{"product_id":"a-history-of-heavy-metal-absolutely-hilarious-neil-gaiman","title":"A History of Heavy Metal","description":"'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman 'One of the funniest musical commentators\nthat you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore 'A\nman on a righteous mission to persuade people to \"lay down your souls to the\ngods rock and roll\".' - The Sunday Times 'As funny and preposterous as this\nmighty music deserve' - John Higgs The history of heavy metal brings brings us\nextraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from\nthe household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Bruce Dickinson and Metallica\n(SIT DOWN, LARS!), to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black\nmetal scene and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. It is the story of a\nworldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of\ncut-throat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they\nworship to line their pockets. The expansive pantheon of heavy metal musicians\nincludes junkies, Satanists and murderers, born-again Christians and\nteetotallers, stadium-touring billionaires and toilet-circuit journeymen.\nAward-winning comedian and life-long heavy metal obsessive Andrew O'Neill has\nperformed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences,\nfrom the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading\ntheatre-goers of the Edinburgh Fringe. Now, in his first book, he takes us on\nhis own very personal and hilarious journey through the history of the music,\nthe subculture, and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of\nmusic. Read mor","brand":"Headline Book Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57181475209598,"sku":"66BOOKS_1.88_8_56__8430","price":5.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0667\/1286\/3021\/files\/91f8i1SAGQL.jpg?v=1774700437","url":"https:\/\/rexsonlinestore.co.uk\/products\/a-history-of-heavy-metal-absolutely-hilarious-neil-gaiman","provider":"Rex's Online Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}