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Star Trippin’ reviews

When you gave Wall an assignment you never quite knew what kind of story he would deliver. Except that it would be enthralling, entertaining and - at his best - as scurrilous as hell.

Classic Rock Magazine

Wall is locked in a cupboard by Poison, attends Rock In Rio and discusses masturbation with Anthony Keidis... The style is earthy and unpretentious [and] refreshing given the conservatism of today's music press.............. The Guardian Newspaper

Tales from the frontline by one of Kerrang!'s most infamous scribes...'confrontational, irreverent, self-indulgent but ultimately insightful.' KKKKK. Kerrang! Magazine

Wall understood like no one how to really get close to the stars... In the end he even wrote down the truth about Axl Rose only to be called a "motherfucker" in the Guns N' Roses song 'Get In The Ring' This was actually an accolade, as it proved how well he had hit the nail on the head.' Rolling Stone, Germany

Mick Wall was the daddy; whether he was being locked in a broom cupboard at a Poison gig in New York, getting high with Dave Lee Roth backstage at some enormodome in the States; exposing Motley Crue's laughable gig-cancelling lies or offering a bedraggled Ozzy Ozbourne a shoulder to cry on in prison, Wall's byline was always a stamp of quality....................... Leicester Mercury

The entire book is entertaining as hell and proves that a journalist CAN be a rock star. Mix a big ego with an all access pass and throw in a few drinks and you get one hell of a wild ride. We can't wait for volume II. www.classicrockrevisited.com

Wall had a knack for gaining the trust of huge stadium rock acts, and, as most of them had beaten their brains-cells black and blue with large quantities of drugs and alchol, his articles were very enteraining. www.pennyblackmusic.com

What strikes me most is how well done they were, he'd have well outstripped Parky, Clarkeson and Paxman, had they been capable of interviewing Rock stars - each article is still an interesting read today even though I read them "back in the day"......................' Yak Yak

Rock writing legend Mick Wall has hung with the best of them and tales about his exploits are notorious. Taken from the 80s - the hight point of 'hair rock' - this collection of his interviews is funny, irreverent and great value. Birmingham Mail

great reminder of touring and shooting bands for magazines like Kerrang when it was planet rock and not kiddy rock which it is now - that's not sour grapes, that's the truth... Go and get the book - it's all true

Ross Halfin, Photographer

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What the critics have to say about Mick Wall

Mick Wall is nothing like you’d imagine. Most of the bands included here, I’m afraid, are a different story. So enjoy the monstrous little fuckers in all their glory once again. They’re well worth the price of admission, and so is Mick Wall…’

Jon Hotten, Classic Rock Magazine

In his amoral, happy-go-lucky search for the next drink or expenses-paid trip, Wall fearlessly exposes much of the mediocrity and sheer hollowness that lies just beneath the surface glamour of life on the pop media-celebrity circuit… Dark, twisted and frequently hilarious

The Times Newspaper

This is the tale of a writer’s travels in nihilism… Up one minute, down the next, Wall teeters on self-destruct

Mojo Magazine

A repulsively compelling account of life on the road and other rock’n’roll stories, the heroin scenes make Irvine Welsh look like the Teletubbies

The Guardian Newspaper

A fascinating and tawdry tale of smack, heavy metal, smack, biting the heads off bats, groupie head and more smack. Mick Wall hung around with some of the biggest smackheads in rock, took a load of smack, and wrote about it... Many of them are now dead, or now only have one arm. Mick’s OK, though, and this, by the way, is a great book

Loaded Magazine

Mick Wall will never work in the music industry again. Not if the men in the corridors of power learn about his utter contempt for [them]

Uncut Magazine

The lurid nature of the author’s life proves that even stronger, more hopeless and cynical dramas can be found behind the scenes in the music industry

Front Magazine

Mick Wall… you can suck my fuckin’ dick!

W. Axl Rose, Guns N’ Roses

Axl is an asshole. I fuckin’ love Mick Wall

Slash, Guns N’ Roses

What you say!

Send us your own review of STAR TRIPPIN'. We will post the most lively comments, good or bad. Email your comments to feedback@mickwall.com

Ken Kouwlski, Portland, Oregon says: 'I remember Mick Wall... the only fucker to have the balls to stand up to kingsized egos like Axl Rose, Jon Bon Jovi and David Lee Roth, and live to tell the tale. And what tales! Sex, drugs, and, er... whatever the other one was this is one hell of a book!'

Linda Cartwright, Reading, Berks says: 'I bought STAR TRIPPIN’ for my husband because he used to read Kerrang! back in the '80s. I could never understand what the appeal was as I was into Duran Duran and Wham. However, I couldn't resist a peek at the book - and now I'm hooked! Compared to the rubbish you get these days, this is like Shakespeare! I've also developed an urge to wear leather trousers and have a tattoo - and my husband's still waiting for the book...'

Daniel Wilson, Donegal, Ireland says: 'The best collection of rock journalism since the great days of Nick Kent and Lester Bangs. Wall gives the impression of not giving two hoots for his subjects, then proceeds to dissect them with the precision of a surgeon.'

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