Paul Brannigan

Looks at the life of Dave Grohl, a rock star known for his work with Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures and the band he founded, Foo Fighters, in a book that draws on personal interviews with Nirvana producer Butch Vig, Queens of the Stone Age front man Josh Homme and Grohl himself.

The Life and Times of Dave Grohl

This Is a Call

Ian Winwood

Draws on exclusive interviews with band members and intimates to cover such topics as their family lives, their Grammy Award-winning achievements, and the tensions that challenged their pursuits.

The Biography

Birth School Metallica Death, Volume 1

Draws on exclusive interviews with the band's members and intimates, providing coverage of such topics as their family lives, their Grammy Award-winning achievements, and the tensions that challenged their pursuits.

The Inside Story of Metallica (1991-2014)

Into the Black

The Eddie Van Halen Story

Unchained

The first biography of Dave Grohl, drummer for the legendary band Nirvana and singer/songwriter for the Foo Fighters

This is a Call

There has never been a hard rock band like Metallica. The California quartet has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, won nine Grammy Awards, and had five consecutive albums hit number one on the Billboard charts. But Metallica’s story, epic in scope, is a tale about much more than sales figures and critical acclaim, and their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the world’s most storied stadiums has been dramatic and painful, their gigantic successes often shot through with tension, tragedy, loss, and controversy. Birth School Metallica Death is the definitive story of the most significant rock band since Led Zeppelin. Volume 1 covers the band’s formation up to their breakthrough eponymous fifth album, aka “The Black Album.” The intense and sometimes fraught relationship between aloof-yet-simmering singer, chief lyricist, and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield and the outspoken and ambitious drummer Lars Ulrich is the saga’s emotional core. Their earliest years saw the release of three unimpeachable classics—Kill ’Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets—genre-defining masterpieces that took hard rock to a new level, both artistically and commercially. During these tumultuous times, the band persevered through line-up changes when guitarist Dave Mustaine was replaced by Kirk Hammet, and their bass player, the beloved Cliff Burton, was tragically killed in a bus crash while on tour in Europe. But it was the breakthrough of …And Justice for All that rent the fabric of the mainstream, hitting the top of the charts without benefit of radio airplay or the then-crucial presence on MTV. And finally in 1991, with the release of their fifth studio album, nicknamed “The Black Album,” Metallica hit the next level—five hit singles including their best-known songs “Enter Sandman” and “Nothing Else Matters”—and their first album atop the Billboard charts. In Birth School Metallica Death, veteran music journalists and Metallica confidants Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood detail this meteoric rise to international fame in an epic saga of family, community, self-belief, the pursuit of dreams, and music that rocks. Told through first-hand interviews with the band and those closest to them, the story of Metallica’s rise to the mainstream has never been so vividly documented.

Essa biografia foi escrita baseada em dez anos de entrevistas exclusivas com o próprio Dave, e com pessoas ligadas a momentos importantes de sua vida e carreira como Josh Homme, Ian MacKaye e ButchVig, produtor do Nevermind. No livro Dave fala com carinho e honestamente sobre Kurt Cobain, as histórias do Nirvana e a caminhada do FooFighters para o sucesso.

A vida e a música de Dave Ghrol

This is a call

Die Biographie

Birth School Metallica Death

Écrire une biographie sur le touche-à-tout Dave Grohl pourrait sembler un choix curieux, les lecteurs étant plutôt habitués à le situer comme simple batteur de Nirvana, ce groupe fantastique qui a contribué à ajouter un chapitre important à l’histoire du rock. C’est sans compter avec le destin hors normes du bonhomme. Sa carrière embrasse plusieurs scènes, parmi les plus intéressantes de ces dernières décennies. Là réside l’intérêt de cette biographie, qui nous fait traverser la scène Hardcore des origines – où l’on croise Minor Threat, les Bad Brains, Black Flag et les autres. Puis on est embarqué dans le tourbillon sonique de Seattle, la fameuse scène Grunge. S'ensuivent les sonorités plus Heavy rock des Foo Fighters et le puissant Stoner des Queens Of The Stone Age. Cette biographie signée Paul Brannigan déroule l’histoire exceptionnelle d’un homme au destin peu ordinaire. Ce focus donne à la fois un aperçu intime et public de la vie de Dave Grohl. De Nirvana aux Foo Fighters, de la fraternité à la rivalité, des sommets époustouflants aux abîmes mortels, ce livre retrace l’histoire d’un homme qui laisse son empreinte dans l'histoire du rock américain. Paul Brannigan entretient avec Dave Grohl une relation professionnelle qui dure depuis une bonne quinzaine d’années. Paul Brannigan a été rédacteur en chef de Kerrang! – le plus gros hebdomadaire de rock du monde – et ses articles sur le punk-rock, le grunge et le hard-rock sont aussi parus dans les magazines Q et Mojo.

DAVE GROHL This is a call

CAMION BLANC

Dave Grohl Oto moje powolanie

Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch, saxophone-playing father, the brothers discovered the Beatles, Cream and others. From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new style of post-'60s hard rock and becoming the quintessential Californian band of the 1980s. But there was also an undercurrent of tragedy to their story, as Eddie's struggles played out in public, from his difficult relationship with the band's original singer, Dave Lee Roth, to substance abuse, divorce and his long-running battle with cancer. With unique insights, Paul Brannigan's Eruption reaches beyond the headlines to explore the cultural and social contexts that shaped this iconic guitarist, while also turning up the dial on a life lived at volume eleven.

Eruption

this is a call

Dave Grohl

Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll sagas. No music writers have been afforded greater access to Metallica over the years than Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former editors of Kerrang. Having conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with the band, they have between them gained an unparalleled knowledge of the group's history and an insiders' view of how their story has developed: they have ridden in the band's limos, flown on their private jet, joined them in the studio, been invited to the quartet's 'HQ' outside San Francisco and shared beers and stories with them in venues across the globe. There are countless memorable stories about the band never before seen in print, tales of bed-hopping and drug-taking and car-crashes and fist-fights and back-stabbing that occur when you mix testosterone and adrenaline, alcohol and egomania, talent and raw ambition. Perceptive, emotionally attached, and intellectually rigorous, Birth, School, Metallica, Death will be the essential and definitive story of this extraordinary band. Volume I takes us from the band's inception through to the recording and eve of release of their seminal, self-titled, 1991 album.

‘Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.’

Paul Brannigan

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