Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and CursesSimon and Schuster, 16 ביוני 2008 - 304 עמודים Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons. Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a delectable feast of strange and occasionally frightening rock and roll tales, featuring the ironies associated with the tragic deaths of many rock icons, unsolved murders, and other tales from the "fell clutch of circumstance." Beginning with the fateful place where it all started -- a deserted country crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil -- through the Buddy Holly curse (rock and roll's first great tragedy) and beyond, this incredible volume uncovers some of rock and roll's most celebrated murders, twists of fate, and decades-long streaks of bad luck that defy rational explanation. Inside you'll find:
Carefully researched, wildly enjoyable, and often harrowing, Take a Walk on the Dark Side takes the reader on a mysterious ride through rock and roll history. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 81
עמוד xiv
... death of his uncle. According to his mother, his uncle had died at approximately the same hour we heard the howling ... deaths: one, Steve Allen Lewis, named for the television host and announced enemy of rock and roll, drowned in a ...
... death of his uncle. According to his mother, his uncle had died at approximately the same hour we heard the howling ... deaths: one, Steve Allen Lewis, named for the television host and announced enemy of rock and roll, drowned in a ...
עמוד xvii
... death of these three young stars has played a major role in rock and roll mythology. It seemed that tragedy would continue to pursue other associations with Buddy Holly. His birthplace in Lubbock, Texas, was condemned for demolition on ...
... death of these three young stars has played a major role in rock and roll mythology. It seemed that tragedy would continue to pursue other associations with Buddy Holly. His birthplace in Lubbock, Texas, was condemned for demolition on ...
עמוד 3
... death. Members of the crowd had heard the legend. This was Robert Johnson. The same man who had waited at the crossroads and made his pact with Satan himself. In exchange for the ability to play the blues, and enjoy the adoring company ...
... death. Members of the crowd had heard the legend. This was Robert Johnson. The same man who had waited at the crossroads and made his pact with Satan himself. In exchange for the ability to play the blues, and enjoy the adoring company ...
עמוד 7
... death, which many readers believe to have been a suicide, Laertes asks the priest, “What ceremony else?” The priest replies, “Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd/As we have warranties; her death was doubtful;/And, but that great ...
... death, which many readers believe to have been a suicide, Laertes asks the priest, “What ceremony else?” The priest replies, “Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd/As we have warranties; her death was doubtful;/And, but that great ...
עמוד 10
... death are shrouded in mystery. Though it is evident that he was murdered, there are many variations to his tragic death. Some sources say Robert Johnson was stabbed or shot to death by a jealous girlfriend or by one of his many lovers ...
... death are shrouded in mystery. Though it is evident that he was murdered, there are many variations to his tragic death. Some sources say Robert Johnson was stabbed or shot to death by a jealous girlfriend or by one of his many lovers ...
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The Devil Went Down to Georgia | 37 |
Mr Crowley | 57 |
Sympathy for the Devil | 71 |
The Sorcerers Apprentice | 99 |
Welcome to the Hotel California | 139 |
The Backward Mask and Other | 163 |
The Club | 217 |
Notes | 263 |
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