BOOKS AVAILABLE AT CHEAP PRICES!

I’ve got some very slightly damaged copies of some of my books available, at cheap prices. These maybe have the cover a little bent, or look a little “flipped through” as they had been in stores and are since returned. Seriously, they aren’t that bad. But, if you don’t mind getting a less than Mint copy of one of my books, at a discount…

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Judas Priest: Album by Album is my plush and lush hardcover coffee table book where I do a Q&A with an esteemed panel, covering every studio album from Rocka Rolla to Invincible Shield. Included are conversations with Pete Pardo, Marty Friedman, Todd La Torre, Charlie Benante, Marty Friedman, Devin Townsend and Slash. It’s 240 gorgeously designed pages, a dream theater of images and words, really.


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Behind the Lines: Genesis on Record 1978 – 1997 is my tried and tested panel discussion format book on the last seven Genesis albums, from And Then There Were Three through to Calling All Stations. It’s 250 pages of some very surprising things said, and many, many songs treated much more seriously than you ever imagined. There’s an eight-page colour section plus lots more memorabilia shots.


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Entangled: Genesis on Record 1969 – 1976 is a deep dive into each of the first eight Genesis albums, from the poppy debut with strings through to the last one with Steve Hackett, Wind & Wuthering. We head down the rabbit hutch for fully 250 pages, and hopefully at the end of it, this intimidating bank of prog classics will become even still warmer in your heart.


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David Bowie: Rock ‘n’ Roll Chameleon is my Bowie@75 book just without the slipcase and the extra paper goods and greatly reduced in price. It’s a very pretty, large-format hardcover book and full-colour throughout. There are 75 well-designed spreads in which I discuss 75 career highlights, including an analysis of every studio album.


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Run with the Wolf: Rainbow on Record is my 308-page hugely involved dive into the Rainbow (and Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow!) catalogue, with On Stage and Finyl Vinyl included, along with, of course, Stranger in Us All. For this one I’ve assembled my biggest panel yet, and it just might be my favourite eight-page colour section as well. It’s part of the series that brought you similar song-by song celebrations of Thin Lizzy, Robert Plant, Blue Öyster Cult and The Cure. Included are memorabilia shots and a pile of fresh conceptual approaches to interpreting and appreciating the band’s moat metal motifs.


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Iron Maiden: Album by Album is my 270-page hard cover, full-colour coffee table book in which I have two to four NWOBHM-loving experts participate in a roundtable discussion of one Iron Maiden studio album until, by the time we get to Senjutsu, we’re all worn out, amen. This is an updated, instigated to bring the catalogue up-to-date. There are also nine new pictures and a spiffy new embossed and spot-varnished cover.


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Van Halen at 50 is my sparkly, gorgeously-crafted book of 50 Van Halen career highlights, augmented with crisp and often rare photography. It’s a hard-cover with yummy embossing and spot-varnishing and there’s a foldout timeline. Hardcover; 192 pages.


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Led Zeppelin: A Visual Biography is my detailed timeline looking at Led Zeppelin’s awesome but tragically shortened career, including recognition of every concert. It’s hard-cover, full colour throughout, tons of memorabilia and live shots, the perfect handy-dandy reference coffee table book for all things golden-era Zep.


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Queen Live! is essentially one of my classic timeline presentations but with a live emphasis. Here we include the usual full-colour-throughout, hard-cover coffee table format, plus live shots and record sleeves, ads and newspaper clippings, but the day-by-day is tilted towards Queen’s live career, which lurched to a halt as Freddie tragically got ill. Many surprises occur, in terms of where Queen visited and where they didn’t and how many times. A separate entry for every gig. This is the book in your living room that will serve silently to keep the record straight when Brian pops over for tea.


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Honesty Is No Excuse: Thin Lizzy on Record is my 288-page deep-tissue massage dive of the Thin Lizzy studio album canon, conducted in Q&A format with an esteemed panel of super-fans. It’s part of the series that brought you similar song-by song celebrations of Robert Plant, Blue Öyster Cult and The Cure. Included are memorabilia shots, a full-colour eight-page photo section, and a pile of fresh conceptual approaches to interpreting and appreciating the band’s 12 albums.


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Pictures at Eleven: Robert Plant Album by Album is my 288-page deep-tissue massage dive of the Robert Plant solo studio album canon, conducted in Q&A format with an esteemed panel of super-fans. It’s part of the series that brought you similar song-by song celebrations of Thin Lizzy, Blue Öyster Cult and The Cure. Included are memorabilia shots, a full-colour eight-page photo section and a detailed timeline of Robert’s provocative and inspiring career as fearless explorer of time-travelled music.


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Blue Öyster Cult: A Visual Biography is the updated softcover edition of the original 2020 book, which is now discontinued. The chief mission is to showcase 420 live and memorabilia images over the course of 240 large-format full-colour pages on gloss paper. There’s also a fulsome, 15,000-word band timeline with quotes that takes in all manner of solo project.


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Perfect Water: The Rebel Imaginos is the most disturbed and disturbing book I’ve ever done, and therefore my darling of all of them. It’s the 256-page (on premium cream stock) follow-up to hit title Flaming Telepaths: Imaginos Expanded and Specified, same number of illustrations, twice as conspiratorial and occulted and ten times weirder. Even my drawings are creepier.


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Kiss at 50 is my first Kiss book ever, a spiffy coffee table tome, hard cover, full colour throughout, celebrating the band’s 50-year anniversary by looking at 50 career milestones. It’s gorgeously designed by the esteemed Motorbooks team and includes much fresh archival photography to go along with my 50 mini-essays.


