2022’s ‘Backstage Pass – The Grit and the Glamour’ saw musician and author Phil Matera open the lid of the world of music in his own inimitable style – mixing personal experiences as a musician […]
With a forward by David Fricke, Editor at Rolling Stone (a magazine who have never really been keen on Hard Rock) we get to shine a light on a band with a huge legacy. […]
I must put my hands up to having been bugging Ron Young for the past 14 years to write a book about his life as I’m sure many others have. Some musicians just seem to […]
KISS have released a phenomenal amount of merchandise over the years, with a lot of it being hit and miss. The MONSTER book, limited to 1000 at a price of US$4250 ? No thank you. […]
I grew up listening to Meatloaf – back in the day he was just part of that teenage soundtrack that also included Queen, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Stones and a dozen other bands. It’s […]
If ever there was a band whose story was going to jump right off the page larger than life, especially with last year’s latest twist in the tale, it would have to be the Gunners. […]
The first things that strike you about Brain Wilson’s aided autobiography are the subtitle ‘The genius behind the Beach Boys’ and the ‘voice’ that greets you from almost page one. It’s a voice that has […]
I like Mick Wall as a writer, he’s eminently readable and always manages to draw you in so that without noticing you’re often well into the book before you know it. When you look at […]
A panoramic narrative history that will give readers a new understanding of the Rolling Stones, viewed through the impassioned and opinionated lens of the Vanity Fair contributor-and co-creator of HBO’s Vinyl-who was along for the […]
Did anyone really know Lemmy? That I guess is the question you have to ask… I met him twice, both briefly, and both times as he signed autographs for me and as mass of other […]
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