Dave Thompson, Author Helter Skelter Publishing $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-900924-47-4
Best known for their hit""Pretty in Pink,"" which was immortalized in the 1985 film of the same name, Britain's Psychedelic Furs remain one of the leading lights of the post-punk and New Wave eras. Never ascending to the superstar heights of...
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Dave Thompson, Author St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-312-11262-2
Thompson (Red Hot Chili Peppers) chronicles the band's evolution from its earliest days as an involuntary part of Britain's New Romantic movement to its superstar college-radio status, offering fans a rare glimpse at a group that is, as he puts it,...
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Dave Thompson, Author St. Martin's Griffin $12.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-13585-0
For Perry Farrell fans who have read all the articles about him, there isn't any new ground covered in Thompson's account. There are no true confessions here: no pulling back the curtain to find out who the real wizard is. Thompson (Red Hot Chili...
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Dave Thompson, Author Taylor Trade Publishing $12.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87833-949-5
Puff-piece bios like this leave the reader craving the pleasures of a hatchet-job expose. Thompson (author of a half-dozen band-bios, including Fade Away about Kurt Cobain) starts out with hyperbole and builds from there. Few stars, he says, are...
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Dave Thompson, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $17.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56025-190-3
Untimely deaths have been a part of rock 'n' roll mythology ever since a chartered plane carrying Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper went down in an Iowa field in 1959. Thompson, a contributor to Rolling Stone and other magazines, offers a necrology of...
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Dave Thompson. Chicago Review, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56976-325-4
In this unfortunately timed biography, music critic Thompson (London's Burning) chronicles Smith's story from her childhood in New Jersey, growing up next to a pig farm, and her early days in New York with Robert Mapplethorpe, to her time at CBGB...
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Dave Thompson. Backbeat, $19.99 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-0-87930-990-9
To trace the trajectory of singer-songwriter-actress Jett’s rocket rise to fame, Rolling Stone contributor Thompson begins with her 1958 birth as Joan Larkin in Pennsylvania, followed by her family’s move to L.A., enabling her at age 16 to dig the...
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Dave Thompson. Backbeat, $24.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-4930-7351-1
Muisc critic Thompson (I Hate New Music) issues a jaded screed against “the grotesque recycling plant” of 21st-century rock for “constantly droning on about its past, to the expense of anyone who tries to put that behind them.” Covering ample ground,
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