Dead Gods The 27 Club

Author : Chris Salewicz
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784295566
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Gods: The 27 Club written by Chris Salewicz and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Johnson. Brian Jones. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. Jim Morrison. Kurt Cobain. Amy Winehouse. They were inspirational, controversial, talismanic and innovative. They lead lives full of myth, scandal, sex, drugs and some of the most glorious music that has ever heard. Though each of their lives were cut tragically short at the age of 27, they would all leave the world having changed it irrevocably. Chris Salewicz tells, in intimate detail, the stories behind these compelling figures. From Robert Johnson and his legendary deal with the devil, to Jimi Hendrix appearing like a psychedelic comet on the London scene, through to Amy Winehouse's blazing talent and her savage appetite for self-destruction.

Author : Gene Simmons
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1576879585
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27 written by Gene Simmons and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer of 1969 was a momentous one in modern history. It was a season punctuated with change. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, thousands of young fans flocked to rock 'n' roll festivals like Woodstock and the controversial Altamont Freeway concert, the Manson Family cult were on a high-profile killing spree, and the first uprisings that would become the Stonewall Riots began. It was an electric summer of violent endings, new beginnings, and social unrest. It was also the summer that a myth was born-beginning with the tragic, untimely death of Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones. The world soon lost two more huge music stars: Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Not only did losing these three beacons of music culture seem to signal the end of a musical era, it also felt like a foreboding sign; they had all died at exactly the same age. All three had lost their lives at the pinnacle of their creative output, and all three were exactly 27 years old. People have speculated that there could be a dastardly lineage, from the poisoning of blues pioneer Robert Johnson in 1938, through these icons of the 60s, and more recently to rebel chanteuse Amy Winehouse's death from alcohol poisoning in 2011. Could it be a twisted fate that the world's very best creative souls come to early, often violent, deaths at just 27 years old? Over time, this idea began to be known as, "the 27 club," and it has persisted in the public imagination. In 27: The Legend and Mythology of the 27 Club, rock 'n' roll icon Gene Simmons takes a deep dive into the life stories of these legendary figures, without giving credence to the romanticized idea that being in the "club" is somehow a perverse privilege. Simmons wills us to acknowledge the extraordinary lives, not the sensational deaths, of the musicians and artists who left an indelible mark on the world.

Author : Terri Schlichenmeyer
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578598346
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Facts and Trivia written by Terri Schlichenmeyer and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, informative, and fun. Educational, trivial, and profound. Astonishing, amazing, and surprising. That’s history! Take a weird and wonderful tour of American history with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts! From Juan Ponce de León to John Wayne to Jane Doe to the little-known stories hidden inside bigger historical events, The Book of Facts and Trivia: American History combines the educational, profound, and trivial into a rich account of American history facts (and the interesting role Johns—and Juans and Janes—played along the way)! You’ll learn about the United States through hundreds of absorbing stories and interesting tidbits such as ... Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), had a pet alligator while in the White House. Graceland, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is America's second-most visited home. The first is Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. In 1970, Continental Airlines made it a policy that every disembarking male passenger got a kiss on the cheek from a stewardess. Twenty to twenty-five percent of cowboys in the mid-1800s were black. The first public service announcement meant to encourage Americans not to litter appeared in 1956. Washington is the most common city/town/village name in America, followed by Springfield and Franklin. Actor Jack Black’s mother was a satellite engineer and author who worked on the Hubble Telescope. Most of the Continental Congress officially signed the Declaration of Independence on July 2, 1776 (not July 4!). The Food Marketing Institute estimates that some two million shopping carts are stolen each year. Kansas City, Missouri, leads the nation in the number of fountains inside its city limits. The Statue of Liberty is 305 feet tall with a waist that's 35 feet across. And many more American history facts! An absorbing guide to history, The Book of Facts and Trivia is a treat of stories, facts, and trivia guaranteed to both inform and entertain. It’s a feast of fun oddities and compelling stories that make history delightfully entertaining and eye-opening!

