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The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's
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The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade Open ebook -

by Martin Popoff


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  • Title The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade
  • Author Martin Popoff
  • Binding Open Ebook
  • Pages 227
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Voyageur Press (MN)
  • ISBN 9781627883757 / 1627883754
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 1088204
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.66

About the author

At approximately 7,900 (with over 7,000 appearing in his books), Martin Popoff has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned 57 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock, and record collecting, including 2004's Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home and Away, Rush: The Illustrated History, and Rush: Album by Album. He was Editor In Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada's foremost heavy metal publication in print for 14 years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, RecordCollector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com and hardradio.com. Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked on the award-wining documentary Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, the 11-episode Metal Evolution, and the 10-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached through martinp@inforamp.net or www.martinpopoff.com.

Martin Popoff has been described as the world's most famous heavy metal journalist. At approximately 7,900 (with over 7,000 appearing in his books), he has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned 44 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock, and record collecting. He was editor in chief of the now-retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada's foremost metal publication for 14 years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, www.bravewords.com, www.lollipop.com, and www.hardradio.com, with many record label band bios and liner notes to his credit as well. Additionally, Martin worked for two years as researcher on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage and on Metal Evolution, an 11-episode documentary series for VH1 Classic, and is the writer of the original metal genre chart used in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and throughout Metal Evolution episodes. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached via martinp@inforamp.net or www.martinpopoff.com.