McCartney, Paul
McClure, Michael
McDonald, Country Joe
McElroy, Dale
McGovern, Crystal
McGuinn, Roger
McKagan, Duff
McKee, Frances
McLaren, Malcolm
McLaughlin, John
McQueen, Steve
McVie, Christine
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Madcap laughs, The
(Pink Floyd album)
Madonna
Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi
Mainstream Label
Malcolm X,
Mamas and Papas
Mansfield, Jayne
Mansfield, Mike
Manson, Charles
Manzarek, Ray
Marauder, Tracy
Marriott, Steve
Marquee Club (London)
Marquees (doo-wop group)
Marsh, Dave
Martin, George
Martin, Michael
Martin, Tandy
Marvelettes (group)
Marx, Groucho
Mason, Nick
Matlock, Glen
Matthews, Ricky
Max’s Kansas City (NYC)
May, Brian
Mayall, John
Mayfield, Curtis
MC5
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
(Who album)
Melcher, Terry
Melody Maker
(rock paper)
Melvins, the (band)
Merberg, James
Merchant, Jimmy
Mercury, Freddie (Farokh Bulsara)
and AIDS
albums
androgyny and gayness
childhood
influences of
See also
Austin, Mary; Queen
MGM
Michael, George
Midnight Love
(Gaye album)
Miles, Buddy
Milli Vanilli
Millikin, Chesley
Million Dead Cops, A (band)
Mimieux, Yvette
Miracles (group)
Miss Christine (GTOs member)
Miss Lucy (GTOs member)
Miss Mercy (GTOs member)
Miss Sandra (GTOs member)
Mitchell, Mitch
Mod fashion
Mohawk, Dolores.
See
Cooke, Dolores
Mohawk, Joey
Monkees
Monroe, Mike
Monterey Pop Festival
Moon, Keith
albums
career
drug and alcohol use
drug overdose and death
hotel room trashing
as an influence
influences on
Pamela Des Barres and
and the press
sex life and affairs
See also
Boland, Neil; Who
Moon, Kim Kerrigan (wife)
Moon, Mandy (daughter)
Moore, Sam
Morgan, Seth
Morisette, Johnny
Morrison, Caroline (grandmother)
Morrison, Clara (mother)
Morrison, Jim
albums
arrests, warrants and trials
career
childhood
drug and alcohol use
drug overdose and death
influences on
and Janis Joplin
and Jimi Hendrix
Pamela Des Barres and
and the press
sex life and affairs
sexuality of
See also
Courson, Pamela; Doors; Kennealy, Patricia
Morrison, Steve (father)
Morrison Hotel Hard Rock Cafe
(Doors album)
Morton, George “Shadow,”
Mother Blues (Chicago club)
Mother Love Bone (band)
Mothers of Invention
Motown Records
M.P.G.
(Gaye album)
MTV and black performers
MTV Unplugged
Mudhoney (band)
Murcia, Billy
Murder Junkies (band)
Music Echo
magazine
My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair But Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows
(Tyrannosaurus Rex album)
Myer, Michele
Mynah Birds (band)
Naked Aggression Magazine
Namath, Joe
Napier-Bell, Simon
Neil, Vince
Nelson, David (brother)
Nelson, Gunnar (son)
Nelson, Harriet (mother)
Nelson, Kris Harmon (wife)
Nelson, Matthew (son)
Nelson, Ozzie (father)
Nelson, Paul
Nelson, Rick (Eric Hilliard)
albums
career (family TV show)
career (film)
career (rock and roll)
death and funeral
drug use (freebasing)
influences on
Madison Square Garden show
sex life and affairs
See also
Blair, Helen; Crewe, Eric
Nelson, Tracy Christine (daughter)
Nelson, Willy (cousin)
Neon Leon
Neuwirth, Bobby
Never Mind the Bollocks (Here’s the Sex Pistols)
(Sex Pistols album)
Nevermind
(Nirvana album)
New Musical Express
(NME)
New Rose label
New Yardbirds.
See
Led Zeppelin
New York Dolls
New York Post
New York Times, The
New York Times Magazine, The
News of the World
(newspaper)
News of the World
(Queen album)
Newsweek magazine
Nicky James Movement
Night at the Opera, A
(Queen album)
Nilsson, Harry
Nirvana
N.M.E.
Nobs, Claude
Nolan, James
Nolan, Jerry
Novoselic, Chris
Nuese, John
O’Connor, Pat
Odell, “Gorgeous” George
Oman, Shirley
Opel
(Syd Barrett album)
Open City
magazine
Orbison, Roy
Originals (group)
Osborne, Buzz
Oster, Bill
Pacers (band)
Pacific Ocean Blue
(Dennis Wilson album)
Page, Jimmy
Pallenberg, Anita
Palmer, Reese
Paris Match
magazine
Parsons, Avis (sister)
Parsons, Avis Snivel Connor (mother)
Parsons, Bonnie (stepmother)
Parsons, Gram
albums
bands and groups
career
childhood
corpse, abduction of/funeral party
drug and alcohol use
drug overdose and death
as an influence
influences on
and Keith Richards
Nudie wardrobe
Pamela Des Barres and
sex life and affairs
See also
Connor, Ingram Cecil “Coon Dog;” Flying Burrito Brothers; Harris, Emmylou
Parsons, Gretchen (2nd wife)
Parsons, Nancy (1st wife)
Parsons, Poly (daughter)
Parsons, Robert Ellis (stepfather)
Pavitt, Bruce
Pearl
(Joplin album)
Peel, John
Pendergrass, Teddy
Pennebaker, D. A.
