"Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with Seán O'Hagan"-- In conversations with O'Hagan, a journalist, Cave explored what drives his life and creativity. Here he examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief, and love. Drawing candidly on his life, his loves, his work ethic and his transformation in recent years, Cave offers ladders of hope and inspiration....

Jonathan Cott's story begins one day in 1968 when he went to interview John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their London flat. Later that evening Lennon invited Cott - then the London correspondent for fledgling music magazine Rolling Stone - to sit in on a recording session at Abbey Road Studios. From this professional introduction a friendship was born - one that continued even as Lennon and Ono moved to New York. It was Cott who interviewed the couple on...

A new collection of candid, hysterical, revealing short-form celebrity interviews and experiences with celebrities such as the Oasis band, the Who's aging leader Pete Townshend, Soul Asylum's Dave Pirner, Ludacris, Courtney Love, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, actor Orlando Bloom, and more.

Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of punk in the United Kingdom. From the Clash, Crass, Henry Rollins, and John Lydon to the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers, and the Buzzcocks, this reference features more than 150 interviews that encapsulate the most thrilling...

"From New York Times bestselling author and Rolling Stone founder comes "a visit to the Mount Olympus of rock" in this remarkable collection of new and collected interviews with the greatest rock stars and cultural icons of our time (Kirkus Reviews). During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. Some of these conversations...

"An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of...

An "oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era"--Page 4 of cover.

A biographical documentary using home movies, interviews, tv footage, songs and reminiscences of friends and family. Lennon's own voice provides the narration.

"Captures the punk phenomena in all its raw power and energy. Punk in London is a unique visual record of punk life as it happened in the late 1970's. Filled with live performances and interviews."--Container.