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BROKEN STRINGS: The Great Rifts of Rock

The music was immortal. The friendships didn't stand a chance.

From best-selling author Ludo Stuart-Douglas comes the book that rock music's biggest names never wanted written.

They sold out stadiums. They moved mountains. They made albums that soundtracked the defining moments of millions of lives — the first kiss, the long drive, the funeral, the comeback. The world worshipped them. And then — behind closed doors, in recording studios and lawyers' offices and green rooms reeking of stale ambition and older grudges — they turned on each other with a ferocity that made their music look gentle by comparison.

Broken Strings goes inside twenty of the most explosive, bitter, and revelatory feuds in rock history. Not the sanitised version. Not the carefully managed memoir written with one eye on the libel lawyers. The real story — the erased vocal tracks, the termination letters delivered whilst a man was still technically a member of his own band, the songs written specifically to humiliate, the fortunes fought over in courtrooms for the better part of two decades, the silences so total they made the music in between seem almost miraculous.

Don Felder came back from lunch to find his voice had been wiped from the Eagles' greatest song while he was eating. He never forgave them. Roger Waters and David Gilmour made The Dark Side of the Moon together — one of the greatest albums in the history of recorded sound — and spent the next forty years at war over who it really belonged to. Liam and Noel Gallagher turned fraternal hatred into a spectator sport watched by millions, a feud so theatrical, so perfectly sustained, so savagely funny in its malice that it became more famous than half their songs. John Fogerty was sued for plagiarising his own songs — by the label that had stolen them from him in the first place. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey spent fifty years in a band that both of them, at various points, desperately wanted to escape — and couldn't, because what they had built together was bigger than either of them could walk away from. And Axl Rose watched Guns N' Roses — the most dangerous, most thrillingly reckless band on the planet — collapse in slow motion around his own impossible ego, until Slash finally walked out and the whole magnificent wreck came down in a shower of lawsuits and recriminations that took years to settle and will never, not really, be resolved.

And then there were the Beatles. John Lennon and Paul McCartney built the greatest creative partnership in the history of popular music — and then spent years dismantling each other in public, one vicious song at a time, whilst the lawyers counted the money and the fans took sides and the greatest band the world had ever seen became a case study in how intimacy, when it turns, becomes something close to warfare.

This is rock music stripped of every last piece of its mythology. What you find underneath is not liberation or rebellion or the glorious sound of youth refusing to be contained. What you find is jealousy, ego, money, power, and the devastating discovery that the person who knows you best — who was there for the doubt and the failure as well as the triumph, who shared the van and the dressing room and the creative argument that ran until four in the morning — is also the person most capable of doing you real and lasting damage. They know where everything is buried. In a court of law, they would make a devastating witness.

Twenty bands. Twenty wars. And the music — indifferent, magnificent, and utterly eternal — playing on regardless, long after the men and women who made it have stopped speaking to each other for good.

Some stories you can't unhear. This is all of them.

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