Robert Christgau…eventful and engaging…one of the surprise gifts of Le Freak is that a third of it covers Rodgers's own opening act—a coming-of-age tale every bit as impressive as the musical insights and star-time chronicles that follow…Like his music, Le Freak convinces—and moves.
—The New York Times Book Review
Publishers WeeklyStarred Review.
Rodgers's page-turning memoir is packed with emotionally charged vignettes of a tumultuous childhood and equally dramatic adulthood that found him awash in cash, cars, and celebrities. Raised and surrounded by junkies and alcoholics, Rodgers was literally shuffled from coast to coast and relative to relative during his formative years. Music was his salvation, and he pursued it with vigor, playing whenever and wherever he could.
