Greatest Misses: Deep Cuts and Forgotten Songs From the Shadows of Classic Rock

“Greatest Misses: Deep Cuts and Forgotten Songs from the Shadows of Classic Rock” sweeps the reader away on a fun ride through rock ’n’ roll history. It begins in the mid-1960s with the pop rock of the Zombies, rolls through the late ’60s psychedelia of the Electric Prunes, into the ’70s and early ’80s with artists such as Blue Oyster Cult, Tommy Bolin, April Wine, and Robin Trower, and finally into the quirkier, more varied landscape of the mid ’80s to early ’90s with acts such as David & David, X, and Jellyfish.

Unlike many other books and websites with similar subject matter, “Greatest Misses” contains new information from exclusive telephone or email interviews with some of the musicians and songwriters. With one click now, you will find answers to questions like this:

Who claims to have never used illegal drugs even though he co-wrote songs about drugs on his earliest albums?

Forty percent of what group, plagiarized by Led Zeppelin, suffered from schizophrenia?

What 1970s pop singer wrote the song that got a heavy metal band sued in the wake of a fan’s suicide, and what does he have to say about the lawsuit?

What writer of a million-selling single claims to have declined an invitation to ride motorcycles with Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers the day of Allman’s fatal accident?

What future author, one of whose books would be turned into a major motion picture, wrote song lyrics for a now-forgotten album because his good friend, a future Grammy-nominated producer, was the keyboard player?

What singer and songwriter, whose video was in rotation on MTV, was later forced to take a job as a vacuum cleaner salesman to make ends meet?

Discover great rock stories and songs from the middle and bottom of the charts with “Greatest Misses: Deep Cuts and Forgotten Songs from the Shadows of Classic Rock," expanded and updated from the original 2014 publication.