An epic joyride through three history-making tours in 1973 that defined rock and roll superstardom—the money, the access, the excess—forevermore.The Who’s Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. These three unprecedented tours—and the albums that inspired them—were the most ambitious of these artists’ careers, and they forever changed the landscape of rock and roll: the economics, the privile...

A "richly anecdotal" account of the secluded LA neighborhood's legendary music scene, a tale of groupies, cocaine, and California dreaming ( Salon).Finalist, SCBA Book Award for NonfictionA Los Angeles Times BestsellerIn the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and ...

The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience.She inspired songs—Leon Russell wrote "A Song for You" and "Delta Lady" for her, Stephen Stills wrote "Cherokee." She co-wrote songs—"Superstar" and the piano coda to "Layla," uncredited. She sang backup for Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and Stills, before finding fame as a solo artist with such hits as "We're All Al...

Unnatural behavior is a book that shows the progression of sexual behaviors that were once deemed twisted and reprehensive to us in America, as something our minds transform to accept as natural over time. It’s designed to explore how the mind transforms its beliefs due to influence through media, government, and peers in our changing times. This book is a deep dive into the most extreme types of sexual behavior and how more and more people are getting into these types of behavior as time ...

Charles Frohman is a theater business mogul with a syndicate that stages productions up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States and across the Atlantic to England and Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. A great deal of Frohman's success is due to his association and friendship with one man – the prominent actor of his time, William Hooker Gillette.Actor, playwright, director, and stage set designer, William Gillette, has thrilled the American public with his int...

William Gillette in real life brought Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to the theater stage in over 1300 plays. Gillette in real life often took on the persona of Sherlock and this story portays him switching to and from Sherlock. Fall of the Musketeers is a fast moving historical detective mystery which takes place in Pheonix, Arizona. You will be introduced to the best known stage actors of 1899, and a peek into their complex lives, hot emotions, and how they interact with Sherlock. Enj...

In April 1897, a strange airship crashed in Aurora, Texas and the "unearthly" pilot was buried in the local cemetery. Today, the pilot finally awakened. God help us all. In July 2015, supernatural sleuth Kevin Starkly disappeared mysteriously in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. What secrets did he uncover about the Aurora UFO crash, and has he paid a terrible price for his curiosity? Four twenty-something paranormal investigators, a self-styled "Nerd Legion," —Tony Fermia (a psychic who talks ...

My name is James Bennett Frohman, son of Mary who married the grandson of the great Charles Frohman of New York City who built a multi-million dollar theater syndicate throughout these great United States and Europe from 1880 to 1930. My great grandfather Charles Frohman journaled many accounts of his vast theater business and his travels with his best friend, William Hooker Gillette.William was a true genius, aside from being the greatest stage actor in 1900, and the man who broug...

On the night of his twenty-first birthday, a domino effect of unfortunate events leads Liam Cassidy to a chance encounter with a stranger. What he thinks will be nothing more than a moment of shared refuge in a bar bathroom takes a turn when Liam finds that same stranger waiting in his hotel room that night.Jonah Prince is just trying to survive another night, same as he has done since his life derailed at seventeen. When his services are requested as a surprise for someone's birth...

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts. This book takes a close look at a number of those films from different countries, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Great Britain. Making a crucial distinction between these atmospheric films and conventional horror, Michael Walker argues that they are most...

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This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigra...