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Renowned rock author Martin Popoff's exhaustive and detailed
timeline of Deep Purple milestones - often to the day - looks at
the band's influences, cultural milieu, tours, recording sessions,
charts, singles, certification news, break-ups, personal stuff,
trivia, mixed with lots of artist quotes to add to the entries,
turning the book into a quasi-oral history but loaded with factual
matter.But this book is not just about Deep Purple but the whole
family of bands that surrounds it. Weaved in and out of the story
are the dastardly diaries of Rainbow, Whitesnake, Ian Gillan Band,
Gillan, Paice Ashton Lord, all the solo projects, guest slots, even
Captain Beyond, Warhorse, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ Superstar,
Bedlam, Elf, Episode Six, The Outlaws, and Trapeze.The book also
touches on a whole host of other artists including the likes of
Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Nazareth, Moxy,
Silverhead, Hard Stuff, Lord Sutch, Warpig, Vanilla Fudge, Brian
Auger, Judas Priest, James Gang, Angel and Legs Diamond - but
always with contextual explanation that make this book such a
fascinating read and an absolute smorgasbord of facts surrounding
one of the greatest rock bands' of all time.
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 new
interviews with most of the principles involved and a mountain of
painstaking research, The Sun Goes Down is the sequel to From
Dublin To Jailbreak and examines the second half of the band's
career from the making of Bad Reputation in 1977 through to 1983's
Thunder And Lightning and the last concert at the Reading Festival.
Alcohol and drugs wreaked havoc between band members, producers and
managers. Line-up changes and a mostly grinding existence finally
took its toll after the smash hit records and sold-out tours.
Author Martin Popoff's celebrated record-by-record methodology
highlights a new appreciation of the deep album tracks hiding
within this band's often forgotten later years. The book also
reveals Phil Lynott in all his dastardly guises, making The Sun
Goes Down, an essential read for the devoted fans.
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.
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.
When the world thinks of heavy metal in its pure, potent, undiluted
form, it is none other than the Metal Gods, Judas Priest, that
instantly come to mind. Chrome and black leather, studs and whips
and chains, a chopper on stage to announce the coming... these are
the tools of the trade for Rob Halford and his legendary band of
Birmingham bashers. Indeed, the Priest are the bringers of metal's
biggest anthems. "Breaking the Law," "Living after Midnight,"
"Exciter," "Electric Eye," "Victim of Changes," and especially
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'"... these are songs woven into the
fabric of metal's wild ride, Priest having been there since its
origins, revving up crowds as superstars certainly for 30 years of
that run. Lifelong fan and preeminent metal historian Martin Popoff
examines the Priest's rich legacy from 1974 to 1984, album by
album, anthem by anthem, in this hugely expanded update on the
early years portion of his long out-of-print Heavy Metal
Painkillers book. Having interviewed all the principals in the band
repeatedly over the years, Popoff gives a first-hand account of
Priest's rocky, often comical ride through the '70s, and through
the gold and platinum records of the '80s, expertly detailing the
long road to the arena headline status the band now enjoys as heavy
metal's proudest ambassadors. Judas Priest: Decade of Domination
includes extensive commentary from reclusive drummer Les Binks,
along with new interview footage from Tom Allom, Chris Tsangarides,
K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton, Ian Hill, Rob Halford, and various
other insiders who are part of the Priest saga during this
hallowed, golden era. Also included are tons of memorabilia shots,
live photography and two tipped-in colour sections. To reiterate,
this is the most extensive analysis ever in book form of: Rocka
Rolla, Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Killing Machine/Hell
Bent for Leather, Unleashed in the East, British Steel, Point of
Entry, Screaming for Vengeance and Defenders of the Faith-song by
song, lots of stories, looking at licks and fills, and what's in
the right channel and left, lyric analysis... the deepest dive ever
on these records.
No question Scorpions, Germany's loudest and proudest rock band
ever, have been one of that country's most successful musical
exports. Wind of Change documents the band's career with analysis
of every song on every album the Teutonic tone-masters ever
crafted.Beginning with Lonesome Crow back in '72 through to the
triumphant "retirement" album Sting In The Tail, and beyond into
Comeblack - the stories of their making are all here. Wind of
Change draws on the authors interviews with all of the principals
and beyond, including Klaus Meine, Uli Jon Roth, Herman Rarebell,
Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs, along with the likes of
legendary manager David Krebs, Ralph Rieckermann and Francis
Buchholz.
(FAQ). Unlike any Sabbath book thus far, Black Sabbath FAQ digs
deep into quirks, obscure anecdotes, and burning questions
surrounding the Sabs. In a fast-moving, topical format, this book
covers a tremendous amount of information, delectable to any
Sabbath fan, but hard to find in a traditional biography. This rich
history lives and breathes and shouts right here. And the voice
behind it could not be stronger: Martin Popoff is a heavy metal
expert who has authored over 30 books on the subject, including
Doom Let Loose, which is widely considered the definitive biography
of the band. In Black Sabbath FAQ, Popoff is like a rabid detective
unearthing (and sometimes debunking) ancient lore, valiantly
covering new ground, applying academic rigor, but then wildly
sounding off with lurid opinion. The pendulum swings, and, though
disoriented, the serious Sabbath studier is better for it come the
book's doomy conclusion. Dozens of images of rare memorabilia make
this book a must-have for fans.
