Bøger af Joel Mciver

Find out all you need to know about how John, Paul, George and Ringo became the most influential band of all time. Ultimate Beatles Collection charts the Fab Four's musical evolution through the sixties. Includes a fascinating biography of each member of the band, an introduction to the members' early years as school kids with love of American Rock and Roll. Also reveals the wide variety of members of The Beatles before settling on the Fab Four, the "Fifth Beatle," Beatlemania in the US, their films--HELP, A Hard Day's Night, Magical Mystery Tour, and Yellow Submarine--The Beatles' White Album, the band's split and their lives after The Beatles, including the murder of John Lennon and the untimely death of George Harrison. It also features a brief description and explanation for each song on the track for albums Please Please Me, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale, Help!, Revolver, and their alter-egos Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and more!

The very first book about the Anglo-American metal band Tool explores not only their uncompromising music but also their unsettling, self-made image based on mythological symbols and arcane theories. Now available in paperback.

OZZY and Black Sabbath is a must-have for fans of rock's bad boy and one of metal's most beloved bands, with full-color photos and behind-the-scenes stories from the band's iconic career.

"Taking the world by storm when it first dropped in 2016, Stranger Things combined all the best bits of sci-fi, horror and '80s nostalgia to create a world that had viewers gripped from the very start. We take you on an epic journey to Hawkins, Indiana, to explore the roots of Netflix's smash-hit show and to celebrate its monster success. You'll find profiles of the series' much-loved - and some less so - characters, meet the horrifying creatures of the Upside Down and discover in-depth breakdowns of the seasons so far including the recently aired 4th Season. And that's not all - for the super fans out there we also uncover the wonderful world of Stranger Things fandom and look at the merchandise, spin-offs and more inspired by the show."--

A comprehensive A-Z of over 100 Rap-Rock, Rap-Metal and Funk-Metal bands, including acts from the hip-hop and hardcore punk branches of metal. A full history of the events that led to the birth of nu-metal, starting with the story of grunge and the early rap-rockers, and bringing the story bang up to date with the latest generation of bands.The essential reference book for 21st century metal fans.Includes a foreword by Casey Chaos of Amen.

The seminal British band Motorhead have been rocking since 1975 and, led by the legendary Lemmy, show no signs of letting up. From early classics "Ace Of Spades", "Overkill" and "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith", the band have racked up an incredible 24 albums, with the 25th due before the end of 2010. "Overkill" tells the whole story of the ultimate rock 'n' roll trip, through original interviews with those that were there.

Singer, bassist, and songwriter Glenn Hughes is a living, breathing embodiment of rock music. This is his story - the highs, the lows, and all points in between. The foreword is by Glenn's long-time fan Lars Ulrich, drummer in Metallica.Previously only available for purchase at Glenn's spoken word event at the Cafe de Paris in London on 25th February 2017, this hardback edition is now available worldwide.Hughes formed acclaimed funk-rock band Trapeze in the early 1970s, before joining Deep Purple at their commercial peak. Flying the world in the Starship, the band's own Boeing 720 jet, Hughes enthusiastically embraced the rock superstar lifestyle. When the band split in 1976 Hughes embarked on a breakneck run of solo albums, collaborations and even a brief, chaotic spell fronting Black Sabbath. All of this was accompanied by cocaine psychosis, crack addiction and other excesses, before he survived a clean-up-or-die crisis and embarked on a reinvigorated solo career enriched by a survivor's wisdom.

One of Britain's most popular and enduring rock bands over the last 25 years, Thunder have opened up their archives for the first time for this lavish visual, oral history.

The updated version of McIver's bestselling biography explores the aftermath of Metallica's comeback in the wake of 2008's Death Magnetic.

An unauthorised biography of the most pro-actively political rock band on the planet.

The story is a classic rise, fall and rise again scenario -- they exploded onto the metal scene in 1994, enjoyed a successful string of albums and then lost their way in the nu-metal era.

In 2001, Slipknot Unmasked was the very first biography of a heavy metal phenomenon: a band who looked and sounded like no other.

An updated edition covers the release of the Kings' 2010 album Come Around Sundown, the extensive dates which followed the release and the band's documentary Talihina Sky

This updated edition of the first ever book about Queens Of The Stone Age takes in nine years of chaos.

Joel McIver's brand-new, updated volume brings the story up to date with the tale of Sabbath's near-miraculous return to form with the Rick Rubin-produced 13 album, which topped charts worldwide on its release in 2013.