In June 1980, 19-year-old James
McDonnell (known as Slim Jim Phantom) boarded a plane from New York City
to London with his childhood friends and bandmates Brian Setzer and Lee
Rocker. In less than a year, they went from being homeless, hungry, and
living in punk rock squats to the toast of the London music scene.
The Stray Cats developed a signature sound and style that swept across
the world, released multiplatinum albums, and were embraced and
befriended by classic rock acts like the Rolling Stones and Led
Zeppelin, as well as original punk heroes such as the Sex Pistols, the
Damned, and the Clash, and rock-and-roll originators Carl Perkins and
Jerry Lee Lewis. After ten years of marriage to actress Britt Ekland,
Slim Jim moved down the hill to Sunset Strip, where his son was raised
and he owned the world-famous rock-and-roll bar Cat Club while
continuing to play with a host of well-known musicians.
Slim
Jim, a veteran of the London and LA music scenes, recounts in his memoir
not just the Stray Cats' rise but a different type of life spent in the
upper echelon of rock-and-roll stardom.
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