The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin, from esteemed rock journalist and author Mick Wall.
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'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, almost supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with bloodletting betrayal, hate-filled hubris, the skeletons of perceived enemies, brutally discarded lovers and former band mates left unburied on the road behind them. The story of the Eagles is a truly gothic American fable: one of ultimate power and rivers of money; of sex and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful easy feelings in public while threatening to kill each other in private.Now, for the first time, esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will provide the definitive insight into America's bestselling band of all time, a band who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world.
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, almost supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with bloodletting betrayal, hate-filled hubris, the skeletons of perceived enemies, brutally discarded lovers and former band mates left unburied on the road behind them. The story of the Eagles is a truly gothic American fable: one of ultimate power and rivers of money; of sex and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful easy feelings in public while threatening to kill each other in private.Now, for the first time, esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will provide the definitive insight into America's bestselling band of all time, a band who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world.
From iconic rock journalist Mick Wall comes the definitive account of America's best-selling band of all time--who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones combined--exploring the hedonistic days of the '70s music scene in LA, their ruthless, meteoric rise to fame, and the dark truths beneath their musical fa ade of peaceful, easy feelings."Surely make you lose your mind..." So the Eagles warn us about the outrageous and ruthless lifestyle of the ambitious rock-n-roller. In fact, Don Henley could barely listen to the track "Life in the Fast Lane" when they were recording it. He was so high that it made him sick. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, and almost supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with bloodletting betrayal, hate-filled hubris, the skeletons of perceived enemies, brutally discarded lovers and former band mates left unburied in the road behind them. The Eagles' story is a truly gothic American fable: one of ultimate power and rivers of money; of sex and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful easy feelings in public while threatening to kill each other in private. Now, legendary rock journalist Mick Wall delivers definitive insight into America's best-selling band of all time, a band that has sold more records than Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world.
Outside the Limelight with Britain's Famous SingerGet to know Sir Elton John like never before with Mick Hall's all-new celebrity biography full of facts, popular songs, and inspirational stories.50 years of making music history. As one of the most prolific singers and songwriters in recent history, Elton John has inspired generations of music lovers with his upbeat yet soulful creations. That is why music journalist Mick Hall shares all in Hercules , a collection of the music legend's greatest hits. Each chapter goes behind the scenes of your favorite songs, as well as the most compelling moments throughout Elton's career. With each new discovery, you'll uncover how one man's triumphs and challenges have shaped him into one of the most famous and beloved singers of all time.The highs and lows of the Yellow Brick Road. Not only has Elton John moved millions of fans through his award-winning records, but he's also inspired them with his life story. Hercules steps outside of the limelight and highlights the famous singer throughout the years from childhood to his farewell tour. Charting Elton's personal and professional relationships, his struggles with addiction, and how success and creativity come in many forms, this book will make you see that brilliance isn't born, but made.Uncover true stories from both the famous singer himself and those around him over the years, such as how he: started his famous art collectionbecame one of the most iconic LGBTQ celebrities in the worldfaced highs and lows on his journey to sobrietyworked behind the scenes on his songwriting processIf you enjoyed musician biographies such as Brat, The Lyrics, or Fingers Crossed, then you'll love Hercules
Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John is the perfect compendium for the casual fan or devoted connoisseur, providing a funny, comprehensive and fully alphabetised overview of the star's life and music.Charting all the highs and lows, the major record releases and the significant tours, the strokes of genius and the bottoms of barrels, this insightful portrait will cover serious subjects such as Elton's battle with the media, his highly publicised addictions, his route to sobriety, his tangled love life and his struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, hair loss and temper. But, as Elton himself always does so well in the hundreds of interviews he has given over the past half-century, his stories will also be told frankly and humorously, his demons now conquered and his success unrelenting.And at the heart of this book is a joyride through one of the all-time greatest musical catalogues from a brilliant, versatile, glamorous and universally loved pop superstar.
Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John is the perfect compendium for the casual fan or devoted connoisseur, providing a funny, comprehensive and fully alphabetised overview of the star's life and music.Charting all the highs and lows, the major record releases and the significant tours, the strokes of genius and the bottoms of barrels, this insightful portrait will cover serious subjects such as Elton's battle with the media, his highly publicised addictions, his route to sobriety, his tangled love life and his struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, hair loss and temper. But, as Elton himself always does so well in the hundreds of interviews he has given over the past half-century, his stories will also be told frankly and humorously, his demons now conquered and his success unrelenting.And at the heart of this book is a joyride through one of the all-time greatest musical catalogues from a brilliant, versatile, glamorous and universally loved pop superstar.
Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John is the perfect compendium for the casual fan or devoted connoisseur, providing a funny, comprehensive and fully alphabetised overview of the star's life and music.Charting all the highs and lows, the major record releases and the significant tours, the strokes of genius and the bottoms of barrels, this insightful portrait will cover serious subjects such as Elton's battle with the media, his highly publicised addictions, his route to sobriety, his tangled love life and his struggles to come to terms with his sexuality, hair loss and temper. But, as Elton himself always does so well in the hundreds of interviews he has given over the past half-century, his stories will also be told frankly and humorously, his demons now conquered and his success unrelenting.And at the heart of this book is a joyride through one of the all-time greatest musical catalogues from a brilliant, versatile, glamorous and universally loved pop superstar.