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The Who and Quadrophenia is my new super-plus celebration upon the 50-year anniversary of The Who’s double opus concept album Quadrophenia. It’s hardcover, full colour throughout and presented in a hardshell slipcase.


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Dominance and Submission: The Blue Öyster Cult Canon is my super-intensive wise panel examination of every BÖC album, weighing in at 306 pages of detailed fretting over everything to do with the band’s 14 albums. There’s also an eight-page colour section plus myriad other pictures of collectibles.


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Hawkwind: A Visual Biography is the updated softcover edition of the original book, which was hardcover and came out in 2021. The chief mission is to showcase 350 images over the course of 224 full colour pages on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a fulsome band timeline with quotes that takes in all solo projects and underground releases.


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Nazareth: A Visual Biography is the updated softcover edition of the original book, which was hardcover and came out in 2021 as Loud ‘n’ Proud: 50 Years of Nazareth. It covers the band’s 1968 origins through to this day. The chief mission is to showcase 615 images over the course of 240 full colour pages. There’s also a detailed band timeline with extensive and revealing quotes from the band that takes in all the solo projects as well.


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Emerald: Thin Lizzy’s Golden Era, Thin Lizzy 1969-76 is my updated, re-edited and added-to version of From Dublin to Jailbreak: Thin Lizzy 1969-76. The book is now a softcover, with other certain changes made to make it consistent with your copy of The Sun Goes Down: Thin Lizzy’s Final Years , Thin Lizzy 1977-83.


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Wild Mood Swings: Disintegrating The Cure Album by Album is my new panel discussion book looking at every studio album by The Cure. Every song is discussed at length, with lots of analysis of lyrics, production, instrumentation, album cover art, personnel changes and assorted Cure dramas. Included are memorabilia shots and an eight-page colour section.


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This is for the PAPERBACK version of Driven: Rush in the ‘90s and “In the End”, my mammoth 415-page deep dive into the wide expanse of years to close off the trilogy, everything from Roll the Bones through Clockwork Angels and the personal tragedies marbled throughout.


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AC/DC at 50 is my new coffee table book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Australia’s finest. It’s colour throughout, hardcover, and is similar in concept to my recent Bowie @ 75; here we tell the story through 50 chronological career highlights.


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Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon 50 Years is my new coffee table book celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon. It’s colour throughout, hardcover and comes housed in a die-cut slipcase featuring rainbow silver prism rays.


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Killing the Dragon: Dio in the ‘90s and 2000s tells the rest of the Dio band story, following upon Dream Evil: Dio in the ‘80s. Like that book, this is an exhaustive analysis of the catalogue at hand, namely the records Lock Up the Wolves, Strange Highways, Angry Machines, Magica, Killing the Dragon and Master of the Moon. It’s a substantially longer book than part one of the dastardly duo, weighing in at 284 pages.


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Lively Arts: The Damned Deconstructed although it’s formatted as a black-and-white trade paperback, is the best book I’ve ever done from a writing standpoint. Okay, well, tied with The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs and Led Zeppelin: All the Albums All the Songs, because it’s just that: me analyzing every last damned Damned song. One of my very dearest favourite bands.


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Feed My Frankenstein: Alice Cooper, the Solo Years is my detailed and extensive time-line-and-quotes look at Alice Cooper from Welcome to My Nightmare through to Detroit Stories. It’s a 97,362-word monster, with lots of detail, fun facts and trivia. Call it a reference book, call it an oral history, let’s call for Alice to run for President!


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Easy Action: The Original Alice Cooper Band is my detailed and extensive time-line-and-quotes look at Alice Cooper from the birth of Vincent and the band in Phoenix through to Muscle of Love. It’s a 75,000-word treatise, with lots of detail, fun facts and trivia. Tons of history and great stories on the albums and tours.


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Yes: A Visual Biography II is my yummy 1.55 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on esteemed UK progressive rockers Yes. It’s the perfect companion to Yes: A Visual Biography 1: 1968 – 1981, and of course looks at the whole 90125 era right up to the present day. 53,845 words and 340 pictures on 100 lb. gloss—yum.


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Bowie@75 is my weighty 1.825 kg, 9 ½” x 11” hardback coffee table book looking at 75 David Bowie career highlights, milestones, action and pressure points both good and bad. It is the most lavishly designed book I’ve ever done, and includes approximately 350 pictures along with lots of heavy, heavy writing.


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Dream Evil: Dio in the ‘80s is my new 246-page book examining in exhaustive detail the Ronnie James Dio solo band records from the 1980s, namely Holy Diver, The Last in Line, Sacred Heart and Dream Evil along with the Intermission EP. It’s in my traditional format, lots of words, one album per chapter. Additionally there are 109 black-and-white images and two tipped-in colour sections containing 38 colour shots.


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UFO: A Visual Biography is my yummy 1.5 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on esteemed UK hard rock institution UFO, covering the band’s origins through to the here and now, 50 years later. Also treated with as much detail as UFO is the entire Michael Schenker story as well as that of Waysted. The chief mission is to showcase more than 450 images across 224 pages on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a fulsome band timeline with quotes that takes in all solo project releases as well.


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Judas Priest: A Visual Biography is my weighty 1.5 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on prime metal ambassadors Judas Priest, featuring a detailed timeline for the core band plus Fight and Halford and assorted other side and solo projects. There are more than 475 pictures, printed on thick 100 lb. gloss paper


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Hawkwind: A Visual Biography is my resplendent, almost spiritual 1.54 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on space merchants Hawkwind, covering the band’s origins through to the here and now, 50 years later. The chief mission is to showcase 350 images over the course of 224 full colour pages on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a fulsome band timeline with quotes that takes in all solo projects and underground releases as well.


