Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

LED ZEPPELIN FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE GREATEST HARD ROCK BAND OF ALL TIMEAuthor: George CaseISBN-10: 1617130257ISBN-13: 9781617130250Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2011Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.91d

By far the most comprehensive book on Bob Dylan's words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how his lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they...

(Play It Like It Is). This is Volume 2 of the two-volume Guns N' Roses Complete, which contains over 45 top songs from the albums Appetite for Destruction, GN'R Lies, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II . Volume 2 (M-Z) features...

Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home & Away is a detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band's 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Together,...

It all started in London. More than fifty years ago, a generation of teens created something that would change the face of music forever. London, Reign Over Me immerses us in the backroom clubs, basement record shops, and late-night faint radio signals of 1960s...

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n'...

Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, "the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it." In A...

It was the 1960's. The British Invasion was under way as The Who, Beatles and Rolling Stones dominated the top of the charts. In Canada, Toronto's trending Yorkville district was attracting Canadian acts to its many coffee houses and nightclubs. In 1965, Canada's Ugly...

A landmark compilation of popular music, this collection contains Paul Simon's lyrics from his first album in 1964 to the present, now with 2011's So Beautiful Or So What?Author: Paul SimonISBN-10: 1451648499ISBN-13: 9781451648492Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2011Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.90h x 8.00w...

'Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves' The Guardian This extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as many extra photographs....

December 3-4, 1969. Keith and Mick stood at the same microphone at Muscle Shoals, lights dimmed, splitting a fifth of bourbon, and simultaneously sang the melodies and harmonies on the three songs that they had recorded over three days: Brown Sugar, You Got to...

For over a full decade Black Sabbath had dominated Heavy Metal. As much as Led Zeppelin scorned the term Black Sabbath embraced it. In an age of bona fide supergroups Sabbath were unquestionably the heaviest thing stalking the planet and quite remarkably had remained...

The writings in this book are extracted from volumes 1 through 20 of our 33 1/3 series - short books about individual albums. In here you'll find a wide variety of authors, albums, and approaches to writing about those albums. So sit back, put...

No question Scorpions, Germany's loudest and proudest rock band ever, have been one of that country's most successful musical exports. Wind of Change documents the band's career with analysis of every song on every album the Teutonic tone-masters ever crafted.Beginning with Lonesome Crow back...

DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of　DIY ("do- it- yourself") music venues and events in the United States, such as warehouses, all- ages clubs, and guerrilla shows, with its primary focus...

This book delves into the aural splendor of the Beatles' discography, breaking down each song and taking a close look at how the group's music sounds through headphones rather than external speakers. Mistakes, studio chatter, secret meanings and other audio esoterica are all identified...

About Man and God and Law is the story of how Bob Dylan sparked a revolution of the spirit and proves that music can change the world.Author: Stephen Daniel ArnoffISBN-10: 1631956884ISBN-13: 9781631956881Publisher: Morgan James PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2022Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Recalling The Call is about the most underrated rock 'n roll band of the 80's. This book explores their history, discography, classic interviews and more. New interviews with band members of The Call and other musicians they toured with such as Jim Kerr of...

Of all of the 'classic' British rockers who came to prominence in the 1960s, only a very few have achieved significant, sustained success through to the present day. A list that comprises Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones should also include Eric Clapton. His...

In 1983, Tears For Fears' debut album, The Hurting, was released after the success of their iconic single, 'Mad World'. Whilst embracing the popularity of synth pop, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith created an album that had a darker edge to it. Commercially it...

After 50 years as one of the world's best-loved rock bands, Queen have played over 700 concerts throughout the world and are still selling out stadiums in the 2020s. The band's earliest documented concerts were at colleges in the Home Counties of England in...

When Tim Smith died in July of 2020, he left behind a legion of adoring fans and an honorary doctorate in music. Not bad for someone who never had a top ten hit and who's music was so infamous during its heyday, that some...

Learn To Play Electric Guitar is a comprehensive course for beginners to get started enjoying the fun of playing the electric guitar. It will lead you on a path to electric guitar mastery. It will show you in a very simple method of how...

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield's solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy. Ben Stiller directed the video for her song ""Spin the Bottle"" from the Reality Bites film soundtrack. Then,...

