Legendary rock drummer Carmine Appice began his music career over five decades ago and inspired a huge list of artists that include Led Zeppelin and The E Street Band’s Max Weinberg. Earlier this week, Appice guested on FOX News' Tom Sullivan Show and discussed his new memoir, Stick It: My Life of Sex, Drums, And Rock N Roll and looked back at his incredible life in music. 

From making it big with the influential psychedelic group Vanilla Fudge to spending decades playing with acts like Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbournce, Jeff Beck and Pink Floyd, Appice detailed how his unqiue talents and style allowed him to play with best and meet some of the biggest names in rock history.

During the interview:

- Appice describes spending an evening with Jimi Hendrix and a “prostitute” long before Hendrix made it big

- he explains how while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne, he upset set Sharon Osbourne so much that the infamous rock manager (and wife of Ozzy) sabatoged his performance (and almost lit him on fire!!)

- he explains how ‘music saved his life’ and allowed him to move from the streets of Brooklyn to the big time with Vanilla Fudge

- Appice describes touring with Rod Stewart

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Appice released his memoir, Stick It!: My Life Of Sex, Drums, And Rock 'N' Roll, on May 1st via Chicago Review Press. The book was co-written by Ian Gittins, and includes a foreword from Rod Stewart.

A book description follows:

He ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love. He was managed by the mob, hung with Hendrix, trashed thousands of hotel rooms, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin to support him on tour, taught John Bonham (as well as Fred Astaire) a thing or two about drumming, and took part in Zeppelin's infamous deflowering of a groupie with a mud shark.

After enrolling in Rod Stewart's Sex Police, he hung out with Kojak, accidentally shared a house with Prince, became blood brothers with Ozzy Osbourne, and got fired by Sharon. He formed an all-blond hair metal band, jammed with John McEnroe and Steven Seagal, became a megastar in Japan, got married five times, slept with 4,500 groupies - and, along the way, became a rock legend by single-handedly reinventing hard rock and heavy metal drumming.            

Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life - and here he is telling his scarcely believable story. Co-written with Ian Gittins, the co-author with Nikki Sixx of the New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries, Stick It! is one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll biographies of our time.