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German heavy metal heroes Accept have been headbanging their way around the world since 1979, creating along the way three of the finest metal albums of all time in Restless and Wild, Balls to the Wall and Metal Heart, with 1981's Breaker even ser...

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In this scintillating sequel to Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies, Martin Popoff blows up the kaleidoscopic narrative of the Sabs over the ensuing twenty years, dissecting each and every of the band's ten studio albums and two (and-a-half) ...

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In Walking in the Shadow of the Blues: The Whitesnake Story-the first ever full biography of the band-top music writer Martin Popoff tells the tale of rock legend David Coverdale, from his Deep Purple roots to the two distinct incarnations of his ...

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The first book ever on the classic British rock band UFO. Based around the author's many interviews with all the key players such as Phil Mogg, Pete Way & Michael Schenker. Noted author Martin Popoff takes you through the Schenker era in great det...

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They were the heaviest of the gender-bending glam bands in Britain in the '70s, with smash hit after smash hit and a stronghold in Germany of all places. Soon Sweet-Brian Connolly, Andy Scott, Steve Priest and Mick Tucker-would extricate themselve...

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Renowned rock author Martin Popoff's exhaustive and detailed timeline of Deep Purple milestones - often to the day - looks at the band's influences, cultural milieu, tours, recording sessions, charts, singles, certification news, break-ups, person...

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Embark on a thrilling journey through the superlative recorded canon of one of the world's most legendary heavy-metal bands. Music journalist Martin Popoff provides an intimate and scholarly look into the life and times of Iron Maiden. From their ...

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Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first commercial LP with this authoritative, highly illustrated, and multi-faceted look at the history and culture of vinyl record collecting and turntables. Vinyl records continue to be hot commodities among ...

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A beautifully produced, photo-packed celebration of the ultimate rock band, AC/DC at 50 examines the extraordinary history of the Australian rockers through the lens of 50 milestone events and an illustrated gatefold timeline. Formed in Australia ...

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Quite simply, Martin Popoff's Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies marks the most intensive analysis of Black Sabbath's first eight albums ever attempted. This is a big book-129,000 words long, every song analysed in detail, loads of first-han...

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In¿Dio: The Unholy Scriptures, embark on an electrifying journey through the tumultuous yet triumphant saga of one of heavy metal's most legendary bands: Dio. Told through gripping anecdotes and candid interviews conducted with the author over the...

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No question Scorpions, Germany's loudest and proudest rock band ever, have been one of that country's most successful musical exports. Taken by Force: Sixty Years of Scorpions documents the band's career with analysis of every song on every album ...

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Celebrate four exhilarating and rebellious decades of Guns N' Roses with this lushly illustrated journey through the band's biggest moments. Formed on Los Angeles' famed Sunset Strip in 1985, Guns N' Roses worked their way up from the club scene i...

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If any band deserves to have homage paid to them with a lavish, limited edition photographic book, look no further than Thin Lizzy. With their origins going back to the late sixties, by 1971 with the first album release, Lizzy's journey really beg...

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Find out what 20 rock journalists and writers have to say about Rush's 20 studio albums. Formed in Toronto in 1968, the rock trio Rush has gone on to multiplatinum success behind the distinctive high register and virtuosic bass-playing of frontman...

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With this beautifully produced book, relive the extraordinary history of the of the hottest band in the land through 50 milestone events. Formed in New York City in 1973, Kiss became one of the most popular and best-selling bands in rock history w...

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In Run with the Wolf: Rainbow on Record, Martin Popoff-also author of Sensitive to Light: The Rainbow Story, as well as multiple books on Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Dio-assembles a panel of interested interviewees in celebration of Ritchie Bla...

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Denim and Leather is 260 pages of biker metal hail after hail, with two four-page photo sections, loads of fresh interview content, all the facts and dates and even some of the hot disputes. As the back cover crows... Stand Up and Be Counted! Now ...

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This new tome by the hugely prolific Canadian author Martin Popoff is a detailed re-write and expanded edition of his 2005 publication English Castle Magic. In fact the book is 50% bigger, a whopping 120,000 words and 318 pages including two swell...

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It's one of the great debates in musicology and the answer is as complicated as it is hotly contested. Popoff's Who Invented Heavy Metal? provides the most detailed, well argued, reasonable, ridiculously complete, and most lively and readable tell...

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Having written the first book ever on UFO, 2005's long out-of-print Shoot Out the Lights, Martin Popoff, author of over seventy rock books, has now greatly expanded and rewritten the later years material from that title, bringing us now Lettin' Go...

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Song-by-song, album-per-chapter book looking at the exemplary catalogue of King Diamond's devilish original band, from Melissa and Don't Break the Oath in the eighties to a vastly under-rated run of top-shelf reunion records in the nineties. The K...

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The Damned are forever in the history books as the first UK punk band to get an album out. Damned Damned Damned was a flamethrower of a record, led by the incendiary violence of "New Rose" (first UK punk single as well) and "Neat Neat Neat," two s...

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Required reading for any metalhead, this collection of entertaining illustrated conversations spans all of Judas Priest's studio albums, right up through 2024's Invincible Shield. In Judas Priest: Album by Album, prolific rock journalist Martin Po...

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Rock City, Narita, Fire Down Under, Restless Breed, Born in America... These are the pioneering, superlative heavy metal records that represent the classic first decade of Brooklyn's Riot's, before the band would break up, eventually storming back...

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An updated version of Loud 'n' Proud: Fifty Years of Nazareth, drawing on copious images and items of memorabilia, this large format 240-page book is a treasure trove for Nazareth devotees - crammed full of live and off stage shots that portray th...

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Dublin's Thin Lizzy have become one of the most revered cult acts of all time, studious and discerning fans of hard rock the world over revelling in the storytelling acumen of the legendary Phil Lynott and the craft and class of his band. Through ...

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