Celebrated author and BraveWords Editor In Chief Martin Popoff has released five new eBooks covering such gems as STARZ, REX, RAM JAM, LONE STAR and THE DICTATORS. Details below:

Cool One: Starz, Violation, Attention Shoppers! & Coliseum Rock - $2.98

The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the complete four-record catalogue of ‘70s hard rock band Starz. Starz shoulda been stars, but the story is the usual sordid tale of missed opportunities, mismanagement and miscues. Signing to Capitol, this tough New York act proceeded to write a mountain of songs every bit as catchy as the hits of Kiss—even sharing management. But then somehow it all slipped away, despite the great guns of the live show, considerable promotion, and a nifty arch-‘70s logo chucked in as a bonus. Hear their tale or rock and regret as told by Richie Ranno, Michael Lee Smith and the now deceased Bill Aucoin, as we work our way through pretty much every song on every record of their four album catalogue, including, of course, the wildly controversial third album of “pop” called Attention Shoppers! Detroit Girls, Subway Terror, Night Crawler, X-Ray Spex, Pull The Plug, Good Ale We Seek, Boys In Action, Rock Six Times... it’s all here in a 60 page eBook we like to call Cool One: Starz, Violation, Attention Shoppers! & Coliseum Rock.

Burn Your Bridges: Rex & Where Do We Go From Here? - $1.98

The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the complete two-record catalogue of ‘70s hard rock band Rex. Crazy story here, obscure, unknown, untold, but highly interesting to those who like their ‘70s rock brewed and boiled in a stew with Aerosmith, Kiss, Starz and Ted Nugent. Rex were a two-record band signed to Columbia, managed by the legendary Leber Krebs, rocking hard for the day, touring with all the greats until they flamed out and disappeared. But frontman Rex Smith—a hilarious interview and full of zingers that keep this tale moving swiftly—went on to teen pin-up, TV, movie and theater fame as... well, Rex Smith! Burn Your Bridges: Rex & Where Do We Go From Here? is the story of the band’s strange birthing, their two knock-out albums of grinding guitar rock and consummate front man vocals, and the Madison Square Garden gig that spelled doom for them, just as stardom could have been theirs. Come wade through 40 pages of nostalgia for a high-decibel crease in rock history barely known—trivia at every turn.

Gone Wild: Ram Jam & Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Ram - $1.98

The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the complete two-record catalogue of ‘70s hard rock band Ram Jam. Look, bar none, this is the most fantastic and strange story of a brief shotgun of a proto-heavy metal band you’ll likely ever read. There’s a drug-dealing lead singer sent up the river, now doing good deeds as a prison preacher, insurance guy and keeper of rock flame through his band THE DOUGHBOYS. There’s two bands competing to make the same record, the winner turning in one of the heaviest metal howlers of the ‘70s, Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Ram. There’s the guitarist on that album, burning a path through it, never to emerge again as the axe hero he should have been, now teaching high school and telling his class about this crazy Canadian who wrote the story of his old band Ram Jam. There’s the dated boogie rock debut that launched the smash hit everybody knows as Black Betty, and even the story of that song alone is a circuitous trip down the rabbit hole of nefarious management shenanigans. Hands down, my favourite couple of these “making of” tales I’ve ever done. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be crazy with curiosity about the music on these two yin-yang records, if you don’t know them already.

The Bells Of Berlin: Lone Star & Firing On All Six

The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the complete two-record catalogue of ‘70s hard rock band Lone Star. Lone Star were a strange, knotted-up, progressive hard rock band from the UK, sort of like WIDOWMAKER, and this is the story of their two albums, as told by their lead singer Kenny Driscoll and guitarist Paul Chapman, who went on to fame with UFO once Michael Schenker flew the coop. The 40 pages of The Bells Of Berlin: Lone Star & Firing On All Six draw the reader into the deft negotiations and personal chafings that occur between guys feeling themselves out as a band... and it’s even got Scientology.

Science Gone Too Far!: The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, Manifest Destiny & Bloodbrothers - $1.99

The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the complete three-record catalogue of ‘70s hard rock band The Dictators. Beloved as a strange sweet spot between punk and heavy metal with way too much humour for either, New York’s favourite sons The Dictators cranked three classic albums before hanging it up for years and years, at least when it came to making records. Two Tub Man, Young, Fast, Scientific, Faster & Louder, Search & Destroy, Master Race Rock, The Next Big Thing, Sleepin’ With The TV On, Borneo Jimmy, The Minnesota Strip, Baby Let’s Twist... one of my favourite bands ever, and here’s their misguided story, as told by a bunch of the guys in the band, a loveable mess, all of it managed by Sandy Pearlman, who chimes in with his usual sense of manic hyperbole. Science Gone Too Far!: The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, Manifest Destiny & Bloodbrothers is 35 pages of New York attitude wrapped in an enigma, namely Mr. Pearlman.

Note: This content above was previously issued in the five book Ye Olde Metal series. If you’ve purchased those full-length $8.88 eBooks, you already have this.

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