You can tell a lot about people from the way they live, and rock stars are no exception. From Graceland to Neverland, private planes to island hideaways, Rock Stars at Home takes you inside the houses, pools, planes, music rooms, playgrounds, and more of the biggest names in rock and pop and some of the most extravagant home comforts ever known.
Thirty homes are featured inside and their stars homeowners are history’s best from the 1950s through today. Elvis Presley, the Beatles, David Bowie, the Jacksons, Prince, Ozzy Osbourne . . .
they’re all here. Packed with great photos throughout and eye-opening stories of wild behavior and even wilder interior décor, including insider accounts from those in the know, Rock Stars at Home is an entertaining and informative guide to living life like a rock star.
“Everyone says they want to party like a rock star,” says Alex Merrill, Publisher and Director of Sales for Apollo Publishers. “And Rock Stars at Home will allow fans of rock and photography alike to glean an insider’s look into what that really means. Rock Stars at Home is an entertaining, artistic and eye-opening look at how the ‘other-half’ really lives.”
In addition to 200 glorious photos, (See book on Amazon) entries give insight into each star’s life (how they spent their time when at home), from Elvis’s extraordinary down-home diet to the wild parties hosted by Keith Richards at Redlands, scene of the famous 1967 drug busts that led to the arrest of Richards, Mick Jagger, and art dealer Robert Fraser. Features throughout focus on specific topics, from the Beatles’s psychedelic interiors to the extravagant styles of the MTV Cribs generation.
Ronnie Wood 'turns up unannounced to his mansion now belongin' it to Pete Townshend. Despite selling his Richmond mansion, to The Who star Pete Townshend in 1996, it seems that Ronnie Wood can’t stay away.
Townshend, 74, says The Rolling Stones rocker often turns up unannounced – even on Christmas Day.
Meanwhile, Ronnie’s ex Jo is also having trouble with visitors.She has moved to a Northamptonshire farmhouse – but doesn’t have enough room to put her relatives up. ‘I need a castle,’ she wails.
Townshend says The Rolling Stones rocker often turns up unannounced ¿ even on Christmas Day
Roger Daltrey's Holmshurst Manor is the Jacobean mansion located in Burwash, East Sussex, where Roger Daltrey has lived with his family since 1970. Roger
bought it after selling his cottage in Hurst to production manager John Wolff and paid it under the price of £39.000. He also bought it because he thought it would be the perfect home for the family that he and Heather wanted to have.
“I bought it because I needed it and it needed me. Sounds silly, but that’s how it was.I didn’t have the money to buy it. I was just sort of looking at houses because I love old buildings, but when I saw this one I knew I had to live here.”
Rock Stars at Home the book: Enter the most ostentatious and over-the-top homes of rock and roll's greatest stars.
