Ian Carroll

Monsters Of Rock: The Unofficial History of the MOR Festival

For all those rockers who want to remember the 'good old days' welcome to Monsters Of Rock. The definitive book of the history of Monsters of Rock at Donington Park, told through hundreds of interviews with the bands, includes over 400 artists. This book was the first half of a previously released book by me 'From Donington To Download' - but many people have come up to me and said 'I'm old school, so I was only interested in the first half of the book, so here it is as a 'stand alone' release. In 2005 I started to write the book of the Donington & Download Festival (including Monsters Of Rock at Milton Keynes). I was coming to the end of completing the Official Book of the Reading Festival and saw Donington as the second release in my 'Festival Series' of books, covering my favourite festivals that I attend every year - Monsters Of Rock was the longest running Classic Rock and Metal Festival in the UK. I have travelled the length and breadth of England interviewing bands and artists for the book and have had some great times in amongst the hard work. I've also had many phone interviews from Metallica to Alice Cooper to Queensrÿche and also what was possibly one of the legend Ronnie James Dio's last interviews, prior to cancelling his final UK tour. The book contains many 'classic rock' bands including such legends as Rainbow, Judas Priest, Saxon, M t rhead, Gillan, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent, Twisted Sister, Whitesnake, Accept, Ratt, Y&T, Magnum, Thunder, The Quireboys, The Almighty, Therapy?, KISS, Def Leppard, Anvil, Rose Tattoo, Metallica, White Zombie and literally hundreds and hundreds more....... I was given unprecented access to the festival and the artists at the events thanks to the very friendly and accomodating organisers, they were second to none during the process of writing this book and I can never praise or thank them enough.