The Happiness Playlist: The True Story Of Healing My Heart With Feel-Good Music

Minneapolis rock legend Mark Mallman woke at 3 a.m. with a crushing panic attack that wouldn’t end. He responded by pouring songs into a happiness playlist and leaning on the wisdom of friends. This is the true story of a man beset by grief, healed by music, and learning to laugh through it all.   Mark Mallman is a songwriter, composer, and performer from Minneapolis. He has recorded eight albums and his music has been enjoyed by audiences worldwide. His non-stop, non-sleep, “Marathon III” performance stretched 78 hours and included 576 pages of rhyming lyrics. Mallman’s album “The End is Not The End” is a deliberate meditation on overcoming the roots of despair. He was born in Milwaukee.   “Mark Mallman is legitimately original, exclusively motivated by a desire to conquer the strange obstructions he builds inside his mind."— Chuck Klosterman, author of Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota. “This brave and masterfully written book is a testament to the pow