Paul Rodgers' Memoir: An EXCLUSIVE Update [Highlight From Episode 312]

An exclusive update on the upcoming Paul Rodgers memoir with Rodgers' co-author Chris Epting.

Listen to Episode 312: Rock Legends & Landmarks, Paul Rodgers' Memoir News w/ Author Chris Epting

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on Rock.
Our guest is author, TV host, photographer percepting Paul Rogers
a guy who deserves a book? Tell us about this?
When's it coming out? When's a duout? What's it going
to be?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
And he talked about us publicly, so I feel comfortable, okay,
good while we were super quiet.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
But he talked about us when he was on Eddie
Trunk and I met Paul. I'm a he interviewed him
years ago and it wasn't you remembered that?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
But about a year or so ago, somebody representing him
contacted me, somebody I had worked with, and said, you know,
Paul needs a book.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
He's never really.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Wanted to do it, but would you at least talk
to him about it? And I said, I mean, I'm
you don't have to ask twice. I mean, Paul Rodgers
to me, is you know if any Rock Royalty truly exists?
And he would hate me saying this because he's very
humble and very modest, But come on, if you're if
you grew up when we grew up, you know, a
bad company and especially free for me, I was love,

(00:57):
free everything else.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Bad company.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
A firm that work did firm everything solo work. The
guy's voice is velvet, legendary voice.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And so we had a zoom call and I could
tell he didn't want to do a book.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
We talked about it and joked a little bit, and
I think he.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Realized that the process could actually be fun, and it
could be wistful and a little nostalgic. And he'd been
through so many health things. I think that shifted his
perspective as well, because all of a sudden, now no
one's guaranteed anything, and how is he doing?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
By the way, he had a heart condition, great, he
had a number of strokes and hard things.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
He's done great. We've been working on this.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
For a year. Our hope is that it's out next year.
A lot of work's been done on it. I've done
a ton of interviews for it. Paul and I have
had dozens and dozens of sessions where he has shared
wonderful stories from growing up through his entire career, from
again the early days into Free into Bad Company, everything

(01:59):
after that. So I think we have photos that are
absolutely incredible and most people haven't seen.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
This book is going to be really special.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
This was all culminating around the fact that Bad Company
finally got inducted into the rock and roll hole. Ceremonial
will be this Fall, which is really exciting and a
good thing for the.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Book, and yeah, I am. I'm so excited.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I think Paul is really he's one of the most
graceful rock stars you'll ever meet, because he really is modest,
and he really is. He doesn't carry himself in a
way that some people do at that level. His humble
nature I think belies the ferocity of what he brought us,

(02:41):
the soulfulness, the.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Blues based.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Just you know, unmatchable passion that he brought to those
hits and deep cuts and everything. So solid and amazing
guitar player, which people don't know a lot about.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Really.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I saw a Bad Company with Lynyrd Skinner maybe ten
fifteen years ago up in the sight of Woodstock there Bethlee,
New York. Yeah, yeah, when he started, when they broke
into Seagull. I mean the goosebumps, I mean just goosebumps
listening to him sing that song that is That is
my favorite deep track of his from Bad Company.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
It's a new tribute record comes up as Fall.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's announced where a bunch of artists have done Bad
Company songs and Joe Elliott and Phil Collin to Siegull.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
So you'll love that.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh, that's fantastic. Well, I cannot wait to have you
on to talk about the book when it's out.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I can't wait. Like I said, I am so excited.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I with Paul, it's like when you realize who you're
talking to and his seriousness to the That's the other
thing too, the way he embraced the project and the
seriousness with which he takes it. His wife Cynthia has
been a remarkable help. Longtime manager David Spirou. Four of

(04:00):
us are kind of like this team and what we've
been working on the last year. I can't wait for
the world to experience it.