W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless has spent more than five years working on his upcoming memoir, according to a new report from journalist Matt Wardlaw of Ultimate Classic Rock.
The book, titled Tales From The Square Mile, focuses on his time living in Hollywood and the impact that environment had on both his life and the wider music scene. As Blackie Lawless explained, “What it’s about is that square mile that I was living in in Hollywood at the time, and the influences that the town itself would have on not just me, but the music industry,” he explains in a new conversation with UCR.
The process has taken longer than expected, with Blackie Lawless pointing to the amount of research involved. “It’s really consumed most of my time and it’s been way more work than I ever thought it was going to be. It’s easily as much work as making a record, but probably more… since we came home last November, I have really, really buckled down and started working on this.”
He also noted that the scope of the book grew as he got deeper into it. “I’m probably halfway done now, but the amount of research that it took to get a lot of these stories correct is really time-consuming. I find that there will be times where it’ll take me six or seven hours to write two paragraphs because of the amount of research that’s going on. Because when I first started this, like probably everybody else, I would have thought it would have been my singular story. That seemed reasonable at the time, but the more I got into it, the more I realized it was not just my story.”
Looking ahead, Blackie Lawless is aiming to finish the book sometime in 2026. “I’ve got my fingers crossed with this, I’m hoping it’s done before the year’s out. We’ve got a lot of stuff. Again, the first five years of me doing this book was doing a lot of research. Now I’m at a point where I feel like I can start to sprint with it. A lot of the things that I did that took all the time to uncover the research, that’s been done now. So now I can just, you know, get into the daily process of writing, and it’s starting to go pretty quick now.”
Alongside the writing process, W.A.S.P. recently announced the 1984 To Headless 2026 U.S. and Canada tour, featuring Kk’s Priest as a special guest. The run begins September 10 in California and wraps on October 31, with the band set to focus on material from their first four albums.
VIP packages will also be available here, giving fans access to a meet-and-greet with Blackie Lawless, a personal photo, autographs, entry to a traveling W.A.S.P. museum with updated items, and a Q&A session.
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