Den anmelderroste rockskribent Mick Wall, der tidligere har skrevet bestseller-biografier om blandt andre Metallica, Iron Maiden og Led Zeppelin, udgav biografien 'Lou Reed – The Life' den 9. december 2013, kun få måneder efter Lou Reeds død. Mick Wall har beundret Lou Reed og The Velvet Underground hele sit liv, og Will Hodgkinson, der er førende rockanamelder på 'The Times', siger om biografien: ”Mick Wall skriver lige på og hårdt og helt usentimentalt i en stil, der passer til den mand, han skriver om, og han går bestemt ikke uden om Lou Reeds mere ubehagelige sider.”Lou Reed, der døde den 27. oktober 2013, er blevet kaldt mange ting, lige fra the Godfather of Punk til the High Priest of Glam. Mick Wall mener, at han fortsatte, hvor rocken holdt op – og han skal derfor ikke måles med Beatles og Stones, men med William S. Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr. og Andy Warhol.
Från inspelningen av ett av de mest kritikerrosade albumen genom tiderna med Velvet Underground & Nico, till tungt drogmissbruk och uppträdande för påven berättelsen om Lou Reed består av höga toppar och djupa dalar. Rock n roll var Lou Reeds liv och han är en av rockhistoriens mest legendariska artister. Han har ofta varit kontroversiell, frispråkig och missförstådd, men hans inflytande på populärkulturen kan inte överskattas. Han förändrade förutsättningarna för vad rockmusik kan vara och rörde sig hela tiden framåt. Hans främsta album fick ofta ett dåligt mottagande av sin samtid, men har med tiden kommit att bli omistliga klassiker.
Kantrirockin suuruus Tunnetun musiikkikirjailija Mick Wallin Dark Desert Highway kertoo Yhdysvaltain myydyimmän yhtyeen myrskyisän menestystarinan Glenn Freyn ja Don Henleyn vuonna 1971 perustama Eagles onnistui tekemään kantrirockista trendikästä, ja yhtyeestä tuli Yhdysvalloissa suosittu jo ensimmäisellä levyllään. Eagles on myynyt Yhdysvalloissa enemmän levyjä kuin esimerkiksi The Rolling Stones ja Led Zeppelin yhteensä. Vuonna 1980 yhtye hajosi sisäisiin erimielisyyksiin - tai jäi 14 vuoden tauolle, kuten he itse asian ilmaisivat. Vuonna 1994 Eagles palasi yhteen ja levytti Hell Freezes Over -albumin. Syksyllä 2023 Eagles aloitti kiertueen, joka on yhtyeen mukaan sen viimeinen. Dark Desert Highway on klassinen rock-yhtyeen tarina: musiikillisten lahjakkuuksien ilmiömäistä nousua menestykseen seurasi luksuselämää, seksiä, huumeita ja niiden tuomia ongelmia. Se on tarina yhtyeestä, jonka liekki paloi liian kirkkaasti. Mick Wall on kirjoittanut Kerrangin ja Classic Rockin kaltaisiin lehtiin yli 35 vuotta. Hän on myös kirjoittanut lukuisia kehuttuja musiikkikirjoja mm. Led Zeppelinistä, Metallicasta, Black Sabbathista. Wallin tuoreimmat teokset ovat elämäkerrat Lemmy Kilmisteristä ja Guns N' Rose -yhtyeestä.
A breakneck, Hunter S. Thompson-esque account of David Bowie’s wildest, most revolutionary years in the United States—a relentless after-midnight ride through the culturally apocalyptic mid-’70s of New York and Los Angeles, leaving Ziggy Stardust behind and charging through Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Station to Station with cocaine-dusted corridors of the occult, music as magick, and sex as invocation In Bowie Takes America, legendary rock journalist Mick Wall offers a back-seat-of-the-limo account of David Bowie’s all-that-glitters American years—when Ziggy the friendly rock-messiah alien transmogrified again and again while traversing a landscape of decadence and derangement: L.A. orgies and soul clubs, midnight occult rituals, and late-night talk shows, riding through the scorched ruins of Watergate-era America. Built on Wall’s extensive research and archives and drawing upon exclusive interviews with former band members, friends, rivals, producers, and Bowie himself, this is Bowie as never seen before: glamorous, burlesque-grotesque, and utterly inimitable. Between 1974 and 1976, David Bowie wasn’t just making records—he was making himself a new kind of rock icon. From the skeletal “mutant with red eyes” of Diamond Dogs, through the “plastic soul” regeneration of Young Americans (and his first American number 1 single, “Fame”), to the thin-white paranoia of Station to Station, Bowie’s music, image, and identity were in flux—and the land between New York’s Penn Station and Los Angeles’s Union Station was the crucible that transformed him. With Lou Reed and Iggy Pop as shadowy foils, and a supporting cast including John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Angela Bowie, Ava Cherry, Earl Slick, Luther Vandross, Cher, Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Rodney Dangerfield, and Dennis Hopper, Bowie plunged into the American Dream and came out the other side as a different man—and artist.
Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which provides an unflinching look at life inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and presents the definitive, final word on Led Zeppelin. They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time. Mick Wall, respected rock writer and former confidant of both Page and Plant, unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction and death. WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH reveals for the first time the true extent of band leader Jimmy Page's longstanding interest in the occult, and goes behind the scenes to expose the truth behind their much-hyped yet spectacularly contrived comeback at London's O2 arena in 2007, and how Jimmy Page plans to bring the band back permanently - if only his former protégé, now part-time nemesis, Robert Plant will allow him to. Wall also recounts, in a series of flashbacks, the life stories of the five individuals that made the dream of Led Zeppelin into an even more incredible and hard-to-swallow reality: Page, Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and their infamous manager, Peter Grant.
Spanning the entire history of the Doors, this book will long remain the definitive biography of a band that forever changed popular music. But it's not the story you think you know. Yes, Jim Morrison died in Paris in 1971--but not in a bathtub. The other Doors were saddened and shocked but had already fired him anyway. It wasn't Jim who wrote the hits; it was guitarist Robby Krieger. It wasn't Jim who saw a bright, acid-flared future for the band but keyboardist Ray Manzarek. And so, the band that started out as the "American Rolling Stones," noted for their wildly unpredictable performances, their jazzy vibe, and the crazed monologues of their front man, ended as badly as did the sixties: abruptly, bloodily, cripplingly. Along with evoking the cultural milieu of Los Angeles in the sixties, in Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre bestselling writer Mick Wall captures the true spirit of that tarnished age with a brilliantly penetrating and contemporary investigation into the real story of the Doors.
Kaikkien aikojen hevirokkikukko. Ronnie James Dion kauan odotettu elämäkerta kertoo yhden hevimusiikin suurimman vaikuttajan värikkään elämäntarinan.Ronnie James Dio nousi kuuluisuuteen liityttyään Ritchie Blackmoren johtamaan Rainbow-yhtyeeseen 1970-luvun puolivälissä. Vuonna 1979 Diosta tuli Black Sabbathin solisti Ozzy Osbournen lähdettyä bändistä, ja vuonna 1982 hän perusti omaa nimeään kantavan yhtyeen Dio.Omaelämäkerrassaan Dio kuvaa kehitystään tavallisen keskiluokkaisen perheen levottomasta pojasta kolmen legendaarisen yhtyeen ylistetyksi laulajaksi ja niitä ihmisiä, jotka mahdollistivat sen. Dio muistelee lämmöllä muun muassa lapsuudenystäviään, jotka auttoivat hänet alkuun musiikin saralla sekä Ritchie Blackmorea, jonka kanssa työskentely oli vaikeaa mutta hedelmällistä. Mukana muistoissa on myös Tony Iommi, jonka kohtaaminen nosti Dion aivan uudelle suosion tasolle, sekä vaimo ja manageri Wendy Dio, jonka tasapainottavan vaikutuksen ansiosta hänen onnistui nousta suosionsa huipulle oman bändinsä johtajana. Dio aloitti itse elämäkertansa kirjoittamisen, mutta menehtyi ennen sen valmistumista. Kirjoitustyön saattoivat loppuun Wendy Dio ja tunnettu rockkirjailija Mick Wall, joka oli Dion hyvä ystävä kolmen vuosikymmenen ajan.
Kaikkien aikojen hevirokkikukko. Ronnie James Dion kauan odotettu elämäkerta kertoo yhden hevimusiikin suurimman vaikuttajan värikkään elämäntarinan.Ronnie James Dio nousi kuuluisuuteen liityttyään Ritchie Blackmoren johtamaan Rainbow-yhtyeeseen 1970-luvun puolivälissä. Vuonna 1979 Diosta tuli Black Sabbathin solisti Ozzy Osbournen lähdettyä bändistä, ja vuonna 1982 hän perusti omaa nimeään kantavan yhtyeen Dio.Omaelämäkerrassaan Dio kuvaa kehitystään tavallisen keskiluokkaisen perheen levottomasta pojasta kolmen legendaarisen yhtyeen ylistetyksi laulajaksi ja niitä ihmisiä, jotka mahdollistivat sen. Dio muistelee lämmöllä muun muassa lapsuudenystäviään, jotka auttoivat hänet alkuun musiikin saralla sekä Ritchie Blackmorea, jonka kanssa työskentely oli vaikeaa mutta hedelmällistä. Mukana muistoissa on myös Tony Iommi, jonka kohtaaminen nosti Dion aivan uudelle suosion tasolle, sekä vaimo ja manageri Wendy Dio, jonka tasapainottavan vaikutuksen ansiosta hänen onnistui nousta suosionsa huipulle oman bändinsä johtajana. Dio aloitti itse elämäkertansa kirjoittamisen, mutta menehtyi ennen sen valmistumista. Kirjoitustyön saattoivat loppuun Wendy Dio ja tunnettu rockkirjailija Mick Wall, joka oli Dion hyvä ystävä kolmen vuosikymmenen ajan.