{"product_id":"9781760555054","title":"Tex","description":"\u003cp\u003eSinger. Songwriter. Swamp child. Soul man. Tex Perkins is a true rock'n'roll animal. In this loud, uncut, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud and take-no-prisoners memoir, the enigmatic king of the Australian music underground lays bare an extraordinary life lived on the road, on the stage and on the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised a bible-thumping Catholic and beaten bloody on the streets of Brisbane for being a \"cow-punk\", skinny Gregory Perkins flees to Sydney and mutates into \"Tex\", rogue leader of the Dums Dums, Thug and Salamander Jim before finding a strange kind of success, celebrity, sex symboldom and icon status as Tex Perkins, snake-hipped, honey-voiced, often bloodied frontman of influential Aussie bands the Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and Tex, Don\u0026amp;Charlie... and inventor of \"Zoneball\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGigs. Albums. Tours. Fights. Feuds. Arrests. Drugs. High times. Low roads. This is a wild ride of a life written loudly, proudly and full of punk energy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149998309616,"sku":"9781760555054","price":20.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781760555054_p0.jpg?v=1763706346","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781760555054","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}