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"Salah Bachir is the biggest hearted philanthropist with the rock star life.”

Elton John and David Furnish

“Sweetly and directly, Salah recounts his amazing life, entwined with so many amazing lives. I’m honoured to be included! (And happy that #marlonbrando comes out of it well!)”

Margaret Atwood

“The glamorous Salah Bachir has led an extraordinary life, as evidenced by his memoir—always championing important causes for countless individuals and charities close to his heart. His drive and actions have made the world a better place.”

Kim Cattrall

“Salah Bachir’s encounters with stars over the years opens on a backyard garden barbecue with Marlon Brando, and bread continues to be broken with icons as fascinating and seemingly disparate as Muhammad Ali and Liberace, Margaret Atwood and Cesar Chavez, Andy Warhol and Princess Margaret, to name just a few. But the true literary coup is that the biggest, brightest star we encounter is the author himself.”

Alan Cumming

“Salah is the patron saint for all of us who are full of curiosity, hungry for celebration, horny for fun, and who won’t stop until every need is fulfilled. His appetite and passion for life is voracious. His ability to transform those passions into making life better for others is even more impressive.”

Atom Egoyan

"Why would so many great and powerful people warm up to Salah Bachir? Clearly, for comfort in the personal warmth that permeates this lovely memoir of his life among the famous, as well as the sensitivity and intelligence that make this something extraordinary: a celebrity book without fawning or hype."

David Hajdu 

David Hajdu is the music editor for The Nation and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His book Lush Life was ranked by The New York Times as one of the Hundred Best Nonfiction Books of All Time.

“Salah Bachir has the biggest Lebanese heart of anyone I know.”

Norman Jewison

"I don't think I can gild the lily further or embellish the sense of affection and admiration showered legitimately by so many of Salah’s friends for his extraordinary generosity and enthusiasm for life, his devotion to arts and culture, his courage in the face of medical adversity and his love of the olive groves of Lebanon.  It's entirely understandable that people should love him so dearly. Salah you are a hero."

Stephen Lewis

Co-founder of AIDS-Free World and UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa 2001- 2007

“As his book promises, Salah Bachir is First to Leave the Party, and also always first to step up to the plate—so much so that he is magnet to famous people everywhere who all seek his company. A great book by a great man, who also happens to be a great friend.”

Ben Vereen