This book covers 3 epic tours in 1973 - The Who’s Quadrophenia, Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, and Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. The author covers them in some detail + also gives a bit of background putting them in context and argues that although there had been big stadium tours before, it was these particular artists at this ( Read more... )

Saw the last episode of Life of Rock, the spoof documentary on BBC4 - I actually quite liked it I think the last episode was my favourite as it had genuine clips of the rest of the Stones at Bill Wyman's wedding to Mandy Smith and Frances Barber as a groupie (based on Cynthia Plastercaster). Oh and things I didn't know I needed till I saw them - ( Read more... )

Telegraph at the weekend had a big feature on Dr Who’s 50th anniversary show (not long now!) plus Mark Gatiss talking about his drama based on the start of Dr Who, An Adventure in Space + Time (apparently it’s being shown on BBC2 on 21st November at 9pm). They also had interviews w/Lorde and playwright Jez Butterworth (discussing Mojo ( Read more... )

I re-read this book recently. Cyrinda is the blonde girl in the Jean Genie video (she also had an affair with David Bowie) - she also starred in a couple of Warhol things and was part of the early 70s scene in New York. She dated David Johansen of New York Dolls for a few years but their marriage didn't last long and she went off w/Steven Tyler of ( Read more... )

I got Marie Claire (some of the shops are selling issues with a choice of Ciate nail polish and next month they're doing a choice of Avon eyeliner/brow definer/red lipstick/BB cream). They also had an article on Sylvia Plath which mentioned that the Manics had written a song about her. They also had a piece on groupie style which namechecked Pam ( Read more... )

There are still quite a few books that came out in 2012 that I failed to track down so this list is just ones I read
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kGot Classic Rock which had a massive feature on Jimi Hendrix plus reviews of the new Velvet Underground reissue and Peter hook's book on Joy Division. They also gave a tiny mention to Kirk Hammett's book Too Much Horror Business and mentioned Groupie by Jenny Fabian (a thinly veiled account of a groupie's adventures in 60s London) in an article on ( Read more... )

I finished reading Trampled Underfoot, the oral history of Led Zeppelin - I really enjoyed it, very interesting read. Tho' I must confess I still like reading about Led Zeppelin a lot more than I actually like listening to them (there are only a few of their songs that I like). The book did have a bit about Lori (the 14 yr old that Jimmy had an ( Read more... )

Also got Classic Rock which had a big feature on Iron Maiden and a buyers guide to the Rolling Stones (they missed out a lot of their songs which I really love). They also had an article on Led Zeppelin - I never realised before reading this - they actually played their debut UK gig at Newcastle Mayfair ( Read more... )

Got the new issue of Gay Times which had articles on the history of the Terrence Higgins Trust and Pride as well as a bit on Catwoman and the Edinburgh Fringe. I went to Edinburgh Festival years ago and absolutely loved it, I would love to go back again sometime. This year Amanda Palmer & her husband neil Gaiman are doing An Evening with ... and ( Read more... )