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Midnight Mover: Accept ’79-’96
is my 240-page book going through ever
Accept album of the Udo Dirkschneider
era one per chapter along with a
pretty good trawl through the Mark
Tornillo era. Gotta love Wolf and the
boys.
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Seven Decades of Deep Purple is
my crushingly heavy 640-page book
charting the complete Deep Purple
story, right up to the Simon McBride
album, =1. It’s the product of an
impressive upgrading of my previously
self-published books from eons ago,
and rendered hardcover and full-colour
throughout, including a few hundred
pictures and a pile more of my
personal interview footage.
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Taken by Force: Sixty Years of
Scorpions
is the updated, expanded and newly
appointed version of my Scorpions book
from 2016. There are new interviews,
new obscure outside citations, and
it’s been brought up to date with a
celebration of the most recent album,
Rock Believer.
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Walking in the Shadow of the Blues:
The Whitesnake Story
is the updated, expanded and newly
appointed version of my long
out-of-print Whitesnake book from
2015. People have been asking for this
one to come back for ages, and here it
is, featuring all manner of new bits
and pieces.
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Van Halen: A Visual Biography
is my full-colour, large format book
offering a detailed and scholarly
timeline of Van Halen’s career along
with hundreds of picture from before
the first album right up to the very
end.
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The Unholy Scriptures: The Complete
Unofficial Chronicle of Ronnie James
Dio’s Solo Canon
is my heavy, power-packed complete
story of the Dio band, combining two
previously self-published and
out-of-print books and updating the
tale as well. It’s full colour
throughout, hardcover, stuffed to the
covers with many pictures and even
more words.
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A Dangerous Meeting: In the Shadows
with Mercyful Fate
is my updated, expanded and somewhat
rewritten update on the celebrated
earlier version of this book,
available in four languages besides
English. It’s my song-by-song,
album-per-chapter book looking at the
exemplary catalogue of King Diamond’s
devilish original band, from Melissa
and Don’t Break the Oath in the ‘80s
to a vastly under-rated run of
top-shelf reunion records in the ‘90s.
The King Diamond catalogue gets a more
informal look-in along the way, but
yeah, most of this is about the hard,
spooky work that went into one of the
classiest metal catalogues of all
time.
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A Million Vacations: The Max
Webster Story
is my updated, expanded, somewhat
rewritten and newly copy-edited update
on the celebrated and long
out-of-print earlier version of this
book. It’s my most satisfying write
ever (at least for the straight
biographies) because it’s about a band
I’ve been known to call my favourite
Canadian act of all time. It’s over
100,000 words of Canuck obscurity, but
it also include Philip Kamin and Scott
Feeney photos of this Canadian
treasure.
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Hallowed by Their Name: The
Unofficial Iron Maiden Bible
is my mammoth 666-page book charting
the complete Iron Maiden story. It’s
the product of an impressive upgrading
of my previously self-published Iron
Maiden trilogy, and rendered hardcover
and full colour throughout.
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Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the
Seventies
is my all-encompassing 286-page
treatise on the first eight Black
Sabbath records and its makers. Every
song is analyzed, we discuss touring,
production, album covers, the whole
range from the teenage years in Aston
to the Never Say Die tour. Two
eight-page colour sections ice the
cake.
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Born Again! Black Sabbath in the
Eighties and Nineties
is my exhaustive 282-page analysis
of—and side dramas between—every
Sabbath album from Heaven and Hell to
Reunion. Included are two four-page
colour sections. This is the follow-up
to
Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the
Seventies. Lots of Ronnie, lots of the two
Tonys, and a little bit of Ian, Glenn
and Ozzy.
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Dominance and Submission: The Blue
Öyster Cult Canon
is my super-intensive wise panel
examination of every BÖC album,
weighing in at 306 pages of detailed
fretting over everything to do with
the band’s 14 albums. There’s also an
eight-page colour section plus myriad
other pictures of collectibles.
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Lights Out: Surviving the ‘70s with
UFO
is my new book examining the Mick
Bolton era of UFO, through to the end
of the classic Michael Schenker years,
namely the
Strangers in the Night live
album. To write the book, I’ve used as
the core, my out-of-print UFO book
from 2005, but basically doubled the
early years coverage that was in that
book.
