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Martin Popoff
Timeline of milestones to the day, looks at the band’s influences, tours, recording sessions, charts, singles, break-ups, personal stuff, trivia, mixed with lots of quotes, turning the book into a…
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Popoff has undertaken the task of documenting virtually every record large and small from heavy metal’s most fabled period (beginning essentially in “79 with a hard stop at 1983) providing…
Bowie at 75 celebrates the anniversary of the rock icon’s birth with this beautifully produced retrospective of 75 touchstone achievements and life events.
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Megadeth’s career from the start to its decline as Dave Mustaine’s destructiveness threatened to kill the band: A story untold… until now. With over sixty books to his name, Popoff…
Queen experts delve into the history, album by album, of one of the most popular rock bands of all time in the lavishly designed and illustrated Queen.
This three-part series celebrates Canada’s iconic rock band, offering the most comprehensive biography ever, combining cultural context and canon analysis. All based on extensive firsthand interviews with family, friends, musicians…
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Deep Purple timeline from 1980-2011: Tour stuff, recording sessions, charts, singles, certification news, break-ups, personal stuff, trivia for miles, lots of quotes & loaded with factual matter about the family-Rainbow…
Incorporating talk from over 60 interviews conductive with band members and other relevant parties over 25 years, this is the most in-depth examination ever executed. We hear the gripes, snipes…
In 1974, Alice Cooper shocked the rock world, scooped up his makeup kit and went solo. Get on board and get a sense of how each and every one of…
The first ever book about the outspoken American rocker. The detailed story from the Amboy Dukes through to Love Grenade, offering all manner of fresh perspective in the author’s interviews…
The most detailed, well argued, complete, most lively and readable telling of the early history of heavy metal yet with all the facts and figures one needs. The book provides…
Popoff blasts through all of the big events from “81 to "84, in this action-packed book that serves as concluding volume to Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of…
Nazareth’s whole career documented in words by Martin Popoff and crammed full of live and off-stage shots and memorabilia that portray the band’s journey through the decades. A future collector’s…
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The story of Angel is of a band out of time. Despite tons of promotion they racked up a million dollars of debt without the record sales to justify the…
A revised and expanded version of Popoff's previous Dublin To Jailbreak, based on the author's interviews with Eric Bell, Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Gary Moore, Brian Robertson, Terry O'Neill and…
Rush: Album by Album, from rock journalist and Rush authority Martin Popoff, pays tribute to the band’s discography by moderating frank, entertaining conversations about all 20 of Rush’s studio albums.
Documents the band with analysis of every song the Teutonic tone-masters ever crafted from Lonesome Crow to the retirement album Sting In The Tail, and into Comeblack - the stories…
Gillian G. Gaar, Martin Popoff, Richie Unterberger, Matt Anniss, Ken Micallef
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the first commercial LP, In the Groove is an authoritative and visual celebration of the history and culture of vinyl record collecting and turntables.
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Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motorhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, Fast Eddie Clarke, and Phil Philthy Animal Taylor. Through interviews with all…
The definitive biography of the rock ‘n’ roll kings of the North With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends…
The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock ‘n’ roll kings of the North. In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada’s most beloved and successful…
Martin Popoff, Hugh Syme, Sean Kelly
One of hard rock's best kept secrets, Y&T (originally Yesterday & Today) burst out of the fertile San Francisco Bay Area music scene in 1974. From their 1976 debut to…
Spanning the 50-year history of metal, this book showcases the finest examples of art defining the genre!
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