:: Rock Chicks - The Hottest Female Rockers from the 1960s to Now

By: Carmine Pascuzzi

The book “ROCK CHICKS: The Hottest Female Rockers From The 1960s To Now” lifts the lid off the behind-the-scenes antics of more than twenty of the world’s most famous female singers whose determination has earned them the label ‘rock star’ – from Janis Joplin and Chrissie Hynde to Pat Benatar and Sheryl Crow, even including a few modern day Australian singers.

Author Alison Stieven-Taylor started out as a music publicist and worked as a door bitch for local bands including the Angels, INXS, Mental As Anything, the Divinyls and Cold Chisel. In 1983 she moved to Los Angeles and worked as a publicist on Men at Work’s North American and Canadian tour.

With perceptive biographies and in-depth music critiques Alison gives an up-close and personal look at the experiences, adventures and musical passions of these extraordinary and talented women whose wild vocals and on-stage antics have made them rock ‘n’ roll legends.

Through personal heartaches, drug addictions, public humiliations and private nightmares, these rock chicks have taken the music world by storm, despite often facing great personal adversity – pressure and scrutiny that would have destroyed mere mortals.

•Marianne Faithfull fell in love with heroin forsaking her other love Mick Jagger for the white powder
•Annie Lennox endured the loss of a child in the glare of the media spotlight
•Stevie Nicks battled drug addictions for twenty years
•Alanis Morissette suffered from anorexia and bulimia
•PJ Harvey was driven into therapy by the pressures of celebrity

The Rock Chicks team – Author Alison Stieven-Taylor; Publishers - Lisa Hanrahan Rockpool Publishing and Mark Byrne Management; rock photographer Tony Mott and; ARIA Award winning designers Debaser have combined to make a unique book that sits well amongst a list of books detailing music's history.

Rocks Chicks The Hottest Female Rockers from the 1960s to Now is available in all good book stores and online

The Rock Chicks are: JANIS JOPLIN * MARIANNE FAITHFULL * TINA TURNER * SUZI QUATRO * JOAN JETT * ANN & NANCY WILSON * PATTI SMITH * STEVIE NICKS * DEBBIE HARRY * ANNIE LENNOX * PAT BENATAR * CHRISSIE HYNDE * MADONNA * CHRISSY AMPHLETT * PJ HARVEY * MELISSA ETHERIDGE * SHERYL CROW * COURTNEY LOVE * ALANIS MORISSETTE * GWEN STEFANI * KELLY CLARKSON * PINK * AVRIL LAVIGNE * SUZE DeMARCHI * SARAH McLEOD * ELLA HOOPER * NATALIE BASSINGTHWAIGHTE

Recommended Retail Price is $Australian 39.95