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"Motörhead, remember me now, Motörhead, alright!" Lemmy, Phil, Fast Eddie and the Rise of Motörhead is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor. Through interviews with all of the principal troublemakers, Martin Popoff celebrates the formation of the band and the records that made them legends: Motörhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, No Sleep 'til...
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"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--
Anders Thorson's band, Last Things, is legendary in their northern Minnesota hometown. With guitar skills that would amaze even if he weren't only eighteen, Anders is the focus of head-turning...
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La historia del grupo que creó el heavy metal y se convirtió en una de las bandas más influyentes e icónicas de todos los tiempos.
Black Sabbath cambió la historia de la música. Con 19 discos de estudio y más de setenta millones de discos vendidos, este grupo nacido en Birmingham revolucionó el panorama musical con la oscuridad de las letras de sus canciones, unos poderosos riffs de guitarra y un sonido contundente, denso y distorsionado....
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Collected here for the first time are sixteen interviews and articles with and about the hottest band in the world: KISS. Warren Lapine is an experienced interviewer and a long time KISS fan. This book is just what the doctor ordered for the hard core KISS fan. These interviews are insightful and intelligent, Lapine asks Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons the questions that KISS fans want to have answered.
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Get the Summary of Tom Beaujour's Nothin but a Good Time in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Nothin' but a Good Time" chronicles the rise, fall, and resurgence of the '80s hard rock and glam metal scene, primarily centered around the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It details the journey of bands like Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Poison, Cinderella, and Guns N' Roses, who, despite initial industry skepticism, self-produced...
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Get the Summary of Brian Johnson 's The Lives of Brian in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Lives of Brian" by Brian Johnson chronicles his remarkable journey from a working-class upbringing in Newcastle to becoming the lead singer of the iconic rock band AC/DC. Johnson's mother, Esther, an Italian immigrant, and his father, Alan, a World War II veteran, faced post-war hardships in England, which shaped Johnson's...
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Get the Summary of Geezer Butler's Into the Void in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book."Into the Void" chronicles the life of Geezer Butler, from his humble beginnings in postwar Britain to his rise as a rock icon with Black Sabbath. Born in a working-class district of Birmingham, Butler's early life was filled with financial struggles, a tight-knit community, and a passion for Aston Villa Football Club. Despite facing...
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Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world's biggest stages. His long-awaited memoir would be a gripping read even if its pages only contained stories about his life as a recording and touring musician. While those stories are indeed included—and will blow your
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Formed in Los Angeles in 1981, Metallica has become the single bestselling heavy metal act in music history, with more than 100 million album sales to its credit. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the band remains hugely popular worldwide: in 2009, Metallica's 1991 self-titled LP became the bestselling album of the SoundScan era. In this book, the first complete illustrated treatment of the band, acclaimed heavy metal journalist Martin Popoff...
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The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more.
More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and...
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Ever wondered what drop C (also known as dropped C) tuning for your guitar is all about? Wouldn't it be great if it could be your go-to tuning of choice without having to have multiple guitars for different songs you or your band play? This fourth book in the Frustrated Guitarist series of instructional manuals expands on the indispensable chord lessons learned in "The Frustrated Guitarist's LAST Chord Book" to dive into the world of down tuned guitar,...
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Black Sabbath has often been credited with inventing heavy metal with their first album released in 1970. Their new style of music was loud, brutal, scary, innovative, and it has greatly influenced heavy metal bands since then. Their five decades of music cross generations of fans, and they remain relevant to this day, with their 2013 album charting #1 in the United States and at least five other countries.
In Experiencing Black Sabbath: A Listener's...
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A collection of autobiographical, fantastical and odd essays, short stories and columns, it's rites of passage narrative is unsettling, upsetting, darkly humorous and oddly uplifting, and charts a deeply personal course that, at times, it's audience will be intimately familiar with and instantly able to relate to.
The central strand running through a lot of the book is punk, with the odd foray into science fiction.
The second book from the fevered...
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Just in time for their 50th anniversary, Led Zeppelin breaks down one of the world's most prolific bands-track by track, album by album-in this expanded edition, revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog†‹. Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins from the north, Led Zeppelin went on to create the template for the modern marauding rock 'n' roll band. Though...
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From the author of the celebrated classic Louder Than Hell comes an oral history of the badass Heavy Metal lifestyle-the debauchery, demolition, and headbanging dedication-featuring metalhead musicians from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot to Disturbed, Megadeth, Throwdown and more.
In his song "You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" Ozzy Osbourne sings, "Rock and roll is my religion and my law." This is the mantra of the metal...
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The Merciless Book of Metal Lists is an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about Heavy Metal from the last 40 years. You want to know which Metal albums "jumped the shark"? Curious to know what non-Metal bands Metalheads love, which album covers feature goats, embarrassing Metal fashion faux pas, and the unfortunate original names Metal bands started with? This is the book. In addition to some...
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The complete story of the band that many consider the inventors of "grunge," produced with their full cooperation. Before everybody loved their town, Mudhoney was just an unlikely quartet of Seattle-music-scene knockabouts-two college dropouts, a carpenter, and the best drummer in town. But in 1988, the band's debut single, "Touch Me I'm Sick," and subsequent EP, Superfuzz Bigmuff, turned the indie-rock world on its ear and lit the way for the grunge...
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In the 1980's, heavy metal went mainstream. The dark themes and brain-busting riffage of bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple suddenly fell out of favor-replaced by a new legion of metalheads whose themes of girls, partying, girls, drugs, and girls were presented amid shredding solos and power ballads and who were somehow more acceptable to the masses. In this ultimate guide to the subgenre, acclaimed heavy-metal journalist Martin Popoff examines...
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Brian Wheat is far from your typical rock star. As bassist for the multi-platinum band, Tesla, he's enjoyed the spoils of success and lived the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll lifestyle to the hilt. But it came at a cost, one that took years to repair. In this deeply honest and utterly revealing memoir, Wheat sheds light on the many challenges he faces, including bulimia, weight issues, and the crippling anxiety and depression caused by his conditions....
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"Illuminating and very entertaining…a compelling read about someone who is much more than just the guy who sings for Iron Maiden." -Loudwire
A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalist of Iron Maiden, one of the most successful, influential and enduring rock bands ever.
Pioneers of Britain's nascent Rock & Metal scene back in the late 1970s, Iron Maiden smashed its way to the top,...
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