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Nazareth: A Visual Biography is my mammoth 1.65 kg, 8 ^½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on Scottish hard rockers Nazareth, covering the band’s 1968 origins through to this day. The chief mission is to showcase 615 images over the course of 240 full colour pages on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a detailed band timeline with extensive and revealing quotes from the band that takes in all the solo projects as well.


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Yes: A Visual Biography I: 1968 – 1981 is my mammoth 1.65 kg, 8 ^½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on spacey, swirly, wirey progressive rock legends Yes, covering the band’s origins through 1980. The chief mission is to showcase 283 images over the course of 224 full colour pages on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a fulsome regular book-sized 90,000-word band timeline with quotes that takes in all solo projects as well.


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This is for the PAPERBACK version of Limelight: Rush in the ‘80s, my 318-page deep dive into Rush’s most popular albums and then most synth-y albums. Limelight is the second book of a trilogy. There are two eight-page colour sections, but mainly lotsa words, in fact, 114,000 of the little critters.


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This is for the PAPERBACK version of “runaway” hit Anthem: Rush in the ‘70s, my 354-page deep dive into Rush’s origins and their first batch of classic records. Anthem is the first book of a trilogy. There are two eight-page colour sections, but mainly lotsa words, in fact, 126,000 of the little critters.


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Uriah Heep: A Visual Biography is my weighty 1.65 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on Mick Box and his merry Hammond heavies. The chief mission is to showcase 600+ images over the course of 224 full colour pages, on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a 19,926-word band timeline that takes in all solo projects as well.


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Driven: Rush in the ‘90s and “In the End” is the mammoth 415-page closing book to my Rush trilogy that includes Anthem: Rush in the ‘70s and Limelight: Rush in the ‘80s. It is the fattest of the three by a substantial amount as it covers Roll the Bones through Clockwork Angels, all the live albums and tours of our hero trio’s closing 25 years, culminating in the band’s unique retirement and the tragic passing on of The Professor.
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Flaming Telepaths: Imaginos Expanded and Specified is… pretty indescribable. It’s a timeline-heavy expansion of Sandy Pearlman’s Imaginos mythos as draped across the Blue Öyster Cult albums. The ultimate aim, as was Sandy’s, is to deconstruct the occult origins of World War I, which, in this telling, is perpetrated by Imaginos taking psychic possession of a number of players on the world stage, including H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce and Winston Churchill.


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Rebel Rouser: A Sweet User Manual is my 286-page book about UK glam-turned-metal-turned-proggy-pop sensations Sweet. There’s black-and-white shots throughout plus two four-page colour sections. You know the drill, my usual style, every song and album discussed, lots of my own interview footage… probably the most ever done on this band in book form.


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Southern Rock Review is now back in print as a 20th anniversary edition with a new front and back cover but the contents unchanged. It’s been rebranded as a sort of time capsule, hence the subtitle, The First 30 Years. This is a special production situation so it’s a little pricey, but yeah, gratifying to see it available again after ten years gone.


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The Fortune: On the Rocks with Angel is my album-by-album, song-by-song analysis of Angel’s career and their catalogue. It’s one of my biggest band biogs, weighing in at 326 pages, with two four-page colour sections plus dozens of black-and-white shots marbled throughout. There’s some Kiss talk, some Casablanca talk, the drama around replacing Mickie, and then a look at the “nothing” years followed by a return to form with 2019’s Risen.


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Van Halen: A Visual Biography is my mammoth 1.65 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on America’s ultimate party band. The chief mission is to showcase 400+ images over the course of 224 full colour pages, on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a 19,581-word band timeline that takes in all solo projects as well.


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Thin Lizzy: A Visual Biography is my mammoth 1.65 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on Ireland’s most beloved. The chief mission is to showcase 400+ images over the course of 240 full colour pages, on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a 18,260-word band timeline that takes in all solo projects as well.


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Limelight: Rush in the ‘80s is my 318-page deep dive into Rush’s record and tour cycles spanning Permanent Waves through to Presto, seven studio albums and two live albums. Limelight is the second book of a trilogy, and comes very fancy-like, swaggering into view as a hard cover with Moving Pictures-red foil and embossing. There are two eight-page colour sections, but mainly lotsa words, in fact, 114,000 of the little critters.


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Empire of the Clouds: Iron Maiden in the 2000s is the third and final book of my Iron Maiden trilogy, joining Where Eagles Dare: Iron Maiden in the ‘80s and Holy Smoke: Iron Maiden in the ‘90s to complete the Maiden tale, at least as far as my contribution is concerned. I now need a quiet lie-down with a cold compress for my forehead.


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Blue Öyster Cult: A Visual Biography is my mammoth 1.65 kg, 8 ½” x 12” hardback coffee table book on the enigmatic Cultsters. The chief mission is to showcase 420 images over the course of 240 full colour pages, on sumptuous 100 lb. gloss paper. There’s also a 15,000 word band timeline that takes in all solo projects as well.


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Anthem: Rush in the ‘70s is my 354-page deep dive into Rush’s origins and their first batch of classic records. Anthem is the first book of a trilogy, and comes very fancy-like , swaggering into view as a hard cover with foil and embossing. There are two eight-page colour sections, but mainly lotsa words, in fact, 126,000 of the little critters.


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Denim and Leather: Saxon’s First Ten Years is the long-awaited result after being asked more for a book on Saxon than any other band, other than Uriah Heep. Those who read my stuff will not be surprised by the style: it’s every album, every song examined in full with a dedicated chapter, plus a long look at the pre-history of the band from new first-hand source material.


