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Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Getting shot in the chest as a rookie ATF agent, bartering for machine guns, throttling down the highway at 100 miles per hour, and responding to a full-scale, bloody riot between the Hells Angels and their rivals, the Mongols-these are just a few of the high-adrenaline experiences Jay Dobyns recounts in this action-packed, hard to imagine, but true story of how he infiltrated the legendary Hells Angels.Dobyns leaves no stone of his harrowing journey...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s. The product of 20 years of research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Second edition].
Language
English
Description
"We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder. But nobody really knows what it?s like to be an Angel except an Angel. In this classic of Hells Angels literature, to be read alongside the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Sonny Barger, George Wethern?for many years the vice president of the Oakland Chapter?tells it like it is. Until he found himself...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For the first time, cultural icon and label manager Barry Miles tells the full story of Zapple. It is a story of inspired ideas, set against the backdrop of London's vibrant underground scene and the final years of the battling Beatles and their crumbling Apple empire.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions -- to be part of rock royalty's trusted inner circle. Illustrated with private photographs and jam-packed with intimate anecdotes, Miss O'Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple--Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A legend in the biker community, Peter 'Big Pete' James was the most revered gangster in the Chicagoland Outlaws. He first perfected his skills with the Hells Angels, the Outlaws' chief rival, before persuading thousands of disgruntled members from splintered Outlaw Clubs to unite. Together they formed a powerful criminal syndicate involved in extortion, contract murders, drugs and arms trafficking, money laundering, and assassinations. Then a shocking...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Three specials featuring an in-depth view of the infamous Norsemen. 1. A look at the sea-going warriors who attacked Europe with savage fury and violence. 2. The Vikings sailed up rivers to sack inland towns, sites of crucial events in history that are now lost. Follow historical detectives using evidence from excavations, scientific studies and historical documents to see what these locations looked like. 3. A Green Beret reveals why the Vikings...
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
30th anniversary special edition.
Language
English
Description
A young hustler's aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a Black revolutionary by two white cops. Sweetback, driven to a state of blind rage, take brutal revenge on the caps, forcing him into a desperate life on the run. Despite a humble opening at only two theaters followed by a torrent of negative reviews, Sweetback mushroomed to $10,000,000 at the box office, landing it on Daily Variety's list of top-grossing...
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