Booked On Rock

Eric Senich

Conversations with authors, musicians, and insiders revealing the stories behind classic rock's greatest songs, albums and artists.

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Sep 18, 2021 · 55 min
"Metallica: The $24.95 Book"/Ben Apatoff [Episode 24]
"Metallica: The $24.95 Book" features an in-depth look at Metallica's cultural significance with chapters devoted to each member, each album, touring, fashion, books, film, influences, fandom, and more, exploring the band's ideologies along the way....
Sep 12, 2021 · 1 hr 50 min
"Evenings With Led Zeppelin: The Complete Concert Chronicle"/Dave Lewis & Mike Tremaglio [Episode 23]
From their earliest gig in a Denmark school gymnasium on September 7, 1968, through to the last gig that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones ever performed with John Bonham, in Berlin on July 7, 1980, this is the Led Zeppelin story told from...
Sep 11, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
"The Beatles 100: 100 Pivotal Moments In Beatles History"/John M. Borack [Episode 22]
Was John Lennon meeting Paul McCartney more significant than John Lennon meeting Yoko Ono? 'Rubber Soul' or 'Revolver'? Which Wings album was Paul McCartney’s solo pinnacle? In 100 brief chapters, John M. Borack discusses and ranks the greatest...
Sep 6, 2021 · 1 hr 18 min
"The Grunge Diaries: Seattle, 1990-1994"/Dave Thompson [Episode 21]
Throughout the 1990s, Dave Thompson was the Seattle-based contributing editor to Alternative Press magazine—America's biggest-selling and most influential alternative rock monthly—and a regular contributor to other publications both nationally and...
Sep 4, 2021 · 44 min
"Peter Gabriel: Every Album, Every Song"/Graeme Scarfe [Episode 20]
If Genesis, according to British comedian and fan, Al Murray "were the progressive rock band who progressed", then Peter Gabriel, once solo, would be the one who progressed the most. Who would have thought listening to early Genesis would eventually...
Aug 26, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
"London, Reign Over Me: How England's Capital Built Classic Rock"/Stephen Tow [Episode 19]
It all started in London. More than fifty years ago, a generation of teens created something that would change the face of music forever. London, Reign Over Me immerses us in the backroom clubs, basement record shops, and late-night faint radio...
Aug 19, 2021 · 52 min
"Take It Off: KISS Truly Unmasked"/Greg Prato [Episode 18]
There is a common misconception about KISS, one of the greatest hard-rock/heavy metal-bands of all-time: that their ‘non-makeup’ era of 1983-1996 is not as enduring as the period when they stalked stages as the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman, and...
Aug 12, 2021 · 1 hr 40 min
"Tom Petty: Every Album, Every Song"/Richard James [Episode 17]
At the Hollywood Bowl, California on September 25th 2017 the final song of the final concert of the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary tour was, almost inevitably, "American Girl", the classic from the bands 1976 debut album. Seven days...
Aug 6, 2021 · 1 hr 20 min
"Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia"/Paul Sexton [Episode 16]
Prince Rogers Nelson was a musical phenomenon who constantly reinvented himself throughout his long and colorful career, changing his style and even his name to keep his artistic output fresh and funky. Eccentric and flamboyant with an impressive...
Jul 31, 2021 · 1 hr 42 min
"Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution"/Russell Reising [Episode 15]
The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet from 1968 is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that...
Jul 24, 2021 · 1 hr 34 min
"Two Steps Forward, One Stop Back: My Life In The Music Business"/Miles Copeland [Episode 14]
"Two Steps Forward, One Step Back" tells the extraordinary story of a maverick manager, promoter, label owner, and all-round legend of the music industry. It opens in the Middle East, where Miles grew up with his father, a CIA agent who was stationed...
Jul 17, 2021 · 1 hr 33 min
"Alice Cooper in the 1970s"/Chris Sutton [Episode 13]
The 1970s was the decade that saw the arrival of Alice Cooper as a major force across the media. In "Alice Cooper in the 1970s" Chris Sutton explores the story of Alice Cooper the band and Alice the solo performer from their early years through to the...
Jul 8, 2021 · 1 hr 9 min
"All Things Must Pass Away: Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs"/Kenneth Womack & Jason Kruppa [Episode 12]
George Harrison and Eric Clapton embarked upon a singular personal and creative friendship that impacted rock's unfolding future in resounding and far-reaching ways. "All Things Must Pass Away: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Other Assorted...
Jul 1, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min
"Get Tusked: The Inside Story of Fleetwood Mac's Most Anticipated Album"/Ken Caillat & Hernan Rojas [Episode 11]
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of Fleetwood Mac’s epic, platinum-selling double album, 'Tusk', producers and engineers Ken Caillat and Hernan Rojas tell their stories of spending a year with the band in their new million-dollar studio...
Jun 23, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min
"Leonard, Marianne, and Me: Magical Summers on Hydra"/Judy Scott [Episode 10]
"Leonard, Marianne, and Me" chronicles forty years of Judy Scott's frequent summers on the Greek island of Hydra with a diverse artistic community and her friendship with singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen and his legendary muse Marianne Ihlen....
Jun 19, 2021 · 1 hr 22 min
"Chairman at the Board: Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation"/Bill Schnee [Episode 9]
"Chairman at the Board" is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes the reader inside the studio—behind the...
Jun 17, 2021 · 1 hr 29 min
"Hold On World: The Lasting Impact of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band, Fifty Years On"/John Kruth [Episode 8]
"Hold On World" revisits John Lennon and Yoko Ono's love affair and startling collaborations. 'John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band' was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn't merely another record but more like a sonic exorcism, a...
Jun 11, 2021 · 54 min
"Babysitting A Band On The Rocks"/G.D. Praetorius [Episode 7]
In "Babysitting A Band On The Rocks", G.D. Praetorius tells the story of a chaotic youth producing concerts during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the summit of rock god excess. He offers humorous and insightful reflections on the excitement and...
Jun 5, 2021 · 1 hr 22 min
"Dire Straits: Every Album, Every Song"/Andrew Wild [Episode 6]
The year 1979 was an amazing time for UK post-punk pop. At the end of March, a fresh new sound entered the British top 20. "Sultans of Swing", a very wordy song with lots of driving guitar, a tight rhythm section and some killer musicianship. Dire...
Jun 1, 2021 · 1 hr 3 min
"Driven: Rush in the ’90s"/Martin Popoff [Episode 5]
The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North. "Rush In The 90s" includes two full-colour photo inserts, with unearthed photos of the band. In this conclusion to his trilogy of authoritative books on Canada’s most...