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Mick Wall

    June 23, 1958

    Mick Wall is an acclaimed author and journalist with over 35 years of immersion in the music industry. He began his career contributing to influential music publications, adeptly covering a spectrum of genres from punk and new wave to hard rock and heavy metal. His extensive experience includes pivotal roles in the early days of Kerrang! magazine and founding Classic Rock magazine, establishing him as a leading voice in rock journalism. Wall's deep insight into the music scene and his ability to capture its essence make him an authoritative figure in the field.

    Mick Wall
    When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
    Black Sabbath
    Run to the Hills
    Lemmy
    Enter Night Metallica
    50 Years of Led Zeppelin: When Giants Walked the Earth
    • 2023

      'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', yet for The Eagles their story was one where the dividing line between ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows was blurred beyond recognition, blinded by white-powdered double-visions and buried beneath greenback mountains. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, almost supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with bloodletting betrayal, hate-filled hubris, the skeletons of perceived enemies, brutally discarded lovers and former band mates left unburied in the road behind them. The story of The Eagles is a truly gothic American fable: one of ultimate power and rivers of money; of sex and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of sophisticated So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful easy feelings in public while threatening to kill each other in private.Now, for the first time, esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will provide the definitive insight into America's best-selling band of all time, a band who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame, and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world.

      Dark Desert Highway
    • 2023

      The definitive story of 'the American Beatles', The Eagles - America's best- selling band of all time

      Eagles - Dark Desert Highway
    • 2023

      Hercules!

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      An 'A to Z'-format biography of one of the most successful pop artists of all time.

      Hercules!
    • 2021

      Kompletní příběh největší americké rockové kapely. Exkluzivní archivní materiály z legendárního magazínu Classic Rock. Unikátní fotky, živé rozhovory, úplná diskografie slovy Stevena Tylera a Toxic Twins, recenze, info ze zákulisí. Podrobná překladová publikace, plná detailních informací i vzácných dobových fotek. Zrození rockové legendy, život členů kapely, za oponou vzniku alb, úplná diskografie, recenze a rozhovory. V roce 1970 povstala z temných koutů Bostonu ve státě Massachusetts pětice psanců s jasným cílem – stát se tou nejslavnější rockovou kapelou v historii Ameriky. Právě tak a nejinak se zrodili Aerosmith… Exkluzivní rozhovory: Tyler, Perry, Whitford, Hamilton i Kramer! Deska za deskou: Klasiky Aerosmith slovy Stevena Tylera a dalších. Hollywoodští upíři: Bezkonkurenční superskupina. Perryho a Johnnyho Deppa. Zázračná léta: Jak Aerosmith kralovali divokým sedmdesátkám.

      Aerosmith : kompletní příběh
    • 2020
    • 2020

      Like a Bat Out of Hell

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      In this candid, intimate and definitive biography of rock's larger-than-life legend, the extraordinary story of Meat Loaf is brought up to date by international bestselling author Mick Wall.'A passionate, pacey tome you should do anything for a copy of' KERRANG

      Like a Bat Out of Hell
    • 2019

      Ich rede zu viel

      Die Autobiografie

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Francis Rossi begann seine Karriere 1962 mit einer Band, die 1967, als Rick Parfitt dazukam, zur Legende Status Quo wurde. In den 70ern fanden sie ihren unverwechselbaren Stil: bodenständiger Boogie-Rock mit hohem Kopfnicker-Potenzial, der Hits wie „Whatever You Want“ und „What You're Proposing“ hervorbrachte. Rossi erzählt spritzig von seinem Leben, das Höhen und Tiefen bereithielt. Ihren ersten Hit feierten sie während der Flower-Power-Zeit mit dem psychedelischen „Pictures Of Matchstick Men“. Status Quo bewiesen, dass man für großen Erfolg keine aufwendigen Kostüme braucht, wenn man Songs wie „Down Down“, „In The Army Now“ oder „Rockin' All Over The World“ hat. Letzterer eröffnete 1985 Live Aid, den größten Rock-Event aller Zeiten. Bob Geldof bemerkte, dass sich später nur Quo und Queen erinnern würden. Die Band hatte insgesamt 65 Hitsingles und 32 Hitalben, die Rossi finanziell begünstigten, obwohl er das Geld schnell wieder ausgab. Rossi reflektiert auch über seine Beziehung zu Parfitt, der 2016 starb, und spricht offen über seine eigenen Dämonen, Alkohol und Drogen. Mit viel Selbstironie blickt er auf die Klischees von Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll zurück, was das Buch zu einem großartigen Zeitdokument und einzigartigen Lesevergnügen macht.

      Ich rede zu viel
    • 2018

      They released no singles; most of their albums have no lettering or titles of any description; they spent their early years touring in America - but all that aside, Led Zeppelin remain probably the greatest, biggest-selling heavy rock band of all time. This book tells their story.

      50 Years of Led Zeppelin: When Giants Walked the Earth
    • 2017
    • 2016

      Foo Fighters: learning to fly

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.7(28)Add rating

      Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the death of Kurt Cobain and the resulting dissolution of his previous band

      Foo Fighters: learning to fly