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Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories
by
M. Wall
Like all the great rock books, this is not a book about rock music; it is a book about rock life. A hard-hitting, iconoclastic tour de force, written with affection, rudeness, and wincing honesty, Paranoid proves that music can be an arena for moral choices, and that it can quite literally change your life. Mick Wall was a teenage Black Sabbath fan who, leaving school with...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
February 1st 1999
by Mainstream Publishing
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Veteran UK rock journalist Mick Wall is a better writer and critic than most of his peers. Focusing on unfashionable genres such as hard rock and metal, his work has an incisive intelligence unburdened by the high-minded pretensions that often hobble music writing. “Paranoid” is a memoir and industry expose that focuses dually on his heroin habit and experiences with artists such as Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Axl Rose and others; Wall’s struggles with addiction often poetically mirror those of h...more
By far his best work.
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