Buy Crime of the Century

You can buy Crime of the Century directly from me for a signed (and personalised, if you’d like!) paperback copy with tracked shipping from the UK. Online retailers are listed below for both paperback and hardback. Ebooks are also available and you will be able to purchase them directly from me for £6.99. All sales final.

Note for EU customers: Due to the GPSR, I cannot ship books to the EU anymore, including Northern Ireland. I apologise for the inconvenience. However, I can still sell ebooks to EU customers, so if you’re in the EU or Northern Ireland and you would like to support me directly, this is a way you can do that. Otherwise, you can buy the book from an EU stockist listed below. Thank you for understanding.

Buy the ebook

If your country is not listed in the shipping options, contact me here and I’ll help you get a copy. As The Beatles once sang, “we can work it out”!

We’re also able to offer books signed by my cat, Bowie. If you want my cat to sign your book, just let me know in the personalisation box and I’ll make it happen!

Book Synopsis: Crime of the Century is a nonfiction book about classic rock’s connections to true crime. It’s not just a classic rock book or a true crime book, it’s both! The book is full of over 20 stories about how classic rockers met (or nearly met) murderers and attempted murderers and musicians who killed people. Some of these stories include ones connected to presidential assassinations like The Band playing at a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby, the man who killed JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, Manson Family member Squeaky Fromme (who tried to shoot President Ford) trying to meet Jimmy Page, and DEVO writing a song based on a poem written by John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate President Reagan. You can read stories about how classic rockers encountered some of the most notorious serial killers like The Kinks meeting John Wayne Gacy, The Beach Boys meeting Charles Manson, and Debbie Harry allegedly getting into Ted Bundy’s car in NYC. It’s not just an Americanocentric book, there are also stories about The Kinks and Spandau Ballet’s encounters with Britain’s most notorious gangsters, the Kray twins, and Led Zeppelin making a big mistake by hiring gangster turned actor John Bindon as their bodyguard for their 1977 US tour. Section two of the book talks about musicians who killed people like Little Willie John, Joe Meek, Rick Stevens, Jim Gordon, and Phil Spector. This isn’t just a classic rock book, this is classic rock storytelling!