Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons

By Jon Holmes

Book Overview

Fun, shocking, and compulsively readable, Rock Star Babylon is a guilty pleasure for fans everywhere who want to know more about rock stars behaving badly.

From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock Star Babylon has gathered together the most outrageous antics and diva-esque misbehavior in the annals of rock. Here in a single volume are the most wickedly entertaining stories of over-the-top parties, crazy divorces, hidden cameras, trashed hotel rooms, misapplied epileptic interventions, and innocent headless bats. Running the gamut from the rude to the ridiculous, these reports of rock-and-rollers at their worst come straight from the mouths of those who were there--or those who were there but left early and heard about it afterward.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452289416
• ISBN13: 9780452289413
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Hilarious Tales Written in a Hilarious Style

This book made me laugh out loud numerous times. The stories are very funny, employing copious comic footnotes and references to D-list British pop culture figures. But at center stage is the author's style, which transcends the genre of tell-all rock books. Highly recommend.