Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter turned to autobiography in the early 1970s, writing several rueful story-songs about his band’s travails and publishing a revealing book about the mundane reality of fame (“Diary of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star''). Though he was then near the top of Britain’s disposably wonderful glam-rock heap, Hunter nonetheless looked into the deep, dark truthful mirror and deemed rock ‘n’ roll “a loser’s game.”