Radio Interview Prep Sheet for Joey Green, author of....

Famous Failures

Ask any, all, or none of these questions when interviewing Joey Green about his book, Famous Failures. Joey is a veteran interviewee and can roll with the punches, so don't be afraid to ask anything.

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SUGGESTED INTRODUCTION

If at first you don't succeed, welcome to the club. If you‘ve ever failed, dropped out, been fired, worked a lousy job, been rejected, lost an election, gone bankrupt, or even done time in jail—you‘re not alone. Hundreds of famous successes have done the same thing.

Joey Green is the best-selling author of 40 books, including Polish Your Furniture with Panty Hose, Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!, and Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings. He's been a guest on The Tonight Show, Good Morning, America, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, and The View.

His latest book is called Famous Failures: Hundreds of Hot Shots Who Got Rejected, Flunked Out, Worked Lousy Jobs, Goofed Up, or Did Time in Jail Before Achieving Phenomenal Success.

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SUGGESTED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

• Why did you write this book?

• Tell us about some famous people who were failures.

• If I give you some names of famous people, can you tell me how they failed?
• Albert Einstein?
• Whoopi Goldberg?
• Tom Hanks?
• Rudy Giuliani?
• Hillary Clinton?
• John McCain?
• Abraham Lincoln?
• Eddie Murphy?
• Ray Romano?

• What about you, Joey? What’s your big failure?

• Where can listeners pick up a copy of Famous Failures?

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FOR MORE FUN

Play a short clip from a song by any one of the rock stars, singers, or musicians below and Joey will tell your listeners how they failed...

• Julie Andrews (“The Sound of Music”)
• Tony Bennett (“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”)
• Carol Channing (“Hello Dolly”)
• The Cars (“My Best Friend’s Girl”)
• Chubby Checker (“The Twist”)
• Cher (“Believe”)
• Perry Como ("It's Impossible”)
• Roger Daltry (“Won't Get Fooled Again”)
• Dr. Dre ("Nuthin But a G Thang”)
• Eminem (“The Real Slim Shady”)
• George Gershwin (“Rhapsody in Blue”)
• Jimi Hendrix (“Purple Haze”)
• Tom Jones (“It's Not Unusual”)
• KC and the Sunshine Band (“That's the Way (I Like It)”)
• Huey Lewis (“The Heart of Rock & Roll”)
• Jennifer Lopez (”If You Had My Love”)
• Paul McCartney (“Yesterday”)
• John Mellencamp ("Hurts So Good”)
• Eddie Money (“Take Me Home Tonight”)
• Jim Morrison (“Light My Fire”)
• Roy Orbison (“Pretty Woman”)
• Prince (“Purple Rain”)
• Linda Rondstadt (“You’re No Good”)
• Paul Simon (“Kodachrome”)
• Jessica Simpson (“I Wanna Love You Forever”)
• Britney Spears (“Oops! . . . I Did It Again”)
• Ringo Starr (“Yellow Submarine”)
• Three Dog Night (“Joy to the World”)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (“Jesus Christ Superstar”)
• Hank Williams (“You're Cheating Heart”)

On the internet, be sure to visit
www.lunaticpress.com

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Famous Failures
By Joey Green
Publisher: Lunatic Press
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 0-9772590-2-1
Trade paperback: 288 pages, 5.5 x 5.5
Publication: April 2007
Distributed by: Independent Publishers Group

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