by JamesParker (Author)
Henry Rollins's legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompass music, acting and the written and spoken-word. In this energetic biography young writer James Parker plots the course of Rollins's career, from his punk rock adolescence in Washington DC, through his years with the seminal band Black Flag, to his current status as a cult icon. Rollins's profile is increasing all the time - as well as appearing in the big budget films Heat, Johnny Mnemonic and Lost Highway he has appeared in adverts for Apple Mac, the Gap and is all over MTV. This is a vivid account of twenty years of full-on Rollins. 'Parker's book is particularly good at charting Rollins's adolescence in DC, featuring interviews with school friends, teachers, fellow skaters and those involved in the city's embryonic hardcore scene, as well as his fascination with the notorious Charles Manson and his acceptance into the literary and spoken word circuits' Kerrang!
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 03 Jun 1999
ISBN 10: 0753804794
ISBN 13: 9780753804797
Book Overview: First ever biography of Henry Rollins There is now a large audience for rock writing - punk rock is a mass marketable commodity Trade paperback edition has already been reprinted In the tradition of Revolution in the Head and Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave 'Gripping and instructive. Parker captures the brutal excitements of American hardcore...He is equally good on the intellectual and cultural back drop to the Rollins story' Ben Thompson, Independent on Saturday Magazine 'Parker's informed and bubblingly enthusiastic take on the horrific Black Flag years is breathlessly brilliant' Steven Wells, New Musical Express
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