Ben Myers

The first and only book on Muse is now fully updated with exclusive interviews with the band themselves. By the release of their astonishing million-selling fourth album, Black Holes & Revelations, Muse had become the biggest rock band in the UK, selling out Wembley Stadium for two nights - the first band ever to play at the new venue. Muse: Inside The Muscle Museum charts the band's ascension and includes exclusive interviews with the band and numerous associates over their entire career, and also includes the author's eyewitness accounts at various stages along the way.

Inside the Muscle Museum

Muse

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Wesley Hill

Peter J. Leithart

Tradition that matters. The ancient catechism has sustained and nurtured every generation of Christians. The catechism--the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer--directs our love, faith, and hope. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism opens up the meaning of our faith and gives us words to offer back to God. In addition to featuring guides to the catechism from Ben Myers, Wesley Hill, and Peter J. Leithart, the book includes an order of prayer and twenty-four prayers based on the catechism. The Collected Christian Essentials is perfect for church use, small groups, or personal and family devotions.

The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism: A Guide to the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer

Ben Myers play "Walking with Shadows" is one of several plays he wrote whilst at the renowned Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire. His work has appeared on the WJEC GCSE drama curriculum in the UK, and been widely studied in schools for several years. He has worked as a creative education consultant for National Drama and the Arts Council, delivering workshops to Drama and English teachers. He is also a published childrens author, pioneering creative practice in primary education for the involvement of children in the creation of a novel, discussing this on Radio 4. He moved from theatre to film in 2005 when he adapted "Walking with Shadows" into a feature length film starring Leslie Phillips, assuming the roles of Director and Executive Producer. He was a guest lecturer and Artist in Residence at the Midnite International Dramatic Arts Festival in Perth, Western Australia, and has regularly appeared in the media discussing his various creative and educational projects. He is an award winning independent filmmaker as writer/director of "Nuryan", which won the best horror/sci fi category at the London Independent Film festival (LIFF)

Super Scripts

Walking with Shadows

Rising from humble London-Irish beginnings to iconic status by the age of 21, emancipated Rotten has always been the driving force in punk's finest. This text contains an in-depth account of the music and career of John Lydon since the demise of the Sex Pistols in 1978.

The Sex Pistols, PiL & Anti-celebrity

John Lydon

Whether they've been involved with music for 5 or 25 years, artists such as Marilyn Manson, Henry Rollins, Slipknot, Jello Biafra, Rage Against the Machine, Chuck D, Ian MacKaye and more have all challenged the establishment - and dealt with attacks from Christian fundamentalists, law suits and being watched by the CIA. In this collection of in-depth interviews, the most influential musicians from pop, punk, rap and rock talk about music, religion, racism, guns, government, God, drugs, literature, dancing, street fighting and censorship. Illustrated with 30 b/w photos.

Rebel Voices in Music

American Heretics

The Green Day story is very blunt: three school friends grow up together in a cluster of small blue-collar Californian towns, form a band ... and sell more than fifty million albums. Except it wasn't that simple. Self-confessed latch-key children, theirs is far from an easy ride. Inspired by both the energy of British punk bands like the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks and cult American bands such as Dead Kennedys and Operation Ivy, Green Day formed in 1989 when all three members were still at school. Against a backdrop of dodgy glam rock revivalists and mainstream rock-pop, the trio were quickly selling out every underground club that booked them. They toured - constantly. Word spread, fast.Their 1994 major label debut Dookie was a 10-million-selling worldwide smash hit that seized the zeitgest at a time when American rock music was still reeling from the death of Nirvana's frontman Kurt Cobain. With the arrival of Green Day, suddenly music was dumb, fun, upbeat and colourful again. Many now credit Green Day with saving rock from the hands of a hundred grunge-lite bands. Punk was back on the agenda.In 2004 Green Day reached a career pinnacle with the concept album American Idiot, a sophisticated commentary on modern life - not least dissatisfaction with their president and America's continued cultural and economical imperialism. With American Idiot, Green Day boldly went where few others have dared and as such have extended their fanbase even further - from pre-teen kids to previously sceptical critics. This book is the world's first full biography on Green Day. An authority on punk and hardcore, author Ben Myers charts the band members' difficult childhoods, the context of the band within the US and world punk scene and their glittering rise to success. The author has also interviewed the band for various magazines at different stages of their career, including in the midst of a riot in Los Angeles during the making of 2000's Warning album.Green Day is the biggest punk band in the world.This is how it happened...Unofficial and unauthorised

Green Day - American Idiots & The New Punk Explosion

Written in real time over seven days, this short, sharp pun-addled pulp fiction pastiche exaggerates the absurd underworld of music and reality to new dimensions. It follows the frantic movements of a rock fan on the trail of America's public enemy number one.

The Book of Fuck

In February 1995, Richey Edwards checked out of a London hotel instead of flying to the US with the rest of the Manic Street Preachers. There were a few subsequent sightings but then nothing. His body was never found, and he was declared legally dead in November 2008. Now Richard tells the story of his life – and disappearance – as he might have told it. ‘This moving, tender novel tells the story of a lost boy adrift in a world that he can’t make sense of’ Marie Claire ‘Myers deserves credit not only for adding a third dimension to Edwards, but for trying a fourth, for attempting to document a period of his life that seems destined to remain a mystery’ The Times ‘A sympathetic and sad imagining of the boy who became a reluctant pop idol’ Time Out ‘Harrowing and hauntingly sad’ Mojo

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