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Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons

Author(s): Jon Holmes (Author)

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Print length: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 0452289416
ISBN-13: 9780452289413

Book Description

Fun, shocking, and compulsively readable, Rock Star Babylon is a guilty pleasure for fans everywhere who want to know more about rock stars behaving badly.

From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock Star Babylon has gathered together the most outrageous antics and diva-esque misbehavior in the annals of rock. Here in a single volume are the most wickedly entertaining stories of over-the-top parties, crazy divorces, hidden cameras, trashed hotel rooms, misapplied epileptic interventions, and innocent headless bats. Running the gamut from the rude to the ridiculous, these reports of rock-and-rollers at their worst come straight from the mouths of those who were there—or those who were there but left early and heard about it afterward.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Holmes limns a series of brief tableaus of rock ’n’ roll excess in the manner of Kenneth Anger in his magnum opus of silver-screen sleaze, Hollywood Babylon (1959), which, of course, the title of Holmes’ tome references. As far as explicitness in rockin’ tales of naughtiness, Holmes is on a par with “lad” mags like FM rather than Penthouse, but he makes his points, as when he notes that Bob Geldof couldn’t have killed his ex-wife’s paramour (Michael Hutchence of INXS), partly because, given Geldof’s “level of uncleanliness, he’d have left DNA and strands of hair” at the scene; this tags the end of some moderately snarky conjecture as to whether the late Hutchence checked out as a “result of an act of autoerotic activity . . . gone horribly wrong.” With plenty of other verbal felicities such as the footnote about “spousal slagging off” that describes Marvin Gaye as “in many ways the original Eminem,” it’s obvious that this is a must-have pop-music and trash-culture gem—rough-cut, of course. –Mike Tribby

Review

?Clever but warped.?
?”The Sunday Times” (London)

?Jon Holmes is a genius.?
?”Heat”

aClever but warped.a
a”The Sunday Times” (London)
aJon Holmes is a genius.a
a”Heat”

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Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons

Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons

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