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Rat Salad

Black Sabbath: The Classic Years, 1969-1975

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A winning account of Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath in their early, glory years.Black Sabbath is one of the most outrageous, yet longest-lived bands in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. This informative, idiosyncratic book paints a vivid picture of the band’s colourful early history — interwoven with all the most crucial news stories of the from Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and the Space program.Where Rat Salad diverges from routes taken by most rock biographies, however, is in its detailed analysis of the band’s first six albums. These chapters occupy about half the book and persuasively explain the appeal of the music, its compositional artistry and its audacious inventiveness.Original and passionate, Rat Salad embraces a remarkably diverse cast of characters — from Ozzy Osbourne himself and the other band members, through to Edith Sitwell, Breugel the Elder, John Milton and Doris Day. The author’s hand looms large in the piece. We see him both as a boy and a man, as he looks back at a life populated with love, sex, drugs and death, played out against a backdrop of crucifixes and power chords.

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Rat Salad, Paul Wilkinson

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2007
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Titolo
Rat Salad
Sottotitolo
Black Sabbath: The Classic Years, 1969-1975
Lingua
Inglese
Editore
Pimlico
Pubblicato
2007
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
236
ISBN10
1844139255
ISBN13
9781844139255
Serie
Valutazione
2,9 su 5
Descrizione
A winning account of Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath in their early, glory years.Black Sabbath is one of the most outrageous, yet longest-lived bands in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. This informative, idiosyncratic book paints a vivid picture of the band’s colourful early history — interwoven with all the most crucial news stories of the from Vietnam to Bloody Sunday and the Space program.Where Rat Salad diverges from routes taken by most rock biographies, however, is in its detailed analysis of the band’s first six albums. These chapters occupy about half the book and persuasively explain the appeal of the music, its compositional artistry and its audacious inventiveness.Original and passionate, Rat Salad embraces a remarkably diverse cast of characters — from Ozzy Osbourne himself and the other band members, through to Edith Sitwell, Breugel the Elder, John Milton and Doris Day. The author’s hand looms large in the piece. We see him both as a boy and a man, as he looks back at a life populated with love, sex, drugs and death, played out against a backdrop of crucifixes and power chords.