Once Upon a Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996

Once Upon a Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996 - 2006
Author(s)	Mape Ollila
Language	English, Finnish
Genre(s)	Autobiography
Publisher	Like Kustannus Oy (Finland) Deggael Communications, Bazillion Points Publishing (USA)
Publication date	May 11, 2006
Published in English	April 11, 2007
Media type	print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	329 pages
ISBN	0979616328
OCLC Number	276332971
Followed by	Dark Passion Gallery (2008)

Once Upon a Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996 – 2006 is a 2006 autobiography originally written in Finnish by Mape Ollila, telling the story of the first ten years of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. The book was translated into English in 2007. An enhanced, more polished English edition was published by Bazillion Points Books at the very end of 2008.

Ollila tells the story of Nightwish from the very first ideas of a band in 1996 until the bombastic concert in Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, after which the lead singer Tarja Turunen was fired in an open letter by the band. The book is based on Ollila's own experiences with the band as well as exclusive interviews with the members, their families and their friends. The book is remarkable as a rock biography both because Ollila's portrayal is very sensitive to the subjects without sugar-coating their foibles, and because he was granted such full cooperation by a still-active band.

Lawsuit

On November 2009, Marcelo Cabuli, Turunen's husband, filed a lawsuit against Ollila and Like Kustannus Oy, the book's original Finnish publisher, for slander.^[1]

References

• Nightwish.com
• Nightwish-Shop
• Amazon.com
• Bazillion Points Books

1. ^ Blabbermouth.net - Tarja Turunen's Husband Files Suit Over Nightwish Book, November 13, 2009