12/09/2008

Bobby Brown Biography Released But Not With Consent From Bobby!

Now ya'll already know that Robert Berisford Brown is going to do his own damn thang... and on his own damn terms right? The tumultuous life of Grammy award-winning singer Bobby Brown is now the subject of The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But…, a new “unauthorized biography” of the artist’s life.

Initially, the book was going to just be a private memoir for Brown to reflect on his volatile 20-plus years in the entertainment industry. But then a close friend named Derrick Handspike, who by the way is also a longtime friend and co-writer of Andre Rison’s autobiography (Andre Rison is Lisa 'LeftEye' Lopes ex), urged the singer to seriously consider transforming his memoir into a no frills autobiography.

And so Bobby did... and it turned out to be 233 pages full of illicit affairs, and explosive truths.

But that was until right before the book was set to drop, Handspike learned that Bobby decided to not go through with it because he was afraid of how the book would hurt his family and reveal a little too much about his past.

The book chronicles Brown’s life from his childhood, rise to stardom with New Edition, drug problems, relationships, and his explosive 14-year marriage to Whitney Houston. Which is another reason why the book is considered "unauthorized"... because Whitney was magnanomously opposed to it's release.

“I had heard rumors that Whitney was trying to stop this book from coming out and that she was going to do whatever she had to do to keep it from being published,” Handspike states in book’s foreword. “I then started to wonder if Bobby had been influenced by Whitney not to go through with it. Whitney has been known, is known and will always be known as having a major influence on him. For whatever reason, Bobby, his lawyer and manager were not in a hurry to finalize the agreed upon book release deadlines!”

Despite this setback, Handspike made several changes to the book which legally allowed the go ahead for the project to be published, even without Brown’s final support.

“With all the hard work, time, and dedication to the project and money spent out of my pocket preparing this memoir, I decided to make the necessary changes to release it, Handspike stated. “I made the changes to revise the book so it reads as a biography in lieu of an autobiography.”

Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But… is published by Down South Books and available now at all major book retailers and www.downsouthbooks.com.

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