Like a motorcycle. The Galloping Life of John by John Belushi

«Like a motorcycle. The Galloping Life of John by John Belushi by Bob Woodward

The uncensored biography of the wildest comedian in history. Bob Woodward, as in Watergate, investigates the hidden side of genius.

John Belushi died at the age of thirty-three, executed for his volcanic exuberance (and an exuberant dose of speedball) in a luxurious hotel on Sunset Boulevard. That death is the beginning of an investigation that will lead Bob Woodward, Richard Nixon’s black beast, to the aromatic viscera of American show business – where television, rock ‘n’ roll and the seventh art converge. To recount the marvelous life of the comedian and capture the strident fanfare that surrounded his rise and tragedy, the tireless reporter had to handle a heterogeneous barrage of materials (diaries, letters, inventories, invoices, diagnoses, etc.) and, above all, interview extensively a group made up of 217 celebrities, ghosts and mediocrities: the widow of the deceased, comrades in arms and fatigues such as Dan Aykroyd, actors and directors such as Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, Carrie Fisher Steven Spielberg or Jack Nicholson, leading men of the industry film, police, thugs, traffickers, musicians, freeloaders and other interesting specimens of the underworld attached to the footlights.

Everyone knew that the car was heading towards the abyss, but its friends were unable to stop it and its satellites continued to provide the fuel that kept it going (a march, by the way, as noisy as it was profitable): the “high life” of New York o Hollywood had those fierce drawbacks.

In this book, Bob Woodward draws a meticulous, moving and sometimes ruthless portrait of an era and an individual who lived too long and lost everything at the hands of his insatiable craving.