Chris cornell biography book

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The Seattle grunge scene of the s and early ’90s suffered no shortage of press coverage in its heyday, and has seen no shortage of books attempting to grapple with its legacy. From Michael Azerrard’s in-the-moment bio “Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana” to Mark Yarm’s indispensable “Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History
of Grunge” written two decades later, scholarly interest in one of the last true watershed movements in rock ’n’ roll has shown no signs of slowing down.

Yet one of the defining Generation X rock icons has often been weirdly overlooked: Chris Cornell, the force-of-nature singer-songwriter who led Soundgarden and later Audioslave through two decades at the vanguard of hard rock before dying of suicide in Enter Corbin Reiff’s “Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell,” an extensive page tome out July 28 from Post Hill Press, which looks to fill in the life behind all the screaming.

Reiff, a Seattle-based music critic, was in the finishing stages of his first book, “Lighters in the Sky,” when Cornell died and his editor suggested his personal fandom might make him the perfect candidate to tackle a soup-to-nuts study of the singer.

“At first I said, ‘Nah, I don’t know if I’m really the right guy to do that,’” Reiff says. “But then the idea really stayed with me. There weren’t a lot of dots connected about Soundgarden and the history of music, and even among the Seattle bands — Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice in Chains even — they had seemed a little lost to history. And so my book is in a lot of ways an attempt to rewrite that record.”

As central as he was to the Seattle rock scene, Cornell was also something of an anomaly. Typically a low-key presence offstage, his inimitably histrionic wail and shirtless se

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"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." - Kerrang

"Reiff unearths plenty of unexpected details and novel anecdotesbut the book is perhaps most valuable for the way it rounds out and humanizes this man who managed to keep so many of his cards close to the vest despite decades in the spotlight." - Variety

With input from those who knew and worked with him - together with his own words - Total F*cking Godhead - recounts the rise of Chris Cornell and his immortal band Soundgarden as they emerged from the s post-punk underground to dominate popular culture in the '90s alongside Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, and Nirvana. He delves into his hard-fought battle with addiction, and the supercharged reunion with the band that made him famous before everything came to a shocking end.

"For those of us still trying to sort out the tragedy of Chris Cornell's death comes this loving look back at the man's life and music. I wrote my own book about grunge, and I still learned a lot from this excellent biography." - Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge