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Read this rollicking rock n roll memoir of the last 50 years of rock history from David Bowie s longest serving lead guitarist and legendary sideman Earl Slick He s played with everyone from John Lennon to the New York Dolls and he s got the stories to prove it Earl is a legendary guitar star His playing is earth timeless and never less than stellar DAVID BOWIE You play mean ass blues for a skinny ass white boy BUDDY GUY Had a good night out did we JOHN LENNON Earl Slick was barely out of his teens when David Bowie hired him to play guitar on the ground breaking 1974 Diamond Dogs tour It marked the beginning of a relationship that would endure through thick and thin for the next forty years Gracing classic albums like Young Americans Station to Station and the 2013 comeback The Next Day Slick played on the tour that followed Bowie s smash hit Let s Dance album and was at his side for the epic Glastonbury show in 2000 But it wasn t just Bowie The young guitarist was in John Lennon s band at the time of the former Beatle s tragic murder Other collaborations read like a roll call of rock n roll royalty including Mick Jagger The Cure George Harrison Ringo Starr Joe Cocker Buddy Guy Ian Hunter David Coverdale and Eric Clapto