Michael McDonald has a new honor to add to his resume -- New York Times best-selling author.
His memoir, What a Fool Believes, which he wrote with actor Paul Reiser, is number-seven on the Hardcover Nonfiction list.
While the title of the book is taken from the song he wrote while in The Doobie Brothers, it's quite apt for one of the stories he tells, that of wanting to deal drugs with Steely Dan's Walter Becker, when McDonald was in that band.
He writes that they decided to “buy about a half ounce of some of that exceptionally pure cocaine” to "make some easy money (selling only to our friends, completely under the radar) but end up with a fair portion of blow for our own recreational consumption, free of charge… What could possibly go wrong?"
What went wrong was that he and Becker “snorted most of it before even getting around to cutting it, let alone selling anything.”
McDonald is in England, where he and The Doobie Brothers will open seven shows for the Eagles starting today in Manchester for the first of five nights, followed by two in The Netherlands.
The full story can be seen here courtesy of Ultimate Classic Rock.