A Million Vacations: The Max Webster Story: The Max Webster Story

by Martin Popoff

Dubious, unlikely, improbable...

...but indeed, verifiable and certifiable! The book is in fact the story of the finest rock ‘n’ roll band that ever was. Zeppelin, The Beatles, U2, Springsteen, Queen, King’s X... none can hold an expiring lighter to the conflagration that was the near mythical Max Webster.

Consume these pages, and you will learn the secrets―often in the impenetrable code of the band’s top-shelf wordsmith Pye Dubois―of the wily Canuck wizards who made the above boast sing with unassailable truth.

“Toronto Tontos,””Hangover,” “High Class In Borrowed Shoes,” “America’s Veins, Oh War!,” “Beyond The Moon,” “Lip Service,” “Charmonium,” “Paradise Skies,” “A Million Vacations,” “In The World Of Giants,” “Battle Scar”... these are towering anthems from the band’s tight catalogue of five classics spanning the years 1976 to 1980. And so, the time has come to re-celebrate and re-calibrate their majesty, along with dozens of other Kim Mitchell classics stuck in cult status... until now?!

Genres: Nonfiction, Music

333 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 11, 2025

About the author

At approximately 7900 (with over 7000 appearing in his books), Martin has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned approximately 85 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock and record collecting. He was Editor-In-Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada’s foremost metal publication for 14 years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com and hardradio.com, with many record label band bios and liner notes to his credit as well. Additionally, Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked for two years as researcher on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, on the writing and research team for the 11-episode Metal Evolution and on the ten-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Additionally, Martin is the writer of the original metal genre chart used in Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey and throughout the Metal Evolution episodes. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached through martinp@inforamp.net or www.martinpopoff.com.