Hell's Angel

Produktbeschreibung

The autobiography - the dangerous life and wild times - of Sonny Barger, the legendary leader of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club.

Keith Richards walked over to me after finishing 'Love In Vain' and told me the band wasn't going to play any more until we stopped the violence. 'Either these cats cool it, man, or we don't play,' he announced to the crowd. I stood next to him and stuck my pistol into his side and told him to start playing his guitar or he was dead. He played like a motherfucker.'

Sonny Barger is the Hell's Angel of all Hell's Angels, the motorcycle club's de facto leader for nearly thirty years, the man immortalised by Hunter S. Thompson in the classic Hell's Angels as 'nothing short of Winston Churchill when it comes to leading people'. He's feared and revered by people on both sides of the law. Now Hell's Angel sets the record straight - from the club's formation in the 1940s to the height of their notoriety twenty years later, from Sonny's first-hand account of what really happened with the Rolling Stones at Altamont to his lengthy periods of imprisonment, from his fights with rival gangs and the police to his own battle with cancer. Sonny Barger has ridden with the Angels for forty years, obeying no law but that of the HAMC. For the first time, this is his own - and their own - story. 

Autoreninfo

Ralph "Sonny" Barger wohnt zur Zeit in der Nähe von Phoenix, Arizona, wohin er nach vielen Jahren aus seiner Heimatstadt Oakland gezogen ist. Jetzt ist er Mitglied der Cave Creek Bezirksgruppe des Hell's Angels Motorcycle Clubs. Als hervorragender Mechaniker hat er als technischer Berater bei Filmen wie "Hell's Angels on Wheels" und "Hell's Angels '69" mitgewirkt. Er hat in Bundes- und Staatsgefängnissen eingesessen und entwickelt jetzt ein Drehbuch für einen autobiografischen Film. Tag für Tag fährt er nach wie vor auf seiner spezialangefertigten Harley-Davidson und stemmt immer noch mehr als 250 Pfund.
Sonny Barger is a founding member in 1957 of the Oakland, California, USA chapter of Hells Angels (the most famous motorcycle club in the world), and perhaps the club's best-known member. He is known as the 'Godfather of the Hells Angels.'