Nothin' to Lose

Author: Ken Sharp
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062131745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 709

Book Description
Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975) chronicles, for the first time, the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS, culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite," a song that nearly four decades later remains one of rock's most enduring anthems. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, the book offers a captivating and intimate fly-on-the-wall account of their launch, charting the struggles and ultimate victories that led them to the threshold of superstardom. Constructed as an oral history, the book includes original interviews with Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss, as well as with producers; engineers; management; record company personnel; roadies; club owners; booking agents; concert promoters; costume, stage, and art designers; rock photographers; publicists; and key music journalists. Many of KISS's musical contemporaries from the time, most of whom shared concert bills with the band on their early tours, also lend their perspective via new interviews; these include Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, and Ted Nugent, as well as members of Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Rush, Slade, Blue Öyster Cult, Mott the Hoople, Journey, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Raspberries, The James Gang, The New York Dolls, Iggy & the Stooges, The Ramones, Suzi Quatro, Argent, and Uriah Heep, among others. The result is an indelible and irresistible portrait of a band on the rise and of the music scene they changed forever.

Nothing to Lose

Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0440337801
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “Explosive and nearly impossible to put down.”—People Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can’t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on. They’re picking on the wrong guy. Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide? With just one ally—a mysterious woman cop from Hope—and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge—a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?

Nothin' Left to Lose

Author: Carl T. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887714471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
John Ryan Stone, a country singer and songwriter, gets his big break in 1968, but quickly gets caught in a web of shady deals and underworld ties.

KISS

Author: David Leaf
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446553506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
After three decades of undying adoration, KISS fans will get their first fully authorized and total access look at the band who loves to "rock 'n' roll all nite and party every day!" Twenty years ago, KISS officially revealed the faces behind the stage makeup, and fans all over the world got their first look at the band. Now, in KISS: BEHIND THE MASK, the band's legion of fans and music enthusiasts alike will get to know the men behind the stage personas. After 30 years as a band, KISS are more than just a rock 'n' roll institution-they are legends. For decades, they have consistently remained among the most successful acts in the history of popular music. KISS' legendary stagemanship and extreme theatrics are well known by two generations of rock fans, and they are already pulling in the next one. Now, through their own words and exclusive material contributed by some of the biggest rock stars in the industry, KISS: BEHIND THE MASK will tell the band's full story.

Nothin' But a Good Time

Author: Justin Quirk
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651360
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture. Big hair, massive amplifiers, drugs, alcohol, piles of money and life-threatening pyrotechnics. This was the world stalked by Bon Jovi, Kiss, W.A.S.P., Skid Row, Dokken, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt and many more. Armed with hairspray, spandex and strangely shaped guitars, they marked the last great era of supersize bands. Where did Glam Metal come from? How did it spread? What killed it off? And why does nobody admit to having been a Glam Metaller anymore?

Nothing to Lose

Author: S. K. McClafferty
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821778456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366

Book Description
The acclaimed author of "Be Very Afraid" turns up the sensual heat in this suspenseful tale of an undercover cop obsessed with tracking a murderer and the beautiful journalist who is drawn to him by dangerous desire. Original.

Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain

Author: Ryan Blair
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591845998
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
Like many entrepreneurs, Ryan Blair had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset. His middle-class childhood ended abruptly when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family. Blair and his mother moved to a rough neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive. Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor's guidance, Blair started his first company, 24/7 Tech, at age twenty-one. He has since created and sold several companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. This is an inspirational guide full of powerful stories and lessons and a road map for entrepreneurial success.

Starting Over

Author: Ken Sharp
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Oral history of the making of Double Fantasy and account of Lennon's last days.

Nothin' Left to Lose

Author: Barbara Caplan-Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781588202017
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description

Nothing to Prove

Author: Jennie Allen
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 1601429614
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
"Allen understands the daily struggle so many of us face with the fear that we are not enough. And she invites us into a different experience, one in which our souls overflow with contentment and joy"--Amazon.com.