Henry Rollins: 24 books

Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word. As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an...

Unwelcomed Songs (Collected Lyrics 1980-1992) is by Henry Rollins, the former lead vocalist of the seminal LA band Black Flag and current leader of the Rollins Band. Henry Rollins has been writing and releasing songs for over twenty years. This is the first time ever that a collection of his lyrics...

A Dull Roar chronicles a tumultuous five-month period in Henry Rollins’ life. During April through September 2006, he reunited with the Rollins Band, prepared for and toured North America with them, wrapped up the second season of the The Henry Rollins Show, filmed Wrong Turn 2, and slaved over...

For the past 25 years, Henry Rollins has photographed the most desolate and inhospitable corners of the Earth, and his powerful vision has been harnessed in this photographic essay. Though he is known for the raw power of his expression, Rollins has shown that the greatest statements can be made...

In 2004, when legendary Los Angeles radio station Indie 103.1 asked Henry Rollins to host a show, he jumped at the chance. He chose the name “Harmony in My Head,” based on his favorite Buzzcocks tune. As lead man for Black Flag, Rollins was present at the raw beginnings of punk and knew many of...

2007 was a very busy year for Henry Rollins. He traveled to Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Pakistan, where he was staying when Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. While traveling, Rollins performed numerous spoken word shows and worked on films, his IFC television show, and Harmony in My Head,...

As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van. Rollins's observations range from the wry to the raucous in this blistering account of a six-year career with the band - a time marked by crazed fans, vicious cops, near-starvation,...

Considered by many to be the "classic" Rollins book, Black Coffee Blues is a collection of writings by Henry Rollins from 1989-1991. In his inimitable unflinching way, Rollins shares with readers a hard-edge look into his world through poetry, prose and journals,

In Roomanitarian, popular author, actor, musician, and spoken-word artist Henry Rollins returns to the combative prose that has won him critical acclaim and a legion of devoted fans. The book is divided into three parts: The first section, "Walking the Chasm,” written in the form of a poem, epitomizes...

Broken Summers is a behind the scenes look at the making of the CD "Rise Above: 24 Black Flag songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three" and the subsequent world tour. In Broken Summers, Rollins details the rehearsals (songs he had not played since the mid-1980's), recruiting guest vocalists, dealing...

How do you sell a book like this? It’s like offering someone gum that has been previously chewed. Almost all of the material in Before The Chop II has been published in the LA Weekly. You can probably go online and find it at the best possible price. How dare the “writer” go slouching towards...

I saw the word Solipsist while reading the dictionary in 1993. I was livingin NYC at the time and the word defined how the city made me feel. I workedon this book in several cities all over the world until 1996. The writing isobsessive and claustrophobic. To be solipsistic is to totally realize the...

Many years ago, I embarked on a project to write one thousand of extremely short stories. The idea was if one was to watch a train pass by at great speed, one would see a lot of people and possible stories. I filled up quite a few steno pads with these very short glimpses. We made one thousand copies...

Fanatic! Vol. 3 contains annotated notes from the songs Henry Rollins broadcast on his Harmony In My Head radio show on Indie 103.1 in 2007. Information on the bands, the songs, some anecdotes, websites, discographies and flyers throughout. Over 500 pages of fanatic music worship.