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An updated version of Loud 'n' Proud: Fifty Years of Nazareth,
drawing on copious images and items of memorabilia, this large
format 240-page book is a treasure trove for Nazareth devotees —
crammed full of live and off stage shots that portray the band’s
journey through the decades. It also includes loads of super cool
memorabilia including backstage passes, gig posters, media adverts
and much more, all reproduced on high quality art paper. From the
early days of the seventies through to the current day, nestling
alongside the wonderful imagery, the band’s whole career is
documented by esteemed rock writer Martin Popoff who was assisted
through the whole narrative by Nazareth’s founder and only
remaining original member Pete Agnew. Popoff also interviewed Agnew
for the book in addition to previous interviews the author has
conducted, not only with the bass player extraordinaire but with
many other band members past and present, all neatly laid out in a
timeline, making this the essential go to Nazareth book.
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The Who & Quadrophenia
Martin Popoff
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Through a confluence of grinding hard rock grooves, pioneering
electronics and liquid lighting, Dave Brock and his assembled
astronauts of mind and space have been defining for more than fifty
years now what it means to be the ultimate cult band. Ripping into
the public consciousness with the Space Ritual live album of 1973,
Hawkwind have never looked back, discovering new ways to equate the
subatomic with the infinite, the endless void of space with
totality, using the exotic language of their ever-evolving yet
complex musical language, one that defies genre classification, but
perhaps creates a genre all its own, namely space rock.
Accompanying their more than thirty studio albums and myriad
companion pieces along the way are the graphics thereof, visuals
that further attempt to explain themes that are hard to articulate.
Hawkwind: A Visual Biography concentrates the third eye on this
part of the package, presenting pretty pictures of record covers,
promo items, advertisements, ticket stubs, paper goods pertaining
to side-projects and numerous photos, most previously unpublished,
of Brock and crew resplendent in their live space, in hopes that
the Hawk manifesto just might become a little more knowable. Aiding
in that cause, Martin Popoff has provided a detailed timeline of
the band’s complicated and dramatic career goings-on, helping to
guide one’s way through each year and era, each hiring and firing
and misfiring, each cluster of notions, audio magic potions, each
sailing upon inter-stellar topographic oceans. The ultimate aim is
to send older fans as well as the next generation of blaster-offer
back to the original scriptures, the studio albums serving as
space-flung signposts, in search of the charming and astounding
sounds that gave rise to Hawkwind: A Visual Biography.
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Kiss at 50
Martin Popoff
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Wild Mood Swings: Disintegrating The Cure Album by Album, Martin
Popoff's innovative new project on iconic post-punk pioneers The
Cure, celebrates 50 years now since key actor of the band Robert
Smith got hold of his first guitar. And the form this celebration
takes is a critical analysis of the band's 13 studio albums,
utilising a panel of thoughtful and engaging music critics culled
from the author's and Marco D'Auria's video channel, The
Contrarians. Presented in easy-to-read Q&A format, Martin
gathers these wise music swamis into small teams with an aim toward
deconstructing and reassembling each album, hopefully generating
myriad new ways for the reader and Cure fan to appreciate the
band's seminal records, beginning with Three Imaginary Boys in 1979
and ending with 4:13 Dream in 2008. As bonus to the discussion,
Popoff has created a detailed timeline linked to each album,
echoing the format used for his many celebrated visual biographies
issued through Wymer Publishing in recent years. The end result
presents a fresh methodology with which to consider a band's
catalogue, with the hope being that the mix of hard chronological
reference material and freewheeling opinion, review and analysis
makes for a lively celebration of-and subsequent richer
appreciation for-everything Robert Smith has done for millions of
Cure fans around the world, much of it therapeutic, redemptive and
in so many inspiring instances, urgently life-saving.