Penrod, Jerry
Pentagram Records
People
magazine
Perkins, Carl
Peter, Paul and Mary
Peters, Dan
Petroff, Boris
Petty, Tom
Phillips, John
Phoenix
Gazette
Physical Graffiti
(Led Zeppelin album)
Picard, Georges
Pickett, Bobby “Boris,”
Pinion, Gayla
Pink Floyd.
See also
Barrett, Syd
Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The
(Pink Floyd album)
Plant, Karac (son)
Plant, Maureen (wife)
Plant, Robert
Plicque, Christian
Polanski, Roman
Ponemen, Jonathan
Pop, Iggy
Presence
(Led Zeppelin album)
Presley, Elvis
on loneliness
Presley, Lisa Marie (daughter)
Pretty on the Inside
(Courtney Love album)
Price, Andy
Prophets, Seers and Sages, the Angels of the Ages
(Tyrannosaurus Rex album)
punk scene
Q magazine
Que Sera Sera
(Thunders album)
Queen
albums
Sun City booking
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Rainbow Bar and Grill (Hollywood)
Rainbow Bridge
(film)
Raincoats (band)
Raitt, Bonnie
Rapp, Danny
Rawls, Lou
R&B (rhythm-and-blues)
RCA records
Real Records
Record Mirror
Redding, Noel
Redding, Otis
Reed, Jimmy
Reed, Lou
Reprise Records
Richard, Cliff
Richards, Keith
and Gram Parsons
See also
Rolling Stones
Richardson, J. P..
See
Big Bopper
Richie, Lional
Rick and the Ravens (group)
Rick Is 21
(Nelson album)
Rick Nelson in Concert
(Nelson album)
Rick Sings Nelson
(Nelson album)
Ricky Sings Again
(Nelson album)
Ridgio, Gene
Ritchie, John Simon. See Vicious, Sid
Ritz, David
Robinson, R. B.
Robinson, Smokey
Rock, Mick
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock
magazine
Rock, Rock, Rock
(film)
Rockets Redglare
Rocking Kings
Rod Stewart and the Faces
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones
Altamont Raceway show
lifestyle
Ronay, Alain
Rose, Axl (William Bruce Bailey)
alcohol use
arrests
career
bigoted, homophobic, anti—women comments of
spousal abuse suit
See also
Guns N’ Roses
Rose, Erin Everly
Rose, Tim
Ross, Diana
Rothchild, Paul
Rotten, Johnny
Rumours (group)
Rundgren, Todd
Rupe, Art
Rush, Otis
Russell, Leon
Russian roulette.
See under
death
Safe at Home
(ISB album)
St. John, Dick
St. Louis Dispatch
Sam and Dave
Sam Cooke at the Copa
(album)
“Sam Cooke Phenomenon” (TV special)
Sanchez, Tony
Santiago, Herman
SAR (Sam Cooke’s label)
Sauger, Mary
Seaton, Chairman
Seattle sound
Seifert, Doctor
Seiter, Jim
Sex Pistols
Schifman, Todd
Scumfucs (band)
Shad, Bob
Shakur, Tupac, rape charge
Shanggri-Las
Shankar, Ravi
Sheeley, Sharon
Pamela Des Barres and
Sheer Heart Attack
(Queen album)
Shelli (Novoselic’s girlfriend)
Shilos (group)
Siddons, Bill
Silva, John
Simmons, Chester
Singh Ji, Maharaji Charan
Singing Children
Skid Row (band)
Slade (group)
Slash (guitarist)
Slick Rick. See Walters, Ricky
Slider
(T-Rex album)
Slovak, Hillel
Smear, Pat
Smile (band)
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Gary
Smith, Larry “Legs,”
Smith, Todd
Smothers, Tommy
Smythe, Colin
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Snow, Tom
Soft Parade, The
(Doors album)
Song Remains the Same
(Led Zeppelin film)
Sonic Youth (band)
soul music
Soul Stirrers
Soul to Soul
(Double Trouble album)
Soulful Mood ofMarvin Gaye, The
(album)
Soundgarden (band)
Sounds
Souther, Hillman, Furay Band
Specialty Records
Spin
magazine
Springer, Jerry
Springsteen, Bruce
Spungen, Deborah
Spungen, Nancy
drug use
as a groupie
murder of
See also
Sex Pistols; Vicious, Sid
Stafford, Jim
Stairway to Heaven
(Cole book)
Stamp, Chris
Starr, Ringo
Stephens, Shawn. See Lewis, Shawn Stephens
Stephenson, William
“Steve Allen Show, The,”
Steve Brett and the Mavericks
Stevens, Connie
Stevens, Joe
Stewart, Rodney “the Mod,”
Stickells, Gerry
Stipe, Michael
Stone, Sly
Stone Canyon Band
Stooges (band)
Stradlin, Izzy
Straight Ahead
(fanzine)
Strange Days
(Doors album)
Struebing, Darlene, murder of
Struebing, Kurt
career
mother, murder of
See also
N.M.E.
Sua, John
Sub Pop Label
Subway
magazine
Summer of Love
Summer Texan
newspaper
Sundquist, Eva
Sundquist, Little Jimi (Jimi Hendrix’s alleged son)
Supremes
Sundqvist, Susanne
Surratt, Paul
Susie and the Hula Hoops
Swan Song Label
Sweet, The
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
(Byrds album)
Sylvain, Sylvain