As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are that rare breed of rock band: critically lauded and popularly embraced by millions of fans, their albums consistently sell into the stratosphere - their CD Californication sold over 13 million copies alone.

Now, in Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis defies the rock star clichés. In his telling, we can see everything he has done has been part of a passionate journey. Kiedis is a man "in love with everything" - the darkness, the death, the disease. Even his descent into drug addiction was a part of that journey; another element that he has transformed into art. Scar Tissue is a fascinating account of a fast-lane life, addiction, and a moving story of eventual recovery and redemption.

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1 May 2012
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Listening Length	14 hours and 51 minutes
Author	Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman
Narrator	Rider Strong
Audible.com.au Release Date	01 May 2012
Publisher	Phoenix Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00O5LEFTW
Best Sellers Rank	3,279 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 10 in Rock Music (Books) 12 in Biographies of Rock Musicians

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seffron holroyd

Wow!

Reviewed in Australia on 13 July 2021

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Its hard to put what I felt together reading this book, but will try do it some justice.
Anthony's tale of his life , is incredibly hard hitting in a brutally honest way, that gives me alot of respect towards him in unearthing it to the public as well respecting his journey (ups and down) in sobriety.
Not only that, his life has been an incrediable story that I could not put down and shows a new light on him that I never realised until now. I human light, not a egotistical one. A human that made mistakes and acknowledges them and has built a new foundation upon it.

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Marco L

This book changed my life.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 June 2021

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Reading Scar Tissue changed my life. It taught me literary resilience. From this day on, I can face any other book on Earth, knowing few will be worse than this.
I always enjoyed RHCP's music. However, Anthony Kiedis' reminds me why many people don't like Americans.
His life account of sex, drugs and rock and roll was surprisingly annoying. I was not prepared for that.
RHCP fans will likely enjoy this book. They should. Enjoy.
For everyone else, my used toilet paper (available in paperback only) is demonstrably better than Scar Tissue.
If you want to really understand why I didn't enjoy this book. Read it, because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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Trish C

What an awe inspiring read

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2019

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This book was recommended to me by a friend. I have not been able to put it down. I is well written a down to earth way that keeps you wanting more. You have an amazing life and a re a gifted writer.

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Samuel Gill

Not what I had thought.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2022

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Moments of this book were fantastic. However, it was more about his drug use then RHCP, was tough to read at times.

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lee

Good

Reviewed in Australia on 2 December 2020

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Good read

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hayden

Brutally honest and open! Must read.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 December 2017

Best book I read in 2017 (and top 5 of my life). The brutal honesty and open approach that Kiedis (and Larry Sloman) use is hard hitting and effective in sharing the behind the scenes look at what Kiedis has been through as the front man of one of the world's most popular rock bands.

Well worth the 500 page read (Wish it went for longer to be honest).

I was never a Chili Peppers fan before this book...now, I am 100% in. I cannot stop listening to them and admire their approach to sharing their gift with the world.

Thank-you.

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Dean Rzechta

an unbelievable writer and a painful battle of drug addiction

Reviewed in Australia on 11 July 2018

The most poetic version of sex, drugs and rock n roll that you'll ever come across. Kiedis is poetic, an unbelievable writer and a painful battle of drug addiction. Ironically, the journey of his addiction is addictive to listen to. You'll find yourself putting the book down to listen to the songs he explains his inspiration for. This book is enthralling for literature lovers, music lovers, biography lovers... Honestly it would be hard for anybody not to enjoy.

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amelia

Worth Every Penny!

Reviewed in Australia on 3 March 2021

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Amazing book, a true insight into an incredible mind.

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D Thorpe

Drugs, relationships and sometimes the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2019

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Anthony Kiedis is a wonderful songwriter and one of the best frontmen in the business, Scar Tissue tells his story from day one up until the release of By The Way from a very personal and open perspective. I enjoyed the read however, a large portion of the book is entirely a diary of his journeys to pick up and ingest drugs which grows tired rather quickly. The stories of his relationships with women are interesting but again very repetitive and at points of very questionable morally.
I would have liked to read more about his time with the band and his songwriting processes! His personal connection to spiritualism is really intriguing but his writing is again distracted by the endless tales of heroin and cocaine use.

A bit disappointing!!

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Valerie Singer

Not a terribly good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2021

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I enjoyed reading this book as I'm a sucker for biographies particularly those of artists and musicians as well as being a child of the 90s but I wouldn't say this is a good book. It's not terribly well-written and it's really mainly about drug binges and chasing after pale-skinned big-breasted girls (bar Sinead O'Connor), like reading a book written by a high teenager. I was hoping for WAY more inside stories on the 90s music scene as well as the band, of which there is a little of course but it's extremely repetitive in the descriptions of drug use and lustful relations throughout (I was hoping it wouldn't last, it did). I'm sure any RHCP fan will like it but it ranks pretty low on my list of top biographies.

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Jacqueline T

A must read for all Chili Pepper's fan's.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2015

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I must admit before reading this book i was under the impression that Anthony Kiedis was a bit of an egotistical, pretty face whose autobiography would just be about how wonderful he was and what a fantastic lifestyle he has. I couldn't have been more wrong! This is an honest account of a troubled life, that tells in all detail of his life as a child with his drug dealing dad to his slow rise to fame. He goes into a lot of detail about his relationships and how he recognised his character flaws and knew how important it is to work through them. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and would highly recommend it to anyone with an open mind and also anyone with substance misuse problems or if anyone you love has substance misuse problems.

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Boring, repetitive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2020

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I'm a big fan of Red Hot Chilli Pepper but this book is very very boring:
he find a girl, he dump her, he goes on a drugs binge for days, weeks or sometimes months….repeat…this is the book ! nothing else apart for some trips in Thailand and India...

Not to mention that towards the end of the book he talks about this girl who, even if she tries to get money out of him using a solicitor, he goes back with her only realising later on that "maybe she's not my girl". Dude ! you are in ur mid-30 and it took u so long to understand that ?!!

Save your money and get another book.

Will

Brutally Honest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2016

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I suppose a lot of these rock autobiographies are very similar. Though this one is brutally honest as the lead singer is using this chance to tell his whole story as a kind of therapy. I have been a fan of the Chili Peppers since 1989 and have seen them become one of the best rock acts of their era. In my opinion the book is a little overlong and could have done with a bit of a tidy up, for example does the reader really want a running dialogue of Anthony's arguments with his girlfriend. For me this was tedious. I enjoyed the parts where they recorded their albums, a good narrative of the functions of a recording process.

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