Everything about the Simple Plan book

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Simple Plan: The official story will be released on November 6 in French and on November 15 in English. The book is written by Simple Plan together with Kathleen Lavoie
Fred Jerome is the grafic designer and those who contribute with pictures are Patrick Langlois, Sim, Mark Staubarch och Chady Awad
 
This book was previously known as: photo book, picture book, coffee table book and the Simple Plan book.
 
Simple Plan started talking about this book already in 2005 when they had already released two albums, No pads, no helmets... just balls and Still not getting any... and Patrick had thousands of photos of them. He had collected these photos for this purpose, to have them for a photo book and document the band's carrier. But, years passed by and we still didn't hear anything about the book. Fans kept asking every now and then what had happened with this promised photo book. The question was brought up again in 2007 when Amanda (who ran the biggest fansite of the time, Simple Plan Online, and now writes on simpleplan.com) asked about this book. Chuck said that the book was almost finished and that it would be released in 2008 together with the third album, Simple Plan. David got the same question in December 2007 from a British music site where he said: we've been working on this for a really long time and although Patrick has changed his carrieer, he will help us with this. Maybe when the next album comes out you'll be able to buy a special edition together with this book.
 
But 2011 came, Get your heart on! was released and a special edition together with this book was nowhere to be found. Dominika, who runs the biggest fansite today had an interview with the guys in September 2011 and of course, she asked about this book. Chuck said it was taking a little longer than they expected but this was something he really wanted to do. Unfortunatly, we didn't hear anything else about this book until March 2012 where the guys did an interview to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their first record. It was said that this anniversary would be celebrated in different ways, one was a photo book. Chuck said in the interview with Alter the Press that they had been working on a photo book that contained over 250 pages of pictures and that they had been taking pictures ever since Simple Plan started and they now had over 30,000 pictures. This is my project, which I've been working very hard on and now it's finally reality. 
 
Everything really took off in 2012 and we only had to wait until May before we started hearing more. The project was not only reffered to as a photo book, it was confirmed that this would become an actual book and it would be written in both English and French. It was also confirmed that the book would be over 300 pages long, contain hundres of photos from 1999-today and would for sure be out in November 2012. The book would not only contain the story of Simple Plan and photos of them, but also ALL their backstage passes, handwritten letters, other letters from fans and lots more that had been collected since 10 years back.
 
Chuck has been working day and night on this project together with Fred, including their days off on their tour in South America and he posted on Twitter that I'm still working really hard and over-time on the SP book! This is the biggest, ambitious and hardest project I've ever been involved in. I believe you fans are gonna love it! We've put our heart and soul in this project! This is for sure something I'll show my kids some day!
 
In October 2012, Pierre told us in an interview in Brazil that the book would be named Simple Plan: The official Story and short after that, two release dates were confirmed. November 6 for the French version and November 15 for the English. 
 
    


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