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Life Is Great!

Adam Boretz -- May 31st, 2011

By now, you already know that the audio version of Keith Richards’s fabulous memoir, Life, won Audiobook of the Year at this year’s Audies.

Well, PW and Listen Up caught up with Joe Hurley and Team Hachette. And here’s what they had to say about the project and their big win.

Narrator JOE HURLEY:

“I was in Paris, playing a festival, sound-checking with ‘Sing Me Back Home,’ when I got the exciting call. Ninety-eight percent of France was on strike. I caught the only flight back to NYC at 6 am, arms full of guitars and luggage, and arrived sleepless at JFK, where I was driven to the studio, had a cup of tea, and began recording an hour later.

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