is the most literary and literate musician of the last 50 years.</p><p>... planned to write his memoir when he was 21.</p><p>... published this book at 67.</p>