Getcha Rocks Off

Author: Mick Wall
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 1409141071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
'Packed with war stories from a golden age of rock, and insights into the stars that made that music' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE 'On reading Getcha Rocks Off you realise just how drastically things have changed in the rock industry but books like this perfectly evoke what they were like. Good times...' RECORD COLLECTOR Hanging out with rock stars, trying to steal their chicks, or throwing up over their guitars after launching into the hospitality a little too enthusiastically, Mick Wall spent much of the 1980s sprawled in limos and five-star hotels with the biggest rock bands in the world, including Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Mötley Crüe, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, Motörhead and more. He was Kerrang! magazine's star writer and the presenter of Monsters of Rock, his own weekly show on Sky TV, and the decade passed in a blur of hard drugs, hot women, and some of the heaviest people your mother definitely would not like. Depicting a world where vague concepts like 'the future' are disdained in favour of nights that last a week and weeks that last forever, Getcha Rocks Off is a rock apocalypse Cider With Roadies, and a more frank and disturbing Apathy for the Devil. It is the kind of book you need to put on your leather jacket to read, open that bottle of Jack and reach for the Charlie. And let the good times roll...

The Rough Guide to Rock

Author: Peter Buckley
Publisher: Rough Guides
ISBN: 1858284570
Category : Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234

Book Description
Compiles career biographies of over 1,200 artists and rock music reviews written by fans covering every phase of rock from R & B through punk and rap.

The Wee Rock Discography

Author: Martin Strong
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9780862416218
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 572

Book Description
Based on Martin Strong's The Great Rock Discography, this is a compact version featuring 500 of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. It expands on the format of the previous title, in which full track listings for all albums, b-sides for all singles, labels, UK and US chart positions, band members, recommended listening, style analysis, band histories - from original line-ups to dissolution, solo projects, potted biographies, a pricing guide for rare albums and release dates are given.

The Essential Rock Discography

Author: Martin Charles Strong
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1272

Book Description
Covers British and American artists and groups, including a biography or history and chronological discographical listings in each entry.

Who's who in Rock & Roll

Author: John Tobler
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517056875
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
A guide to 500 influential artists and bands in popular music from the mid-1950s to the present day. Covers rock, pop, soul, disco, heavy metal, and some country and reggae.

Rock

Author: Rough Guides (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 1016

Book Description
A ROUGH GUIDE to rock music which spans the past forty years. Entries on more than 1,000 bands have been written by 120 fans rather than music journalists, providing fresh angles on the music. Essential biographical details are given, as are recommendations for the best recordings available.

Annual Obituary, 1991

Author: Deborah Andrews
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 9781558621756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 880

Book Description
Annual Obituary documents the passing of men and women of achievement from all walks of life. By providing current, in-depth biographies of notable international individuals, Annual Obituary offers researchers, biographers, journalists and librarians complete biographical essays often within months of a person's death. Each successive volume builds on this unique permanent biographical collection.

The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries

Author: Nick Talevski
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
This is the definitive book of rock 'n' roll, pop, R&B and blues deaths. From Johnny Ace to Frank Zappa, every famous name is included, along with dates, details and the drama. But this major work of research is not just about the rock legends who lived hard and died young, it also includes obituaries of numerous music industry personalities from the mid-fifties to present day.

The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll

Author: Patricia Romanowski Bashe
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1152

Book Description
Selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as its official source of information, this authoritative volume, first published in 1983, once again tops the charts with its full coverage of every aspect of the rock scene. Accompanying the more than 2,200 performer profiles are essays that reveal the artists' musical influences, first breaks, hits and misses, and more.

When Giants Walked the Earth

Author: Mick Wall
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429985615
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549

Book Description
The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a never-before-seen side of the genius and debauchery that defined their heyday. Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock ‘n' roll standards. Led Zeppelin was the last great band of the 1960s and the first great band of the 1970s—and When Giants Walked the Earth is the full, enthralling story of Zep from the inside, written by a former confidante of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Rich and revealing, it bores into not only the disaster, addiction and death that haunted the band but also into the real relationship between Page and Plant, including how it was influenced by Page's interest in the occult. Comprehensive and yet intimately detailed, When Giants Walked the Earth literally gets into the principals' heads to bring to life both an unforgettable band and an unrepeatable slice of rock history.