An evening with Jakko Jakszyk Friday 11th October 2024
2nd September 2024
Jakko Jakszyk is an award-winning, world-renowned and celebrated musician, best known for being lead guitarist with Level 42 in the 1990s and as lead singer and guitarist for the founding fathers of progressive rock, King Crimson, since 2013. In his new memoir – ‘Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? The Unlikely Memoir of Jakko M Jakszyk’ published by Kingmaker Publishing on 10th October – he reveals much more to his story than you may expect from your usual “rock-star” biography.
A superb raconteur, Jakszyk tells the story of his life and his experiences both in and out of music and entertainment. From the harrowing stories of his adoptive parents’ lives during World War II and finding and meeting his birth mother and self-proclaimed ‘white supremacist’ step-siblings, to stories, encounters and working with Michael Jackson, Kate Bush, Cliff Richard, Jack Charlton, Audrey Hepburn, the Dalai Lama and crossing swords with Millwall Football Club’s dodgy director Reg Burr.
An evening with Jakko Jakszyk is an opportunity to hear Jakszyk talking firsthand about his life and the book and to ask questions about his moments in music that a 14-year-old Jakko could never have believed, but likewise him dealing with his life journey that has presented a constant challenge.
‘Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair? The Unlikely Memoir of Jakko M Jakszyk’ is about origins, identity, and who we become. It’s about a kid who found solace in music when the very sense of who he was left him floundering. It is about how his journey to discover his family allowed him to reflect on who he could have been had he not been given away at birth.
