Geezer Butler Boeken

The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler

Into the Baloney-Verse! She-Hulk stars in some of her most madcap adventures of all, beginning with a visit to the Village of the Darned - where curse words mean certain death! Then, Howard the Duck waddles in to join Jen in a wacky exploration of the Cosmic Squish Principle that takes them both on a magical mystery tour through alternate realities - including a far-out realm filled with floating lunch meats! She-Hulk shares a batty team-up with Nosferata, and travels through time to meet the All-Winners Squad and her ol' pal Weezie in her prime as the Blonde Phantom! Plus- Jen battles the bounty hunter Death's Head, takes out the trash with Excalibur, and clashes with a host of classic Marvel heroes and villains plucked from across the timestream! Collecting SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK #13-30 and material from MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1990) #5.

An examination of the largely forgotten anti-war writing from West Germany spurred by the Vietnam War. Though the Vietnam War did not directly involve West Germany, it was nonetheless a decisive catalyst for the era's wider protest movements in that country, and it gave rise to an ardent anti-war discourse. Poetry and poetic writing were key to anti-war work. Hundreds of poems and related writings about Vietnam circulated in West Germany, yet they are almost entirely forgotten today. Poetic Writing and the Vietnam War in West Germany uncovers and explores some of that rich artistic production in order to present a new history of engaged poetic writing in West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s and to draw out distinctive characteristics of wider protest culture. In doing so, it makes the case for attending to marginal, non-canonical, or neglected literary and cultural forms, and for critical thinking about why they might, over time, have been obscured. The book also offers a case study for reflection on the representation of war, on ways in which German oppositional culture could imagine its others, and on the relationship of poetry to the historical world.

Black Sabbath Die Geburtsstunde des Heavy Metal Die scheinbar Unheil verkündende Glocke auf dem LP-Debüt von Black Sabbath aus dem Jahr 1970 war nicht nur das Intro zu einem Song, sondern läutete gleichzeitig den Beginn eines neuen Genres ein – Heavy Metal! Es folgten Generationen von Musikern, die den Metal inspiriert weiterentwickelten, bereicherten und zu einem weltweiten Phänomen machten. Geezer Butler war der stilprägende Bassist und hauptsächliche Texter der Band um Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi und Bill Ward. In dieser packenden und lang erwarteten Autobiografie erzählt er seine Geschichte – die eines Kindes, das in einem Birmingham voller Bombentrichter aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg aufwuchs, vom Establishment als „Satansjünger“ verunglimpft wurde und dann die Musikwelt auf den Kopf stellte. Dabei spart er nicht mit Anekdoten und unglaublichen Erinnerungen aus einer Zeit, in der die Musik noch wild und ungezähmt war und der Exzess zum Alltag gehörte. Neben den haarsträubenden Storys und vielen bislang unbekannten Informationen steht Geezer Butlers Text für einen angenehmen und bescheidenen Plauderton, der den Leser abholt und in eine atemberaubende Ära entführt.