Under A Rock by Chris Stein

"Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've learned over the fifty or so years of our friendship, Chris is a card from the unexpected deck," writes Debbie Harry in the foreword to this intimate autobiography. As a musician, photographer, and longtime partner to Harry, Chris Stein defined the sound of an era, helping to catapult the iconic band Blondie to global success and selling over 20 million copies of their seminal album, Parallel Lines.

In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Stein reveals himself not through his songwriting or photography, but in his own words. He takes us from his Brooklyn boyhood to his move across the river to the gritty and fecund East Village in the late 1970s. This was a time when David Bowie and the Ramones were making music, Andy Warhol was promoting Jean-Michel Basquiat's work, and cool was defined by what you could contribute to culture.

Under a Rock is a plunge into that vanished time period and into the moments that turned the fresh sound and new look of punk and new wave into a giant artistic and commercial sensation. This revelatory, propulsive, and distinctive memoir is the unvarnished account of an artist who shaped an era.