SAMMY HAGAR Working On New Autobiography; Title Revealed
June 22, 2010, 14 years ago
Ray Schweibert from Atlanticcityweekly.com conducted a five-question interview with SAMMY HAGAR (CHICKENFOOT, ex-VAN HALEN) recently. An excerpt follows:
How have you avoided many of the pitfalls rock stars often fall into? Did it stem largely from a good family upbringing?
Hagar: "I’m doing an autobiography called Sammy Hagar Red. When you read my family background you’re going to ask 'How did this happen? It’s a miracle.' I came from a family in which my father died in the back of a police car when he was 53 years old, drunk on the streets of my hometown of Fontana, California. It was a small steel-mill town where everybody knew everybody else, which made it tough on me, my brother and two sisters. My mom [Gladys] would do ironing and pick fruit to raise four kids. A single mom - that’s where the heart and soul comes from. Even though we were poor we had clean clothes and she gave us values. My mom [who passed away a couple of years ago] was totally uneducated, she only went through eighth grade, but she had heart and soul and creativity. My brother and sisters all have had good lives and no problems, and it’s because of my mom. Fontana was rough and tough and nothing was given to you. This is where I came from and can brag a little bit and put a feather in my cap - I came from nothing, zero."
Read the entire interview here.
