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RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: CALIFORNICATION

ROCK CLASSICS
Matt Karpe

ISBN 978-1-78952-348-5

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Publication: 20 DECEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523485
Price: £12.99

Binding: Paperback
Format: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 104 pp
Illustrated: 8 colour pages

Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comp title: 9781789523225 Prince Purple Rain

• A huge album worldwide. 4 x platinum in the UK,
the album went top five all over the world
• Includes the hits ‘Scar Tissue’ and ‘All Around
The World’
• Still active and touring.
In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed
extremely uncertain. Once considered alternative rock’s
hottest act on the back of their triumphant 1991 album, Blood
Sugar Sex Magik, the LA quartet would spend the next few

Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ years somewhat languishing in the doldrums, with drug
addiction and in-house tension threatening to undo all those
Matt Karpe is an author based in Cambridgeshire, UK. previous years of hard work. To say that Californication saved
Californication is his twelfth book overall, with previous titles covering the Red Hot Chili Peppers is an understatement. For Anthony
Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, and the returning John Frusciante -
artists including Korn, Tool, Faith No More, the Smashing Pumpkins, long considered the band’s classic line-up by many - the 1999
and Prince. album cemented the Chili’s as not only the poster boys for
alternative rock but as one of rock’s greatest-ever artists.

Musically, Californication still featured a lethal dose of the
band’s powerhouse funk, but the album was also more
melodic, minimalistic, and structured. Combined with Kiedis’
often brutally honest and introspective lyricism, songs such as
the delicate and sombre ‘Scar Tissue’, the epiphanic
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Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. In great detail, this book discusses album’s writing and
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the B-sides and unreleased material, the ensuing world tour,
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without notice. 13/06/2024