Book Description

Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars uncovers intimate details of the lives and backgrounds of all band members of Maroon 5. Also revealed is the story of their struggle to find early success in the music industry as Kara’s Flowers as well as exclusive interviews with school friends which provide the inside story on this troubled time in the ambitious foursome’s lives. The inside story on Kara’s Flowers reveals the woman who inspired the band’s name and exclusively reveals her relationship with singer Adam Levine. Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars includes details on Adam’s troubled relationship with Vogue editor-to-be, Jane Herman, and how their break-up influenced many tracks on the album Songs About Jane and his other high profile relationships with, amongst others, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Cameron Diaz, Jessica Simpson and the Russian Victoria’s Secret model Anne Vyalitsyna, with whom he posed naked on the cover of Vogue. Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars also features behind the scenes accounts of the group’s tours with artists including the Rolling Stones as well as the evolution of the band across their four albums, including the inside story behind collaborations with Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys and Kanye West. The book also touches on some of the more sensitive subjects around the band members, including the relentless bullying endured by the Levine family after Adam’s brother came out as gay, and Adam’s later campaigns to raise awareness of LGBT right. The lives and backgrounds of all band members will be revealed in depth in the incredibly compelling and revealing tell-all book.