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Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict

Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict


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A HEARTBREAKING AND HILARIOUS CONFESSION OF A HEAVY METAL OBSESSION. Seb Hunter was a Heavy Metal fan and he's not proud. HELL BENT FOR LEATHER is the story of Seb Hunter's 15-year Heavy Metal journey: from his first guitar (his dad's), to his first gig (Rag 'n' Bones play the John Stripe Theatre in Winchester) and on through groupies and girlfriends and too many drugs, to a faltering career in London where spiralling egos, musical differences and the arrival of Grunge (and a much needed haircut) kill the Heavy Metal dream. Along the way you'll learn to spot a Fender Telecaster from a Gibson Flying V, Thrash Metal from Glam, and 'the Priest' from 'the Gunners'. It will tell you when to play a drum solo, how to wear Spandex and exactly what to do when you're in the middle of a muddy field at the Donington Festival and you desperately need a piss. Affectionate, irreverent, and very funny HELL BENT FOR LEATHER is a also moving story of adolescence, of playing air guitar in your bedroom, of living with parental disapproval and of struggling for acceptance amongst your friends when you carry a shameful secret obsession. A must for anyone who has loved Heavy Metal, or laughed at Heavy Me

About the Author :
Seb Hunter was born in 1971 and went to a variety of schools in England before throwing it all away to become a rock 'n' roll star, at which he eventually failed. Since then he has worked in the book trade and currently lives in London.

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'It's simple to milk laughs from metal, but surely much harder to use the genre to write a book that's simultaneously hilarious, strangely moving and which identifies the very essence of why music is so important to life. So raise a devil's horn salute to Seb Hunter, whose self-depreciating memoir of an adolescence dominated by Kiss and Iron Maiden rivals Giles Smith's Lost In Music as a perceptive and witty study of musical obsession. Anyone who has ever been in a rubbish band will wince with recognition at Hunter's doomed bid to become a rock icon, but metal's loss is writing's gain. Magic.' Q MAGAZINE'Hunter's memoir manages to be both funny and genuinely touching as he relives the developments that shook the metal world to its stack-heeled foundations.' GUARDIAN'Mixing his memories of small-town England with an encyclopedic knowledge of heavy metal, Hunter creates a book that, thanks to its combination of poignancy and hilarity, is as infectious as a well-crafted power ballad...True metalhead readers will have a great time disagreeing with some of Hunters' observations. Everyone else who reads this book will just have a great time.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (Starred Review)'A very funny, hugely affectionate and eminently readable memoir which at long last proves once and for all that Heavy Metal is a very silly obsession indeed.' DANNY WALLACE


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  • ISBN-13: 9780007160495
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Weight: 491 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0007160496
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jun 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Sub Title: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict
  • Width: 153 mm


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