My Chemical Romance

by Jimmy Ramsay

This is the first book of its kind on one of the world's hottest new bands. New Jersey band My Chemical Romance have taken the music underground by storm since their incendiary debut album in 2002. Within weeks of its release, major labels across the globe were frantically pulling out their cheque-books in an attempt to capture what is widely regarded as the world's next stadium-selling rock band in the vein of Metallica, Foo Fighters and Green Day. Their biting lyrics, beautiful visuals and relentless touring schedules have ensured that MCR have already captured the hearts and minds of the I-Pod generation - the year 2006 will see them promoted to the very upper echelons of rock music's giants. The first book to tell their tale, setting them in the context of the dormant US rock scene, through to their breakthrough live shows and meteoric success in 2004 and 2005. Mixing metal with ballads, rock with pop, MCR are the next BIG band and this tells you how a bunch of introverted high school friends achieved their dream.

Genres: Nonfiction, Music

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2006

Reviews

[Kelcea · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was a great insight into the band,their origin and their beliefs however I was slightly disappointed that the author seemed to focus more on Gerard; even though he is the front man I was expecting a little bit more input about the other members.

[royaevereads · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was, frankly, a delight to read. The edition I have was published before the Black Parade era. It also mentioned Gerard Way’s plans to write a comic book - who knew that would become the Umbrella Academy??

[Ray Toro · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the book a lot, but it was a little upsetting that it focused on Gerard most of the time instead of the others. It also had a bunch of typos/mistakes and a little bit of misinformation but it wasn’t a big deal. Overall a good book though! :)

[Gecko · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want to start this by saying I love My Chemical Romance, I picked this up hoping to learn something new about MCR but unfortunately did not. Maybe I know too much about this band 😂

[Adam Lambert Fan · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was okay, read it because my chemical romance is my favorite band, it wasn’t horrible but if you know a lot about the band, you won’t learn anything new. few errors, some of the information was wrong, but not much. also, incredible is spelled wrong on the side of the book LOL not sure if it’s just my copy or not

[Rebecca Whelan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wasn’t very well written with lots of mistakes in it but I do always love reading books about my favourite band

[Claudia Amorim]

nice

[Minxx · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it is a nice book to get the basics about Mcr up until the black parade but some of the information are wrong. Mikey doesn't have asthma. Also it kind of annoys me that they mostly focus on Gee. I love Gee but he isn't the only member in Mcr and it's very disrespectful to say "Gerard/Way and co" or "Gerard and My chemical romance" as if the rest doesn't matter. Also some comments in this book are tasteless in my opinion. They talk about Gee and Mikey and then say Gee is the attractive one, degrading Mikey. It's disgusting to see people only care about the vocalist of a band. EVERY BAND MEMBER IS IMPORTANT, VOCALIST OR NOT!