About The Author

Greg Prato

Greg Prato is a Long Island, New York-based journalist, whose writing has appeared in such renowned publications as All Music Guide, Rolling Stone.com, Billboard.com, and Classic Rock Magazine, among others. He is also the author of six critically acclaimed and popular books, A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other: The Story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon, Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story, Grunge is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (ECW Press, 2009), No Schlock . . . Just Rock!, The Eric Carr Story, and MTV Ruled the World: The Early Years of Music Video.

Books by Greg Prato