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Black Funeral: Into the Coven with Mercyful Fate is my song-by-song, album-per-chapter 275-page book looking at the exemplary catalogue of King Diamond’s devilish original band, from Melissa and Don’t Break the Oath in the ‘80s to a vastly under-rated run of top-shelf reunion records in the ‘90s. The King Diamond catalogue gets a more informal look-in along the way, but yeah, most of this is about the hard, spooky work that went into one of the classiest metal catalogues of all time.


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Satisfaction: 10 Albums That Changed My Life is my plush, full colour throughout celebration of a bunch of rock stars’ top ten lists, with explanation for each album picked. But these are not just straight top tens; rather, they are those records that sent them down this path when they were young, essentially. Interesting reading across a vast cross-section of the rock and pop world. There’s tons of photography as well, and just a very, very nice layout. The ultimate classic rock coffee table book. My first for Penguin—aren’t we fancy?


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Holy Smoke: Iron Maiden in the ‘90s is the follow-up to the best-selling Where Eagles Dare: Iron Maiden in the ‘80s, and is a little mis-titled: this book covers in as much detail Bruce Dickinson’s superlative solo catalogue from the decade as it does the four Iron Maiden studio albums (plus the rest of the career… tours, live albums etc.). Stock is almost gone so act fast.


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Sensitive to Light: The Rainbow Story is my song-by-song, album-per-chapter 318-page book covering the thrills and spills caused by the Man in Black throughout the life of this band of many lead singers. There are two full-colour tipped-in colour sections and a discography, but mostly this is a treasure trove of musings from most of the band members themselves. Bonus: go to youtube and check out the episode of The Contrarians where I make my impassioned argument for Down to Earth as the greatest Rainbow album of all time.


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Where Eagles Dare: Iron Maiden in the ‘80s is my song-by-song, album-per-chapter 288-page book covering every Maiden album and tour from Iron Maiden through Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. There are two colour tipped-in colour sections and a discography, but mostly this is my first chance to cover the band in a proper biographical form.


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Lettin' Go: UFO in the '80s & '90s is the follow-up to Lights Out: UFO in the '70s. Together the story is told more complete than previously attempted by anybody, I suppose, save for my old all-decades book, Shoot Out the Lights. This one was particularly fun to do as the Tonka era is my favourite.


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Aces High: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the '80s is the follow-up to Riff Raff: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the '70s. Works like this: took a big poll, wrote reviews of each song, popped in an artist quote for each song, presented in reverse order. Plus lots of pictures - fun stuff!


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Judas Priest: Turbo ‘til Now is my 110,000-word follow up to Judas Priest: Decade of Domination, in which we rock ‘n’ rolled from Rocka Rolla up to Defenders of the Faith. Here we bring the story right up to date, beginning with 1986’s Turbo and culminating in the band’s triumphant, well-regarded Firepower.


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Born Again! Black Sabbath in the Eighties and Nineties is my exhaustive 282-page analysis of—and side dramas between—every Sabbath album from Heaven and Hell to Reunion. Included are two four-page colour sections. This is the follow-up to Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies. Lots of Ronnie, lots of the two Tonys, and a little bit of Ian, Glenn and Ozzy.


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Riff Raff: The Top 250 Heavy Metal Songs of the ‘70s is my 234-page book in which I lay out, in reverse order, the results of a massive poll asking the titular question. I review and analyze each track and provide a relevant artist quote for each and every one. Also included, live photography and 45 sleeves for many of the songs.


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Queen: Album by Album is my 224-page hard cover, full colour coffee table book in which I have two to four experts participate in a roundtable discussion of a Queen studio album, debut through to Made in Heaven. Yes, one of the participants is Sir Paul McCartney.


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Unchained: A Van Halen User Manual is my exhaustive, trivia-laden analysis of all things Van Halen (with a little Diamond Dave solo thrown in). You’ll get the story of each album, a few polls, Frankenstrat, connections with Montrose, a pile of top tens and 20s, as well two tipped-in colour sections and a plethora of black and white images. A different sort of pop fruity trip compared to my usual.


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Welcome to My Nightmare: Fifty Years of Alice Cooper is my massive, 145,000-word survey of Alice’s entire career, full colour throughout, utilizing my easy-reading timeline and quotes format. It’s large format, stuffed with text and images, all on heavy gloss, causing a three-pound book that tells the story more thoroughly than ever before.


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Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies is my all-encompassing 286-page treatise on the first eight Black Sabbath records and its makers. Every song is analyzed, we discuss touring, production, album covers, the whole range from the teenage years in Aston to the Never Say Die tour. Two eight-page colour sections ice the cake.


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Judas Priest: Decade of Domination is my in-depth 240-page book covering the Birmingham bashers’ formative years through all the ‘70s classics, ending with 1984’s Defenders of the Faith. The book is the greatly expanded follow-up to the early days material first explored through my Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers, issued in 2007 and now long out of print.


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Pink Floyd: Album by Album is my hard cover, full colour coffee table book in which I have two to four Floyd experts per studio album go off about all things Floyd, namely Roger, Dave, Syd, The Wall, prog, psych, production, album covers, power struggles, guitar solos, effects, lyrics, Roger vs. no Roger, US vs. UK issues, the war and the public school system. In a word... issues!


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The Sun Goes Down: Thin Lizzy 1977-83 is the second and last of my two-part series on Thin Lizzy, taking us from 1977’s Bad Reputation through to the tragic death of Phillip Paris Lynott. The two new UK editions (The Sun Goes Down: Thin Lizzy 1977-83 and From Dublin to Jailbreak: Thin Lizzy 1969-76) replace the three-part series issued years ago and now out of print.


