Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
by Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock
Trade Paperback
From the publisher's website:
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative
wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated—and maybe even helped
to define—a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping
hits like Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” Mötley Crüe’s
“Girls, Girls, Girls,” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” are as
inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics, PAC-MAN, and E.T.
From
the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert
productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the
multi-Platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and
chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands
like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom
Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nothin' But a Good Time
captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of
the musicians, managers, producers, engineers, label executives,
publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists,
magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies,
and hangers-on who lived it.
Featuring an impassioned foreword
by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and avowed glam metal fanatic Corey
Taylor, and drawn from over two hundred author interviews with members
of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi,
Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot and
others, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, and many more, this is the
ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged, chronicle of a time where
excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who
created a sound and style that came to define a musical era—one in which
the bands and their fans went looking for nothin’ but a good time…and
found it.
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