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From their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world, discover the whole story of Bad Religion's forty-year career in irreverent style.Do What You Want's principal storytellers are the four...

Have you ever gotten busy at a rock and roll show? This is a fairly true story of what happened when my husband and I did. The names have been changed to protect the naughty! When Faith and Marshall get tickets to one of the country's biggest Rock Festival's they jokingly talk about a hall passes. A hall pass in particular for Faith should she ever run into the lead singer for her favorite rock ban. When you give your wife a hall pass you better make sure you know what you're getting yourself into, and that you can deal with the consequences. Especially with a young hot wife like Faith. The...

On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, "Like a Rolling Stone". The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world - Dylan's declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation - and one of the defining moments in 20th-century music.

The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1990s alt-rock festival Lollapalooza―told by the musicians, roadies, and industry insiders who lived it—includes a foreword by Kim Thayil of Soundgarden! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Nothin’ But A Good Time. In Lollapalooza...

The inspiration for the Play It Loud exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Every guitar player will want to read this book twice. And even the casual music fan will find a thrilling narrative that weaves together cultural history, musical history, race, politics, business case studies...

A candid autobiography of the great rock diva of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, revealing her wild life at the forefront of the Sixties and Seventies counterculture. She has been called rock and roll's original female outlaw, as famous for her bad behavior as for her haunting singing...

Against the backdrop of the Vietnam War—with the ongoing saga of his draft status and other historical events of the time—Ron White’s adventures, at home and in numerous locations around the world, began with a schoolboy yearning to travel. His quest was to explore the world as well as to escape. With the tragic loss of several of his best friends, and being the victim of endless abuse at home, it was travel and music that kept him sane. If you lived during this era, the pages of this inspirational book drip with nostalgia; if you’re too young, then you can be wonderfully ...

From an acclaimed music journalist, the gripping story of Los Angeles rock from its fifties beginnings to its eighties prime, told through its most influential pacesetter: Lou Adler. From the fifties through the eighties, Lou Adler was the key architect of Los Angeles rock—from the birth of...

Two Edinburgh PhD students head to the Phoenix Festival to sell legal highs. When a friend discovers that their Horn-E pills are poison, he faces a race against the clock to make sure that nobody comes to any harm. To complicate matters, the drugs were paid for with a loan from Edinburgh’s infamous Tony Fish. If they don’t have the cash to straighten their debt, there’ll be nowhere for them to hide. Jesse Garon’s obsession with Elvis Presley may be as strong ever, but as his hormones kick in he’s finding he has more in common with Jake Bugg. Jesse’s hoping that a weekend at the ...

A BBC journalist sets off to make the programme he hopes will uncover the truth behind his father's life. As the interviews are recorded and each layer is peeled away, the story becomes more complex than he could ever have imagined. At each step, he moves closer to meeting the recluse of the title and setting off a chain of events that will have his life spiraling out of control. "A charming and delightfully well-written novel tells the tale of extreme artistry and romance in the drug-fueled turbulent style of the late sixties rock scene. A tale for the ages, wonderfully wrought." Amazon ...

Mooring Lines A Canal Romance When Ivy moors her narrowboat at a forgotten bend of the canal, she hopes only to grieve for her father and a place to begin again. But when Theo—a haunted rock violinist searching for his own redemption—ties up beside her, the quiet waters start to stir. Between drifting fog and the echoes of old tragedies, their stories entwine through music, memory, and the slow rhythm of canal life. Each lock and turning tide brings them closer to forgiveness, to healing, and to a love as deep and steady as the water beneath their hulls. If you love burning, heartfelt ...

Siguiendo su instinto y su orgullo de artista con el respeto y admiración que le profesa a la música, Sam Numit no puede dejar de investigar el asesinato de Blow Andrews, el cantante revelación del año, ocurrido durante un concierto organizado por el propio Sam, Bruce Springsteen, Sting y Peter Gabriel, y retransmitido mundialmente desde el estadio de Wembley, en Londres.

Growing up in the island village of Seaview, Willow always dreamed of a bigger life. Then her childhood sweetheart, Luc, betrayed her and she ran, resolving never to look back. Now, 12 years on, her glamorous London life is a mess and the island is her only option. But she's not the only one back for the summer. Luc is now a world-famous heartthrob musician, and he's finally come home to headline the Isle of Wight's annual music festival.

'The perfect blend of heart and heat' SARAH MORGAN A Fated Mates Hot Summer pick for July! ‘I loved this book. Fast-paced and compelling, One More Time is a real gem’ HANNAH DOYLE 'A heart-pounding journey through love, nostalgia, and the irresistible pull of fate' READER REVIEW...

An autobiographical piece, based upon the author's experiences surfing, and living in a cottage at Whale Bay, Raglan, New Zealand.

Woodstock wasn’t that long ago, was it? Life gets exciting for the rich and clever ‘butler’ when his sweetheart from 1969’s Woodstock shows up looking younger than possible. What was her secret? And did she still care about him as much as he did her? Come on an exciting adventure with the tall, dark time-traveling daughter of Benji from THE FAIRIES SAGA reconnects with her teenage crush over forty years later. A second chance romance with a fantasy twist.

Seguint el seu instint i el seu orgull d'artista amb el respecte i admiració que professa a la música, Sam Numit no pot deixar d'investigar l'assassinat de Blow Andrews, el cantant revelació de l'any, ocorregut durant un concert organitzat pel mateix Sam, Bruce Springsteen, Sting i Peter Gabriel, i retransmès mundialment des de l'estadi de Wembley, a Londres. Del cantant revelació ara mort se sap que va ser odiat per tots: els seus músics, el seu productor, el director del seu segell discogràfic, el seu manager, i fins i tot les dones que el van estimar...

Burning Man is the premier countercultural event of modern times, growing over 25 years from a strange San Francisco beach party into an experimental city of 50,000 colorful souls in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, which burns brightly for a week before dissolving into dusty memories and changed lives. Longtime newspaper journalist Steven T. Jones embedded himself in this blossoming culture starting in 2004, a dispiriting year for American politics but the beginning of Burning Man’s renaissance, when it exploded outward in unexpected ways. The result is the most in-depth book ever written ...

Brooklyn Owes the Charmer Under Me tells the story of a decrepit hotel, now defunct, called the Resplendent, in what was then called the Borscht Belt in upstate New York's Sullivan County and of the small army of menial workers made up of drifters, derelicts and students called "bimmies," who infested it in the summer of the first Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. "Cullen Ramakrishna Herskovits has written a mean and vicious, sexed-up Catch 22 set in a Twilight Zone where Last Exit to Brooklyn meets the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and a Catcher in the Rye with a juvenile delinquent Holden ...

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.