Rock 'N' Roll's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary Tales from Over 50 Years of Rock Music History

by Mike Evans

Rock music has left a legacy of mind-boggling stories in its wake. We’ve read about The Who’s Keith Moon driving a Rolls Royce into a hotel swimming pool, but far more bizarre tales of on-the-road mayhem have never been widely told. From its roots to pop, punk, indie, new wave, metal, britpop, and beyond, here are some of the weirdest, most outrageous moments in rock history.

Genres: Music, History

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

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Reviews

[Goran Jankuloski · Rating 2 out of 5]

The strangest thing about these tales is how profoundly ordinary they are. Some of them are just rushed biographies, some are badly retold anegdotes (you know most of them so you can tell) and most are about the same people that get most attention in RNR history.

Bottom line, this is just lousy clickbait before Internet existed, and as such would not even make it to BuzzFeed today.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh it was ok.

[Ana · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cool, well-organised book, but somewhat superficial in some ways (more of an encyclopaedia than an actual oeuvre). If you're into the rock-and-roll-weird-thingy you should check Patterson's Take a Walk on the Dark Side.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting....