We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga » (Unabridged)

PAUL SHAFFER has been David Letterman's musical director for the past twenty-seven years. He also co-composed “It's Raining Men.”

DAVID RITZ has cowritten memoirs with, among others, Ray Charles and Don Rickles. He also co-wrote Sexual Healing.

From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.

How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and a gig leading the band on Letterman? This book is Paul Shaffer's answer to that question. From playing seedy strip joints in Toronto, to his first legitimate job out of college-which found him working with future stars (and friends) Gilda Radner, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy-to being first musical director of the nascent Saturday Night Live and helping to form the Blues Brothers, to being onstage every night with Dave and playing with the greatest musicians of our time, Shaffer has lived the ultimate showbiz life.

Now, in this hilarious, entertaining, and candid memoir-in which he dishes on everyone from John Belushi and Jerry Lewis to Mel...

The New York Times - Peter Keepnews

…tremendous fun…mostly We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives is about music. Shaffer's love of comedy and comedians shines through in his stories of friends like Martin Short…and of course Letterman, with whom he has worked since 1982…Diplomatic rather than dishy…We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives may disappoint readers looking for juicy celebrity gossip. But it will delight those looking for persuasive evidence that making music for a living is every bit as cool as it seems.