You Started It: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds
Many of the world’s biggest bands have imploded amid bitter and violent grudges over money, publishing, ego-driven power plays, relationships, drugs, and that famous old bromide, “musical differences.” Iconic bands like The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Clash, The Eagles, The Band, The Police, Cream, and Guns ‘n’ Roses all suffered rancorous break-ups that have cast long shadows over their legacies.

Musical—and real—brotherhoods such as The Everly Brothers, Jagger-Richards, Ray and Dave Davies, Simon and Garfunkel, and Lennon-McCartney fractured as private brawls transitioned into toxic, public blame games.

Yet, as music lovers, we can’t help but be strangely captivated by the internecine warfare that is part of their shared antiquity, no matter the era you belong to—along with the timeless music they left behind.

Ken McNab’s You Started It charts these tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and internal strife. He captures unique accounts from eye-witnesses of these legendary bands and their legendary breakups, bringing to life the divisions that produced domino effects of animus that followed them through the decades. McNab provides fresh takes on the human stories behind the in-fighting that saw a stairway to heaven become a highway to hell for the biggest bands of this or any other time.

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You Started It: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds
Many of the world’s biggest bands have imploded amid bitter and violent grudges over money, publishing, ego-driven power plays, relationships, drugs, and that famous old bromide, “musical differences.” Iconic bands like The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Clash, The Eagles, The Band, The Police, Cream, and Guns ‘n’ Roses all suffered rancorous break-ups that have cast long shadows over their legacies.

Musical—and real—brotherhoods such as The Everly Brothers, Jagger-Richards, Ray and Dave Davies, Simon and Garfunkel, and Lennon-McCartney fractured as private brawls transitioned into toxic, public blame games.

Yet, as music lovers, we can’t help but be strangely captivated by the internecine warfare that is part of their shared antiquity, no matter the era you belong to—along with the timeless music they left behind.

Ken McNab’s You Started It charts these tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and internal strife. He captures unique accounts from eye-witnesses of these legendary bands and their legendary breakups, bringing to life the divisions that produced domino effects of animus that followed them through the decades. McNab provides fresh takes on the human stories behind the in-fighting that saw a stairway to heaven become a highway to hell for the biggest bands of this or any other time.

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You Started It: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds

You Started It: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds

by Ken McNab
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You Started It: Rock 'n' Roll's Most Notorious and Bitter Feuds

by Ken McNab

Overview

Many of the world’s biggest bands have imploded amid bitter and violent grudges over money, publishing, ego-driven power plays, relationships, drugs, and that famous old bromide, “musical differences.” Iconic bands like The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Supremes, The Clash, The Eagles, The Band, The Police, Cream, and Guns ‘n’ Roses all suffered rancorous break-ups that have cast long shadows over their legacies.

Musical—and real—brotherhoods such as The Everly Brothers, Jagger-Richards, Ray and Dave Davies, Simon and Garfunkel, and Lennon-McCartney fractured as private brawls transitioned into toxic, public blame games.

Yet, as music lovers, we can’t help but be strangely captivated by the internecine warfare that is part of their shared antiquity, no matter the era you belong to—along with the timeless music they left behind.

Ken McNab’s You Started It charts these tales of rock ‘n’ roll excess and internal strife. He captures unique accounts from eye-witnesses of these legendary bands and their legendary breakups, bringing to life the divisions that produced domino effects of animus that followed them through the decades. McNab provides fresh takes on the human stories behind the in-fighting that saw a stairway to heaven become a highway to hell for the biggest bands of this or any other time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493067800
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 11/01/2022
Pages: 296
Sales rank: 993,080
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ken McNab is a sports production journalist for the Scottish Daily mail. He has held executive editorial positions with several leading Scottish newspapers. He is the author of the best-selling book And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Beatles and often contributes to radio shows, podcasts, and blogs. He lives in Glasgow with his wife Susanna and their two children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction viii

1 The Beach Boys 1

2 Pink Floyd 17

3 Fleetwood Mac 33

4 The Supremes 49

5 The Everly Brothers 65

6 The Clash 81

7 Guns N' Roses 97

8 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards 113

9 The Police 127

10 The Eagles 143

11 Cream 161

12 Oasis 177

13 Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls 193

14 John Lennon and Paul McCartney 209

15 The Band 225

16 The Kinks 241

17 Simon & Garfunkel 255

Index 269

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