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The Deep Purple Family Year by Year: Volume Two (1980-2011) is my 286-page follow-up, beginning with sorta Gillan, Whitesnake and Rainbow, to The Deep Purple Family Year by Year: Volume One (to 1979). Both books are stuffed with hundreds of memorabilia shots and are presented on heavy semi-gloss stock. These UK issues replace the original two volumes from 2011.


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The Deep Purple Family Year by Year: Volume One (to 1979) is my 280-page timeline with quotes book covering Purple Mk. 1 through to the break-up of Mk. 4 and the scattering of the band into… fusion? The book is stuffed with hundreds of memorabilia shots and are presented on heavy semi-gloss stock. This UK issue replace the original volume from 2011.


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Popoff Archive – 6: American Power Metal is my 278-page book of interviews with members of Armored Saint, Cellador, Demons & Wizards, Eidolon, Fates Warning, Hades, Iced Earth, Ignitor, Impelliteri, Jag Panzer, King Diamond, Yngwie Malmsteen, Manowar, Mercyful Fate, Nevermore, Non-Fiction, Royal Hunt, Sanctuary, Silent Force and Steel Prophet.


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Popoff Archive – 5: European Power Metal is my 260-page book of interviews with members of Ark, Blind Guardian, Children of Bodom, Dirty Deeds, Dream Evil, Evergrey, Firewind, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Helloween, Labyrinth, Lullacry, Masterplan, Mercenary, Nocturnal Rites, Primal Fear, Royal Hunt, Saxon, Silver Mountain, Sinner, Stratovarius, Tad Morose, TNT and Warlock.


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The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs is my 235 page book where I analyze all 91 Clash album tracks amidst a bounteous bevy of rare photography and memorabilia shots gorgeously arranged by the good folks at Voyageur. If you liked my Zep book, this is done the same way with equally rich source material.


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AC/DC: Album by Album is my resplendent and action-packed 256-page full-colour hardcover tome using Voyageur Press’ celebrated expert interview format. Piles of rare photography and memorabilia shots complete the shocking circuit.


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Lights Out: Surviving the ‘70s with UFO is my new book examining the Mick Bolton era of UFO, through to the end of the classic Michael Schenker years, namely the Strangers in the Night live album. To write the book, I’ve used as the core, my out-of-print UFO book from 2005, but basically doubled the early years coverage that was in that book.


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Tornado of Souls: Thrash’s Titanic Clash is the third and last of my detailed and intensive timeline with quotes trilogy on the history of thrash, covering roughly late 1986 to late 1991. The mammoth 300-page closing book follows upon book I, Hit the Lights and book II, Caught in a Mosh.


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Led Zeppelin: All the Albums All the Songs is my very pretty 7 3/4” x 10” hard cover, full colour through, 250 page book in which I examine all 81 Led Zeppelin songs in detail to the tune of one to three pages. Tons of rare photography and memorabilia shots fill out the story, aided in that quest by revealing sidebars and complete discographical information.


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Caught in a Mosh: The Golden Era of Thrash is my detailed and intensive timeline with quotes history of the magical early maturity years of thrash, roughly late 1983 to late 1986. In the ascendance are all of the big four, and their glory years are loudly celebrated in this second of a trilogy, and follow-up to Hit the Lights.


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Rush: Album by Album is my already effusively received 192-page full colour coffee table book analyzing every Rush studio album along with an army of experts. The panel includes rock stars, tribute band members, the creators of Rushcon and other smart-as-a-whip Rush thinkers, who make this book come alive with their insights on the inventors of progressive metal.


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Metal Collector: Gathered Tales from Headbangers is my book stuffed with reader stories about autograph collecting, record buying, first record ever, memorable concert moments and why people collect, along with photos of some of these folks’ favourite items. Included are many of the author’s own tales about interviewing rock stars and getting his records and CDs signed.


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Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers: The Rise of Motörhead is my 260 page book, published by the very discerning ECW Press, about the classic early lineup of the band, featuring extensive interview footage with Lemmy, Phil Taylor and Fast Eddie Clarke. There’s an epilogue bringing the story up to date—most notably with the sad demise of both Phil and Lemmy—but for all intents and purposes, this is the take from the debut through Iron Fist.


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Hit the Lights: The Birth of Thrash is my 240 page book utilizing a timeline with quotes methodology to tell the story of thrash’s foundational years in the late ‘70s through its birthing proper, arguably at points along 1981 and 1982, but most profoundly with the release of Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All in July of 1983. Piles of memorabilia shots make the story come alive, along with tons of first-hand accounts from a bunch of thrash greats.


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Punk Tees: The Punk Revolution in 125 T-Shirts is my 192 page full colour celebration of the history of punk as told through the T-shirts, published by Sterling. Dozens of people who were there are gathered for their memories on the shirts, the shows and the significance of the punk bands featured. Presented in cute nine-inch square hard cover format, gorgeous layout completes the symphony of sights about the sounds.


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Popoff Archive - 4: Classic Rock is my 256-page book of interviews with members of Foghat, Molly Hatchet, Uriah Heep, Blackfoot, Nazareth, Montrose, Van Halen, Free, Bad Company, Mahogany Rush, Styx, Damn Yankees, Wet Willie, 38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd, April Wine, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Boston, Grand Funk Railroad, Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers, The Yardbirds, Box of Frogs, The Kinks, Mott the Hoople, Bad Company, ZZ Top, Cheap Trick and Little Feat.


