The Covert War Against Rock
Alex Constantine

A provocative examination of how government, organized crime and the music business intermingle.

Since the '60s, musicians have been outspoken and powerful proponents for social change, making them a threat to those eager to maintain the status quo. Typically fond of drugs, they also make easy targets for investigation and exploitation. In this comprehensive look at more than a dozen suspect rock star deaths, Alex Constantine delves into the secrets that the record industry, organized crime and even the FBI and CIA don't want uncovered.

Unearthing recent–and successful–assassination plots against Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G. and Michael Hutchence, as well as new information on the tragic deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and John Lennon, this long-overdue report offers disturbing evidence that there may be more behind these deaths than accident, psychosis and indulgence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Prelude - Assassination Politics of the Vietnam Period:
              Fascism, American-Style and the Rise of Richard Nixon

1. A [Killing] Field Day for the Heat
2. Time Machine: The Birth of Top 40 Radio and Alan Freed's Near-Death     Experience (Early CIA and Mob Influences on the Rock Music Industry)
3. Parapolitical  Stars in the Dope Show
4. The Death of Cass Elliot and Other "Restless Youth"
5. A Murder in the House of Pooh: Brian Jones
6. Portraits in Carnage: The End of the Rock Festivals
7. I Don't Live Today:
    The Jimi Hendrix Political Harassment, Kidnap and Murder Experience
8. When You're a Stranger:
    Fragrance Dé Chaos—Investigative Findings on the Death of Jim Morrison
9. Like Coffins in a Cage:
    The Baez Contras and the Death of Phil Ochs
10. Who Killed the Kennedys? (and Sal Mineo?)
11. "Project Walrus" and Holden Caulfield's Warm Gun
12. What'cha Gonna Do?... The Deaths of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh
13. Gang War: Sons of Chaos vs. Thugs
      A Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Assassination Digest
14. Dancing on the Jetty: The Death of Michael Hutchence, et al

178 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, Paperback, Illustrated

Price - $14.95