Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

The first definitive history of the iconic band Oasis, as told through their music and using their songs as the starting point. A Sound So Very Loud is the first book to offer a definitive history of Oasis as narrated through their music, using...

Blues guitar great and Fleetwood Mac founder, Peter Green, was an enigma throughout his career. His innovative songwriting and unmistakeable voice shot Fleetwood Mac into the mainstream in 1969 with 'Albatross', 'Man of the World', and 'Oh Well'. But in May 1970, he turned...

LIMITED CONCERT EDITION - INCLUDES A FREE BEATLES PRINT In 1963, it was unusual for a pop group to have a monthly magazine devoted exclusively to their career. Only Elvis Presley had been considered important enough to warrant such an honour. But then the...

Winner of the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association's 2016 Peter C. Rollins Book Award in the category of Film/Television The popular music industry has become completely interlinked with the film industry. The majority of mainstream films come with ready-attached songs that may or...

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.Author: Patti SmithISBN-10: 1101875127ISBN-13: 9781101875124Publisher: Random HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

Few bands can claim anything like the longevity, sincerity, and sheer creative breadth of The Cure. From their beginnings as literate punks through their early bleak masterpieces that ended with Pornography (1982), to the pop years that followed and their worldwide success with the...

(Chart). This second edition features over 90 of the greatest songs from the legends of Liverpool, including: All You Need Is Love * And I Love Her * The Fool on the Hill * Got to Get You Into My Life * Here, There,...

A 50th anniversary edition of the music classic, with fully updated discographies and new introductions from Greil Marcus and Dwight Garner In this special 50th anniversary edition of the beloved Plume backlist staple first released in 1975, Mystery Train's complex analysis of the relationship...

The landmark international bestseller--The Beatles' own story, in their own words--reissued on the 25th anniversary of its first publication. From their years growing up in Liverpool through their ride to fame to their ultimate breakup, here's the inside story. Interwoven with The Beatles' own...

This songbook features 10 iconic indie rock songs arranged for easy piano.Includes: "Creep" - Radiohead "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers "Where Is My Mind?" - Pixies "Wonderwall" - Oasis "About A Girl" - Nirvana This book allows you to: Learn to play some of...

Pink Floyd changed the landscape as pioneers of British psychedelic rock music. It is a mixture of "sonic stew" of musical styles from avant-garde electronic to jazz to classical with its timeless originality. Their music continues to speak to new generations of music lovers....

Experience the extraordinary career of beloved rocker Tom Petty with this richly illustrated slipcase edition. Twenty-eight Billboard Top-10 singles, induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a string of best-selling studio albums...nearly a decade after his passing, Tom Petty remains one...

Author: Matt GarrickISBN-10: 0733341810ISBN-13: 9780733341816Publisher: ABC Books AuLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2025Pages: 384Format: Paperback

PJ Harvey's performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing 'trouble'. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise 'disruption' and...

Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways. Exploring the many themes and ciphers that comprise this musical community, this book interprets aesthetic resonances as...

(Music Sales America). With this songbook you can play some of Bob Dylan's greatest hits with just a few chords. A terrific collection of 18 songs with full lyrics, guitar chord boxes and chord symbols. Includes: All Along the Watchtower * Blowin' in the...

Author: Geddy LeeISBN-10: 0063159449ISBN-13: 9780063159440Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 512Format: Paperback

A long-awaited visual memoir from a legend of popular culture, this is the first and only official book by Annie Lennox, one of the best-selling and most influential music and style icons of the last fifty years--destined to be the must-have title for music...

Want to master the intricate styles of the metal guitar legends?Struggling to break out of your comfort zone to inject fire and personality into your solos?100 Classic Metal Licks for Guitar is your ultimate guide to unlocking the techniques, styles, and creativity of metal's...

The followers - this book is not for you.The salt of the earth - this book is not for you.The worthy - this book is not for you.The ideologists - this book is not for you.Hedonists and bohemians - this book is not for...

Easy read and play. Lyrics and chords included.Author: Sal GISBN-10: 153286342XISBN-13: 9781532863424Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2016Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.01lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.81d

Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince's most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and relentlessly drove to be the sonic, visual, and ideological reflection of his evolving vision....

During the 1960s--a juncture in history when music was the meeting place for the ideas of the young and questioning--Bob Dylan stood head and shoulders in influence above all others. In telling the story of his first calendar decade as a recording artist, Decade...

Explore The Who's groundbreaking albums, tracing their evolution from 1960s pioneers to rock legends.One of the British Invasion bands of the mid 1960s, The Who would soon go on to help revolutionise rock music, evolving from a pop band into the first generation of...

Author: John RobbISBN-10: 0008751366ISBN-13: 9780008751364Publisher: HarpernorthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 416Format: Hardcover

In the 1960s, brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine created the California Sound through contagious riffs and songs about hot rods, surfers and blossoming romance. Then, in the mid-1960s, a youthful Brian Wilson changed the face...

