3 music sc/s mad bad and dangerous drummers tales blown away rolling stones casualties of rock all a good read
Description Never
have so many famous drummers been gathered together in one place!
Drummer and writer Spike Webb has spent more than three years meeting
fellow drummers in bars, clubs and cafes, shooting the breeze for a
couple of hours and extracting anecdote after anecdote for posterity.
This is truly a labour of love - and somebody had to do it. In this
book you'll meet drummers like Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Don Powell
(Slade), Adam Facek (Babyshambles), Steve White (Paul Weller), Topper
Headon (The Clash), Woody (Madness) and world-class session players like
Toto's drummer Simon Phillips. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant
but always entertaining, it's the ultimate insight into what it really
means to be a drummer and an explanation, at last, for what really makes
someone do a 20-minute solo. You'll be asking for an encore!
A revelation about the Rolling Stones and their times, based on archives
of material, originally amassed by Bill Wyman. Hotchner explores the
Stones' humble musical beginnings in London and traces their lives and
times to a horrific climax in 1969 - a year when Brian Jones was found
dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, when Charles Manson perpetrated
a series of gruesome murders, when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died
of overdoses and when the Hells Angels brutally murdered a man at
Altamount while the Stones played on. The author looks beyond to the
consolidation of their reputation as the definitive rock group of their
decade. The book also presents the real truth about their notorious sex
lives, exorbitant drug habits and explosive creativity. Finally,
Hotchner unravels the mystery of Brian Jones' death and exposes the
turmoil within the rock group that led to a blood struggle in the final
days of Jones' life. The author also wrote "Papa Hemingway", "Doris Day"
and "Sophia".
DescriptionFrom
ugly breakups to hysterical breakdowns, hard drugs to hard time, Elvis
to Tupac, this encyclopedic collection delivers the full story behind
all the calamitous events that have sent rock's royalty down in flames.
Plane crashes. Car wrecks. Overdoses. Murders. And of course, lip-synch
scandals. Name any kind of tragedy and someone in the rock can has lived
through it, or t. Get ready for the whole scoop on all the info behind
BEHIND THE MUSIC, VH-1's popular and addictive documentary series.
Chronicling the demise of legends including John Lenn, Kurt Cobain, Jimi
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Karen Carpenter, Marvin Gaye and Buddy Holly,
CASUALTIES OF ROCK also records more obscure catastrophes: the
disappearance of a member of the Manic Street Preachers; the bizarre
allergic reaction that afflicted Toto's Jeff Porcaro; and the total
identity makeovers of Prince and Cat Stevens. Investigating 'curses'
that plague the Beach Boys, the Grateful Dead, the Pretenders, Red Hot
Chili Peppers and even Spinal Tap, this smart and uniquely entertaining
book explores the impact of countless horrendous happenings on the
history of rock, and pay tribute to the stars who burned too brightly
for too short a time.