
We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Hardcover
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (10/5/2009)
Paperback (11/2/2010)
Compact Disc, Abridged, Abridged (10/6/2009)
Description
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on Letterman? This book is Paul Shaffer's answer to that question. From playing seedy strip joints in Toronto, to his first legitimate job out of college-which found him working with future stars (and friends) Gilda Radner, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy-to being first musical director of the nascent Saturday Night Live and helping to form the Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with Dave and playing with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer has lived the ultimate showbiz life.
Now, in this hilarious, entertaining, and candid memoir-in which he dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel Gibson and Britney Spears-Paul gives us the full behind-the-scenes story of his life, from banging out pop tunes on the piano at the age of twelve to leading the band every night at the Sullivan Theater.
Flying Dolphin Press, 9780385524834, 336pp.
Publication Date: October 6, 2009
About the Author
DAVID RITZ has cowritten memoirs with, among others, Ray Charles and Don Rickles. He also co-wrote "Sexual Healing."