stephen, davis, music, journalist, stephen, davis, american, music, journalist, historian, davis, born, york, city, attended, boston, university, began, career, writing, boston, phoenix, 1970, journalism, appeared, rolling, stone, york, times, boston, globe, n. Stephen Davis is an American music journalist and historian Davis was born in New York City and attended Boston University He began his career writing for the Boston Phoenix in 1970 1 His journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone The New York Times the Boston Globe and numerous other papers and magazines 1 Davis says his love of music started when he was invited by a priest to join the church s choir 2 Davis has been described as perhaps America s best known rock biographer having written biographies of Led Zeppelin The Rolling Stones Fleetwood Mac Aerosmith Guns N Roses Michael Jackson Carly Simon Bob Marley Levon Helm Jim Morrison and Stevie Nicks among others 3 However his biographies often contain incorrect facts and fabricated versions of the truth Some of his subjects including Led Zeppelin have come out about the books inaccuracies Some have refused to communicate Davis altogether 4 Davis lives in Milton Massachusetts 3 Bibliography EditReggae Bloodlines In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica with photographs by Peter Simon Da Capo Press 1977 1992 ISBN 0 306 80496 4 Reggae International with photographs of Peter Simon 1982 R amp B Books USA ISBN 0 394 71313 3 Bob Marley The Biography 1983 A Barker ISBN 0 213 16859 6 Hammer of the Gods The Led Zeppelin Saga Berkley Publishing Group 1985 1997 ISBN 0 345 33516 3 Hammer of the Gods Led Zeppelin Unauthorised Macmillan 2005 ISBN 0 330 43859 X Fleetwood My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac by Mick Fleetwood William Morrow amp Company 1990 ISBN 0 688 06647 X Jajouka Rolling Stone A Fable of Gods and Heroes Random House Trade 1993 ISBN 0 679 42119 X This Wheel s on Fire Levon Helm and the Story of The Band with Levon Helm Plexus Publishing 1994 ISBN 0 85965 216 5 Bob Marley Conquering Lion of Reggae Plexus Publishing 1994 ISBN 0 85965 222 X Bob Marley revised edition Schenkman Books 1998 ISBN 0 87047 044 2 Walk This Way The Autobiography of Aerosmith with Aerosmith HarperCollins 1997 ISBN 0 380 97594 7 Old Gods Almost Dead The 40 Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones Broadway USA 2001 ISBN 0 7679 0312 9 Jim Morrison Life Death Legend Ebury Press 2004 ISBN 0 09 190041 7 Watch You Bleed The Saga of Guns N Roses Gotham Press 2008 ISBN 978 1 59240 377 6 Introduction of The First Rasta Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism by Helene Lee Chicago Review Press 2005 ISBN 1 55652 558 3 LZ 75 The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin s 1975 American Tour Gotham Books 2010 ISBN 1 59240 589 4 Please Please Tell Me Now The Duran Duran Story Hachette Books 2021 ISBN 978 0 306 84606 9References Edit a b Davis Stephen 1985 Hammer of the Gods New York Ballantine Books ISBN 0 345 33516 3 p 360 Healy Pat 015 Stephen Davis Music Is My Life Retrieved 15 October 2021 a b Caleb Daniloff Rock from Axl to Zep BU Today October 21 2008 Mat Snow Apocalypse Then Q magazine December 1990 p 79 This biographical article related to music journalism in the United States is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Stephen Davis music journalist amp oldid 1087800079, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
