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Loud:  A Life in Rock 'n' Roll by the World's First Female Roadie

by Tana Douglas

ABC Books

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At just fifteen, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to work for a who's who of bands and artists. Life on the road was exhilarating, hard work, occasionally surreal but never dull, particularly when you're the only woman in the road crew and the #metoo movement is still 40 years away.

Whether wrangling Iggy Pop across Europe, climbing trusses while seven months pregnant, drinking shots of JD with Bon Scott backstage at Wembley, or donning a tailor-made suit to do lights for Elton at Windsor Castle, Tana did it all.

Loud is rock 'n' roll like you've never seen it before, by a woman who not only survived the all-male world on the road but climbed to the top and lived to tell the tale.

AC/DC ∗ Deep Purple ∗ ELO ∗ Elton John ∗ Ice Cube ∗ Ice-T ∗ Iggy Pop∗ INXS ∗ Iron Maiden ∗ Lenny Kravitz ∗ Neil Diamond ∗ Ozzy Osbourne ∗ Patti Smith ∗ Pearl Jam ∗ Rage Against the Machine ∗ Red Hot Chili Peppers ∗ Santana ∗ Status Quo ∗ Suzi Quatro ∗ The Offspring ∗ The Police ∗ The Runaways ∗ The Who ∗ Vanda & Young and more!

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Entertain Us! The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties
by Craig Schuftan
ABC Books
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The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties. (2012) In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged – underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that transformed youth culture and revived a moribund music industry. Five years later, alternative rock was over, leaving behind a handful of dead heroes, a few dozen masterpieces, and a lot more questions than answers. What, if anything, had the alternative revolution meant? And had it been possible – as so many of its heroes had insisted – for it to be both on MTV and under the radar? Had it used the machinery of corporate rock to destroy corporate rock? To answer these questions, Entertain Us! takes you on a journey through the nineties – from Sonic Youth’s ‘Kool Thing’ to Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’, Nevermind to Odelay, Madchester to Nu-Metal, Lollapalooza to Woodstock ’99 – narrated in the voices of the decade’s most important artists. This is the story of alternative rock – the people who made it, the people who loved it, the industry that bought and sold it, and the culture that grew up in its wake – in the last decade of the twentieth century