During a new interview with Loaded Radio, Blackie Lawless (W.A.S.P.) discussed his new autobiography “Tales From The Square Mile.” According to him, the book is “about halfway finished.”
Lawless said the following:
“When I first started writing, I asked [IRON MAIDEN singer] Bruce Dickinson, I said, ‘How long did it take you to do your book [‘What Does This Button Do?’]?’ He says, ‘About six months.’ And I’m thinking, ‘Well, it’ll take six months.’ Well, six years later [it’s still not done].
When I first got into it, I thought it was my singular story. And that seemed reasonable enough, because it’s about my own story. But as I started to get into it, I started to realize that it is not just my story. It is about the town itself. And the more I started to understand that, the more everything started to change, as far as the book.
There’s only two guys left, if you think about it, that were there in the beginning, that saw the ’70s and, obviously, the ’80s. But there’s only two guys — myself and Rudy Sarzo [former Ozzy Osbourne and current QUIET RIOT bassist]. Now, Rudy wrote a book [‘Off The Rails’] a while back where he went into detail about what happened when he was with Ozzy and all that, and what happened when [late Ozzy guitarist] Randy [Rhoads] died and all that. I had lunch, or dinner, with Rudy about six, seven months ago, and I just wanted to pick his brain about what was going on with this. But I told him the approach that I was taking with this, and it was a very, very different type of approach to anything anybody had done before, and he was fully supportive of it. But that’s really what it’s about.
When I got into it, I found out that it was about the town itself. I’ll give you an example. Blackie Lawless is a combination of Zorro and Dracula. Those were my two childhood heroes growing up. Well, the first year that I was here, I slept on people’s floors. And the next year and a half, I moved into my deluxe accommodations, which was a closet that was three feet by 12 feet. And I was in there for a year and a half. Well, come to find out when I’m doing research on this book, that [Hungarian–American actor] Bela Lugosi had lived, the best I can figure, he was about 75 feet away from where I was when I was in that closet. Had I known that, I’d have been down there putting flowers on his doorstep every day. But I didn’t know that at the time. But there’s coincidence after coincidence after coincidence that people are gonna look at in this book, they’re gonna read it, and they’re gonna think, ‘There’s no way that this can be true.’ It is true. Every word of it is true. And like I said, the deeper I got into it, the more I started to realize it is not just my singular story, it’s about the town itself.”
He also added the following about release plans:
“Well, I keep telling people a year. I’m at a point now where I’ve done most of the research. So, I’m about halfway finished. So, I mean, we’re getting ready to do this tour, so there won’t be a whole lot going on there. But I’m hoping, and I got my fingers crossed, I’m hoping next year sometime.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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