Pleasure and Pain: My life

Chrissy Amphlett · Larry Writer

May 2013 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Chrissy Amphlett is a true legend of Australian rock’n’roll. Here, the spellbinding performer who inspired and outraged as lead singer of the Divinyls tells her own amazing story.

In this raw, gripping and searingly honest account, Chrissy spares no one – least of all herself. She reveals how she formed the Divinyls and, with a unique voice, steely ambition and an outrageous stage act powered them to Australian and international stardom.

Having battled alcohol, drugs and a million dollars worth of debt, Chrissy tells of her fight with MS and of finally finding peace with the love of her life in New York.

Brave, sad, funny, ferocious, there's never been anyone like Chrissy Amphlett.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely loved this book! Having always been a Divinyls fan, it was great to read Chrissy's story. Couldn't put it down!

Brutally honest & sometimes uncomfortable but I loved this book. I never appreciated just how incredible Chrissy Amphlett was.

Good book vale Chrissie Amphlett

About the author

Chrissy Amphlett was an Australian singer and frontwoman of the rock band Divinyls who had four top ten albums and immense international success with the song 'I Touch Myself'. An acclaimed stage career further showed her talents. Chrissy died in 2013 after a long illness.

Larry Writer is an Australian journalist and writer. He is the bestselling author of a number of books, including Pleasure and Pain, Bumper and the Ned Kelly Award-winning Razor, which is now a major TV series - Underbelly: Razor.