AC/DC: The Encyclopaedia

Takes key elements and subjects surrounding 'DC and presents them in alphabetical order, with each entry illustrated accordingly.

Presented as an A-Z listing of all the subjects, major or trivial, close to the hearts of the Metallica fans, including songs, albums, gigs, personnel, places and much more.

The warts-and-all autobiography of Lemmy Kilmister, the vicar's son who grew up to front Motorhead, arguably the loudest and most outrageous heavy metal band ever. The group remains at the top of their profession with a new album and tour scheduled for the year 2002.

In two decades, Metallica have sold over 85 million albums, making them one of the biggest extreme metal bands in American history. This edition includes details of Metallica's Some Kind of Monster film and subsequent world tour, and interviews of more than 75 prominent musicians, and others to know what happened in the world of Hetfield and co.

With more than 300 artist biographies and band stories, this is the essential heavy metal companion. Additional features include dozens of boxouts and sidebars on topics as diverse and disturbing as Weird Hobbies, Christian Metal, the Japanese Scene, Weird Day Jobs, the Eastern European Scene, Hardcore Crossover and Drummer Jokes.

A History of Progressive Rock. Progressive rock, championed in the 1970s by Pink Floyd and Yes, was hailed as the classical music of the future. It then fell from favour and was blasted into outer darkness by punk. First published in 1996, this fully revised and updated edition shows how Progressive Rock has continued to recover from its post punk low and includes both the surviving older bands ..

This is the story of one of the biggest selling heavy metal bands of all time, Metallica, and the album that helped them become so - known variously to their fans as Metallica , Untitled , or simply The Black Album .

Presents the story of one of the biggest selling heavy metal band - Metallica and the album that helped them become so. This work includes a list of various cover songs that Metallica ever played in the studio or on stage.

Mick Wall was a teenage Black Sabbath fan who, leaving school with no qualifications, somehow found himself working with the band. This is a story not about rock music but about rock life , an inside look at a corrupt multi-billion dollar industry in all its tawdry, self-deluding glory.