Joe Layden is an award-winning journalist and the author of more than twenty books, including Home Before Daylight and the number one New York Times bestseller The Rock Says. He lives in upstate New York.
More than an insider's story about VH; Monk also shares fascinating firsthand information about how the music industry operated at that time...An absolute must-read for VH fans and fans of rock music memoirs. -- <em>Library Journal</em> Too bad the title The Dirt was already taken. Noel Monk - who went from being Van Halen's road manager to their business manager during their Diamond Dave prime - holds nothing back...Monk paints a convincing picture of a brilliant, substance-addled young band that wasn't built to last. -- Rolling Stone The Van Halen book you've been waiting for...brutally honest and at times shocking...Van Halen fans will be discussing and debating it with the same attention to detail as Eddie's finger-tapping work on `Eruption.' -- Houston Press There's plenty of sex and drugs here, along with the absurdities of the hard-rock life. -- New York Times Book Review