[*Read by the author - Travis Barker] Travis Barker's soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer's art and his life. After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the multiplatinum punk band Blink-182, everything changed for Travis Barker. But the dark side of rock stardom took its toll: his marriage, chronicled for an MTV reality show, fell apart. Constant touring concealed a serious drug addiction. A reckoning did not truly come until he was forced to face mortality: his life nearly ended in a horrifying plane crash. His pulsating memoir is as energetic as his acclaimed beats. It brings to a close the first chapters of a well-lived life, inspiring listeners to follow the rhythms of their own hearts.

Drawing on interviews with celebrities, musicians, and other industry insiders, a collection of trivia, myths, and facts about the world of rock music answers questions about the musicians, albums, songs, and history of rock music.

DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? "Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy" is a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think they've heard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly sing whatever you think "you" hear. Don't deny it! You know you've sung totally absurd lyrics in place of the real-and usually less interesting-ones. (It's nothing to ashamed of-most rock stars never took elocution classes.) Breeze through some of the world's most widely misinterpreted lyrics, including: "The ants are my friends/They're blowin' in the wind" (" "The answer my friend/Is blowing' in the

Product Description: In the decades immediately following the French Revolution, British writers saw the narrative ordering of experience as either superficial, dangerous or impossible. Linking storytelling to other forms of social action, including the making of contracts and promises, Gavin Edwards argues that the experience of radical social upheaval produced a widespread scepticism about narrative as linguistic artefact, the transmission of narrative through storytelling and the understanding of individual or collective life as a temporal sequence with a beginning and an end...read more

Product Description: If you really think that JImi Hendrix sang "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" in "Purple Haze," this might not be the calendar for you. You may fail to see the humor in such misheard song lyrics as "Soup and salad bar" instead of "Suicide Blonde" or "I suck on that emotion" instead of "I second that emotion...read more

Product Description: Singing your favorite song can be risky with Gavin Edwards or his contributors around. Belt out "the piano sounds like a power mower" while crooning to Billy Joel's "Piano Man" or "mice aroma" while rocking to The Knack's "My Sharona," and you might just find yourself in the "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy calendar...read more

Product Description: Watkin Tench’s letters (from Quimper and from the French ships le Marat and le Normandie in Brest harbour) give a powerful sense of a country caught up in a process of rapid and unpredictable change at a time when counter-revolutionary uprisings in rural Brittany were being fuelled by differences in religion and language...read more

Product Description: Frequently find yourself completely confused by the words to the songs you hear? Have you ever wondered why Guns N'Roses wanted to visit the prairie-dog city? Why spend all that time wondering what the heck those mumbling musicians are saying? The 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy 2002 Calendar, based on author Gavin Edward's popular book series, which includes 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, He's Got The Whole World In His Pants, When A Man Loves A Walnut, and Deck The Halls With Buddy Holly, and including new entries as well, is here to help...read more

In a surefire Christmas 'stocking stuffer,' the author of 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy hilariously misconstrues the lyrics of Christmas carols old and new, turning 'Feliz Navidad' into 'Police Have My Dad,' among many others. Original.

The third illustrated installment in the hit series of often-misunderstand lyrics includes songs from such classic rock artists as the Beatles and Bruce Springsteen, as well as alternative bands including Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, and Green Day. Original. 125,000 first printing.

A collection of misheard popular song lyrics includes such gems as Aerosmith's 'Love in an elevator' heard as 'Loving an alligator' and Elton John's 'Someone saved my life tonight' misinterpreted as 'Someone shaved my wife tonight.' Original. 100,000 first printing.

Product Description: The poems of the great poet of East Anglia and witness to rural poverty, are precise, closely observed, realistic portraits of rural life and landscape, written mainly in heroic couplets.

Product Description: At the same time that international political, economic and power shifts have forced Australia to look inwards to itself rather than outwards to others for solutions and decisions, the Australian people themselves have begun to re-write their history in their own terms and to ponder seriously their future role in the world...read more

Product Description: Gavin Edwards' knowledge of George Crabbe and his times is evident in this interpretation of Crabbe's poetry.