1
/
of
0
O'neill Andrew
A History Of Heavy Metal Absolutely Hilarious Neil Gaiman
A History Of Heavy Metal Absolutely Hilarious Neil Gaiman
Books
Regular price
$23.35 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$23.35 USD
Unit price
/
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Binding: Paperback
Description: Absolutely hilarious - Neil Gaiman One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read loud and thoroughly engrossing - Alan Moore A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll". - The Sunday Times As funny and preposterous as this mighty music deserve - John Higgs The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger - than - life characters living to excess from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne Lemmy Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN LARS!) to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music of cut - throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies Satanists and murderers born - again Christians and teetotallers stadium - touring billionaires and toilet - circuit journeymen. Award - winning comedian and life - long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet - reading theatre - goers of the Edinburgh Fringe. Now in his first book he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music the subculture and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music.
Title: A History Of Heavy Metal Absolutely Hilarious Neil Gaiman
Author(s): O'neill Andrew
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781472241450
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 9/25/2018
Category: Humour
Description: Absolutely hilarious - Neil Gaiman One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read loud and thoroughly engrossing - Alan Moore A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll". - The Sunday Times As funny and preposterous as this mighty music deserve - John Higgs The history of heavy metal brings brings us extraordinary stories of larger - than - life characters living to excess from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne Lemmy Bruce Dickinson and Metallica (SIT DOWN LARS!) to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music of cut - throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians includes junkies Satanists and murderers born - again Christians and teetotallers stadium - touring billionaires and toilet - circuit journeymen. Award - winning comedian and life - long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet - reading theatre - goers of the Edinburgh Fringe. Now in his first book he takes us on his own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music the subculture and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music.
Title: A History Of Heavy Metal Absolutely Hilarious Neil Gaiman
Author(s): O'neill Andrew
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781472241450
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 9/25/2018
Category: Humour