With over 80 books in our library, this year we're taking some time every week to highlight one of the books on the Eckhartz bookshelf. This week's book is Doin the Cruise by Mitch Michaels (with Ken Churilla). Mitch is a rock and roll radio icon in Chicago and tells the tales in this engrossing book.
From his youthful beginnings in the suburbs of Cleveland to the top of the radio mountain in Chicago, DOIN’ THE CRUISE: Memories From A Lifetime in Radio and Rock & Roll is the complete story of Chicago radio disc jockey Mitch Michaels. DOIN’ THE CRUISE details Mitch’s experiences like his backseat limo ride with Rod Stewart that just may have changed rock & roll history, his partnering with The Who on a ground breaking live performance, the infamous Disco Demolition, and more.
Foreigner, Journey, ChicagoFest, it’s all in there. But DOIN’ THE CRUISE isn’t just about radio and rock & roll. A memoir in its truest sense, DOIN’ THE CRUISE also maps out Mitch’s life outside of radio. Mitch gets intimately honest about his family and marriages, the rise and fall of his outside business ventures, and the untimely passing of his son Spencer. DOIN’ THE CRUISE: Memories From A Lifetime in Radio and Rock & Roll is a complete look at the man behind the mic, what put him there, how he managed to stay there for nearly five decades and all the insanity in between.
(Photo L-R Ken Churilla, Mitch Michaels, Dave Stern, Rick Kaempfer. Photo taken by Barry Butler)
