Nöthin' But a Good Time Nöthin' But a Good Time

Nöthin' But a Good Time

The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

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Publisher Description

The New York Times Bestseller

The Explosive National Bestseller


"A backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history—you'll feel like you were right there with us!" —Bret Michaels of Poison

Nothin' But a Good Time is the definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal, told by the musicians and industry insiders who lived it.

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated—and maybe even helped to define—a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” are as inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics, PAC-MAN, and E.T.

From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert productions that were as flashy as they were foolhardy, to the multi-Platinum, MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and chart-topping power ballads, to the ultimate crash when grunge bands like Nirvana forever altered the entire climate of the business, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nothin' But a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words of the musicians, managers, producers, engineers, label executives, publicists, stylists, costume designers, photographers, journalists, magazine publishers, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies, and hangers-on who lived it.

Featuring an impassioned foreword by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and avowed glam metal fanatic Corey Taylor, and drawn from over two hundred author interviews with members of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Warrant, Cinderella, Quiet Riot and others, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford, and many more, this is the ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged, chronicle of a time where excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who created a sound and style that came to define a musical era—one in which the bands and their fans went looking for nothin’ but a good time…and found it.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2021
March 16
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
576
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
43.4
MB

Customer Reviews

M_Lubo ,

Thorough and Interesting Format

Definitely provides authentic insight to the rise and fall of a distinct proof of music history and also the greed and excess that unfortunately were so pervasive during this time.

BandtheC ,

Best Document of the Eighties Rock Scene

I’ve read a ton of rock/music bios and this is the best of the Sunset Strip and “Hair” metal scene. From Van Halen to the advent of grunge, this is the back story told by the bands, producers, a&r and labels and there is no holding back.

Texastiger ,

Well done

This book reads differently than most since it is the words of the musicians, managers, producers, etc from this great era of rock and roll. Once I got going it was hard to put down. Dry well done by the authors with a unique perspective.

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