Books with category Rock 'N' Roll Adventures
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The Lightning Bottles

2024

by Marissa Stapley

The author of New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Lucky returns with a love letter to rock ‘n’ roll and star-crossed love. Follow Jane Pyre’s road trip around Europe as she attempts to find out what really happened to her partner in love and music, who disappeared without a trace years earlier, leaving Jane to pick up the pieces.

Jane Pyre was once one half of one of the most famous rock ‘n’ roll duos in the world, The Lightning Bottles. Years later, she’s perhaps the most hated (and least understood) woman in music. She was never as popular with fans as her bandmate (and soulmate) Elijah—even if Jane was the one who wrote the songs that catapulted The Lightning Bottles to instant, dizzying fame, first in the Seattle grunge scene, and then around the world. But then Elijah disappeared and everything came crashing down.

Even now, years after Elijah vanished, Jane is universally blamed and reviled by the public. In an attempt to get some peace and quiet, Jane rents a house in a remote part of Germany where she knows she won’t be disturbed. But on the day she arrives, she’s confronted by her new next-door neighbor, a sullen teenaged girl named Hen who just so happens to be a Lightning Bottles superfan—and who claims to have a piece of information that might solve the mystery of what happened to Elijah, and whether he is, in fact, still alive and leaving messages for Jane after all these years.

A cross-continent road trip about two misunderstood outsiders brought together by their shared love of music, interwoven with flashbacks to the beginnings of Jane and Elijah’s love story and meteoric rise, The Lightning Bottles is a love story, a celebration of rock ‘n’ roll, and a searing portrait of the cost of fame.

Espedair Street

2013

by Iain Banks

Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe he still is. At thirty-one, he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that turns out to be).

Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and managed to hold onto them both, though not much else. His friends all seem to be dead, fed up with him, or just disgusted - and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone.

As he contemplates his life, Daniel realises he only has two problems: the past and the future. He knows how bad the past has been. But the future - well, the future is something else.

Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue is a searingly honest memoir by Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, chronicling a life spent in the fast lane of rock 'n' roll. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" emerged from the neo-punk rock scene in L.A., creating their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, against all odds, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have become one of the most successful bands in the world.

Though the band has gone through many incarnations, Anthony Kiedis, the group's lyricist and dynamic lead singer, has been a constant presence, experiencing the wild roller-coaster ride of success and excess. Whether he's honoring the influence of the beautiful, strong women who have been his muses or recalling performances from the roaring crowds of Woodstock to the humble compound of the exiled Dalai Lama, Kiedis shares a compelling story about the price of stardom.

Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption—a story that could only have emerged from the world of rock.

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