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 25
עמוד xi
... Musicians' untimely deaths. Lives filled with excess. Bizarre, unusual coincidence. Poignant, prophetic lyrics. Chilling, gripping circumstances. Rock and roll is an enigmatic body of culture. Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll ...
... Musicians' untimely deaths. Lives filled with excess. Bizarre, unusual coincidence. Poignant, prophetic lyrics. Chilling, gripping circumstances. Rock and roll is an enigmatic body of culture. Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll ...
עמוד xvi
... musicians, including a very nearsighted John Lennon, the courage to appear naturally on stage wearing glasses and not be hung up promoting a cool stereotypical image. As a matter of fact, Buddy Holly's look was the epitome of cool! If ...
... musicians, including a very nearsighted John Lennon, the courage to appear naturally on stage wearing glasses and not be hung up promoting a cool stereotypical image. As a matter of fact, Buddy Holly's look was the epitome of cool! If ...
עמוד 9
... musicians noticed that Johnson turned his back to the audience when he performed. This they took as sign that he had something to hide. Actually, he was hiding his guitar licks from the other players. When Eddie Van Halen first emerged ...
... musicians noticed that Johnson turned his back to the audience when he performed. This they took as sign that he had something to hide. Actually, he was hiding his guitar licks from the other players. When Eddie Van Halen first emerged ...
עמוד 10
... musicians arrived to begin their performance. It was suggested that wood alcohol or strychnine may have been the method of poisoning. Johnny Shines and other musicians claimed that Robert Johnson died after three days of intense ...
... musicians arrived to begin their performance. It was suggested that wood alcohol or strychnine may have been the method of poisoning. Johnny Shines and other musicians claimed that Robert Johnson died after three days of intense ...
עמוד 15
... musicians were not the first to be sacrificed upon the altar of musical stardom, but such a cataclysmic loss of life at such an early age foreshadowed countless others who would follow in their tragic path. Today, more than forty years ...
... musicians were not the first to be sacrificed upon the altar of musical stardom, but such a cataclysmic loss of life at such an early age foreshadowed countless others who would follow in their tragic path. Today, more than forty years ...
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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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