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Lettin' Go: UFO in the '80s &
'90s
is the follow-up to Lights Out: UFO in
the '70s. Together the story is told
more complete than previously
attempted by anybody, I suppose, save
for my old all-decades book, Shoot Out
the Lights. This one was particularly
fun to do as the Tonka era is my
favourite.
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Blockbuster!: The Sweet Story
is the updated version of my Sweet
book from 2021. It’s the detailed,
very book-ish story of the band, but
most pertinently a deep-dive analysis
of every album, with no song
untouched. Come see why interest in
such records as Sweet Fanny Adams and
Give Us a Wink has never waned, and
come see why you should be snapping up
a copy of the band’s Off the Record
album from 1977 right now.
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Perfect Water: The Rebel
Imaginos
is the most disturbed and disturbing
book I’ve ever done, and therefore my
darling of all of them. It’s the
256-page (on premium cream stock)
follow-up to hit title
Flaming Telepaths: Imaginos
Expanded and Specified, same number of illustrations, twice
as conspiratorial and occulted and ten
times weirder. Even my drawings are
creepier.
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Uriah Heep: A Visual Biography
is my weighty 1.65 kg, 8 ½” x 12”
hardback coffee table book on Mick Box
and his merry Hammond heavies. The
chief mission is to showcase 600+
images over the course of 224 full
colour pages, on sumptuous 100 lb.
gloss paper. There’s also a
19,926-word band timeline that takes
in all solo projects as well.
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Popoff Archive – 1: Doom Metal
is my 232-page book of interviews with
members of Tiamat, Penance, Cathedral,
Down, Trouble, My Dying Bride,
Cemetary, Type O Negative, September
22, Memento Mori, Amorphis, In Ruins,
Orange Goblin, Candlemass, Crowbar,
Spirit Caravan, Sentenced, Solace,
Bronx Casket Co., Rapture, The
Gathering, Poisonblack and Witchfinder
General.
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Popoff Archive – 3: Hair Metal
is my 260-page book of interviews with
members of Ratt, Enuff Z’nuff, White
Lion, Guns N’ Roses, Quiet Riot,
Love/Hate, L.A. Guns, Girl, Def
Leppard, Twisted Sister, Ratt, Lynch
Mob, Skid Row, Dokken, Firehouse,
Poison, Tesla, W.A.S.P. and
Warrant.
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Led Zeppelin: All the Albums All
the Songs
is my very pretty 7 3/4” x 10” hard
cover, full colour through, 250 page
book in which I examine all 81 Led
Zeppelin songs in detail to the tune
of one to three pages. Tons of rare
photography and memorabilia shots fill
out the story, aided in that quest by
revealing sidebars and complete
discographical information.
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Kiss at 50 is my first Kiss
book ever, a spiffy coffee table tome,
hard cover, full colour throughout,
celebrating the band’s 50-year
anniversary by looking at 50 career
milestones. It’s gorgeously designed
by the esteemed Motorbooks team and
includes much fresh archival
photography to go along with my 50
mini-essays.
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Van Halen at 50 is my sparkly,
gorgeously-crafted book of 50 Van
Halen career highlights, augmented
with crisp and often rare photography.
It’s a hard-cover with yummy embossing
and spot-varnishing and there’s a
foldout timeline. Hardcover; 192
pages.
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David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll
Chameleon
is my Bowie@75 book just without the
slipcase and the extra paper goods and
greatly reduced in price. It’s a very
pretty, large-format hardcover book
and full-colour throughout. There are
75 well-designed spreads in which I
discuss 75 career highlights,
including an analysis of every studio
album.
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Judas Priest: Turbo ‘til Now is
my 110,000-word follow up to Judas
Priest: Decade of Domination, in which
we rock ‘n’ rolled from Rocka Rolla up
to Defenders of the Faith. Here we
bring the story right up to date,
beginning with 1986’s Turbo and
culminating in the band’s triumphant,
well-regarded Firepower.
