Contents

Introduction

1. MYSTERY ACHIEVEMENT: Exploring the Strange Byways of Rock

2. GET UR FREAK ON: Sex Lives of the Stars

3. I HOLD THE TITLE: And You Are the Challenger

4. LAWYERS, GUNS, AND MONEY: Mysteries of the Music Business and the Pop Charts

5. I’M WITH THE BAND: Groupies

6. I’M IN THE BAND: The Second Drummer Drowned

7. BLOOD ON BLOOD: Rock ‘n’ Roll Families

8. DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP: Fisticuffs, Handcuffs, and Feuds

9. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE ROCK KIND: Odd Couples of the Music World

10. I WRITE THE SONGS: And Then People Wonder What the Hell I Was Thinking

11. SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: But Really, in This Chapter, Just the Drugs

12. STUDIO SYSTEM: Life in the Recording Studio

13. SAY MY NAME, SAY MY NAME: Rock ‘n’ Roll Nomenclature

14. LONG BLACK VEIL: Rock Deaths

15. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET? Rock’s Great Imponderables

Acknowledgments

Endnotes