{"product_id":"9781250017987","title":"Rock Bottom: Dark Moments In Music Babylon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy.  The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--whent they are bad--seem beyond bad.  The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only the most glamorous among us can--publicly.  The stories remain obscure, half-seen in the shadowlands.  In her familiar style, Pamela Des Barres shines light on the people whose art remains the background music to our popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDes Barres asks, \"What comes first, the addiction or the rock and roll?\"  The first apparent rock-and-roll death occured on Christmas Eve in 1959, when Johnny Ace blew his head off in a game of Russian Roulette between shows.  Buddy Holly's four-seater plane crashes.  Marvin Gaye's father shoots his son.  Kurt Cobain puts a gun to his head.  The headlines tell it all: ROCK SINGER FACES MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE, JAMES BROWN ADDICTED TO PCP, BASSIST FOR BAND HOLE FOUND DEAD.  The messed-up lives, the burned-out golden boys and girls, the violence, the route toward rock bottom--Des Barres has a line on the souls of the public figures who lived desperate private lives to entertain us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143031963888,"sku":"9781250017987","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250017987_p0.jpg?v=1769891171","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250017987","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}