It's always fascinating to read books like these. The rock world - particularly the metal world - is so predicated on attitude and cool and swagger, and to see movies like "The Dirt", they popped out of the womb with a bottle of Jack, a boner, and some boss riffs. But when you get past the personas, very few of the really big name guys really "lucked " into anything. I remember reading about Bruce ("Bruce Bruce") back in the day, and to hear him tell it, he was nothing but a hellion pissing in the headmaster's soup and being expelled from school. But he didn't drop onto a stage in full air-raid siren mode; he has training as a singer, and worked hard at his craft before ever hitting the big time with Maiden. Very uncool from a "Kerrang!" standpoint, but it's interesting to read now that I'm not a teenager, and now that I've worked at a craft of my own for decades.