Blue Oyster Cult Secrets Revealed Author:Martin Popoff * new edition 303 pages, AND at larger 6" x 9" format. — * now includes 174 memorabilia shots and band photos, many previously unseen and from the archive of Rich Galbraith — * extensive new interview footage with all of the original band plus later lineup dudes — * updated to include recent band happenings and side-projects — * new kick-ass cover a... more »rt by Rory Fiorito
* extensively re-edited and re-written
Blue Oyster Cult - 40 years in the biz... six gold and platinum U.S. albums... classic trax like (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Godzilla, Burnin' For You, Astronomy and E.T.I. Indeed, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Albert Bouchard and Joe Bouchard comprised one of the great stadium acts of the '70s and '80s. BOC were heavy metal enough to duke it out with Kiss, Rush, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and Black Sabbath, yet smart, funny, ironic and jaded enough to please the tough New York critics, of which more than a couple mingled within their ranks.
Blue Oyster Cult: Secrets Revealed! is not a biography as such, but a biography of the band's albums, a canon of work considered one of the finest in rock, and truly superlative on the lyrical front.
The book examines the complicated early days of the band, graphically demonstrating the show biz sweat that goes into making an act an act. The majority of the book however is centred around the peerless intellectual quality of the songs, a quality made entertaining by the band's psychotropic and ghoulish humor, and by its interest in all manner of conspiracy theories, cults, monsters, vampires, UFO tales, foul play, arcane spiritualism, alchemy, love lost and love buried, science fiction and science friction.« less