Guns N' Roses at 40 (eBook)

Martin Popoff (Autor)

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2025
192 Seiten
Motorbooks (Verlag)
9780760394007 (ISBN)

Infos

Celebrate four exhilarating and rebellious decades of Guns N' Roses with this lushly illustrated journey through the band's biggest moments.Formed on Los Angeles' famed Sunset Strip in 1985, Guns N' Roses worked their way up from the club scene in less than three years to become a best-selling recording act and a top tour draw. Along the way, there was no shortage of controversy to accompany the accolades. In Guns N' Roses at 40, prolific rock biographer Martin Popoff curates 40 key touchstones in GN'R's career, charting their formation and early history, key concert appearances, groundbreaking releases, notable collaborations, business challenges, personal difficulties, band quarrels, and more. This beautifully produced tribute features:Stunning photography, both on and off the stageImages of band memorabiliaGuns N' Roses timelineComplete studio discographyPopoff covers it all:A history of the band's scruffy early days on Hollywood's Sunset Strip club sceneBackgrounds of founding members Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Steven AdlerRundowns of the key studio albums and the processes behind themAnalyses of the infamous incidents and controversies that seemed to follow the bandThe departures (and sometimes the returns) of key membersFirst-person interviews with bassists Duff McKagan and Tommy Stinson In examining 40 key pivot points in GN'R's now-forty-year history,Guns N' Roses at 40 provides a concise documentary-like view of the band that as much as any other helped drive a spike through the heart of hair metal. Combine this unique perspective with a gorgeous package and you have an indispensable addition to the collection of every fan.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 250 color & b-w photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Schlagworte: 1980s • 1990s • 40th • 40 Years • About • alan niven • albums • Anniversary • Appetite For Destruction • Axl Rose • bestselling • Blues Rock • books • buckethead • California • Chinese democracy • Christmas • coffee table • collectible • controversies • Dizzy Reed • Duff McKagan • eighties • Fan • fortieth • forty years • frank ferrer • Geffen Records • Gibson • Gift • giftable • gilby clarke • Glam Metal • GNR • gunner • guns and roses • Guns n Roses • Hair Metal • Hanukkah • Hard Rock • Heavy metal • History • Hits • Holiday • Hollywood • Izzy Stradlin • Josh Freese • Les Paul • Los Angeles • Lyrics • Matt Sorum • Memorabilia • merch • Metallica • Monsters of Rock • MTV • nineties • Nirvana • November Rain • One in a Million • Paradise City • Patience • photography • Photos • present • Punk Rock • Record • record deal • reunion tour • richard fortus • Rock • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame • Secret Santa • Singles • Slash • Songs • spaghetti incident • Steven Adler • stocking stuffer • Sunset Strip • sweet child o mine • Tommy Stinson • Tours • use your illusion • Video • Vinyl • welcome to the jungle • white elephant • yankee swap
• ISBN-13: 9780760394007 / 9780760394007