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AC/DC at 50 (Hardcover)
Martin Popoff
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Yes: A Visual Biography I: 1968 - 1981 documents the progressive
rock pioneer's first twelve years from the release of their
eponymous debut album through to 1980's Drama: A suitable name for
a band whose career has been full of drama as documented in
Popoff's narrative that charts Yes's ups and downs as the band
glided out of the sixties with a full-on assault on the seventies
music scene that saw them become one of the biggest global
acts-selling out venues around the world from New York's Madison
Square Garden to London's Wembley Arena. Popoff takes you on a
journey from the early days of the band with original members Chris
Squire, Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Peter Banks and Tony Kaye; to
the hugely successful seventies when the likes of Steve Howe,
Patrick Moraz, Rick Wakeman and Alan White all added their
individual stamps on the band's identity. Then the surprise union
with The Buggles that saw Yes enter the eighties a world apart from
the way they had entered the seventies but continuing to delight
their legion of fans.
In Dominance and Submission: The Blue Oyster Cult Canon, three-time
BOC book author Martin Popoff turns the microphone away from
himself to moderate a gathered and esteemed panel of Cult experts
for deep-dive discussions on every Blue Oyster Cult studio album.
No stone is left unturned, as we look at the personalities in the
band, every song, every album cover, the band’s highly regarded
lyrics as poetry, their music as ground-breaking and genre-defying.
Dominance and Submission is set-up in Q&A format, allowing for
pure and piercing prose that is also conversational and
easy-access. In the end, the author is confident that the wise
words from this cabal of music authorities—with Popoff not
pulling any punches either, joining in the fun when the door is
opened—will have you playing the band’s “canon” with a
renewed appreciation as to the complexity laced throughout such
albums as Tyranny and Mutation, Agents of Fortune—with its career
defining hit “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”—Spectres, Fire of
Unknown Origin and the daunting Imaginos. But have no fear, Martin
and his team have taken us right up to the band’s effusively
received comeback album, The Symbol Remains, bringing band and fan
full circle—umlauts included, of course. Finally, augmenting the
learning (and listening) experience, Dominance and Submission
provides a plethora of images that make these essays on the
band’s fifteen albums that much more visceral. Bottom line: if
you thought Martin had covered everything you need to know in his
definitive Agents of Fortune: The Blue Oyster Cult Story, think
again—the analysis proffered by his panel even sent Popoff back
to the sacred texts for a rock ‘n’ roll re-imagining. If he’s
been made smarter by what these guys have to say, you will be too.
If any band deserves to have homage paid to them with a lavish,
limited edition photographic book, look no further than Thin Lizzy.
With their origins going back to the late sixties, by 1971 with the
first album release, Lizzy's journey really began. Incredibly no
one has published a visual biography before, but now that has been
rectified. Drawing on several thousand images and items of
memorabilia this large format 240-page book is a treasure trove for
Thin Lizzy devotees - crammed full of live and off-stage shots that
portray the band's journey through the decades. It also includes
loads of super cool memorabilia including backstage passes, gig
posters, media adverts and much more, all reproduced on high
quality art paper. This is one future collector's item that every
self-respecting Lizzy fan will want to own. Rounding it off, Thin
Lizzy: A Visual Biography is topped and tailed with 20,000 words by
Lizzy biographer and world-renowned rock author Martin Popoff. This
lavish book will prove to be a valuable addition to any fan's
collection.
The first book ever on the classic British rock band UFO. Based
around the author's many interviews with all the key players such
as Phil Mogg, Pete Way & Michael Schenker. Noted author Martin
Popoff takes you through the Schenker era in great detail;
album-by-album, song by song along with touring anecdotes and of
course, tales revolving around the wild and excessive behaviour
that was very much a part of the band. Rounding if off is a full
discography.
