With this shocking tell-all, revealing the all-true, 100% fake secrets about musics biggest names, Jon Glasera writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the creator and star of Adult Swims Delocatedis about to rock the world of, well, rock and roll. The long-buried (or possibly, never-yet-imagined) dreadful secrets of musics most notable talentsincluding Princes bar mitvah remixes, Fleetwood Macs deals with McDonalds, and moreare, in the vein of John Hodgmans More Information Than You Require and The Onions Our Dumb Century, a wry and blasphemous tribute to the popular culture icons we hold dear.
An irreverent and ridiculous collection of "found" documents that will change everything you thought you knew about rock and roll, by the creator and star of Adult Swim's Delocated
Jon Glaser delves into the unknown and highly secretive histories of dozens of rock and roll's greatest bands with sometimes spectacular, sometimes heartbreaking, always completely made-up results. In this book, you'll discover the following:
- Handwritten letters by Glaser's own father, which reveal him to be an early member of the band we now know as ZZ Top
- Old lyrics journals of, among others, Bob Dylan and David Bowie, featuring a collection of songs they probably hoped would never see the light of day
- A letter from Ringo to the rest of the Beatles, the week after their breakup, informing them of his plans to start a Beatles tribute band
- Formerly classified government documents with shocking revelations about the Navy SEALs and the Butthole Surfers
- Prince's set list for the bat mitzvah of Steven Spielberg's daughter Rachel, including the songs "Purple Oy Vey," "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Rabbi," and "When Doves Kvetch"
Titel
My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top
Untertitel
the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll
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EAN
9780062042286
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
08.02.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Anzahl Seiten
192
Features
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