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OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF PETER MORTON COAN
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Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story
By Peter Morton Coan
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"It took me seven years to research and write this book and another nine years of torturous legal infighting to bring it to fruition. Harry Chapin would be proud, because this book is for him. And it is to him I give my deepest and most heartfelt thanks--for all his help, all his support, all the years of working together. Most of all I thank him for his friendship, the sheer inspiration that allowed me to push on when I could go no further and enabled me to write the portrait of a most complex man.
He was, and forever will be, my greatest inspiration.
My biggest consolation is that Chapin read 95 percent of my book before he died and felt I had fulfilled his one and only request--that the book be a serious, well-balanced portrait, not a puff piece. My second consolation is that Chapin liked the book. 'I always knew you had the heart,' he once told me, 'But I never knew you had the ability.'"
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The ORIGINAL notebook lyrics to the story song classic TAXI, Harry's springboard to music stardom in 1972 and the anthem among his fans.
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The ORIGINAL notebook lyrics to the story song 30,000 POUNDS OF BANANAS, the audience participation show-stopper Harry ended the first half of each concert with before intermission.
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To order a signed copy of the book go to: Coan Books To write to the author go to: peter@petermortoncoan.com
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