A History of Heavy Metal

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Synopsis
The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN, LARS!), to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cut-throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets.

The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and teetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen. Award-winning comedian and life-long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O'Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences, from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading theatre-goers of the Edinburgh Fringe.

Now, in his first book, he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music, the subculture, and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music.

Copyright:
2017

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781472243843
Related ISBNs:
9781472241443
Publisher:
Headline
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Copyrighted By:
Andrew O'Neill
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Narrated By:
Andrew O'Neill
Categories:
History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Humor, Music
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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