Stephen Davis, Author . Broadway $27.50 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0312-7
In 1985's bestselling The Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, rock biographer Davis shocked and entertained readers with the raunchy details of the band's backstage exploits. In this latest unauthorized biography, he once again...
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Stephen Davis, Author Random House (NY) $22 (297p) ISBN 978-0-679-42119-1
Rock writer Davis's ( Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga ) first novel about an ancient culture's struggle with modernity founders under the weight of its ambition. Set predominantly in the remote Moroccan mountain village of Jajouka, the...
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Stephen Davis. Gotham, $27.50 (448p) ISBN 978-1-592-40651-7
Rock and roll biographer Davis was granted Simon’s full participation and approval for this involved, revelatory but restrained and courteous look back at her full, rich life as a singer and folk-rock icon—and as a result the work often sounds gooey
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Stephen Davis. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-03289-8
Drawing on interviews with Stevie Nicks, her family, friends, and music associates, Davis (who cowrote Fleetwood with Mick Fleetwood) offers a captivating portrait of the singer whose songwriting and stage presence gave the faltering British blues...
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Stephen Davis, read by Christina Delaine. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 14 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8891-6
For the audio edition of Davis’s authorized biography of Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, Delaine doesn’t impersonate Nicks’s distinctive voice, but she captures enough of the singer-songwriter’s essence to complement the material nicely. When...
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Stephen Davis. PublicAffairs, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5417-0005-5
Journalist Davis debuts with a doggedly researched chronicle of an obscure yet consequential episode in the Gulf War. On August 1, 1990, a British Airways flight from London to Kuala Lumpur made a scheduled refueling stop in Kuwait, even though...
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