The Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Complete Story--Featuring Loads of Pictures

Few bands can claim to have courted controversy and yet produced such ground breaking music as Los Angeles' Red Hot Chili Peppers. When their 1991 album "Bloodsugarsexmagic" became an international smash, it was the culmination of a career spanning nine years, during which time one founder member had tragically been lost to drug addiction, whilst a host of other scandals and traumas beset the funkiest band in the world. Throughout all this there was the music - aside from the myriad of personnel changes, the press headlines, the famous photos and outrageous behaviour, the band have maintained one constant feature - powerful music. This book looks at the catalogue of events in the band's chequered history and focuses on their genuine musical genius, the explosive personalities and their private, and frequently ignored, considerate side.