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Popoff Archive – 3: Hair Metal is my 260-page book of interviews with members of Ratt, Enuff Z’nuff, White Lion, Guns N’ Roses, Quiet Riot, Love/Hate, L.A. Guns, Girl, Def Leppard, Twisted Sister, Ratt, Lynch Mob, Skid Row, Dokken, Firehouse, Poison, Tesla, W.A.S.P. and Warrant.


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Popoff Archive – 2: Progressive Rock Rock is my 286-page book of interviews with members of King Crimson, Uriah Heep, UK, Asia, Tempest, Kansas, Streets, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Frank Zappa, Bozzio Levin Stevens, Chroma Key, Dream Theater, Spock’s Beard, GTR, 3, Jethro Tull, Japan, Genesis, GTR, Saga, Marillion, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Tiles and Van der Graaf Generator.


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Popoff Archive – 1: Doom Metal is my 232-page book of interviews with members of Tiamat, Penance, Cathedral, Down, Trouble, My Dying Bride, Cemetary, Type O Negative, September 22, Memento Mori, Amorphis, In Ruins, Orange Goblin, Candlemass, Crowbar, Spirit Caravan, Sentenced, Solace, Bronx Casket Co., Rapture, The Gathering, Poisonblack and Witchfinder General.


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Rock the Nation: Montrose, Gamma and Ronnie Redefined is my mammoth 290-page book examining both the Montrose and Gamma catalogues in full, utilizing my usual track-by-track method, along with the story of Ronnie’s solo and project career, his life and, from many perspectives offered by those who knew him, his tragic suicide by shotgun in March of 2012.


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Metal Heart: Aiming High with Accept is my 260-page book on Germany’s finest metal purveyors, done in my usual analytical album-by-album, song-by-song methodology, from the beginning of the band’s mid-‘70s history right up until the trio of Tornillos. There are two colour photo sections plus my usual large array of black and white memorabilia and live shots. The first Accept book ever.


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Agents of Fortune: The Blue Öyster Cult Story is the updated and expanded version of my bestselling Blue Öyster Cult book, last updated in 2009. Features new interview content from most of the principle members, and substantial more from Joe Bouchard, Al Bouchard and Sandy Pearlman.


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Wind of Change: The Scorpions Story is the updated and expanded version of Scorpions: Top of the Bill, bits of added commentary throughout, but most significantly, a new chapter covering the Return to Forever album. Copies of Top of the Bill still available at blowout prices—see that page for redone PayPal Buy Now buttons.


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From Dublin to Jailbreak: Thin Lizzy 1969-76 is a UK-issued hard cover Thin Lizzy book that makes use of the material from my Thin Lizzy trilogy, but only up to and including the Johnny the Fox chapter. Includes a tour date archive.


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Time and a Word: The Yes Story is my 202-page detailed timeline with quotes oral history of the complete history of Yes from birth to the sad demise of Chris Squire. Also included is a pile of material on solo careers and side-projects, as we explore this complex band of prog rock innovators. Black and white as well as colour photos enhance this deep fan experience.


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Ramones at 40 is my 208 premium page large format hard cover coffee table book with dust jacket celebrating the entire Ramones catalogue, along with all manner of feature an’ think pieces to provide break from the onslaught of pogo-ready song stories. Gorgeously appointed and designed in an explosion of color, Ramones at 40 is an effortless read but one that covers the whole enchilada.


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Kickstart My Heart: A Motley Crue Day-by-Day is my gorgeously appointed coffee table book on LA’s bad boys, presented with tons of explosive photography upon every spread. The text is in my tried an’ true timeline with quotes format, brought to you by the same awesome publisher that crafted similar tomes for me on Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne.


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This Means War: The Sunset Years of the NWOBHM is the 260-page detailed timeline with quotes epic battle that completes the trilogy of books started with the Smokin’ Valves reviews book, and followed up with a true part one in Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM (read on and it will begin to name sense).


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Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM is my 240-page detailed timeline with quotes tour de force examining the important milestones from the 1970s leading up to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, along with an intense and loud examination of the British metal scene as it existed in 1979 and 1980.


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Swords and Tequila: Riot’s Classic First Decade is the first and only book ever on classic and pioneering New York heavy metal rockers Riot. My usual level of track-by-track detail is applied to the band’s first five albums—spanning the Guy Speranza and Rhett Forrester years—but the tragic aftermath is duly reported as well, followed by all those years and records leading up to the band shinin’ on as Riot V.


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Who Invented Heavy Metal? is my 256-page book answering the question through the device of rigorous timeline and oral history using 126 different speakers over the course of 120,000 words. It’s one of the most contentious debates in heavy metal scholarship, and so once and for all I wanted to write the most complete treatise on the subject so I wouldn’t have to argue about it any more over the internet or down at the bar!


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Sail Away: Whitesnake’s Fantastic Voyage is my 233-page biography of the band in my usual style one record per chapter, every song discussed (at least to Slip Of The Tongue), with a tipped-in colour section plus discography etc. Action-packed footage from 30-ish of my own interviews. Published by the classy Soundcheck books out of the UK.


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Live Magnetic Air: The Unlikely Saga of the Superlative Max Webster is my most satisfying write ever ‘cos it’s about my favourite band of all time, and ain’t no one else was ever gonna do this. It’s 100,000 words of Canuck obscurity, but it’s also stuffed with Philip Kamin and Scott Feeney photos of this Canadian treasure.


