NME Originals: Gods Of Rock

Following the infamous volumes on Glam!, Swinging London in the 1960's, Punk and The Beatles comes NME ORIGINALS: GODS OF ROCK

148 pages packed with some of the greatest rock 'n' roll stories ever, reprinted from the archives of NME and its sister publication, Melody Maker.

Full of rare photos and salacious interviews, GODS OF ROCK includes Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zandt telling you how to stomp a guy half to death in a barroom brawl, Ted Nugent insisting that "Anyone who digs adventurous music would get off sleeping in a dead sheep", and Ozzy Osbourne getting arrested for pissing on the Alamo. Freddie Mercury boasts that his slacks are so tight that one lady writer rightly guessed his religion, Axl Rose does his damnedest to get a riot going, Perry Farrell shows you videos of himself shooting up and Lemmy claims to be a "reincarnated Nazi".

Johnny Rotten gets beaten up by the cops, Eddie Van Halen pummels a wall until his knuckles bleed, Kurt Cobain denies doing smack, Johnny Thunders chucks up on the tarmac at Paris Airport, Slipknot punch each other in the face, Stevie Nicks refers to cocaine as a little more-ish, like "Sarah Lee Cheese Cake" and Courtney Love is dragged screaming and kicking from somebody else's stage.

Featuring Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, The Rolling Stones, The Cult, The Runaways, New York Dolls and many, many more, NME ORIGINALS: GODS OF ROCK is the most lairy, lewd, ludicrous and life-affirming read on the planet.

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