Rock Addiction

Molly Webster has always followed the rules. After an ugly scandal tore apart her childhood and made her the focus of the media's harsh spotlight, she vowed to live an ordinary life. No fame. No impropriety. No pain. Then she meets Zachary Fox, a tattooed bad-boy rocker with a voice like whiskey and sin and a touch that could become an addiction.

Told from behind rock and roll's most notorious blue eyes, We've Got Tonight is the true story from one of rocks most notorious and sought after groupies. Most notable as the woman with legendary Who bassist, John Entwistle, when he died, Alycen Rowse spent almost three decades backstage seducing some of the world's most desirable rockers. From the bed of David Lee Roth in 1984 to the wildest years with rock gods Metallica to the side of the stage during the infamous AC/DC death concert all the way through to the new millennium and into that infamous Las Vegas bed, Alycen will tell it like ...

This audiobook has been made for three purposes. First, to provide the Orthodox listener with a competent overview of the history of Protestantism and its major traditions, from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present day. Second, to acquaint Orthodox and non-Orthodox listeners with a narrative of the historical relations between the Orthodox East and the Protestant West. Finally, to provide a summary of Orthodox theological opinion on the tenets of Protestantism.

No one but me knew why I was actually in the California desert that day. Nestled deep within the desolate, rocky area was a recording studio. When a door suddenly opened, a man mistook me for someone he was supposed to be interviewing for a job. The next thing I knew, I was whisked inside. The position? An assistant on the upcoming tour for one of America’s most famous rock bands. Pretty exciting opportunity for a twenty-two-year-old, just out of college. Not surprisingly, I bombed the interview.

Janis Joplin was more than a rock star. She was a force of nature whose voice burned through the polite veneers of her time and reshaped the possibilities of women in music. Janis Joplin: Voice of Raw Emotion is the definitive biography of a woman who carried the weight of rejection, the ecstasy of freedom, and the cost of fame in every note she sang. Born in 1943 in the refinery town of Port Arthur, Texas, Janis grew up surrounded by conservative expectations that never fit her. Ostracized in high school, she found refuge in records by Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Odetta. By the time she ...

Based on the principles behind "Steps Six and Seven", Drop the Rock combines personal stories, practical advice, and powerful insights to help listeners move forward in recovery.

Keith Moon wasn’t just The Who’s drummer—he was their chaos engine, their comic relief, and their most volatile liability. Known for explosive performances and even more explosive offstage antics, Moon’s life was a whirlwind of fame, destruction, brilliance, and heartbreak. Keith Moon: The Last 24 Hours is an unflinching rock and roll biography that reconstructs the final day of this iconic musician's life, diving deep into the real events that led to his tragic death on September 7, 1978, at the age of 32. This book provides a blow-by-blow account of Moon’s last hours, based ...

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number one best-selling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic 20-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life.

So, this is rock bottom. Not only did I lose my job and my apartment, but now, an ultra-secret snow leopard shifter group wants me to marry a guy I never met and have babies to save our species. And they’re coming in three days to take me away. Cue me getting smashed alone on a Thursday night. That is until the world’s sexiest, brooding stranger walks in, all sharp angles and hard lines. He’s massive and covered in muscles, and his mesmerizing green-gray eyes has my knees turning to jelly. In a moment of brilliance—or perhaps it was the gin and tonic—I ask him to marry me.

Dave Navarro has always lived at the fault line where underground ferocity meets mainstream visibility. Dave Navarro – Strings and Scars traces his uncompromising journey from Echo Park adolescence scarred by tragedy to global stages with Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers, revealing how one guitarist forged resilience through volatility. This definitive biography excavates Navarro’s story chronologically: his teenage immersion in guitar drills and punk tapes; the combustible formation of Jane’s Addiction in 1980s Hollywood clubs; the chaos of breakthrough records ...

Kit Devigny could have loved rock guitarist Noah St. John. Their friendship burned with the promise of intense passion and searing tenderness until the night Noah deliberately shattered her heart. Noah knows that he destroyed something precious the night he chose to betray Kit, but he'd rather she hate him than learn his darkest secret. All he has left is his music.

The life and times of Joseph Richard Poole, aka Joey Image, legendary drummer for THE MISFITS and many other punk groups. Joey's tumultuous road through life, his musical career and his struggle with addiction is narrated in a graphic and raw rendition. This memoir follows him from his youth and life as a punk rock drummer, his loves and losses and his fights with his personal demons. What unfolds is a disturbing story told in explicit detail — often sad and tragic. The authors created a true to life narrative of individual, social and spiritual devastation — while ultimately finding ...

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved.

James Hetfield is more than the voice and rhythm guitarist of Metallica—he is the architect of discipline that turned a garage band into one of the most powerful musical institutions in history. James Hetfield: Right Hand, Right Decisions traces his journey from a strict childhood in Downey, California to commanding stadiums across continents, blending intimate biography with cultural history. This definitive account explores every phase of Hetfield’s career: the precision of early garage rehearsals, the fury of Kill ’Em All, the sophistication of Master of Puppets, the mainstream ...

Scott Weiland’s story is one of brilliance and volatility, triumph and collapse, charisma and fragility. As the magnetic frontman of Stone Temple Pilots and later Velvet Revolver, he helped define the sound of the 1990s while embodying both the glamour and the wreckage of rock stardom. Scott Weiland: Chameleon of Grunge and Beyond is the definitive biography, tracing his life from childhood in San Jose through the arenas of global fame, into the chaos of addiction, and toward his tragic final days in 2015. Drawing on exhaustive research and documentary detail, this book offers an ...

John Frusciante’s life reads like a cycle of brilliance and collapse, an artist who repeatedly walked away from the spotlight only to return stronger, stranger, and more essential than before. From his unlikely start as a teenage guitar obsessive in Los Angeles to his role in redefining the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ sound, Frusciante became one of the most influential musicians of his generation. His playing powered Mother’s Milk, reshaped Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and resurrected the band with Californication and Stadium Arcadium. Yet behind the acclaim lay years of isolation, heroin ...

The Breeders: Cannonball Effect is the definitive biography of one of alternative rock’s strangest success stories. At its core is Kim Deal, the restless songwriter whose voice and basslines helped transform the Pixies into legends before she carved her own path with The Breeders. Alongside her twin sister Kelley, bassist Josephine Wiggs, and drummer Jim MacPherson, Deal created a band that fused jagged punk energy with playful eccentricity. What began as a side project became a platinum-selling force when “Cannonball” unexpectedly conquered MTV and radio in 1993, turning an ...

Warren Zevon was one of rock’s most literate and uncompromising voices, a songwriter who fused gallows humor with haunting melodies and turned his own contradictions into unforgettable songs. Warren Zevon: Rock’s Dark Humorist traces the complete arc of his life and career, from his Chicago childhood through his rise in Los Angeles, his years of struggle, his landmark albums, and his unflinching final performances recorded under the shadow of terminal illness. This definitive biography presents a documentary-grade portrait of a man who lived in chaos, created brilliance, and left a ...

Dr. Woititz, in her first, breakthrough book addresses the spouses of alcoholics who feel overwhelmed and desperate in their marriages. Her focus is to show that the boundaries of isolationism and depression that living with an alcoholic brings does not necessarily mean one cannot eventually find piece of mind - whether or not the alcoholic continues drinking. Marriage on the Rocks can show you the coping skills you deserve to have when alcoholism impacts your life.

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit. A friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has been a self-confessed golf addict ever since.