His overbearing personality obscures the fact that he is a great rock and roll singer, especially on uptempo material. Love may be the second most disliked person in rock and roll (no one will ever top Ted Nugent in this category), and while he deserves some of that animosity, he doesn’t deserve all of it. Again, this echoes Love’s authentic voice. When he acknowledges his own mistakes, he minimizes them when he brings up other folks’ mistakes, he doesn’t lie, but he selects the facts that will put them in the worst light and himself in the best. But Love’s own voice breaks through on a regular basis, the voice of an edgy hustler who spins every situation like a campaign manager or a lothario on the make. Some sections read like boilerplate research that could have come from a Wikipedia entry: surf music was invented in Hawaii, his co-writer James Hirsch explains, and the Beach Boys toured this country and then that country. By contrast, Love’s book is a more typical celebrity as-told-to autobiography.
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