[PDF] Sex Drugs Rock Roll eBook

Author : Zoe Cormier
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0306823942

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What led scientists to have acrobats copulate inside an MRI machine? Why do wordless patterns of sound send shivers down our spines and tickle ancient parts of our brains? How did a chemist's quest to create a drug to ease the pain of childbirth result in the creation of LSD? And did it change our understanding of the brain forever? From tortoiseshell condoms to superstar athletes on hallucinogens, science writer Zoe Cormier dissects these and other burning questions, amplifying them with insights from some of the world's bravest, cleverest, and downright weirdest scientists. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll explores science at the edge, where scientists ask big, strange questions -- and sometimes experiment on themselves to find answers. It shines a light into the lesser-known corners of scientific research to gain insight into the nature of consciousness, happiness, and humanity. Not to mention our parties. Here are stories of unconventional scientists, innovative inquiries, hedonistic impulses -- and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our baser impulses.

Author : Jim Driver
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1849014612

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Over 60 gripping accounts tracking the dark side of rock 'n' roll from the early days of the drugs-and-drink culture, and the birth of rock 'n' roll, through The Beatles, Stones, Sex Pistols, Madonna, Kurt Cobain and Oasis, to Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and other stars of the current rock-music scene. From trashed hotel rooms to cars in swimming pools, all rock 'n' roll's excesses are here, including murder and sexual deviancy, surprising brushes with the law that the stars thought they'd kept quiet, early and tragic deaths, drug overdoses, robbery, mis-marriages and groupies by the truckload

Author : Stephen Pearcy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145169458X

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Welcome to heavy metal rock 'n' roll, circa 1980, when all you needed was the right look, burning ambition, and a chance. Stephen Pearcy and supergroup Ratt hit the bull's-eye. Cranking out metal just as metal got hot, Ratt was the perfect band at the perfect time, and their hit single "Round and Round" became a top-selling anthem. As Ratt scrambled up a wall of fame and wealth, so they experienced the gut-wrenching free fall, after too many hours in buses, planes, and limos; too many women; too many drugs; and all the personality clashes and ego trips that marked the beginning of the end. Pearcy offers a stunningly honest self-portrait of a man running on the fumes of ambition and loneliness as the party crashed. His rock 'n' roll confessional, by turns incredible, hilarious, and lyrical, is a story of survival--and a search for the things that matter most.--From publisher description.

Author : Suroosh Alvi
Publisher : Revolver
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 9780954940751

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Presents a compilation of the best articles Vice magazine published between October 1994 to 2005.

Author : Scott Miller
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 1555537618

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An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to America's changing mores

Author : Benjamin Roberts
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9089644024

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Sex and Drugs Before the Rock ’n’ Rollis a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms. This study reveals how these young men rebelled, breaking from previous generations: letting their hair grow long, wearing colorful clothing, drinking excessively, challenging city guards, being promiscuous, smoking, and singing lewd songs. Cogently argued, this study paints a compelling portrait of the youth culture of the Dutch Golden Age, at a time when the rising popularity of print made dissemination of new cultural ideas possible, while rising incomes and liberal attitudes created a generation of men behaving badly.

Author : Eric Bogosian
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573692628

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Comic monologues Characters: 1 male Bare stage This non-stop tour through some oddball minds by the author of Talk Radio and Drinking in America enjoyed a lengthy run Off-Broadway. Originally performed as a one man show, the hilarious, riveting and often disturbing monologues can be presented by several actors or actresses. "With this brilliant show, his funniest and scariest yet, Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a

Author : Sarah Lefanu
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 1997
Category : American fiction
ISBN :

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Reflecting ironically on the heady days of optimism and innocence of the sixties, the tough, energetic, apocalyptic stories gathered here look the end of the century in the eye--and smile. Contributors include Laurie Colwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Nicholas Royle, and many others.

Author : Chris Charlesworth
Publisher : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0711934452

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This is a bumper collection of photographs, mostly of rock and pop stars in situations where in hindsight, they would probably have preferred the cameraman to be elsewhere at the time.

Author : Barry Taylor
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1506409075

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Each of us experience moments that shift the axis of our lives, nudging us into new perspectives and sometimes altering our course completely. These are thread--threads that seem mundane, silly, or even trite but, woven together over the course of a life, bring us to places we never imagined. Sex, God, and Rock 'n' Roll is a story of such threads in one extraordinary life. Barry Taylor began adulthood on the road with a world-famous rock band, and there he found religion. He then became a theologian, priest, teacher, and a theist-non-theist-post-theist. Some of his stories will shock and others will provoke laughter and tears. Taken together, they will show just how poignantly the sacred moves in all of our lives.