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This Is...
Christy Dignam
with Neil Fetherstonhaugh

“The amazing life story of Christy Dignam – lead singer of Dublin rock band Aslan – reads like a combination of Trainspotting and an Elmore Leonard gangster novel.”
- Des Ekin
Sunday World

“…a book that gives authentic insight into the perils of addiction and the vagaries of the music industry…”
- George Byrne
Evening Herald

This is…Christy Dignam - the true life story of Ireland’s most talented but troubled stars, as told in his own words. Christy Dignam, the lead singer with rock group Aslan, escaped the dole queues of 1980’s Dublin to stand on the verge of international stardom before toppling into an abyss of drug addiction.

It was a sequence of events that that took him from performing to thousands of delirious fans in Madison Square Gardens to cleaning the toilets in a tough drug treatment centre within a matter of months.

Told with passion and honesty, Dignam charts how he beat the demons that threatened his life, his marriage and his career as the front man of Ireland's hardest ‘working class’ band.

For the first time ever, the man behind Ireland’s most recognisable voice lifts the lid on rock n’ roll excess, success and tells how he survived to tell the tale.