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The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal’s Debauched Decade is a full-colour, hard-cover coffee table book utilizing a timeline with quotes format, studded with hundreds of memorabilia shots. The pre-history is here all the way to Little Richard, ramped up through the ‘70s, followed by huge year-by-year detail through the ‘80s as we lurch to a stop in 1991.


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Steal Away The Night: An Ozzy Osbourne Day-By-Day is a sumptuous, artfully designed, full-colour, hard-cover coffee table book utilizing a timeline with quotes format. Briefly we get the story of Sabbath, but there’s a wealth of Oz, with quotes from Ozzy and most band members, originating in my personal archive and beyond. If you dug the trip we took with the Maiden book, this is an encore performance, but just a little prettier.


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Sweating Bullets: The Deth And Rebirth Of Megadeth is my longest, most involved rock biography yet, comprising a look at the entire Megadeth catalogue through to Super Collider. It's my usual styles, over 150,000 words, lots of pictures etc. Tons of fresh interview footage etc.


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Smokin' Valves: A Headbanger's Guide To 900 NWOBHM Records is my record review book of virtually every New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (essentially '79 to a hard stop of 1983), plus hundreds of pictures, most of the catalogue numbers, and a couple of appendices compiling the 9's and 10's.


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The Art Of Metal is a unique trip through metal artwork partitioned by genre. Edited and overseen by myself and Malcom Dome, we each also wrote a chapter, with the other chapters by esteemed rock critics. This is as much a top-flight design book as anything, but there is much to read as well, with a ton of first-hand dialogue from rockers and designers and illustrators throughout.


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Metallica: The Complete Illustrated History is my doorstop of a celebration of all things Metallica, featuring the complete story succinctly, plus involved reviews of all the albums by famous rock journos, all served on a crisp bed of pictures and more pictures.


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2 Minutes To Midnight: An Iron Maiden Day-By-Day is my sumptuous full colour coffee table book of all things Maiden (and solo). Stuffed with photography and memorabilia shots, the book is a labyrinth of Maiden trivia presented in diary format, with tons of illustrative quotes from my mostly unpublished Maiden archive and beyond.


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Ye Olde Metal: 1979 examines 16 albums in detail, all from 1979, extensive new interview footage included. The book is the biggest in the series yet, at 267 pages, 6" x 9" format. This time, we celebrate April Wine, New England, Hounds, Teaze, Motorhead, Nazareth, City Boy, Blackfoot, Legs Diamond, Bad Company, TKO, Triumph, Streetheart, Riot, Foreigner and Whitesnake.


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Rush: The Illustrated History is my plush and flush full color large format coffee table book including the story of the band, long reviews of the whole catalogue by top journos and something like 400 images.


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Scorpions: Top of The Bill is my 256 page book which, hard to believe, is actually the first biography of the Teutonic metal masters. Every record from Lonesome Crow to Comeblack is covered in detail, on info-packed pages additionally accented by 380 pictures.


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Epic Ted Nugent is my 292 page book on The Whackmaster's fascinating, shoot 'em up rock 'n' roll career, focusing mainly on his classic albums for Epic Records, from '75 through '81. But there's also a rich Amboy Dukes history, plus all of his Atlantic Records years and then his killer komeback with Craveman and Love Grenade.


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Fade To Black is my massive celebration of the hard rock album cover, with my reviews of each, plus stories from the bands and the artists themselves, Top 100 lists from myself and cover artist Ioannis, who helped gather images and oversee design. Full colour, large format... rubber cover!


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It's Getting Dangerous: Thin Lizzy 81 - 12 is the third and final book in my Thin Lizzy trilogy, following up Fighting My Way Back: Thin Lizzy 69 - 76 and We Will Be Strong: Thin Lizzy 76 - 81. The new title is 248 pages of Lizzy trivia, studded with 236 rare and archival pictures of memorabilia plus Phil and the boys rockin' out live. The book covers Renegade, Thunder And Lightning, Grand Slam, Phil solo, Phil's death, the reemergence of the band without Phil, and adds an extensive discography.


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We Will Be Strong: Thin Lizzy 76 - 81 is the sequel to Fighting My Way Back: Thin Lizzy 69 - 76. The new title is 256 pages of rockin’ Lizzy trivia, studded with 262 rare and archival pictures of memorabilia plus Phil and the boys rockin' out live. The book covers the classic drastic plastic otherwise known as Bad Reputation, Live And Dangerous, Black Rose and Chinatown.


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Fighting My Way Back: Thin Lizzy 69 - 76 is my 280 page book on Lizzy's early years, basically inception through the first six albums, culminating in the smash hit Jailbreak. The style? It's my usual album by album, track by track analysis, with lots of fresh interviews, accompanied by a whopping 238 photos and rare memorabilia shots.


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The Deep Purple Royal Family - Chain Of Events '80 - '11 is my elegantly designed follow-up to the early years volume. It's a 294 page tome consisting of a detailed timeline and numerous band quotes, tons of trivia, all sorts of new weirdness unearthed, plus a monster 513 memorabilia shots of everything imaginable.


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The Deep Purple Royal Family - Chain Of Events Through '79 is my elegantly designed 280 page tome consisting of a detailed timeline and numerous band quotes, tons of trivia, all sorts of new weirdness unearthed, plus a monster 542 memorabilia shots of everything imaginable.


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Black Sabbath FAQ is my 400 page tome of trivia, odd stories, cool lists, records ranked, rarities ogled, fresh interview footage, memorabilia shots… just a massive grab-bag of (occasionally manic) writing on various topics Sabbath-steeped and doomed to be interesting.


