Bücher von Greg Healey

In this full colour bookazine, Greg Healey takes a closer look at the rock band from Birmingham. Adored by their fans and loathed by their critics, across a career that spanned almost fifty years, Black Sabbath divided opinions more than any other band. From heavy psych to heavy metal, this band of Brummie mates ploughed their own unique furrow, releasing a trove of albums along the way and cementing themselves as one of the hardest working live acts on the road. Friendship, ambition, betrayal and jealousy, alongside a yearning for acceptance, interacted with a prodigious appetite for drugs and practical jokes that drove them to the edge. In the hothouse that was Seventies rock 'n' roll all of these elements combined to make what is a truly remarkable story. This is a tale of how four ordinary working class blokes emerged from the Aston area of Birmingham in the late 1960s and helped to redefine music and invent a genre. Along the way each of them overcame personal travails to conquer the world and become one of the biggest bands on the planet. Other members like Ronnie James Dio came and went, but at the centre of it sat the core members, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. Inspiring and heart-breaking in equal measure their journey to the top and their appetite for wilful self destruction is the stuff of showbiz legend, mixing witches' curses and financial mismanagement along the way. In this exhaustive yet concise study Greg Healey examines the history of the band and their music. Looking beyond the myths, Healey seeks to uncover the truth behind what inspired their sound, drove their wild behaviour, and the circumstances that led them to lose everything and then, against impossible odds, try to win it back again. Love them or loathe them, this is Black Sabbath.

This large, full colour, hardcover book is full of images and an informative read on all things Black Sabbath. Adored by their fans and loathed by their critics, across a career that spanned almost fifty years, Black Sabbath divided opinions more than any other band.

Phantom Mafioso is the first of several books that revolve around a bank which was created, owned, and operated by the original and most powerful Mafia family in America. Founded in 1919 by Primo Bari, the bank was designed to protect and launder money for the notorious Cagliari crime family.A Harvard trained lawyer, Primo Bari uses his priceless education to create a brilliant money laundering system for La Cosa Nostra (the American Mafia). He and his extended crime family have made a fortune with his secret underground operation. Primo's ultimate goal is to protect his family from the threat of sudden death at the hands of the most unpredictable and dangerous criminals in America. For over fifty years, La Cosa Nostra has been searching for the man who has cheated them out of their rightful cuts. They will stop at nothing to kill him.Jeffrey Steele, an unsuspecting twenty-three year old software engineer from San Francisco, unknowingly creates the final piece of Primo Bari's most brilliant plan. The bank finances the construction of Jeffery Steele's futuristic digital money platform in 1975. Steele signs a life-altering contract with the bank, unaware of the dire consequences of failure. A cataclysmic discovery by the Steele brothers threatens to compromise the fifty year old Bari family secret. The story climaxes with two brilliant people locked in a life and death struggle for survival.