Simple Plan: The Official Story

By Karen Bliss 12/7/12 | www.samaritanmag.com

Montreal pop-rock band Simple Plan is donating 10 percent of the proceeds from the sale of a new coffee-table book, Simple Plan: The Official Story to the Simple Plan Foundation. Published by La Presse, the 304-page tome is available in Chapters bookstores for $34.95 and also comes in a French-language version. It was written by Quebec journalist Kathleen Lavoie of the newspaper Le Soleil and is part biography, part photo album, part scrapbook. Through their Foundation, frontman Pierre Bouvier, drummer Chuck Comeau, guitarists Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre, and bassist David Desrosiers have donated more than $1 million to various organizations that help troubled youth.  Order the book here. — K.B.