Appetite for Destruction: Legendary Encounters
Mick Wall
Orion
Mick Wall is a well-known music journalist whose essays and interviews from Kerrang! magazine from the eighties and nineties are collected here.
Interviews are dated and include new introductions and postscripts in which Wall contextualises his perspective 20 years on.
Interviews with Jimmy Page and Kate Bush reveal their intimate thoughts, as does the interview with Jon Bon Jovi at the height of his band’s fame. Most telling is his feature on the 1985 Live Aid concert where the world united for famine relief in Africa.
This is a humorous take on the vanity of rock stars and is insightful for rock fans of all ages. – Arafah Fakier