April Wine’s Goodwyn writes about life, mistakes and music in new memoir
Posted Dec 1, 2016 08:19:34 AM.
Last Updated Dec 1, 2016 08:28:18 AM.
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April Wine frontman Myles Goodwyn is out with a new memoir called ‘Just Between You and Me.’
The Canadian rock legend told NEWS 95.7 his family was a big motivation for writing the book.
“I was always away, I was either touring, which was relentless, or I was in the studio, or I was writing to prepare for the studio,” he said.
“I missed so much of my children growing up, although everything’s fine now, I missed a lot and if I could turn back that clock, I would have made a lot more room for my family.”
He said the book is an opportunity for his children to find out what he was up to in the days and weeks he spent away from home.
“I was thinking how nice it would be for them to know what their dad’s been through,” he said. “It’s warts and all, the good and the bad, the fun stuff and the stuff that wasn’t so fun.”
Goodwyn aimed to be truthful adding it was not easy owning up to some of his mistakes, but he wanted to give fans an opportunity to know more about himself and the other members of April Wine.
The memoir opens with the story of the musician’s collapse on his way to a show in Halifax, he was bleeding internally in his throat, and he didn’t realize it until he was on his way to the concert.
“I was in three hospitals that day, with months of rehab around the internal bleeding,” Goodwyn explained. “They said I would have been dead the next day, it was a scary time.”
The rocker also isn’t shy about his struggle with diabetes, which has been the inspiration behind his Soleful Caring campaign, a partnership with the Salvation Army that aims to deliver shoes to homeless people — especially those with the disease.
“Having to protect my feet, every diabetic has to, you could lose a leg or your life just by stubbing a toe,” he said.
“Just imaging those people out there, diabetic or not they need help, it’s a real dire situation out there when the weather turns as cold as it’s becoming.”
‘Just Between You and Me’ is on store shelves now.
