Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories - The

Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories - The Unexpurgated Edition

PARANOID - THE UNEXPURGATED EDITION with a new introduction by the author, Mick Wall.

â€˜In his amoral, happy-go-lucky search for the next drink or expenses-paid trip, Wall fearlessly exposes much of the mediocrity and sheer hollowness that lies just beneath the surface glamour of life on the pop media-celebrity circuitâ€¦ Dark, twisted and frequently hilarious.â€™ THE TIMES
â€˜This is the tale of a writerâ€™s travels in nihilismâ€¦ Up one minute, down the next, Wall teeters on self-destruct.â€™ MOJO
â€˜A repulsively compelling account of life on the road and other rockâ€™n'roll stories, the heroin scenes make Irvine Welsh look like the Teletubbies.â€™ THE GUARDIAN
â€˜Mick Wall will never work in the music industry again. Not if the men in the corridors of power learn about his utter contempt for [them].â€™ UNCUT

Like all the greatest rock books ever written, this is not a book about rock music; it is a book about rock life. A hard-hitting, iconoclastic tour de force, written with affection, rudeness and wincing honesty, PARANOID proves that music can be an arena for moral choices - that it can quite literally change your life. Mick Wall was a teenage rock fan who, leaving school with no qualifications, somehow found himself working with Black Sabbath. They would help seal his fate forever. As he writes, 'It was never about what happened on stage, it was about what happened afterwards, when the crowd had gone and the bands could really start to play.' Written in prose that pulsates with rock's own rhythms, and featuring a remarkable cast of characters - including Sabbath and their notorious singer Ozzy Osbourne, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Kate Bush David Bowie, Guns & Roses, Stevie Nicks and many, many others - PARANOID is not just the story of one man, or even one band, but a remarkably frank inside look at the rock industry in all its tawdry, self-deluding glory. â€˜Far too slowly the truth dawnedâ€™, writes Wall. â€˜For much of my life, I had been a desperate, hand to mouth junkie in a corrupt, multi-billion dollar industry that didn't give a fuckâ€™.
This brand new eBook edition is the first time PARANOID has been published online. It comes with a brand new introduction from the author, outlining for the first time what the book was really all about, and with the manuscript in its original unexpurgated form.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-06-17
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-06-17
Format	Kindle eBook

Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories - The Unexpurgated Edition

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