Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Backbeat
Pages: 288
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4930-7443-3 • Paperback • June 2024 • $29.95 • (£25.00)
978-1-4930-7444-0 • eBook • June 2024 • $28.50 • (£19.99)
Christopher McKittrick is the author of the books Can’t Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City (Post Hill Press, 2019), Somewhere You Feel Free: Tom Petty and Los Angeles (Post Hill Press, 2020), and Vera Miles: The Hitchcock Blonde Who Got Away (University Press of Kentucky, 2023). He has appeared on television on HLN’s How It Really Happened and Al Araby TV’s Hekayat Al Cinema, and on various radios shows and podcasts. He lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
"A boisterous portrait of an American Rock Great.”
— Publishers Weekly
McKittrick has provided the most factual volume on Gibbons and the band to date.
— Houston Press
Plentiful guitar morsels abound in the book, Gibbons’ tones, his first guitar/amp combo, and the spinning Dean solidbody in the ‘Legs’ video.
— Vintage Guitar