The Soundtrack Of My Life
“Roxy Music’s Avalon has probably got more guys laid than one of my records.”
Impossibly pretty and able to drop platinum power ballads as if on a whim, John Rzeznik, Goo Goo Dolls’ singer and main songwriter, has been fronting the band for what seems like an improbably long 33 years. Backstage, in the middle of a summer-long run of amphitheatre ‘shed shows’ with Train, he opens up on the best and worst of times. And why he still loves Led Zeppelin.
THE FIRST MUSIC I REMEMBER HEARING
The first song that really by the Sweet. I had four older sisters, so I got stuck listening to all their music, that may have had an influence on my songwriting… I was seven or eight years old at the time. My daughter’s two and a half, it’s funny, she likes listening to some of my songs but not others, , that’s her favourite.
