The Story of Evanescence

by Simon Moore

Book Overview

The full story of the meteoric rise of Evanescence, whose unique sound has rejuvintated a music scene overrun with manufactured pop and male-dominated rock. Against all odds, the band's creative brand of music made up of soaring female vocals, hard hitting guitar, and classically trained piano magically conjured up multi-platinum album sales, two Grammys and a devoted fan base world-wide. The first biography explores the teenage song writing partnership...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825629942
• ISBN13: 9780825629945
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Pretty straightforward story on Evanescence ....

I got this books as a present for my kind who loves Evanescence and has followed in pretty much detail their story and tracking. It provides very good background information and interesting notes on the group. A must-have for the die-hard fans.

PICTURES ARE WORTH MORE THAN THOUSANDS OF WORDS.

This is a really good book for fans of Evanescence and Amy Lee. It has some nice pictures of Amy in it. The written part of the book isn't really anything special. There's nothing unusual about the man's story and there's nothing wrong with that. A person or band doesn't need a story of suffering and starving if their art is as good as that of Evanescence. I got the impression that someone had photos that they wanted to turn into a book to make money and that the writer is just someone who was contracted to write the thing and had no personal interest in the subject matter. Almost everything written has an annoying habits of saying "In SO AND SO MAGAZINE ON SEPT 13, 2002 it was said that...". I give the book five stars for the pictures. If I were reviewing only the written part I would probably give it a 3 star rating.

Excellent book

I picked up this book at Hot Topic when i was just browsing. So i bought it. I started reading it the next night, it was well written. I just couldn't put it down because i wanted to know "everything" about my favorite band. They have some great photos too. I read this twice then put some of the pictures up on my wall. It covered almost everything you would want to know about this band, past and present. It was full of great facts that i've never heard before. So i recommend you read this book, its very interesting and if everyone could only read this, it would probably put an end to all the Evanescence rumors.

Great Book

Great awesome book about Evanescence. The author did a really good job explaining Evanescence's roots, background, history, etc. And there are lots of cool pictures of Amy and the band. Overall, just a really cool book. Defintley recommend to any Evanescence fan.

Brilliant Book!

As a long-time Evanescence fan I must say I am thrilled with this biography. It is a gorgeous book, full of loads of great pictures and tons of information all about the band from day one. It is also really realy well written and enjoyable to read. Definitely buy it. Worth reading more than once! And keeping for the pics - especially of Amy. Very cool.