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Martin Popoff
Explore the extraordinary history of Van Halen through the groundbreaking band's 50 most important moments, brought to vivid life with photos and memorabilia.
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Meticulous, detailed reference-styled timelines, charting the history of this esteemed UK institution, from its inception to the band's posthumous last album, Coda, issued in 1982. This elegant coffee table book…
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This value-priced repackage of Bowie at 75celebrates the beloved rock star with expert commentary, hundreds of images, and an illustrated gatefold timeline.
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Authored by acclaimed rock writer Martin Popoff, AC/DC at 50 provides a visually stunning and authoritative celebration of the legendary Aussie rockers on their 50th anniversary.
Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon offers a generously illustrated deep dive into all aspects of one of the most popular rock albums of all time.
Perfect for the ultimate Led Zeppelin fan, this definitive anthology analyzes each of the 81 tracks on Zep’s nine studio albums in mind-boggling, awesome detail.
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The Who & Quadrophenia offers a generously illustrated deep dive into all aspects of one of the most popular rock albums of all time.
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Author Martin Popoff assembles a panel of experts to roll through the records one by one, no songs left unaddressed. There's been little written about Plant's solo journey. This book…
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THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS.
Established in 1976 at the fore London’s punk rock insurgence, The Clash would outlast their peers while creating…
Popoff assembles a panel of Lizzy scholars and devotees. Together they deconstruct each Thin Lizzy studio albums and every single song inside of them. It's likely that the most demanding…
Drawing on several thousand images this large format 240-page book is a treasure trove for Cult devotees-crammed full of live and off-stage shots and memorabilia that portray the band's journey…
With this beautifully produced book, relive the extraordinary history of the of the hottest band in the land through 50 milestone events.
Required reading for any metalhead, this updated compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations spanning all of Iron Maiden's studio albums includes 2021's Senjutsu.
KICKSTART MY HEART: A MOTLEY CRUE DAY-BY-DAY
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This visual biography timeline acts as a reference book, including the side-projects, and documents the parallel career paths of UFO and Michael Schenker since 1980, along with Waysted. Covering it…
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…
Documents Yes’s career from the eighties to the present day. Built around Popoff’s interviews with Anderson, Bruford, Howe, Squire, Wakeman, Downes, White and many others, leaving much of the story…
A detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil…
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.
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Drawing on several thousand images this large format 240-page book is a treasure trove for Thin Lizzy devotees-crammed full of live, off-stage shots and memorabilia that portray the band’s journey…
Popoff’s detailed timeline takes us through more than fifty years of massive rock history from this much-loved band. This differs from previous Uriah Heep books through the inclusion of so…
A photo-stuffed coffee table book with the entire fifty plus year history in meticulous timeline order - a rock-hard reference book, with the facts presented mostly soberly and efficiently. This…
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…
Millions of fans would attest that this is a band eminently deserving of a Visual Biography. From the single sleeves through the passes, posters and promo items and of course…
An esteemed panel of Cult experts dive deep to discuss every Blue Oyster Cult studio album. No stone is left unturned, as they look at the personalities in the band…
Part two of the definitive biography of the rock ‘n’ roll kings of the North
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…
Martin has the most thorough knowledge of heavy metal of anybody I’ve ever met. - Dee Snider Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, KISS … Purple Haze, Paranoid, Smoke on…
Driven covers the last three decades of Rush, including the band’s retirement and Peart’s passing. There is much to celebrate, including a surprise platinum hit record to kick off the…
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…
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…
This is first & foremost the story of the Montrose & Gamma records. But there’s a darker turn with Ronnie’s shocking suicide, before looking at his legacy by those who…
Nazareth's whole career documented by Martin Popoff and crammed full of live and off-stage shots and memorabilia that portray the band's journey through the decades. This is an updated version…
The first book ever on this classic British rock band UFO takes you through the Schenker era in great detail; album-by-album, song by song along with touring anecdotes and 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…
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…
The sequel to From Dublin To Jailbreak examines the second half of the band’s career from the making of 1977’s Bad Reputation to 1983’s Thunder & Lightning & the final…
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…
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…
Includes extensive commentary from Popoff’s many chats with those who were there, including Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton, K.K. Downing, Ian Hill, Scott Travis, Ripper Owens and Richie Faulkner, along with…
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…
The Damned are forever in the history books as the first UK punk band to get an album out: Damned Damned Damned with New Rose and Neat Neat Neat…
The Original Alice Cooper Group story in meticulous chronological detail. Corroborating the sequence of events are stories from the band themselves, who explain how they went from politely ignored pariahs…
A critical analysis of The Cure's 13 studio albums with detailed timelines. A mix of reference material and freewheeling opinion and analysis. A lively celebration of everything Robert Smith has…
Charts headbanging through the late “70s, arriving at the first years of this flash phenomenon - 1979 & 1980. Popoff along with dozens of headbanging buddies tell the tale of…
Lifelong fan and preeminent metal historian Martin Popoff examines the Priest’s rich legacy from 1974 to 1984, album by album, anthem by anthem, in this hugely expanded update on the…
Loads of fresh interview content, all the facts and dates and even some of the hot disputes in this critical examination with new reflections on the NWOBHM and some of…
