Rock  Roll Nightmares True Stories,..., Staci Layne Wilson
Rock  Roll Nightmares True Stories,..., Staci Layne Wilson
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Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Volume 2
True Crime and Strange Stories About Rock Stars

Author: Staci Layne Wilson

Narrator: Andy Garrison

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/03/2023


Synopsis

Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues in a standalone audiobook full of concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more.You will read about:Murdered rock stars, hitmen hired, and narrow escapesShocking stories of rockers who’ve served time for violent crimesDevil worship and belief in the occultFolks on the fringe who took their obsessions too farPyrotechnics gone horribly wrongMysteries solved, graves robbed, fortunes stolen, and more!Staci Layne Wilson has been writing professionally about rock music for decades and is the director of the multi-award-winning documentary, The Ventures: Stars on Guitars. Staci Layne Wilson is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker specializing in rock music history. In the course of her work, she has interviewed David Crosby, John Fogerty, Jimmy Page, Joni Mitchell, Rob Zombie, Cherie Currie, and Gene Simmons, to name a few.EDITORIAL REVIEWS/AWARDS FOR THE ‘ROCK & ROLL NIGHTMARES’ BOOK SERIESStaci Layne Wilson is the Nellie Bly of the rock & roll asylum!—Guitar Girl[The Rock & Roll Nightmares books are] MTV's Headbangers Ball meets Tales from the Crypt—perfect entertainment for anyone who's ever played Stairway to Heaven backward to hear the mumbled phrase "Here's to my sweet Satan.” —VarietyThere’s gallows humor galore but it’s tempered with Wilson’s empathy, ability to see several sides of a situation, and her obvious love of classic rock music and the people who created it. —On the Rock Block

Reviews

This anthology is a fun and freaky read full of 1960's nostalgia and dark humor. Even the titles made me smile. My favorites were Do You Believe In Tragic By Jeff Strand, which is a rock and roll love story that never ends as long as there is someone else to fall in love with. California Screamin' by......more

Goodreads review by Horror

The collection of stories therein are all themed after rock & roll and its lifestyle in the ‘60s. Stories like Staci Layne Wilson’s own "Papa’s Got a Brand New Body Bag", in which a young man and his sister, whose family owns a mortuary, steal the corpse of a legendary rock musician to take to a par......more

Goodreads review by Sean

When I saw that Rock & Roll Nightmares: Along Comes Scary: '60s Edition was orchestrated by Staci Layne Wilson, visions from my youth tsunami’d; one memory holding prominent sway… My heart moshed as the curtains spread. An applause engulfed, thunderous. The four of us stood, behind instruments, micro......more

Goodreads review by Try2

Disclaimer: This audiobook was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review. This book has a very interesting assortment of horror stories, and I love them they are told in different perspectives, offering a view of the glamour of the lifestyle, the behind the scenes of the......more

Goodreads review by Andie

Tour de force Another veritable tour de force from not only one of my favourite wordsmiths (and co.), but a true inspiration to me. Normally I would read any work from start to finish, but with this masterpiece, I found myself nipping back to read one of the treasures within again before moving alon......more