A comprehensive biography of one of Australia's most loved classic rock bands.
No Secrets: The Untold Story Of Doc Neeson And The Angels is the ultimate tale of the band that helped shape Australia's legendary, wild and wicked hard rock music scene, and in the process, influenced untold other bands, singers and songwriters.
Using interviews conducted over three decades by the author Darryl Mason with past and present members, The Angels own tour diaries and exclusive access to the band's extensive files and archive, No Secrets takes you inside the public and private lives of Doc Neeson and core band members, and songwriters, Rick and John Brewster, and manager/drummer Brent Eccles.
Darryl Mason watched the band record, party and tour, and witnessed the painful departure of Doc Neeson from the band and the successful introduction of new lead singer Dave Gleeson. From inside the studios for the recordings of some of their greatest albums and out on the roads and highways of Australia where The Angels clocked up millions of miles and more than 3500 shows, No Secrets will take readers into the heartbeat, headspace and heartland of the most consistently successful and innovative Australian rock band in history.
This is not your normal rock memoir, or band biography. The Angels weren't your standard hard rocking sex, drugs and rock n roll band. They were highly educated, classically trained musicians and master songwriters, born of the legendary Alberts Music stable, where they cut their debut record while sharing studio space with AC/DC.
The most diehard Angels fans think they know the story of Doc Neeson and The Angels, but they don't know it all. And the rest of Australia knows only the headlines and controversies, and some of the music that made them famous.
But there's so much more.
The full story of The Angels, from their first shows in Adelaide in the early 1970s, through their years of hit albums and chart-storming singles, the struggles to break America, the pain and trauma of relationship breakdowns and reunions, right through to the death of Doc Neeson in June, 2014, and ending with the rebirth of the band on their 40th anniversary, has never told been told before in a book. Not until now.
