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June 10, 2008

Grandmaster Flash pens autobiography...

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But for the DJ, whose real name is Joseph Saddler, those successes were marred by conflict involving money, record company dealings, drugs and family problems. “For a long period of time I was pretty angry,” he tells Spinner. “I characterize myself as being torn apart and being in lots of pain.”

In his new book ‘The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats,’ co-written with David Ritz, Flash traces his life from his rough childhood in the Bronx to key aspects of his career: witnessing DJ Kool Herc spinning records in 1974; developing DJ-ing techniques such mixing and cutting; and, with the Furious Five—Melle Mel, Scorpio, Rahiem, Kid Creole and Cowboy—playing to 3,000 people at the Audubon Ballroom in 1976.


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