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Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist. Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic personalities. Growing up in a middle-class, black neighborhood in St. Louis, his first major hit song, "Maybellene," was an adaptation of a white country song, wedded to a black-influenced beat. Thereafter came a string of brilliant songs celebrating teenage life in the '50s, including "School Day," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Berry's career rise was meteoric; but his fall came equally quickly, when his relations with an underage girl led to his conviction. It was not his first (nor his last) run in with the law. He scored his biggest hit in the early '70s with the comical (and some would say decidedly lightweight) song "My Ding-a-Ling." The following decades brought hundreds of nights of tours, with little attention from the recording industry. Bruce Pegg offers the definitive, though not always pretty, portrait of one of the greatest stars of rock and roll, a story that will appeal to all fans of American popular music.

Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of ChuckBerry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist. Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic personalities. Growing up in a middle-class, black neighborhood in St. Louis, his first major hit song, "Maybellene," was an adaptation of a white country song, wedded to a black-influenced beat. Thereafter came a string of brilliant songs celebrating teenage life in the '50s, including "School Day," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Berry's career rise was meteoric; but his fall came equally quickly, when his relations with an underage girl led to his conviction. It was not his first (nor his last) run in with the law. He scored his biggest hit in the early '70s with the comical (and some would say decidedly lightweight) song "My Ding-a-Ling." The following decades brought hundreds of nights of tours, with little attention from the recording industry. Bruce Pegg offers the definitive, though not always pretty, portrait of one of the greatest stars of rock and roll, a story that will appeal to all fans of American popular music.

Goin' Down De Mont catalogues more than 60 years of musical history as witnessed at the most iconic music venue in the East Midlands, Leicester's De Montfort Hall. Told through the eyewitness accounts of over 200 fans and celebrity musicians, this book documents the hundreds of concerts that De Mont has hosted, from teenage girls in the Sixties screaming at The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, through Seventies visits by rock giants David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and on to modern day purveyors of rock – Simple Minds, OMD and Kasabian. Packed with memories and more than 70 previously unseen full colour and black-and-white images, Goin' Down De Mont brings bring back musical memories going back all the way to the birth of rock 'n' roll

Welcome Back My Friends - A People's History of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an oral history of one of the giants of the British progressive rock world. As ELP, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer had five Top Ten UK albums, including a No. 1 with 1971's Tarkus, and a UK No.2 single with 1977's 'Fanfare for The Common Man'. With an estimated 48 million album sales worldwide, including nine RIAA-certified gold albums in the USA, ELP remain one of the biggest bands of the 1970s. Famed for the flamboyant stage antics of Emerson on the Hammond organ and Moog synthesiser, and mixing elements of classical and jazz music with symphonic rock, over 100 different ELP concerts are remembered through the memories of more than 400 fans in this fully authorised history of the band.