THE BEATLES STORIES

'Think of the key events of the decade, from John F. Kennedy's assassination to Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon. Now Start filling in the holes: Beatlemania...'

'Beatles merchandise was being produced at this time by Nicky Byrne, a London socialite to whom Brian had naively given exclusive global merchandise rights for just ten per cent of the profit. However this may ultimately been an advantage since Byrne was hugely motivated in helping the Beatles win over the US. He felt capitol weren't doing enough, and quitely planned his own campaign. He printed 5000 Beatles T-shirts...'

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AC/DC STORIES

AC/DC BON SCOTT ERA STORIES

'Recalling his first actual meeting with the singer in September 1974, Angus

told rock journalist Paul Stenning that, when ‘Bon first came along and saw me

and Malcolm, he sat behind the drums and started bashing away. We said, “We

know a good rock ’n’ roll drummer – what we want is a great rock ’n’ roll

singer,” hence the song we recorded.'

'Kramer told Engleheart that his feeling from the get-go was that AC/DC was a very
independent bunch. ‘They’re a simple, raw, basic, to-the-point rock ’n’ roll band,
a fundamental rock ’n’ roll band that is hard to find …'

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AC/DC BRIAN JOHNSON ERA STORIES

'Brian confessed to Stenning that when

he wrote ‘the line “Knockin’ me out with those American thighs” – I hadn’t been

even in America at the time.'

'Johnson held a deep respect for Scott’s legacy and talent. 'I think he was so clever, and I think he had such a distinct voice as well. He was brilliant.''

''We don’t really like to go into the studio with nothing and try to do it

there. We like to have it done and worked out, so that when you’re recording you

can concentrate on the performance and the sound.''

'Indeed, big brother George’s intuitive understanding of the essentials of

AC/DC’s brand of hard rock helped the band not only in achieving the

minimalist sonics they were after, but also in achieving them at speed. As Angus

explained, ‘We don’t like to spend more than six weeks on an album. We don’t

want to lose the freshness...''

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GUNS N' ROSES STORIES

'It could happen, and it did: look around and you could even see the people

that it had happened to – David Lee Roth, singer with LA’s biggest home-grown

band, Van Halen, ligging with his manager, Pete Angelus, in the Rainbow;

Vince Neil, a Mexican kid from the wrong side of town now somehow singing

his way to platinum heaven with Mötley Crüe, dragging the mud-wrestling girls

from the Tropicana back to his house to party;'

'For Izzy Stradlin, things would get worse before they finally got better. On 27

August he was on a flight from Indianapolis, drunk and tired and obnoxious. He

‘must have’ told a stewardess to ‘fuck herself,’ he later recalled blurrily, before

jumping the queue for the toilet by relieving himself in a bin in the kitchen

galley. The pilot put the plane down at the nearest airport, which was Phoenix,

and Izzy was arrested for public indecency, a problem because he had a prior for

drug possession and could have been jailed for six months. Instead he got

another six months’ probation and had to keep peeing in cups for urine tests to

prove he was clean.'

'‘Welcome to the Jungle’, with the furious intensity of its knife-slashing

opening riff (itself almost cathartic after the tease of Slash’s guitar intro) and its

story of a wide-eyed country boy stepping off the bus and into the alien city, was

an obvious opener. ‘Paradise City’, the upside of the dream, was its perfect

counterpoint to close side one. Then ‘My Michelle’ to open side two, its story

about Michelle Young blisteringly frank and unblinking, was bookended by the

record’s final track, ‘Rocket Queen’, inspired by another of the band’s noir-ish

Hollywood circle, Barbi Von Greif (‘I wrote this song for a girl who was gonna

have a band and she was gonna call it Rocket Queen. She kinda kept me alive

for a while’, as Axl told'

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METALLICA STORIES

'Metallica had been the first of the genre to sign a major label deal (with Elektra in America). 

The first to hook up with big management (Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein).

Now they were also the first to get the opportunity to work with one of the metal greats.

It all opened doors, not only for them, but also for other bands of the genre.'

'From the start, Cliff Burton showed he was his own man, unprepared to compromise without good reason. For instance, he was unwilling to relocate from San Francisco to LA, where Metallica were then based – he persuaded THEM to move.'

'When they weren’t playing guitars together, they were playing poker.

