Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock

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," Motley Crue'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. 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, Motley Crue, 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 when 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

Genres: Nonfiction - Music - History - Biography - Pop Culture - Rock N Roll - Memoir
Condition: Very good
Published: 2021 by St. Martin's Press 
Pages: 535
ISBN: 9781250195753
Weight: 820g