Biography & Autobiography Composers & Musicians
Ain't Got No Cigarettes
Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller
- Publisher
- Great Plains Publications
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2014
- Category
- Composers & Musicians
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926531236
- Publish Date
- Oct 2014
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894283601
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $24.95
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Ain't Got No Cigarettes is Roger Miller's extraordinary life as told in taped interviews by those that knew him best: more than sixty well-known musicians and entertainers including Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. A man who influenced some of the entertainment industry's biggest stars, Roger Miller was respected and loved by his peers. However, with the genius came a dark side. In the 1960s and 1970s he was known for walking off stage halfway through a show, getting into fights and going days without sleep. He struggled with depression and had a serious addiction to drugs which cost him two marriages. Miller died at the age of 56 in 1992.