‘We’d go out and play poker for eight hours straight after being up for twenty-four hours,’ '

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AEROSMITH STORIES

'This is Aerosmith unbound, where they came from, what they are now, and what they always will be, first and foremost: a truly great American band. Hang on, it's a hell of a ride.'

'...Joey gave me, this Dumpster guitar, and I lit some incense and wrote Seasons Of Wither...'

'It was very emotional. It was family weekend, and we were there as Steven's family. I just said to him. "Look, man, this is another chance for us....Let's find a fuckin' garage and play some music.....We're gonna be new souls..." '

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OZZY OSBOURNE STORIES

"I would like to dedicate this book to all my fans. Because of you I’ve had such

an amazing life. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

God bless you all."

"How could you quit now? I said to him. We’ve only just broken through... ‘Are you mad?’ I said. ‘Keep this up for a couple of years and you can buy your own fucking university.’"

"I honestly thought I’d have to sell Bulrush Cottage and go and work on a building site or something."

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MICHAEL JACKSON STORIES

'...By the end of 1969, Michael Jackson, now eleven years old and

reunited with his mother, was a bubbly, energetic and happy

youngster. ‘All I want now is to see how far we can go as a

family,’ he told Soul magazine reporter Judy Spiegelman. ‘I like

show business, Hollywood, and all that stuff, the things people like

Berry Gordy do to make you look good. I'm real excited about

things.''

'By the time Michael Jackson turned nineteen in August 1977, he

was one of the best-known entertainers of recent years, the idol of

many young women. While his brothers often availed themselves

of the sexual opportunities presented to them on the road, Michael

never followed suit. Though much of Michael's music has had a

sensual edge over the years, and his dancing has often been

suggestive, he was not sexually adventurous as a young man.

‘I think it's fun that girls think I'm sexy,’ Michael told me in

1977. ‘But I don't think that about myself. It's all just fantasy,

really.'

'While Michael Jackson was on the road with the Victory tour, he

made further headlines – this time on the business pages – by

purchasing the ATV Music Publishing Company for an astounding

$47.5 million. The purchase, believed to be the biggest publishing

acquisition of its kind ever by an individual, was actually the

culmination of ten intense months of negotiation. The seed of this

venture had been planted a few years earlier when Michael was in

London to record the number one hit ‘ Say, Say, Say’ with Paul

McCartney at Abbey Road Studios.'

'On Tuesday, 28 February 1984, Grammy night, the scene at the

Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles was one of pure pandemonium.

Giant klieg lights cut dramatic white patterns in the dark sky

above. Fans in their roped-off areas were ready to scream and call

out the names of anyone they might recognize. When twenty-fiveyear-

old Michael Jackson arrived for his coronation as king of the

pop music world, he wore a spangled uniform with epaulets and

the rhinestoned glove on his right hand. With him was Brooke

Shields.'

'Michael Jackson survived the devastating child molestation

allegations of a decade ago, but it could be argued not without

considerable damage to his recording career. In fact, his record

sales have dipped dramatically since 1993.

In 1995, a double CD was issued, HIStory – Past, Present &

Future, Book 1. The package boasted fifteen of his greatest hits

(‘Beat It’, ‘Billie Jean’, and the rest) and fifteen new songs, such

as the thoughtful ‘Stranger in Moscow’, the elegant ‘Earth Song’

and ‘Scream’ (with Janet, the first single release from the

package). ‘You Are Not Alone’, also included, remains among Michael’s

best songs; it made chart history in America by becoming the first

song ever to go straight to number one on the Billboard charts in

its first week.'

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LED ZEPPELIN STORIES

'...WHOLE LOTTA LOVE - A tour, using the name the ‘New Yardbirds’ was undertaken purely to fulfill old engagements’ through Scandinavia and, that completed, the band promptly became Led Zeppelin, and recorded an album in surprisingly quick time...'

'John Paul Jones has disappeared, last seen looking slightly menacing signing

autographs for the barely pubescent female Scottish Zep aficiandos who seem to

somehow congregate around the dressing-room door, cruising for autographs

and a quick look at what goes on behind the scenes in the glitzy world of rock ’n’

roll...'

' "The audiences were becoming bigger and bigger but moving further and

further away,” Jimmy Page told me. “They became specks on the horizon and we

were losing contact with people—those people who were responsible for lifting

us off the ground in the early days...'

'For the two years following John Bonham’s death, all that existed in the press

about Led Zeppelin was speculation. The band members remained silent,

even to the point of discussing whether Led Zeppelin

would disband or remain together...'

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