Not Dead and Not for Sale: A Memoir

Two-time Grammy winner Scott Weiland, lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, delivers a haunting, no-holds-barred memoir of scaling the pinacle of rock stardom, plunging into the chasm of addiction and incarceration, and clawing his way back to the top. In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots – not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam – was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such megabands as Aerosmith and Motley Crue on MTV and in the mainstream charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic frontman in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Robert Plant. Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star excess, with his well-publicized drug busts and trips to rehab. Weiland has since made a series of stunning comebacks, fronting the supergroup Velvet Revolver, releasing solo work and, most recently, reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots. He still struggles with the bottle, but he has prevailed as a loving, dedicated father, as well as a business-savvy artist whose well of creativity is far from empty.

Reviews of Not Dead and Not for Sale: A Memoir

* A fascinating account in which Weiland recalls, with startling honesty and in surprisingly poetic prose, the story of his life. Record Collector * with startling honesty and in surprisingly poetic prose unknown