Aerosmith: The Fall and the Rise of Rock's Greatest Band

Huxley, Martin

ISBN 10: 031211737X / ISBN 13: 9780312117375

Published by St Martins Press, New York, 1995

About this Item

198 Pages. March 1995 Edition. Black marker pen owner's first name inside front cover. Some cover edge wear and very lightly turned up cover corners and barely perceptible dog-ears. Otherwise tight straight book with no marks or stamps. Contents in 25 Chapters: Eat kthe Rich, Movin' Out, One Way Street,Dream On, Make It, Same Old Song and Dance, Walk This Way, Back in the Saddle,S.O.S., Critical Mass, Push Comes to Shove, Sight For Sore Eyes, No Surprize, Spaced, Going Down, Jig Is Up, Get it Up, Monkey on my Back, Magic Touch, Gypsy Boots, Don't Get Mad Get Even, The That Feeds, Gotta Love It, Shut up and Dance, and What Takes Discography. Seller Inventory # 8660

Bibliographic Details

Title: Aerosmith: The Fall and the Rise of Rock's ...

Publisher: St Martins Press, New York

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Trade Paperback

Illustrator: Estes, Nathaniel

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition First Printing Stated

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Synopsis:

The fall and the rise of rock's greatest band.

From Booklist:

The members of Aerosmith may be tired of being compared to the Rolling Stones, but the bands are superficially quite similar, and musically the Stones certainly influenced Aerosmith. Heck, the principal members even resemble one another. But Aerosmith is distinctly American, a product of 1970s rock stadium shows and burgeoning excess, whereas the Stones started out--lo, these many years ago--as a blues band. Huxley's entertaining group bio picks up the Aerosmith story after its members had already reached and for the most part conquered puberty. Readers should be thankful for this because it spares them the hyper-meaningful childhood memories and portentous events that mar many rock bios. The machinations, originality, and endurance that Aerosmith employed to reach its current fame and fortune--not to mention the deliciously decadent way it frittered most of both away during its initial success--constitute a fascinating, cautionary, and in many ways, quintessential rock story. Huxley tells it with just the right amount of detail, exposition, and humor to make this a fine pop culture bio. Mike Tribby