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 31
עמוד xv
... tragic legacy of Buddy Holly. Holly was one of the first white artists to take the black man's music and adapt it to a more diverse audience. When he and his band the Crickets were signed to their first label, Brunswick, the record ...
... tragic legacy of Buddy Holly. Holly was one of the first white artists to take the black man's music and adapt it to a more diverse audience. When he and his band the Crickets were signed to their first label, Brunswick, the record ...
עמוד xvii
... tragic death. Another coincidence that concerned Buddy Holly involved the Who's drummer, Keith Moon. Moon had long been known as a wild man of rock. His drinking and other madcap exploits were legendary. The last album Moon made with ...
... tragic death. Another coincidence that concerned Buddy Holly involved the Who's drummer, Keith Moon. Moon had long been known as a wild man of rock. His drinking and other madcap exploits were legendary. The last album Moon made with ...
עמוד 10
... tragic death. Some sources say Robert Johnson was stabbed or shot to death by a jealous girlfriend or by one of his many lovers' avenging spouses. The legendary account of his death hints of Johnson being poisoned by a jealous husband ...
... tragic death. Some sources say Robert Johnson was stabbed or shot to death by a jealous girlfriend or by one of his many lovers' avenging spouses. The legendary account of his death hints of Johnson being poisoned by a jealous husband ...
עמוד 11
... tragic element of Johnson's life as well as in his music. One of the strangest parallels with Robert Johnson concerns the birth and rise to fame of Elvis Presley. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, just 126 miles north of ...
... tragic element of Johnson's life as well as in his music. One of the strangest parallels with Robert Johnson concerns the birth and rise to fame of Elvis Presley. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, just 126 miles north of ...
עמוד 15
... tragic path. Today, more than forty years since the crash, the events of that terrible night and the strange sequence of coincidences that have followed have become the very substance of urban legend. Many rumors, as well as conspiracy ...
... tragic path. Today, more than forty years since the crash, the events of that terrible night and the strange sequence of coincidences that have followed have become the very substance of urban legend. Many rumors, as well as conspiracy ...
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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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