Rock Stars at Home

By Chris Charlesworth, Eddi Fiegel, Bryan Reesman, Colin Salter, Simon Spence and Daryl Easlea

Go on a Magical Mystery Tour:
THE FIRST-EVER GUIDE TO THE MOST OSTENTATIOUS, OVER-THE-TOP AND OFF-THE-WALL HOMES IN ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HISTORY

You can tell a lot about people from the way they live, and rock stars are no exception. From Graceland to Neverland, private planes to island hideaways, rock stars have always lived large and the upcoming releases, Rock Stars at Home [Apollo Publishers, January 15, 2019], will take readers on a private tour inside the houses, pools, planes, music rooms, playgrounds, and more of the biggest names in rock and pop and some the extravagant homes ever seen.

A collaborative effort from six of music’s greatest journalists – Chris Charlesworth, Eddi Fiegel, Bryan Reesman, Colin Salter, Simon Spence and Daryl Easlea – this 176-page hardcover takes fans on a private tour of thirty rock legends’ homes from Elvis Presley and the Beatles to Prince and Ozzy Osbourne.

With more than 200 stunning, and sometimes shocking, images, Rock Stars at Home is packed with great photos – many before never published – and eye-popping stories of wild behavior and even wilder interior decor and includes insider accounts from those in the know. Fans will gain insight into the home life of each star, with stories from Elvis’ extraordinary down-home diet, to the wild parties hosted by Keith Richards at Redlands, the scene of the famous 1967 drug busts that led to the arrests of Richards, Mick Jagger, and art dealer Robert Fraser. Additional features focus on specific topics from the Beatles’ psychedelic interiors to the modern, extravagant lifestyles of the MTV Cribs generation.

“Everyone says they want to party like a rock star,” says Alex Merrill, Publisher and Director of Sales for Apollo Publishers. “And Rock Stars at Home will allow fans of rock and photography alike to glean and insider’s look into what that really means. Rock Stars at Home is an entertaining, artistic and eye-opening look at home the ‘other-half’ really lives.”

With a stunning layout that makes this the ideal book for music and photography lovers alike,

Rock Stars at Home:

• Features the work of six collaborating authors/journalists who have been chronicling rock ‘n’ roll history for more than 50 years and have written the definitive biographies of The Who, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson and many others
• Takes readers on a grand tour of some of rock’s most famous faces, including Elvis Presley, the Beatles, David Bowie, the Jacksons, Prince, Ozzy Osbourne and many more!
• Tours 30 homes of rock’s greatest legends from the 1950’s through today
• Features 200 glorious images, never before seen together
• Shares insider accounts and eye-opening stories of wild behavior and even wilder interior decor from those in the know

About the Authors:

Chris Charlesworth has worked as a music writer for over forty-five years, including spells on the staff of Melody Maker and as editor-in-chief of Omnibus Press. He has written and edited numerous books on rock and pop music, and many of his magazine articles can be found on rocksbackpages.com. Perhaps best known for his close association with The Who, about whom he has written extensively, Chris posts on a blog called Just Backdated.

Eddi Fiegel is a freelance journalist and author based in London. She writes on music, arts, and travel for newspapers and magazines including the Independent on Sunday, the Independent, and Scotland on Sunday, among many others. She is the author of the acclaimed biographies Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of Mama Cass Elliot and John Barry: A Sixties Theme. She was a BBC radio reporter for many years and still presents and contributes on BBC radio and TV.

Bryan Reesman is a music and pop culture journalist and has contributed to over one hundred media outlets and written over one hundred cover stories across twenty different publications. The author of Bon Jovi: The Story, Bryan has also written liner notes for AC/DC, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, 311, and dozens of other rock music luminaries, is a decade-long voting member of the Recording Academy, and has contributed to six books on music.

Colin Salter has written extensively on popular music and musicians, particularly American jazz and soul music of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He wrote the US soul section for The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, and the booklets for a series of CD compilations of early soul and rock’n’roll. Colin was a major contributor to the song-histories The Girl in the Song and The Boy in the Song, and to Classic Rock Posters, a comprehensive graphic art retrospective.

Simon Spence collaborated with Rolling Stones manager and producer Andrew Loog Oldham on the classic memoirs Stoned and 2Stoned and is author of the highly acclaimed 2012 biography The Stone Roses: War and Peace and the recent Happy Mondays: Excess All Areas. He has written for NME, Dazed & Confused, The Face, i-D, the Independent, Japan Times, International New York Times, and Q.

Daryl Easlea is a writer, DJ, and music consultant. He is at his happiest writing about African American pop or great musical eccentrics. He has written critically acclaimed biographies on Chic, Sparks, Michael Jackson, and Peter Gabriel. He broadcasts on www.sfob.co.uk and his work is published in Prog, Record Collector, and Mojo.

About the Publishers:

APOLLO PUBLISHERS is a high-concept, boutique publishing house designed with the interests of today’s readers in mind. Our vibrant one-of-a-kind books are from authors with expertise and compelling new ideas.

For more information, please visit apollopublishers.com.

Rock Stars at Home will be published by Apollo Publisher on January 15,2019 and is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.