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Rock 'n' Roll Babylon,Gary Herman- 9780859653183
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- English
- Book Title
- Rock 'n' Roll Babylon
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- Music
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- Number of Pages
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Rock'n'roll Babylon is a book as legendary as its subject. As Hollywood Babylon exposed the often squalid truth behind Hollywood's glamorous facade, so Rock'n'roll Babylon goes behind the headlines and uncovers the many sordid stories and scandals that have rocked the music business. Rock stars are often victims of their own success and Rock'n'roll Babylon takes apart the whole phenomenon of rock stardom for the first time: its highs and lows, its absurdities and tragedies, its pleasures and pain. Gary Herman cuts through the illusions and with the help of 220 rare photographs exposes the decadence and degradation of drug-taking, sex-crazed rock stars. The list is endless - Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Lennon, Bowie, Keith Richards, Sid Vicious, Madonna, Prince, Kurt Cobain, Robbie Williams - all pushed to extremes by the combined muscle of commerce, creativity and audience adulation. Rock'n'roll Babylon is more than an expose of the rock sub-culture. Guaranteed to shock, excite and provoke it explains who did what to whom in the rock world, and argues a convincing case that, in the author's words, 'one way or another the rock world eats its own young'. This completely revised and updated edition casts a jaundiced eye over the key events that have rocked the rock'n'roll world of the nineties and early 21st century. These include the deaths of Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates, the ups and downs of Robbie Williams' career, the controversial figures of Eminem and Marilyn Manson, the arrests and murders that have plagued the hip hop world, the phenomenon of boy bands, the fights and sackings connected to girl bands and Oasis's many calamities. The book also looks at the individual episodes of George Michael's public humiliation, the phenomenon of star-stalkers and the attempted murders of George Harrison and Bjork, Mick Jagger's paternity tests and subsequent divorce and examines the changing attitudes and increasing tolerance shown by the public towards its idols. Gary Herman attended the revolutionary Sussex University in the sixties, during the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement, student sit-ins and psychedelia. However, his real education was gained on the road, in recording studios and backstage at parties where he became intimately involved with many rock stars, hanging out with them and exchanging gossip in endless hotel corridors, bathrooms, dressing rooms and bars.
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Rock 'n' Roll Babylon
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Paperback
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English
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Music
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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1mm
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1mm
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