Light Big frontman and report business govt Derek Shulman will publish his autobiography, Big Steps, by Jawbone on October 7.
Subtitled ‘My Unbelievable Journey From Stage Lights To Govt Heights‘, and co-written by US music author Jon Wiederhorn, Big Steps tells Shulman’s story in over 300 pages, that includes uncommon and beforehand unseen pictures. It additionally boasts a foreword written by veteran music producer Tony Visconti, whoi produced the primary two Light Big albums.
Shulman chronicles his exceptional life and profession surrounded by music and creativity in lots of types, beginning with him as a teen confidently telling his schoolteacher he would develop as much as develop into a star, by early forays within the Nineteen Sixties pop and r&b group Simon Dupree & The Massive Sound, then pushed rock music to the outer edges within the Nineteen Seventies as frontman of progressive rock pioneers Light Big.
Following the top of Light Big, Shulman moved into the report enterprise, taking up senior roles at labels like Polygram, ATCO, and Roadrunner Information. There, he signed and developed artists together with Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, Slipknot, Pantera and Males With out Hats, whereas additionally serving to to revitalise the careers of AC/DC, Unhealthy Firm and others.
“Derek Shulman was there earlier than there was a there,” Jon Bon Jovi recollects. “We grew collectively as a crew. We discovered as we lived. He was the one actual A&R man that we may rely on once we wanted him.”
