{"title":"Lonn Friend","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"life-on-planet-rock-book-lonn-friend-9780749951160","title":"Life On Planet Rock","description":"For fans of heavy metal music, RIP magazine was a cultural touchstone, every bit as crucial in its day as Kerrang, NME or Rolling Stone. Lonn Friend, RIP's legendary editor, helped launch and revive the careers of innumerable acts - including Guns n' Roses, Metallica and Pearl Jam  - and created some of the most enduring rock journalism of the decade, rivaling the best work of Lester Bangs and Cameron Crowe. In Life on Planet Rock, Friend describes in lucid and lurid detail how he became the Zelig-like chronicler of the biggest musical moments of the 80s and 90s, providing revealing portraits of artists as varied as Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Axl Rose, Jon Bon Jovi, Kurt Cobain, and Steven Tyler, among others. A candid and humorous memoir which will appeal to fans of Motley Crue's The Dirt and Seb Hunter's Hell Bent For Leather.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540833935633,"sku":"GOR001270962","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49650400035089,"sku":"GOR001772026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50110630265105,"sku":"CIN0749951168VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50110634688785,"sku":"CIN0749951168G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0749951168.jpg?v=1751427878"},{"product_id":"sweet-demotion-book-lonn-friend-9781456748418","title":"Sweet Demotion","description":"In his first book, Life on Planet Rock, author Lonn Friend shared his ringside view of rock's decade of decadence. Now, in Sweet Demotion, the veteran rock scribe takes off the gloves and battles himself. Lonn was enjoying a six-figure multi-media career in 1998 when, at the end of a four-year run as a record company VP, he was bitch slapped by the Universe; his professional ride came to a crashing pause. But instead of hiring headhunters or putting a resume together to find another gig, Lonn hit the rock-and-roll road less traveled. The result is a brutally transparent, shamelessly self-deprecating mid-life memoir of a writer who stopped making money and started seeking truth. Sweet Demotion chronicles a thirteen-year period of personal deconstruction, spiritual madness, and bizarre anecdotal wordplay where faith was lost in everything but the moment and the music. Lonn's intimate adventure invites the reader to a porn burial in the desert, a Janis Joplin ghost sighting, a Dallas meditation on the anniversary of JFK's assassination following the interview of a heavy metal legend, and the sharing of sacred space on a northeast lake with the lead singer of Aerosmith. Sweet Demotion is a sojourn to near-enlightenment that no one but Lonn Friend could have possibly experienced.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583338881297,"sku":"GOR013295754","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49676445516049,"sku":"CIN1456748416G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51115626529041,"sku":"NIN9781456748418","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52332007325969,"sku":"NLS9781456748418","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1456748416.jpg?v=1750795449"},{"product_id":"life-on-planet-rock-book-lonn-friend-9780767922081","title":"Life on Planet Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe total Taoist approach to retrieving and maintaining a state of mental balance, perspective calm, confidence, joyousness, clarity, authenticity, sanity, and ease, comprising all pertinent Taoist healing technique and philosophy to adjust mood, humor, energy levels, and strength of mind and body, as you go along without recourse to medication. Presented in a fun, engaging, intelligent, easy-to-follow way that will reassure and heal you simply by the warmth and love transmitted through the words, and the exercises themselves when followed are highly effective. This book has been the healing miracle for millions of people who'd otherwise be a total mess now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePretty much every aspect of the human condition is covered, and most challenges to daily peace addressed - pick your issue and find the answer do the exercise and watch how it frees you from the shackles of confusion, depression, anxiety, anguish and all other psychopathies provided you're lucid enough to read and implement the suggestions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50120476918033,"sku":"CIN0767922085G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50363058192657,"sku":"CIN0767922085A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50970295009553,"sku":"CIN0767922085VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0767922085.jpg?v=1750785980"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-lonn-friend.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}