Garth Brooks is the most successful male country-recording artist ever and one of the world's bestselling artists of all time. Although he "retired" in 2001, he has since returned to music, and launched the biggest comeback since Sinatra with a release of his first album of new material in 13 years. To honor this momentous occasion, this unofficial music biography is the first fully illustrated celebration of Garth Brooks and his career in all its glory. Music journalist and author Andrew Vaughan traces Brook's incredible rise to superstardom from the ground up, his thirteen-year retirement, and his return to the top, making this a must-have volume for his millions of devoted fans.