Samuel Hieronymus Hellborn - Memoirs Of A Rockstar-Killer

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Have you ever wondered why so many rock stars met their untimely demise at the very height of their careers? Was it merely coincidence ¿ or were darker forces at play, involving the Devil, the record industry, and the CIA?
 Hollow Skai now unveils the truth: it was the work of Samuel Hieronymus Hellborn, a deranged serial killer who haunted the music industry for seventy-five years, dispatching our greatest idols before they could grow into dreary old bores.

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Hollow Skai studied German language and literature and politics in Hanover. His thesis on punk was published by Sounds Verlag, and in 1980 he founded the punk label No Fun Records. From 1986 to 1989, he was editor-in-chief of the Hanover city magazine Schädelspalter. From 1989 to 1994, he worked as a culture editor at Stern magazine. Hollow Skai, who went to school with Michael Schenker, wrote his first band biography about the Scorpions in 1992. He researched the life and work of Rio Reiser, wrote a biography about him and compiled the best-of double album Unter Geiern for Sony Music. The Columbia Years. Hollow Skai now works as a freelance journalist and editor in Hamburg. In 2004, Hollow Skai also reviewed and edited the German translation of the non-fiction book Please Kill Me ¿ The Uncensored History of Punk, which deals with the development of American punk rock. For Alles nur geträumt (All Just a Dream), his book about the Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave), he was nominated for an Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in New Orleans in 2010.

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