Product Description

The Darkness have ascended rapidly into the top rank of the music and media scene and have got everyone talking, from the "Sun" and the "Telegraph", high-end music magazines such as "Q" and "Bang!" to ultra-hip magazines such as "Dazed and Confused". Their fans include teenagers, older serious rock-music fans and high-spending late-twenty-somethings nostalgic for the guitar-rock of their youth. This title details the band's early days as gigging musicians right through to their trajectory towards superstardom and critical acclaim and their experiences "breaking" America, illustrated throughout with shots of this hard-rocking, technicolour band.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #844682 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 80 pages

From the Author
This being an unofficial book (that subtitle is a dead giveaway), I knew I had to run the extra mile, in order to make it well worth a Darkling's hard-earned/stolen cash. Let's face it: most unofficial books are nothing more than cobbled together magazine articles that you've already absorbed. So I conducted in-depth interviews with around 15 people during the long writing process, including two of lead singer Justin Hawkins' best friends (with his blessing), his tutor Rick Cocker at Huddersfield Technical College and London gig promoters who believed in the band early on. Because of these added perspectives, plus the fact that I'm from the band's hometown Lowestoft myself (went to the same high school, drank in the same pubs), I feel that I've been able to tell The Darkness' story in a way you won't have read elsewhere. I'm also very pleased with the way the book has physically turned out - it's a quality hardback offering, slathered with the finest colour pictures. Hope you give it the thumbs-up...

About the Author
Jason Arnopp spent 14 years working on Kerrang! magazine and is now freelance, having written for the likes of Heat, Zoo Weekly, Word, The Face and Q. His first book chronicled the rise of nu-metal maniacs Slipknot. Subtitled 'Inside The Sickness, Behind The Masks', it was released by Ebury in 2001. 'Permission To Rock!' is his second book. Arnopp runs the horror website Slasherama and the spoof news site Satan-Says. He lives in Camden Town, London with a possum and a ridiculously large collection of movies.