"The Fire Within" chronicles the life and times of ten British Rock 'n Roll personalities. The book will take the reader on a virtual tour of life behind the closed doors of the little-known world of the music-making machine. Shocking in its stark portrayal of life, just out of the peripheral vision of the music press and the mis informed tabloid magazines, Jon Washington provides insights that only an inner circle observer would be privy too. Not only does "The Fire Within" paint a vivid picture of the driven and tenacious qualities that make up the rock-star persona, it also provides a textbook overview of how to avoid the many snares and pit falls that await the aspiring new arrivals onthe highly-competitive music scene. The encapsulated life stories contained within the pages of "The Fire Within" are all true; the personal and business tragedies that befell the people in the bookare well documented in the annuls of rock 'n roll history. Washington brings to the reader a hit her to undocumented personal account of what really happens to people driven by blind ambition and gives credence to the time worn phrase, "how great the cost".