Heroes and Villains
Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture
The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines reveals the gothic tale of violence, addiction, greed, genius, madness, and rock 'n' roll behind the wholesome, surf-and-sun image. Through candid interviews with close friends, family, and the Beach Boys themselves, Heroes and Villains portrays and evaluates all those who propelled the California myth, and the group who sang about it, into worldwide prominence: Murry Wilson, the corrosive father who abused them as children and exploited them as…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-5104-4
- EAN: 9780786751044
- Produktnummer: 22911991
- Verlag: Hachette Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 482 KB
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Steven Gaines has written many books, including Obsession: The Life and Times of Calvin Klein and, as coauthor, The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles.
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