Alice Cooper In The 1980s
(Chris Sutton - Sonicbund Publications)
After a previous decade in which Alice Cooper (band) achieved fame and notoriety in equal measures plus a timeless anthemic...
Rory Gallagher – Portraits (Rufus Publications)
Asked once by a critic "What does it feel like to be the best guitarist in the world?" Jimi Hendrix is said to have...
Van Der Graaf Generator in The Seventies
Van Der Graaf Generator In The Seventies was written by Steve Pilkington* (Sonicbond Publications).
There’s always been a kind of glorious oddness about this band,...
Richard West may be a writer as he pens his life in ‘Threshold’
Threshold, for anyone who doesn’t know, are a prog/metal band that combines thoughtful lyrics and propulsive melodies alongside some quite intricate song arrangements and...
Keith Emerson: The Official Illustrated Story by Chris Welch
Keith Emerson passed away in 2016, having taken his own life. From the outside looking in, this appeared most unlike the bombastic keyboard pioneer...
Led Zeppelin – Five Glorious Nights at Earls Court
(Author: Dave Lewis. Released via Rufus Publications)
On May 17th to May 25th 1975, over a period of seven days, Led Zeppelin performed a series...
Legendary WASP captured in pictures by Ross Halfin
Meet W.A.S.P.. the band who once ‘rocked and shocked the world,’ the band the Moral Majority would most like to murder and the only...
BON JOVI 1984-94, A Photographic History by Ross Halfin
Bon Jovi is the latest book of pictures by photographer to the rock gods, Ross Halfin. It runs to 400 pages and this unique...
Big Big Train – Between the Lines; the story of a rock band
Grant Moon … (Burning Shed ..hardback, £49.99)
Some bands explode onto the scene and make an immediate impact, while others take an eternity to...
PEARL JAM – Every Album, Every Track
(Ben Connor ….. Sonicbond publishing … £15.99, P/b)
Ben Connor’s contention, after an exhaustive and detailed examination of every track on every album, is Pearl...
