Barney Hoskyns: 9 books
Never Enough
A Way Through Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
'This book could save your life' John Crace
'An unblinking account of living with - and more importantly, beyond - addiction. Brave, clear-eyed and inspiring' John Niven
'A rich, uplifting memoir: Hoskyns portrays how painful inadequacy, masked by drugs, can be replaced by the messiness...
Led Zeppelin
The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
The definitive oral history of the iconic, bestselling rock band Led Zeppelin
With Robert Plant on lead vocal and Jimmy Page on guitar, Led Zeppelin is one of the most iconic, legendary, and influential rock bands in musical history. Tales of their indulgence in sex, drugs, and excess have...
Lowside of the Road
A Life of Tom Waits
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty...
Joni
The Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Selected by Harper's Bazaar as one of the "Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)"
A Library Journal Fall Editors' Pick
"Nearly 50 years’ worth of critical efforts to solve Mitchell’s mysteries have now been rounded up in Barney Hoskyns’s Joni: The Anthology....what comes through...
Hotel California
The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
"Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told."
—Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone
From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping...
Small Town Talk
Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked....
Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted
Country Soul In The American South
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted was the first of many titles by renowned UK music journalist Barney Hoskyns. Thirty years after its publication he revisited the modern-day classic for this revised and expanded anniversary edition that marks the book's first publication in the US. Fascinated...
by Barney Hoskyns
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Led Zeppelin IV, often called heavy metal's greatest album, kicks off an exciting new series that takes a fresh, in-depth look at some of the greatest works from the most influential artists of the rock era. Fans may know the songs, but wait until they hear the stories behind them!
The music...
by Barney Hoskyns
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Compiled by Rock's Backpages, here is the ultimate collection of interviews, profiles and reviews concerning the weird and wonderful career of Ozzy Osbourne! From Black Sabbath through the annual Ozzfest tour to the MTV Phenomenon 'The Osbournes', Ozzy has always attracted attention. Among the world-class...