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Bowie at 75 (Hardcover)
Martin Popoff
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Dublin's Thin Lizzy have become one of the most revered cult acts
of all time, studious and discerning fans of hard rock the world
over revelling in the storytelling acumen of the legendary Phil
Lynott and the craft and class of his band. Through numerous
interviews with most of the principals involved and a mountain of
painstaking research Emerald; Thin Lizzy's Golden Era examines the
band's career up to 1976 culminating in the superlative and
sparkling Jailbreak, home of such hits as 'Cowboy Song', 'Emerald',
'Jailbreak' and 'The Boys Are Back In Town' and followed by Johnny
The Fox that included the hit single 'Don't Believe A Word'. Along
the way, alcohol and drugs wreaked havoc between band members,
producers and managers, but despite line-up changes and a mostly
grinding, rock scrabble existence, Ireland's favourite sons
persevered, finally achieving the smash hit record they'd deserved
for so long. Immerse yourself in Popoff's celebrated
record-by-record methodology and emerge a rejuvenated Lizzy fan,
newly appreciative of the deep album tracks hiding within this
singular band's often forgotten early years. A revised and expanded
version of Popoff's previous Dublin To Jailbreak Emerald; Thin
Lizzy's Golden Era is based on interviews the author conducted
specifically for the book with band members Eric Bell, Scott
Gorham, Brian Downey, Gary Moore and Brian Robertson; managers
Terry O'Neill and Ted Carroll; producers Nick Tauber and Ron
Nevison; Nigel Grange from Vertigo; road manager Frank Murray and
cover artist Jim Fitzpatrick. Revealing Phil Lynott in all his
dastardly guises Emerald; Thin Lizzy's Golden Era, is an essential
read for the devoted Lizzy fans.
The astonishing run of albums unleashed upon an unsuspecting public
within the span of five years created the legend of Alice Cooper
that lives on to this day. But we're talking about the original
Alice Cooper group here, a band called that with a lead singer also
going by that name. In other words, the legend was built by Vincent
"Alice Cooper" Furnier, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway
and "platinum god" Neal Smith. It is all of them working together -
along with producer Bob Ezrin - that created the mystique of songs
like "I'm Eighteen," "Is It My Body," "Desperado," "Under My
Wheels," "Be My Lover," "Elected" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy." And
it is all of them working together - along with crack management in
Shep Gordon and Joe Greenberg-that created the shock rock buzz that
kept the newspapers full of indignation about this band set out to
destroy human civilization. Easy Action: The Original Alice Cooper
Group tells the story in meticulous chronological detail, from the
band's early days in Phoenix as The Spiders, through being broke on
the Sunset Strip, followed by a career-reviving relocation to a
notorious party house on the outskirts of Pontiac, Michigan.
Corroborating the improbable sequence of events is a plethora of
stories from the band themselves, who explain how the original
Alice Cooper group went from politely ignored pariahs in Los
Angeles to international Public Enemies No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Listen to the guys and their good-natured explanations behind the
mayhem, and it soon becomes apparent that the ghoulish makeup
around the singer's eyes and the boa constrictor around his neck -
not to mention the head-choppings, the hangings and the hard rock -
were all served up in good fun. Now it's time for you, dear reader,
to join in the fun and see why Alice Cooper was, for a golden
moment in time fully 50 years ago now, the most feared and revered
act in all of rock 'n' roll.
This new tome by the hugely prolific Canadian author Martin Popoff
is a detailed re-write and expanded edition of his 2005 publication
English Castle Magic. In fact the book is 50% bigger, a whopping
120,000 words and 318 pages including two swell colour photo
sections. Sensitive To Light is without doubt the most
comprehensive Rainbow biography to date and is based around
multiple interviews the author has conducted with most of the key
band members over many years including Ritchie Blackmore, as well
as Roger Glover, Tony Carey, Graham Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner,
along with those who are sadly no longer with us, namely Cozy
Powell Ronnie James Dio, Jimmy Bain and Craig Gruber. Loads more
research has also gone into this new publication which is brought
bang up to date with the Ronnie Romero era live shows and new
songs, following Blackmore’s decision to rejuvenate Rainbow in
2016, almost twenty years on from the last incarnation that had
concluded in 1997. From the raw and fiery Dio years, through the
criminally under-rated Down to Earth album, the smooth crooning Joe
Lynn Turner era and into one final somewhat forgotten record
fronted by Doogie White, it’s all examined here, track by track,
fascinating tale by trick. Ritchie Blackmore and his reputation is
legion. But is it warranted? This is the book you should read to
find out why as we look at the man’s career as reigning lord over
the constantly evolving consortium of monster talents known as
Rainbow.
