Bravewords.com’s Martin Popoff has followed up last month’s hit title Black Sabbath FAQ with The Deep Purple Royal Family: Chain Of Events Through ‘79.

A press release reads as follows:

The Text:

280 stuffed pages offering an exhaustive and detailed timeline of DEEP PURPLE milestones, often to the day, including some similar bands, influences, cultural milieu, tour stuff, recording sessions, charts, singles, certification news, break-ups, personal stuff, trivia for miles, and lots and lots of artist quotes to add to the entries, turning the book into a quasi-oral history but loaded with factual matter. But as you’ve noticed, this is about FAMILY. So the text weaves, in and out of the story of Purple proper, the dastardly diaries of RAINBOW, WHITESNAKE, IAN GILLAN BAND, GILLAN, PAICE ASHTON LORD, all the solo projects, guest slots, even CAPTAIN BEYOND, WARHORSE, JERUSALEM, Jesus Christ Superstar, BEDLAM, ELF, EPISODE SIX, OUTLAWS, and PUSSY. And when I felt it mattered to the story, there’s touchdowns to the likes of HEEP, SABBATH, ZEPPELIN, NAZARETH, MOXY, SILVERHEAD, HARD STUFF, TRAPEZE, LORD SUTCH, WARPIG, VANILLA FUDGE, BRIAN AUGER, JUDAS PRIEST, JAMES GANG, ANGEL and LEGS DIAMOND, always with contextual explanation plus the odd rare and very cool archival advertisement.

The Graphics:

A blazing 542 of them, usually rare, archival, historical shots of record ads, LP and 45 sleeves, tour posters and newspaper notices, ticket stubs, endorsement ads, tour program covers, foreign country releases, and again, contextual things like, say, an ancient Hammond or Marshall ad, studio ads, weird business stuff… Seriously, the crazy, creative old ‘70s ads, and the hype copy on them – that’s why I wanted to do this book. It’s a gallery, flowed and framed by fully 41,000 words of beautifully displayed timeline, which brings us to…

The Design:

This book marks my first project with awesome Calgary-based designer Bill Harris, and what he’s created for the look of this thing is top-flight, eminently readable, a pleasure to flip through and touch down upon the trivia and the rare pictures from deep Deep history. You’ll love it – a huge step up for my books.

OK, the usual… books will be signed by me to you, so make clear if it’s a Christmas present or whatever! One drag, given its 280 page heft, this doesn’t fit through this plastic mylar thing at Canada Post and so the shipping cost is way jacked for fellow Canucks – sorry.

Price including shipping:

US orders: $35.00 US funds

Int’l orders (surface mail): $39.00 US funds

Int’l orders (air mail): $45.00 US funds

Canadian orders: $38.00 Cdn. funds

PayPal happily accepted! Ask me if you’d like a PayPal invoice, or just do yer usual and direct funds to martinp@inforamp.net.

Or mail payment (personal check in US funds, cash, or INTERNATIONAL money order), to:

Martin Popoff

P.O. Box 65208, 358 Danforth Ave.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

M4K 2Z2

Email me at martinp@inforamp.net with any further questions, and see MartinPopoff.com for descriptions, cover art and ordering info for my other available 30 or so books. Nice savings on shipping can be had if you take a few things, and as you know, I’m always good for swingin’ a deal for two books or more. Just email me for a quote.