As the assistant editor of Melody Maker, Everett True was the first journalist to cover the Seattle music scene in early 1989 and interview Nirvana. He is responsible for bringing Hole, Pavement, Soundgarden, and a host of other bands to international attention. He introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love, performed on stage with Nirvana on numerous occasions, and famously pushed Kurt onto the stage of the Reading Festival in 1992 in a wheelchair. Nirvana: The Biography is an honest, moving, incisive, and heartfelt re-evaluation of a band that has been misrepresented time and time again since its tragic demise in April 1994 following Kurt Cobain's suicide. True captures what the band was really like. He also discusses the music scene of the time-the fellow bands, the scenes, the seminars, the countless live dates, the friends and allies and drug dealers. Drawn from hundreds of original interviews, Nirvana: The Biography is the final word on Nirvana, Cobain, and Seattle grunge.

Nirvana: The Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

True, Everett

Arts & Literature

Da Capo Press

Uses interviews with band members, crew, producers, and other rock musicians to trace the history of the punk rock group, from their debut in the mid-1970s to their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March, 2002.

Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones

Humor & Entertainment

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

In the past few years, Detroit s Jack and Meg White have, in conjunction with a stream of similar-minded bands, revitalized rock music. Their sound is raw, stripped right back back to the primal fury and alienation of bluesmen like Son House and protopunks The Stooges and the MC5. In the Stripes hard knocks hometown of Detroit, an entire scene has emerged rudimentary, primordial garage rock championed by legendary names such as Mick Dirtbombs Collins, Jack White s own Third Man Records, Electric Six, and producer Jim Diamond. Over in Brooklyn meanwhile, loft parties are all the rage fueled by vodka stills and loud music, featuring names such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Liars, and Oneida. Writer Everett True has already covered much of this music in his own underground UK rock magazine Careless Talk Costs Lives. Now he goes public with his passion, delving deep into the lives of the personalities who make up the scenes the countless hours touring, the celebrity girlfriends, the parties, the power, and the people.

The White Stripes: and The Sound of Mutant Blues

Arts & Photography

Music

Nirvana almost single-handedly brought grunge into the popular consciousness with their seminal album Nevermind. From their underground roots in the Pacific Northwest, the group achieved world fame and Kurt Cobain had the mantle of 'spokesperson for a generation' thrust upon him. This was, arguably, the last era of great rock music, and it is shrouded in stories and rumours. Author Everett True, the man who introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love and brought grunge to the outside world, gives an inspired insider's account of the grunge scene. Featuring rare photographs and exclusive interviews with members of Nirvana,Hole, Soundgarden and Babes in Toyland, Everett True takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the lives, the music, the personalities, the legends and the laughs. Everett True was the first outside journalist to cover the Seattle music scene in early 1989 and saw up-close the birth and development of the rock phenomenon which changed the face of alternative and mainstream music forever. This book contains exclusive interviews with people close to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, and photographs of members of Nirvana, Hole, and many other bands of the scene.

Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties

Virgin Pub

New softcover edition! Once seen as a punk joke, The Ramones eventually came to be taken seriously, influencing almost every garage rocker that succeeded them. The sad, exhilarating warts-and-all-rock bilgraphy tells the whole story of the band from Queens as a paradigm rock saga - a litany of drugs, fallings-out, financial catastrophes, inter-band rivalries, bad management and death.

Omnibus Press

Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus Remastered, 3)

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Nirvana: The Biography

Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones

The White Stripes: and The Sound of Mutant Blues

Live Through This: American Rock Music in the Nineties

Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones

Nirvana: The True Story (Omnibus Remastered, 3)