For the first time ever, Nazareth's whole career is documented by
esteemed rock writer Martin Popoff in this large format hardback
publication. Popoff was assisted through the narrative by the
previous interviews the author has conducted, not only with the
only remaining original member Pete Agnew, but with many other band
members past and present, all neatly woven into a timeline, making
this the essential go to Nazareth book. From the early days of the
seventies through to the current day, nestling alongside Popoff's
words is the wonderful imagery that accompanies it. Drawing on
copious photos and items of memorabilia this large format 240-page
book is a treasure trove for Nazareth devotees - crammed full of
live and off-stage shots that portray the band's journey through
the decades. It also includes loads of super cool memorabilia
including backstage passes, gig posters, media adverts and much
more, all reproduced on high quality art paper. This is one future
collector's item that every self-respecting Nazareth fan will want
to own.
In 1974, Alice Cooper shocked the rock world, scooped up his makeup
kit and went solo. Consummated by a legal name change from Vincent
Furnier to Alice Cooper, "the man behind the mask" never looked
back, writing and recording fully 21 studio albums across a
roller-coaster career that is now nearly 60 years on in the
business, with almost 50 of that on his own, calling the shots as a
man and brand with a plan, often guided by manager Shep Gordon, one
of the best in the biz. Feed My Frankenstein: Alice Cooper, the
Solo Years charts this action-packed era for Alice, beginning with
the smash success of the Welcome to My Nightmare album and tour and
hitting a nadir with the blackout years of the early '80s, where
Alice nearly died from booze and hard drugs before being brought
back by his faith in God and by the good graces of his wife Sheryl.
Next came Alice's third wave of major success with Trash and Hey
Stoopid, followed by a settling into regular record-making and
touring duties, culminating in some of his best work quite
recently, with Dirty Diamonds, Along Came a Spider and 2021's
Detroit Stories. All of this is celebrated in Feed My Frankenstein,
meticulously charted with timeline entries that are extensively
explained and corroborated by a gallery of Alice's band members
throughout the decades. Helping bring the story to life is a
smorgasbord of imagery, from live photography through to all manner
of memorabilia, underscoring how visceral the visual has always
been for this legendary showman. Get on board and get a sense of
how each and every one of Alice's 21 solo albums work, along with
an understanding of how absolutely and insanely jam-packed life has
been for Alice since 1974 when he and Shep rolled the dice, pooled
all their resources and took us on an all-guns-blazing tour of
Alice's sleeping brain. Indeed, once rolling, it just never
stopped. Next station was Hell, followed by a visit to the asylum
and then, down the road apiece, Brutal Planet, Dragontown and
finally Michigan for some Detroit Stories. It's all here in red,
black and blue - bring your camera.
