Martin Popoff est l'un des journalistes musicaux et auteurs les plus prolifiques de l'histoire, avec une vaste œuvre axée sur la musique rock et la collection de disques. Il est réputé pour ses nombreuses critiques de disques et ses analyses approfondies du genre, témoignant d'un engagement passionné envers son essence. À travers ses écrits et ses contributions à des documentaires, il explore l'évolution et l'impact du hard rock et du heavy metal. Son travail capture l'esprit de ces styles musicaux pour les passionnés et les auditeurs futurs.
This three-part series celebrates Canada's iconic rock band, offering the most comprehensive biography ever, combining cultural context and canon analysis. All based on extensive firsthand interviews with family, friends, musicians, and the boys in the band. Book two covers the height of Rush's popularity and is a look at all their 1980s albums.
Driven covers the last three decades of Rush, including the band's retirement and Peart's passing. There is much to celebrate, including a surprise platinum hit record to kick off the decade and a full-blown concept album, Clockwork Angels, to close off what is one of the most remarkable careers in rock history.
Meticulously organized in a timeline format, this visually stunning coffee table book chronicles over fifty years of music history. It serves as a comprehensive reference, presenting facts about the main band as well as offshoot bands and side projects. With an abundance of photographs, it balances a sober presentation of information with engaging visuals, making it a valuable resource for fans and music historians alike.
A comprehensive timeline celebrating Alice Cooper's entire career - full of new revelations and interviews turning up page after page.
Charts headbanging through the late `70s, arriving at the first years of this flash phenomenon - 1979 & 1980\. Popoff along with dozens of headbanging buddies tell the tale of the genre's birth & mischievous, defiant adolescence - heavy metal would forever be transformed. Wheels of Steel celebrates plainly & yet powerfully, all the reasons why.
Part one of the definitive biography of Rock 'n' Roll's kings of the North ... now in paperback! Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the early days of the band on tour and in the studio. With extensive, firsthand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, Anthem: Rush in the '70s is a pointed and detailed portrait of Canada's greatest rock ambassadors. The first of three volumes, Anthem puts the band's catalog, from their self-titled debut to 1978's Hemispheres (the next volume resumes with the release of Permanent Waves) into both Canadian and general pop culture context and presents the trio of quintessentially dependable, courteous Canucks as generators of incendiary, groundbreaking rock 'n' roll. Fighting complacency, provoking thought, and often enraging critics, Rush has been at war with the music industry since 1974, when they were first dismissed as the Led Zeppelin of the north. Anthem, like each volume in this series, celebrates the perseverance of Geddy, Alex, and Neil: three men who maintained their values while operating from a Canadian base, throughout lean years, personal tragedies, and the band's eventual worldwide success.
Popoff has undertaken the task of documenting virtually every record large and small from heavy metal's most fabled period (beginning essentially in `79 with a hard stop at 1983) providing catalogue information, mini reviews as only he can do, plus thumbnails of those wonderful 7 picture sleeves and LP covers.
Containing rare and previously unpublished material culled from Popoff's interviews over the last decade with all the principal members of the band - an exhaustive song-by-song, album-by-album trek through the Sab's 37-year history. Numerous one-on-one conversations with Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, as well as 10 interviews with Ronnie James Dio and additional interviews with supporting musicians make this full-colour retrospective a must-have for any fan. Rock on!
Loads of fresh interview content, all the facts and dates and even some of the hot disputes in this critical examination with new reflections on the NWOBHM and some of the detrimental things that came after for many bands, the heroes of our story included.
"A thoughtfully curated and gloriously illustrated retrospective of the band's studio releases, Queen, comes just in time for the 45th anniversary of their debut LP and biopic." -- Amazon.com