This is a book for anyone interested in rock music. It gives a good insight into what happens when talented, young, disturbed people rise to fame quickly and don't know what to do with it.Having read Stephen Davis' book about Led Zeppelin, Hammer of The Gods, I was interested to see his take on t...
I found this book at salvation army, I found the cover and photos to be beautiful!I quickly realized it was not Carly writing ,it was some guy,and how can he get away with this kind of book? Yes there was a lot of information about the albums and the songs and a lot to much imformation about stuf...
The book was quite detailed up until the late 70's. Though, one of my pet peeves was the author's insistence (in the early portion of the book) of using lyrics to pepper some of the stories, e.g.: 'Marianne Faithful turned to Mick and smiled sweetly and said, 'don't worry.'' (Lyrics from 'She Smi...
Brian Jones Knee-to-Knee Year zero for rock music was 1965, the pivot of the decade, when postwar baby boom culture took over the Western romantic tradition and turned the volume way up. In England, the Beatles and Stones tuned pop music into the new drug culture. In America, Bob Dylan invented r...