Let's face it, without the larger-than-life character and
imagination of the art that complements it, metal just wouldn't
have had the same impact. From the colourful, outlandish, yet
sophisticated use of visuals for album artwork and posters, to the
immediately recognisable logos of such bands as Black Sabbath, Iron
Maiden, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Metallica, Slayer, and a host of
others across many subgenres, there's a close-knit relationship
between the riffs that thunder from the guitar and the images that
have come to represent the songs, anthems, and sheer nature of the
beast. Does any other form of music immediately conjure up such
evocative and distinctive images as the mere mention of the term
"heavy metal" does? The answer is simple: no! From its inception in
the 1960s through to today's giants, the art has been closely
connected to the music. Every classic album brings to mind a
readily identifiable album cover. Each great band has an
immediately identifiable logo. All of the landmark gigs have a
poster that quintessentially depicts the time, place, and passion
of the event. It's all developed so far along the road that, today,
the art that has been used to illustrate the music now stands on
its own. There are exhibitions of the finest examples created by
the truly outstanding artists. These works are collectible in their
own right. What might have begun as a way of packaging metal has
taken on a life of its own -- moreover, it's even possible to trace
the way the genre itself has evolved, and changed, by looking at
its art. This book explores the ways in which the art has helped
define each of the crucial subgenres that make up the multifaceted
and colourful centipede that is metal.
Quite simply, Martin Popoff’s Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the
Seventies marks the most intensive analysis of Black Sabbath’s
first eight albums ever attempted. This is a big book—129,000
words long, every song analysed in detail, loads of first-hand
interview footage from close to 50 interrogations. In the baking,
Popoff interviewed all of the principles—Ozzy Osbourne, Tony
Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward—repeatedly, along with myriad
other folks who are part of this remarkable tale. Black Sabbath,
Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,
Sabotage, Never Say Die and Technical Ecstasy… these are the
building blocks of heavy metal, and within these awesome audio
chapters, Popoff breaks down each and every song on each of these
reverberating and cannonating records, while Geezer offers
explanation of the lyrics, Bill poetically explains why these songs
resonate and Tony and Oz look on with their characteristic sense of
bemusement. Also touched upon are the band’s torrid troubles with
money and management and drugs and booze, as well as tour tales,
album cover stories and production tips ‘n’ tricks. Also
included are two four-page sections of colour plates. All told,
it’s everything needed to send the reader back to the catalogue,
headphones on, for a second listen of this landmark run of records
spanning 1970’s self-titled debut to 1978’s Never Say Die, the
shambling, controversial last gasp before Ozzy’s shocking ouster
from the ranks.
Yes: A Visual Biography II: 1982 - 2022 documents the progressive
rock pioneer's career from the eighties to the present day. Popoff
takes you on a journey built around his interviews with Anderson,
Bruford, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, Downes, White and many others, the
tale unfolds via an exhaustive chronology designed to satisfy the
most knowledgeable of Yes fans. Not content with charting the
band's history, Popoff covers the major projects outside of the Yes
umbrella, such as Asia, GTR and Rick Wakeman's extravaganzas, to
paint the whole picture. If you've been moved by albums such as Fly
from Here and Heaven and Earth, you'll love this book, which
perfectly captures the spirit of progressive rock's first and
biggest and best act of crack musicians bent on bending your
perceptions of what rock can be. Throughout the book Popoff draws
on his own interviews conducted with various band members
throughout the last two decades, leaving much of the story to be
told in their own words, along with a smattering of album reviews
by the author and others. This large format coffee table book is
fully illustrated throughout, documenting the story visually from
1982. As well as an abundance of concert images the stunning
photographic content is topped off with many off stage shots.Yes A
Visual Biography II: 1982 - 2022 will augment any Yes fan's
collection.
Renowned rock author Martin Popoff's exhaustive and detailed
timeline of Deep Purple milestones from 1980 - 2011, including some
similar bands, influences, cultural milieu, tour stuff, recording
sessions, charts, singles, certification news, break-ups, personal
stuff, trivia for miles, and lots and lots of artist quotes to add
to the entries, turning the book into a quasi-oral history loaded
with factual matter. But as this is about family the text weaves in
and out of the story of Purple proper, the dastardly diaries of
Rainbow, Whitesnake, Gillan, Blackmore's Night, all the solo
projects, guest slots, Gary Moore, Black Sabbath and Black Country
Communion, always with contextual explanation plus rare and very
cool archival advertisements of shows and records.
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