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A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Genuinely eye-popping.' Guardian 'Electrifying.' Kerrang
'Essential.' Classic Rock 'Required reading.' Irish Times The
must-read music book of the year, now with a brand new chapter
covering the death of Taylor Hawkins and his massive Wembley
memorial concert. In Bodies, author Ian Winwood explores the music
industry's many failures, from addiction and mental health issues
to its ongoing exploitation of artists. Much more than a touchline
reporter, Winwood also tells the story of his own mental health
collapse, following the shocking death of his father, in which
extinction-level behaviour was given perfect cover by a reckless
industry. 'This is such a shrewd, funny, psychologically
perceptive, frank, well-written, jawdropping book . Absolutely buy
and read the hell out of this.' DAVID STUBBS 'Winwood makes a
compelling argument and overturns some long-held notions about
"rock and roll excess" by deftly tying together a vast amount of
information . . . and liberally lacing it with dark,
self-deprecating humour.' ALEXIS PETRIDIS
From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the
band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from bassist Jason
Newsted's shock departure to the group's subsequent meltdown as
laid bare in the documentary Some Kind of Monster; from the Lulu
album with Lou Reed to their hugely expensive feature film Through
the Never, the second half of the Metallica story has been as
eventful and controversial as it has triumphant.
Birth School Metallica Death is the definitive story of the most
significant rock band since Led Zeppelin, covering the band's
formation up to their breakthrough eponymous fifth album, aka The
Black Album. The intense and sometimes fraught relationship between
aloof-yet-simmering singer, chief lyricist, and rhythm guitarist
James Hetfield and the outspoken and ambitious drummer Lars Ulrich
is the saga's emotional core. Their earliest years saw the release
of three unimpeachable classics (Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning,
and Master of Puppets), but it was the breakthrough of ...And
Justice for All that rent the fabric of the mainstream, hitting the
top of the charts without benefit of radio airplay or the
then-crucial presence on MTV. And in 1991, with the release of The
Black Album, Metallica finally hit the next level with five hit
singles and their first album atop the Billboard charts. Veteran
music journalists and Metallica confidants Paul Brannigan and Ian
Winwood detail this meteoric rise to international fame in an epic
saga of family, community, self-belief, the pursuit of dreams, and
music that rocks. Told through first-hand interviews with the band
and those closest to them, the story of Metallica's rise to the
mainstream has never been so vividly documented.
Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven
Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the
stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often
traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll sagas.
No music writers have been afforded greater access to Metallica
over the years than Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former
editors of Kerrang. Having conducted hundreds of hours of
interviews with the band, they have between them gained an
unparalleled knowledge of the group's history and an insiders' view
of how their story has developed: they have ridden in the band's
limos, flown on their private jet, joined them in the studio, been
invited to the quartet's 'HQ' outside San Francisco and shared
beers and stories with them in venues across the globe. There are
countless memorable stories about the band never before seen in
print, tales of bed-hopping and drug-taking and car-crashes and
fist-fights and back-stabbing that occur when you mix testosterone
and adrenaline, alcohol and egomania, talent and raw ambition.
Perceptive, emotionally attached, and intellectually rigorous,
Birth, School, Metallica, Death will be the essential and
definitive story of this extraordinary band. Volume I takes us from
the band's inception through to the recording and eve of release of
their seminal, self-titled, 1991 album.
Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk
music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and
changed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained
underground favorites and were slow burns commercially, their heirs
shattered commercial expectations for the genre. In 1994, Green Day
and The Offspring each released their third albums, and the results
were astounding. Green Day's Dookie went on to sell more than 15
million copies and The Offspring's Smash remains the all-time
bestselling album released on an independent label. The times had
changed, and so had the music.While many books, articles, and
documentaries focus on the rise of punk in the '70s, few spend any
substantial time on its resurgence in the '90s. Smash! will be the
first to do so, detailing the circumstances surrounding the shift
in '90s music culture away from grunge and legitimizing what many
first-generation punks regard as post-punk, new wave, and generally
anything but true punk music. With astounding access to all the key
players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring,
NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others,
renowned music writer Ian Winwood will at last give this
significant, substantive, and compelling story its due. Punk rock
bands were never truly successful or indeed truly famous, and that
was that--until it wasn't. Smash! is the story of how the underdogs
finally won and forever altered the landscape of mainstream music.
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