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The Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal - Volume 4: The '00s is a co-write between myself and David Perri. It's a 578 page book of 3,367 heavy metal record reviews of albums released between 2000 and 2009. I scribbled 1,748 of them and David, 1,619. As well, there's a Metal Blade sampler and Top 100 lists form both of us.


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Goldmine Record Album Books: These are my mammoth 700 page LP and 45rpm price guides (American Records is 1344 pages!), I did for Goldmine. Much of it is updating existing databases with new entries, new prices, but there are also some introductory essays on collecting.


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A Castle Full Of Rascals: Deep Purple '83-'09 '09 is my new, approx. 300 page book covering part 2 of Purple's career (see also my Gettin' Tighter: Deep Purple '68-'76. Lots of new interviews, lots of pictures of the band plus memorabilia shots, discography - a love-in for the Morse era and beyond.


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Worlds Away: Voivod & the Art Of Michel Langevin Michel is a killer artist, and this included hundreds of his freaky monsters PLUS the story of the art and his band, Voivod. It's large format, hard cover, only 3000 copies, and stuffed with both text and pictures, hundreds rarely seen. Heavier in every way than our Derek Riggs book.


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Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed! A monster update/overhaul of this, my most interesting band bio! New interview footage from most of the guys in the band plus some other folks, plus 174 live shots and records and memorabilia shots. It all makes for 100 more pages of Cultster mischief and mayhem. I added a discography as well.


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Ye Olde Metal: 1978 The fifth in the series, featuring detailed analysis and interviews concerning specific old albums, this time by The Godz, Uriah Heep, The Hounds, DMZ, The Boyzz, Ram Jam, Streetheart, Pat Travers Band, Yesterday And Today etc. Cool rare photos, lotsa fun!


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Gettin' Tighter: Deep Purple '68-76 contains 250 pages of analysis of all the albums from Mk. I through Mk. IV. Extensive interviewing of the band members (plus myriad other rockers) results in a thorough look at every song plus a fair bit of tour discussion, photos, pictures of covers and ads, plus a discography.


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All Access: The Art And History Of The Backstage Pass is my new large format, full colour coffee table art book of backstage passes. Lots of text as well, which gives the history of pass technology plus stories of uses and abuses through the years. A good read as well as nearly 1000 yummy photos.


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Ye Olde Metal: 1977 examines 18 albums in detail, all from 1977, extensive new interview footage included. The book is 247 pages, 6" x 9" format, and is the fourth in this series. This time, we celebrate Derringer, Angel, Sweet, Moxy, The Dictators, Starz, Triumph, Styx, Motorhead, Lone Star, Dirty Tricks, Piper, Goddo, Ram Jam, Rex, Point Blank, Hydra and Legs Diamond.


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Ye Olde Metal: 1976 examines 13 albums in detail, all from 1976, extensive new interview footage included. The book is 241 pages, 6" x 9" format, and is the third in this series. This time, up for grabs is Rex, Ted Nugent, Scorpions, Teaze, Moxy, Angel, Point Blank, Max Webster, Lone Star, Starz, Foghat, Boston and Kansas.


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Judas Priest: Heavy Metal Painkillers is my massive, 380 page biography of the band, track by track, album by album, Halford and Fight stuff included. The book is a biggie 8" x 10" format, with an embossed cover and a killer 541 photos and memorabilia shots. I've interviewed the guys many, many times over the years, and there's a bunch of cool trivia included here. Looks very much like my Sabbath book but it's longer, with way more photos - gorgeous!


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Ye Olde Metal: 1973 To 1975 is the second of a series limited to 1000 copies, numbered, signed by me. These books will comprise long in-depth essays with interview footage, examining classic hard rock albums from the past. The first book is 232 pages and covers BTO, Nazareth, Montrose, New York Dolls, Foghat, ZZ Top, Robin Trower, Buffalo, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, The Dictators, Budgie and Status Quo.


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The Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal – Volume 3: The Nineties is my 518 page book of 3,073 heavy metal record reviews of albums released between 1990 and 1999. Hundreds and hundreds of new reviews over and above the '97 book. As well, there's a Metal Blade sampler and two Top 100 appendices.


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Ye Olde Metal: 1968 To 1972 is the first of a series limited to 1000 copies, numbered, signed by me. These books will comprise long in-depth essays with interview footage, examining classic hard rock albums from the past. The first book is 231 pages and covers Blue Cheer, Sir Lord Baltimore, Bloodrock, Warpig, MC5, Cactus, Mountain, Uriah Heep, Nitzinger, Dust, Humble Pie, Buffalo, Captain Beyond And Trapeze.


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Run For Cover: The Art Of Derek Riggs is a full colour, high quality, large format book of Derek's art over the years, the anchor of the project being his Eddie's for Iron Maiden. But there's lots more besides that, plus what is essentially Derek's biography (mostly as pertains to the paintings), written by me, in extensive conversation with Derek.


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Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose is my full colour, full format, 355 page bio on the Sabs – fully one kilogram of doom. It’s my liveliest and most detailed band bio of them all, and the prettiest, with 127 photos and 246 memorabilia shots. All eras of the band are covered with equal attention, using loads of previously unpublished material from my chats with the band over the years.


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Dio: Light Beyond The Black is my book on the Dio band, including information right up until the Holy Diver – Live release. Extensive interviews of my own with Ronnie over the years were used, as well as multiple chats with Vinny Appice, Vivian Campbell, Jimmy Bain and Doug Aldrich. Tracy G, Rowan Robertson, Jens Johansson, Mike Fraser and Jeff Pilson also are included in the telling of the story, which covers in detail, each studio album from Holy Diver through Master Of The Moon. Discography and a few photos also included, as well as much coverage of the tours.


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