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Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change and the legacy the record has left behind.without notice. 13/06/2024Sales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comOrders: Combined Book Services Ltd. Email: orders@combook.co.ukPhone: 01892 837171Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/Matt Karpe is an author based in Cambridgeshire, UK. Californication is his twelfth book overall, with previous titles covering artists including Korn, Tool, Faith No More, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Prince.Publication: 20th DECEMBER2024ISBN: 9781789523485Price: %u00a312.99Binding: PaperbackFormat: 198 x 129 mmExtent: 104 pp Illustrated: 8 colour pagesThema: AVLP Popular MusicComp title: 9781789523225 Prince Purple Rain%u2022 A huge album worldwide. 4 x platinum in the UK, the album went top five all over the world%u2022 Includes the hits %u2018Scar Tissue%u2019 and %u2018All Around The World%u2019%u2022 Still active and touring.In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed extremely uncertain. Once considered alternative rock%u2019s hottest act on the back of their triumphant 1991 album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, the LA quartet would spend the next few years somewhat languishing in the doldrums, with drug addiction and in-house tension threatening to undo all those previous years of hard work. To say that Californication saved the Red Hot Chili Peppers is an understatement. For Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith, and the returning John Frusciante -long considered the band%u2019s classic line-up by many - the 1999 album cemented the Chili%u2019s as not only the poster boys for alternative rock but as one of rock%u2019s greatest-ever artists.Musically, Californication still featured a lethal dose of the band%u2019s powerhouse funk, but the album was also more melodic, minimalistic, and structured. Combined with Kiedis%u2019 often brutally honest and introspective lyricism, songs such as the delicate and sombre %u2018Scar Tissue%u2019, the epiphanic %u2018Otherside%u2019, and the scathing title track, would usher in a new era of the band, where the promise they had previously shown was about to be fully realised.In great detail, this book discusses album%u2019s writing and recording processes, the stories behind every song- including the B-sides and unreleased material, the ensuing world tour,ISBN 978-1-78952-348-59 7 8 1 7 8 9 5 2 3 4 8 5RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: CALIFORNICATIONROCK CLASSICSMatt Karpe