Musician/author Roddy Bottum (photo: Joey Holman)

A singer’s voice, distinctive and immediately recognizable, is the key to their success. It’s what earns them a devoted following of fans who will stick with them through thick and thin. In recent years, a handful of memoirs by musicians, including “The Harder I Fight The More I Love” by Neko Case, “I’ll Never Write My Memoirs” by Grace Jones, “Boys Keep Swinging” by Jake Shears, “Broken Horses” by Brandi Carlile, and “Trans Electric” by Cidny Bullens,” have succeeded in capturing those voices in prose form.

The same can be said for gay musician Roddy Bottum’s memoir “The Royal We” (Akashic Books). Known by many for his membership in the bands Faith No More, Imperial Teen, and Man on Man, Bottum’s story, told without hesitation, is one of

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