Other than 'I Me Mine' and some minor overdubs, The Beatles' entire EMI/Apple catalogue was recorded in fewer than seven years: from 4 September 1962 through to 20 August 1969. Twelve albums, twenty-two singles, two standalone EPs, 213 songs. That in itself is remarkable...

An In-Depth Analysis of The Beatles' Music and the Technology That Made It Possible When folk look back in two hundred years time at our culture, whose music will have survived from today? Who will be our equivalent of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven? The...

"Most of the time," Theodor Adorno has noted, "records are virtual photographs of their owners." The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how...

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in...

Author: Stephen DavisISBN-10: 0063354594ISBN-13: 9780063354593Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 432Format: Paperback

This is the behind-the-scenes story of Noel's biggest ever world tour with his band The High Flying Birds and the making of his critically-acclaimed album Who Built the Moon? Noel has had a momentous year, with his third number one solo album, a Mercury...

How does a person overcome disadvantage, failure, and adversity to become a recognized leader in his profession? By not only ceaselessly following his passion but channeling that passion into something anyone and everyone can appreciate. Peace, Love, & Subs: the True Cosmic Dave Story,...

Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Telecaster 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar. Embraced for its simplicity and adaptability, the Fender(R) Telecaster(R) guitar is a musical icon around the world and across musical genres, its distinctive design as...

Guides readers through Elton John's extensive discography, revealing the stories, musical intricacies, and hidden meanings behind his legendary albums.In 1969, Elton John and Bernie Taupin gave the world Empty Sky, a heady mix of rock, folk, rhythm and blues, jazz, psychedelia, and classicism that...

Part memoir, part exposé of the music world's murky underbelly, Noise Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative and ridiculous. It's also a celebration of the life-changing magic of music.Author: Kennedy JamesISBN-10: 1785632140ISBN-13: 9781785632143Publisher: Eye BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2020Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.40h x 3.00w...

This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.Author: Robbins Music CorporationISBN-10: 1258834898ISBN-13: 9781258834890Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

For those who love or have collected early Bob Dylan bootleg albums, an archive of never before published photographs of the young Dylan, when he first moved to New York City in the early 1960s. It was in late 1961, photographer Ted Russell recalls,...

An interdisciplinary and existential exploration of live musical reenactmentIn this persuasive study, Tracy McMullen draws on philosophy, psychology, musicology, performance studies, and popular music studies in order to analyze the rise of obsessively precise live musical reenactments in the United States at the turn...

Toxic Shock Records, Assassin of Mediocrity: A Story of Love, Loss and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger.This is a story of a lifetime spent in the trenches of the mercantile class. Yes, it's been said before, but punk rock did change our lives. You're...

Seven Decades of Deep Purple tells the electrifying story of one of the most iconic bands in rock history. From the band's explosive formation in 1968 to the classic Mk. II lineup--Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, and Paice--and through all the iterations to the present...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990), with parallel reflections on the artist's life in Berlin and the author's life in Dublin in the year of the album's release. Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer...

"The Who" is a legndaryEnglish rock band formed in 1964, renowned for their powerful live performances, iconic frontman Roger Daltry, Pete Townshend on guitar with his windmill strum and power chords, the thundering bass lines of John Entwistle and aggressive drumming of Keith Moon....

A must-have for every Pearl Jam fan, this beautifully designed volume traces 35 years of the groundbreaking grunge group through photos, interviews, and all the fascinating facts. Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder, and Matt Cameron are Seattle's own alternative rock band...

A history of the Grateful Dead that kaleidoscopes into an examination of the American counterculture through the life of its iconoclastic frontman, Jerry Garcia, and his merry band In early 1960's Palo Alto, Jerry Garcia randomly opened a dictionary to a fable in which...

A hilarious unofficial tribute to the most opinionated and entertainingly cantankerous band in rock and roll history. Hello and listen up. In 1994, with the shock of the lightning that was Oasis's force-of-nature debut album, the British band's cigarettes-and-alcohol-fueled founding brothers Liam and Noel...

(Easy Instrumental Play-Along). 10 songs carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Even novices will sound great Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments and available via download to help you hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes, download the backing...

Respected hard rock band Lo-Pan's new LP, 'Subtle' was released on May 17 via Aqualamb Records. The Ohio group, known for its dichotomic sound which merges sturm und drang heaviness with relentlessly catchy, AOR laden melody, recorded the new album at both NYC's Reservoir...

Jethro Tull is an innovative rock band to emerge from the late 1960's. This idiosyncratic group fronted by the multi-instrumentalist founder and lead singer, Ian Scott Anderson, resembled a group of roving English minstrels. They have been recording their style of rock and roll...

SWIZ WAS A WASHINGTON, D.C.-BASED hardcore punk band that existed from April of 1987 through August of 1990, cutting their teeth and carving their place in the scene that birthed trailblazers and contemporaries Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dag Nasty, Fugazi, Ian MacKaye, Dave Grohl,...