ICONS OF ROCK will be an inspirational read for anyone with an ounce of creativity in their body and a frank and honest look at the experiences of some of rock's finest musicians.
Holly George-Warren Book order






- 2023
- 2020
Janis: Her Life and Music
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Focusing on Janis Joplin's life, this biography presents her as a revolutionary figure in music, highlighting her role as a trailblazer and a complex, gender-bending icon. The narrative delves into her intimate struggles and achievements, capturing the essence of her rebellious spirit and profound impact on rock and roll.
- 2020
Jennifer Juniper
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Jenny Boyd's extraordinary life is the stuff of movies and novels, twice married to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, sister of Pattie Boyd, and close associate of The Beatles, hers is a story of incredible people and places experienced at a pivotal time in the 20th century.
- 2019
The first biography of Janis Joplin to establish her as the rule-breaking trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was - based on unprecedented access to her family, friends, forgotten archives, and long-lost interviews.
- 2018
The Dream of Reason
- 72 pages
- 3 hours of reading
This stunning debut collection introduces a poetic voice marked by concision, focus, and image-driven strangeness that haunts a midwestern landscape.
- 2015
The Groupies was a special edition of Rolling Stone magazine published in 1969, and for the first time the photographs from that issue are featured in book form, together with previously unpublished images and behind-the-scenes shots and interviews.
- 2015
A Man Called Destruction
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Alex Chilton's story is rags to riches in reverse, beginning with teenage rock stardom and heading downward. Following stints leading 60s sensation the Box Tops ("The Letter") and pioneering 70s popsters Big Star, Chilton became a dishwasher. Yet he rose again in the 80s as a solo artist, producer, and trendsetter, coinventing the indie-rock genre. By the 90s, acolytes from R.E.M. to Jeff Buckley embodied Chilton's legacy, ushering him back to the spotlight before his untimely death in 2010. In this career-spanning and revelatory biography, longtime Chilton acquaintance Holly George-Warren has interviewed more than 100 bandmates, friends, and family members to flesh out a man who presided over--and influenced--four decades of American musical history, rendered here with new perspective through the adventures of a true iconoclast.--From publisher description
- 2015
The Cowgirl Way
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
A beautiful and fascinating nonfiction book about the history of cowgirls, by the author of Shake, Rattle, and Roll, and Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels.
- 2013
With candid photographs and in-depth analysis of what makes great musicians tick, this is the ultimate book for any music fan. číst celé
- 2009
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- 247 pages
- 9 hours of reading
One of music journalism’s most celebrated writers takes you behind the scenes of the hallowed temple of rock and roll in this in-depth retrospective of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Holly George-Warren, author of Punk 365 , Grateful Dead 365 , and co-author of The Road to Woodstock , offers a penetrating look at every musician, writer, producer, and performer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during its first twenty-five years. George-Warren recounts in detail their careers, influences, greatest hits, and tons of behind-the-scenes lore, along with hundreds of transcriptions of acceptance and induction speeches from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s vast archives that have never been published anywhere ever before. An unforgettable story accompanied by dozens of dazzling photographs, this unique compendium of rock’s greatest achievers is a crucial treasure for music lovers everywhere.