Where Do I Begin?

Stories (I Sort of Remember) from a Life Lived Out Loud

Elvis Duran

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Print ISBN:
  9781982106348
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• eBook ISBN:
  9781982106355
• Index: Social Sciences

In this New York Times bestseller, host of one of the nation’s top morning shows Elvis Duran shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons with his trademark honesty and “bighearted, deliciously warm” (Barbara Corcoran, star of ABC’s Shark Tank) humor.

Elvis Duran’s nationally syndicated radio program, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, is America’s most-listened-to Top 40 morning show and one of the 10 most-listened-to programs in all of radio, heard live by nearly ten million people every morning.

But his success didn’t happen overnight. Elvis spent years navigating the wild world of radio as a DJ for hire, working (and partying) in markets around the country before taking over the morning shift at the legendary Z100 in 1996. Over the last twenty years, he has become one of New York City’s signature voices (Variety calls him “a permanent fixture of the area’s daily commutes”) thanks to his show’s exciting mix of music, new artist discovery, interviews, gossip, and live listener interaction.

Along the way, Elvis has become known not just for his incisive interviews (and occasional feuds) with pop music’s biggest stars, but for the show’s commitment to kindness and positivity and Elvis’s own candor and openness with his audience.

Bold, funny, and totally candid, Where Do I Begin? is sure to be loved by anyone who listens to Elvis live every morning—or anyone who wants to know what really goes on behind the scenes of the pop music machine from the “man who has been as big a part of the industry’s success as anyone” (Ryan Seacrest).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Prologue: This Is a Nightmare
• Chapter 1: Me and You and a Dog Named Boo
• Chapter 2: Putting the “’Mo” in “Alamo”
• Chapter 3: Houston, I Have a Problem
• Chapter 4: The Long Road to New York City
• Chapter 5: Elvis and Elliot
• Chapter 6: Democracy Doesn’t Work (On the Radio)
• Chapter 7: The Day When Everything Changed
• Chapter 8: The Elvis Duran Guide to (One Percent of) New York City
• Chapter 9: Bad Advice from an Accidental Media Mogul
• Chapter 10: How I Met Your Father (In Case We Ever Have Kids)
• Chapter 11: How We Do What We Do
• Chapter 12: An Old Dog Learns Some New Tricks
• Chapter 13: Backstage Sucks!
• Chapter 14: How to Be Famous
• Chapter 15: Dr. Oz Saves My Life
• Chapter 16: Unsafe Space
• Chapter 17: The Gift
• Chapter 18: A Letter to My Younger Self
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright