What a Fool Believes: A Memoir by Michael McDonald with Paul Reiser. Dey Street Books. 323 pages. 2024
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This book, well written with Paul Reiser, is a fascinating look at seventy-two-year-old musician Michael McDonald’s life. It takes us from his Irish Catholic upbringing in the St. Louis area, through his musical career, right up to the current day once again touring with the Doobie Brothers.
He writes a lot about his father, also a singer, who he says would always be a larger-than-life hero to him. During McDonald’s early years, many times, his father would leave the home, with Michael not knowing if he would return. Sadly, his parent’s marriage would not last, ending when he was about thirteen, though they would become better friends than they were when married.
It was with a homemade guitar at the age of twelve, and inspired by the British Invasion groups, he would start his first band: Mike and the Majestics. He would go on to be a part of many other bands in the St. Louis area as time went on.
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