Author : Sally Anne Gross
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1912656612
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can Music Make You Sick? written by Sally Anne Gross and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health.” Emma Warren (Music Journalist and Author). “Singing is crying for grown-ups. To create great songs or play them with meaning music's creators reach far into emotion and fragility seeking the communion we demand of it. However, music’s toll on musicians can leave deep scars. In this important book, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave investigate the relationship between the wellbeing music brings to society and the wellbeing of those who create. It’s a much needed reality check, deglamorising the romantic image of the tortured artist.” Crispin Hunt (Multi-Platinum Songwriter/Record Producer, Chair of the Ivors Academy). It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head. By listening to how musicians understand and experience their working lives, this book proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors show how careers based on an all-consuming passion have become more insecure and devalued. Artistic merit and intimate, often painful, self-disclosures are the subject of unremitting scrutiny and data metrics. Personal relationships and social support networks are increasingly bound up with calculative transactions. Drawing on original empirical research and a wide-ranging survey of scholarship from across the social sciences, their findings will be provocative for future research on mental health, wellbeing and working conditions in the music industries and across the creative economy. Going beyond self-help strategies, they challenge the industry to make transformative structural change. Until then, the book provides an invaluable guide for anyone currently making their career in music, as well as those tasked with training and educating the next generation.

Author : Sean Egan
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613732376
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac written by Sean Egan and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning—their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points—when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege—Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and the band's 1977 album Rumours became one of history's immortals, a true classic that remained in the charts for years and public affection forever. In the press, the ethereal Californian Stevie Nicks, the tormented rocker Lindsey Buckingham, the dignified English rose Christine McVie, the blunt-speaking John McVie, and the loquacious Mick Fleetwood have all regularly been astoundingly candid. This collection of interviews across the entirety of Fleetwood Mac's career features articles from such celebrated publications as Crawdaddy, New Musical Express, Circus, Creem, Mojo, Goldmine, Classic Rock, Blender, and Elle, as well as interviews that have never previously appeared in print. In it, readers will learn the Fleetwood Mac story from the band members' own mouths, and experience it contemporaneously rather than through hindsight.

Author : Rupert Till
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826432360
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Cult written by Rupert Till and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society.>

Author : Howard Sounes
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0306821680
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 27 written by Howard Sounes and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive, evidence-based history of the 27 Club (music stars who died at 27), examining its six most iconic members"

Author : Elaine Viets
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448303737
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Star is Dead written by Elaine Viets and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is on the last leg of her one-woman show when she suffers a sudden and fatal illness . . . but Angela Richman thinks there’s more to it. “Ageless” Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women onstage, fires her entourage – not for the first time – and makes a bitter enemy of the town’s powerful patriarch. After she collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, she ignores the advice of her doctors and discharges herself in order to return to LA. On the way to the airport she suffers a deadly coughing fit. It was poison. When Angela Richman’s friend, Mario, is arrested for the murder and faces the death penalty, she is compelled to investigate. With so many grudges held against the actress and Mario’s life on the line, the stakes are higher than ever.

Author : Richie Unterberger
Publisher : MBI Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0760352410
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bob Marley and the Wailers written by Richie Unterberger and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Marley and the Wailers documents the band's crucial role in establishing reggae's global popularity, with socially conscious lyrics that made Marley a symbol of pride and justice.

Author : Alexandria Bishop
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530496792
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 27 Club written by Alexandria Bishop and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wants to reach the top. To have it all. Fame, fortune, everything dreams are supposed to be made of. Erika Takai is no different. One Birthday. One Wish. That's all it would take to join the exclusive club. But at what cost? What happens when you finally reach the top, but realize too late that it's not what you dreamed it would be? After her 27th birthday, Erika will race against time to undo a deal she never meant to make and ensure she lives to see 28.