They were the envy of all the more "earthly" rock acts scrambling
to make it in the world of '70s hard rock, each and all aspiring to
the success levels of Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Blue Oyster Cult, Styx
and Angel label mates Kiss. But the story of Angel is of a band out
of time, playing regal progressive heavy metal and then changing to
try reach radio, in either guise, not quite clicking with enough
Kiss fans-Kiss were the devils in black and Angel were the good
guys in white-nor the fans of progressive rock or, later, those
more inclined to Foreigner, Journey and Cheap Trick. Along the way,
the band went first class, with the best gear, a killer stage show
and tons of promotion from Neil Bogart and Casablanca until they
had racked up a million dollars of debt by the end of their blessed
run, the guys often oblivious to what lesser bands had to go
through. Indeed, this is a story of a band hailed as rock stars and
indeed often headlining like rock stars, without the record sales
to justify the crazy spending that a believing Bogart threw at the
band. Then it was all over and we heard virtually nothing from any
of them (save for keyboardist Gregg) after 1981 until... well, both
Punky Meadows and Frank DiMino stormed back with solo albums. And
then, appearing outta nowhere like they did in their famous stage
show, Angel returned in 2019 with a blindingly white and quite
sprightly new album called Risen. Come celebrate what it was like
to live as the alter-ego to Kiss as we examine the band's five
studio albums of the original run, the crushing concert album, Live
Without a Net, as well as where it all went wrong and the inspiring
return of Frank and Punky through the spirited hard rocker that is
Risen.
Rock City, Narita, Fire Down Under, Restless Breed, Born in
America... These are the pioneering, superlative heavy metal
records that represent the classic first decade of Brooklyn's
Riot's, before the band would break up, eventually storming back
with Thundersteel and The Privilege of Power, existing to this day
as Riot V after the shocking death from Crohn's disease of
guitarist and leader Mark Reale. Riot's is a tale of opportunities
missed, of a band ahead of the curve, and of a band from which both
its classic era lead singers - Guy Speranza and Rhett Forrester -
are now dead, as is, of course, Mark Reale, a quiet man who,
fatefully, wanted to leave the business to others and just play his
heavy metal. But this book is not just about the '75 to '85 period
of the band that spawned one of the finest metal records of all
time, 1981's Fire Down Under. Even if the classics framed by those
ten years get the full, dedicated chapter, track-by-track Popoff
treatment, the subsequent rich and substantial catalogue of the
band is discussed as well, right up to the present day where Riot
shines on. But still, the focus is on songs like `Warrior', `49er',
`Road Racin'', `Outlaw', `Don't Hold Back', `Altar of the King',
`Violent Crimes', `Vigilante Killer' and of course the insanely
anthemic `Swords and Tequila', as we celebrate a New York
institution that is perhaps the shining example of the term,
"honorary New Wave of British Heavy Metal" band.
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.
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 Damned are forever in the history books as the first UK punk
band to get an album out. Damned Damned Damned was a flamethrower
of a record, led by the incendiary violence of "New Rose" (first UK
punk single as well) and "Neat Neat Neat," two shocking punk
anthems that defined the golden era of the new wave more purely
pogo-mad than anything outta The Clash or the Sex Pistols. And the
mayhem never let up, with the band already breaking up and
reforming (another first!) by 1979 for one of the greatest punk
albums of all time, Machine Gun Etiquette (by the way, The Damned
were also the first UK punk band to tour America). More punch-ups
and gratuitous vandalism ensued as the band expanded its palette
through the years. Popoff has wanted to write Lively Arts: The
Damned Deconstructed for decades, and now that it's finished, he's
been all over video and radio calling it his favourite and best
book he's ever done. For in it, Popoff got to analyse monastically
- headphones and repeat button at the ready - every damned Damned
song across all the albums and every EP and single. This herculean
task represented a joy of an exercise from a penmanship point of
view, but it was most satisfying in a proselytizing sense - Martin
wants everybody joining him in poring over The Damned catalogue in
minute detail. Let this long-suffering band of scrapping,
scratching cats in a sack know how important and beloved they are
before they're all dead!
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.
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.
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.
In this scintillating sequel to Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the
Seventies, Martin Popoff blows up the kaleidoscopic narrative of
the Sabs over the ensuing twenty years, dissecting each and every
of the band's ten studio albums and two (and-a-half) live albums
produced over that time period. So this is the book where we hear
the gripes, snipes, swipes and thumbs-up likes from Ronnie James
Dio, Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Tony Martin and finally once more
Ozzy Osbourne, as they remark upon this institution coddled by the
anchor of the band Tony Iommi, who valiantly held Black Sabbath
together through many years of blood, sweat and Tyrs. Heaven and
Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil, Born Again, Seventh Star, The Eternal
Idol, Headless Cross, Tyr, Dehumanizer, Cross Purposes, Forbidden
and finally, extensively broken down, Reunion... they're all here,
song by song, the hirings and the firings highlighted and
explained. Incorporating talk from over 60 interviews conductive
with band members and other relevant parties over 25 years, make no
mistake-this is the most in-depth examination of the band during
this timeframe ever executed. So come one and all, re-love
modern-era Black Sabbath all over again-you'll be pleasantly
surprised at how much dastardly doom there is from Tony Iommi that
you need to know and embrace once again.
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.
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