ROCK SHRINES Where the Miyth Begin and the Stars become Legends by Thomas H. Green and foreword by Palema Des Barres. This book is on sale since May 11
ROCK SHRINES Where the Miyth Begin and the Stars become Legends, is a visual guide to the coolest and most important places of rock reverence in the world. Full – color throughout with removable memorabilia, it’e the perfect guide to where rock stars; lives came to an end and where the myths about their lives and deaths began.
With a foreword by Pamela Des Barres, bestselling author and the world’s most famous groupie, ROCK SHRINES reveals the most important venues for anyone thinking of attempting a musical pilgrimage. Wheter it’s Michael Jackson’s $17 million Neverland dream world, Elvi’s Graceland home in Memphis — where 30,000 fans gather every year to markhis death –or to a small tree in South West London — where T. Rex’s lead singer, Marc Bolan, was killed in a car crash — readers can discover a place that means something special to them. Other sites of pilgramage include the infamous Chelsea Hotel in New York where Sid Vicious allegedly murdered his girlfriend, NAncy Spungen, and the hotel in Sidney, Australia where INXS lead singer, Michael Hutchence met his untimely demise.
ROCK SHRINES will also include 10 glassine bags containing removable facsimiles of death certificates, medical examiners’ documents, diver licenses and other memorabilia associated with many of the most famous icons.
Specially commissioned photography reveals the mood and sanctity of these temporary temples where devotees return again and again, year after year, to pay homegae to the rock stars that supplied the soundtrack to their lives. Among included in the book are: Michael Jackson (Neverland Rach/ Santa Ynez, CA), Jim Morrison (Paris France), John Lennon (New York City NY) Elvis Aaron Presley (Memphis, TN), Jeffrey Scott Buckley ((Memphis, TN), Kurt Donald Cobain (Seattle, WA), Jerome John Garcia AKA Jerry Garcia (Marin County, CA), and others.
Wheter you are a music fan, a global explorer looking for a more original spiritual journey, or simply an armchair traveler, ROCK SHRINES is guaranteed to entice, inform and intrigue.
About the Author:
Thomas H. Green is a journalis bases in Worthing, UK. He writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph, Mixmag, and Q magazine and is founding editor of the music and lifestyle webzine www.beatmag.net. Thomas began his career reporting on the explosion of dance music and electronica during the 1990s and followed it as it spread around the world. These days, however, he is as likely to write about pop, heavy metal, or jazz as he is techno, although he’s still occasionally found in nightclubs as dawn approaches