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The Goldmine Heavy Metal Record
Price Guide
is the world's first price guide for
heavy metal records. The book is 368
large format 8 1/2 x 11 pages
comprising 11,800 separate
entries/prices for heavy metal LPs,
EPs and 12" singles from around
the world, 300 photos of rare booty,
thousands of descriptive notes, a
full-length 18 track Metal Blade CD,
interviews with Metal Blade's Brian
Slagel and Neat Records' Jess Cox, a
history and lengthy definition of
heavy metal and my Top 10 heavy
metal albums of each of the last 30
years. Click here
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Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the
Moon 50 Years
is my new coffee table book
celebrating the 50th anniversary of
The Dark Side of the Moon. It’s colour
throughout, hardcover and comes housed
in a die-cut slipcase featuring
rainbow silver prism rays.
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Feed My Frankenstein: Alice Cooper,
the Solo Years
is my detailed and extensive
time-line-and-quotes look at Alice
Cooper from
Welcome to My Nightmare through to
Detroit Stories. It’s a 97,362-word monster, with
lots of detail, fun facts and trivia.
Call it a reference book, call it an
oral history, let’s call for Alice to
run for President!
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Easy Action: The Original Alice
Cooper Band
is my detailed and extensive
time-line-and-quotes look at Alice
Cooper from the birth of Vincent and
the band in Phoenix through to Muscle
of Love. It’s a 75,000-word treatise,
with lots of detail, fun facts and
trivia. Tons of history and great
stories on the albums and tours.
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Honesty Is No Excuse: Thin Lizzy on
Record
is my 288-page deep-tissue massage
dive of the Thin Lizzy studio album
canon, conducted in Q&A format with an
esteemed panel of super-fans. It’s
part of the series that brought you
similar song-by song celebrations of
Robert Plant, Blue Öyster Cult and The
Cure. Included are memorabilia shots,
a full-colour eight-page photo
section, and a pile of fresh
conceptual approaches to interpreting
and appreciating the band’s 12
albums.
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Entangled: Genesis on Record 1969 –
1976
is a deep dive into each of the first
eight Genesis albums, from the poppy
debut with strings through to the last
one with Steve Hackett, Wind &
Wuthering. We head down the rabbit
hutch for fully 250 pages, and
hopefully at the end of it, this
intimidating bank of prog classics
will become even still warmer in your
heart.
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This is for the PAPERBACK version of
Limelight: Rush in the ‘80s, my
318-page deep dive into Rush’s most
popular albums and then most synth-y
albums. Limelight is the second book
of a trilogy. There are two eight-page
colour sections, but mainly lotsa
words, in fact, 114,000 of the little
critters.
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This is for the PAPERBACK version of
“runaway” hit
Anthem: Rush in the ‘70s, my
354-page deep dive into Rush’s origins
and their first batch of classic
records. Anthem is the first book of a
trilogy. There are two eight-page
colour sections, but mainly lotsa
words, in fact, 126,000 of the little
critters.
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This is for the PAPERBACK version of
Driven: Rush in the ‘90s and “In
the End”, my mammoth 415-page deep dive into
the wide expanse of years to close off
the trilogy, everything from Roll the
Bones through Clockwork Angels and the
personal tragedies marbled
throughout.
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Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers: The
Rise of Motörhead
is my 260 page book, published by the
very discerning ECW Press, about the
classic early lineup of the band,
featuring extensive interview footage
with Lemmy, Phil Taylor and Fast Eddie
Clarke. There’s an epilogue bringing
the story up to date—most notably with
the sad demise of both Phil and
Lemmy—but for all intents and
purposes, this is the take from the
debut through Iron Fist.
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Wild Mood Swings: Disintegrating
The Cure Album by Album
is my new panel discussion book
looking at every studio album by The
Cure. Every song is discussed at
length, with lots of analysis of
lyrics, production, instrumentation,
album cover art, personnel changes and
assorted Cure dramas. Included are
memorabilia shots and an eight-page
colour section.
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Lively Arts: The Damned
Deconstructed
although it’s formatted as a
black-and-white trade paperback, is
the best book I’ve ever done from a
writing standpoint. Okay, well, tied
with The Clash: All the Albums All the
Songs and Led Zeppelin: All the Albums
All the Songs, because it’s just that:
me analyzing every last damned Damned
song. One of my very dearest favourite
bands.
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