Tesla's Brian Wheat lifts the lid on living the rock 'n' roll life while struggling with anxiety, depression, and other issues seldom discussed by musicians. Brian Wheat is far from your typical rock star. As bassist for the multi-platinum band, Tesla, he's enjoyed the...

A complete history of Tom Petty in Los Angeles. When Tom Petty arrived in Los Angeles in 1974 in search of a record deal for his band Mudcrutch, the Gainesville, Florida native found one almost immediately. While he thought he had found exactly what...

In this sequel to Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining the Monkees' Songs, One By One, authors Michael A. Ventrella and Mark Arnold look at the careers the Monkees had outside of the show and the band: From Micky's early appearances as...

The behind-the-scenes battle for the Rock Hall For 25 years, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has defined Cleveland's image as the "Rock and Roll Capital of the World." But while the Rock Hall has become an iconic landmark for the city of...

Quite simply, Martin Popoff's Sabotage Black Sabbath in the Seventies marks the most intensive analysis of Black Sabbath's first eight albums ever attempted. This is a big book-129,000 words long, every song analysed in detail, loads of first-hand interview footage from close to 50...

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's deathOriginally published by Playboy Press in 1981 just after John Lennon's assassination, All...

Author: David BedfordISBN-10: 1854432648ISBN-13: 9781854432643Publisher: Dalton Watson Fine BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2014Pages: 399Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.15lbsSize: 9.70h x 9.70w x 1.30d

Mention the words 'heavy metal' with regards to the past four decades, and chances are one of the first names you'll get back is Iron Maiden. From their early days as front-runners of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in 1980, through to...

"It's Time To Party," the first track off of I Get Wet, opens with a rapid-fire guitar line -- nothing fancy, just a couple crunchy power chords to acclimate the ears -- repeated twice before a booming bass drum joins in to provide a...

The Clash's final chapter, after guitarist Mick Jones' 1983 departure, has largely been forgotten--until this book, in which authors Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki argue that the punk pioneers were still creating vital music to the very end.--Rolling Stone, an RS Picks / New...

"If you're a Jesus Lizard fan or a David Yow devotee, you're sure all over this. But even if you've never heard of the band, the book stands as one of the best ways to experience being in a tight, cohesive band. You get...

The Wall was Roger Waters's first album. So begins Dave Thompson's Thompson's Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall, the first full biography on this notoriously guarded personality that has eluded probing queries and papertrail dissection for the entirety of his career. As he...

Author: R. E. RussellISBN-10: 1545661510ISBN-13: 9781545661512Publisher: Xulon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2019Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.18d

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964, after finally achieving a number-one hit in America, the Fab Four came to the country with high hopes, performing...

Alan Light, former writer for Rolling Stone, editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin magazines, and author of The Holy or the Broken, "gets inside Prince's mind palace in Let's Go Crazy--a history of the making of his historic, semi-autobiographical musical masterwork, Purple Rain" (Vanity Fair).Purple...

Guitarists of all styles, from metal and rock to jazz and acoustic, often feel the need for speed! Many players become pretty fast, and a special few become speed demons. If you want a shortcut to reaching your speed potential, Speed Guitar is the...

Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 20 of the best from the CCR vaults, including: Bad Moon Rising * Born on the Bayou * Commotion * Down on the Corner * Fortunate Son * Have You Ever Seen the Rain? * I Heard It Through the Grapevine...

EIGHT MILES HIGH FOLK ROCK'S FLIGHT FROM HAIGHT ASHBURY TO WOODSTOCKAuthor: Richie UnterbergerISBN-10: 0879307439ISBN-13: 9780879307431Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2003Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.10w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1088

A behind-the-scenes account of the Fender Electric Instrument Company by its former general manager. White traces the company's entire history, from Leo Fender's beginnings as a radio repairman up to the eventual sale of Fender to CBS, and beyond. Includes stories about the development...

1968 was the year that defined the decade--Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, unprecedented antiwar riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam changed the course of the war. With this political unrest came a breakthrough of...

The expanded edition of the definitive, critically praised, and most beloved biography of music legend Jimi Hendrix--including previously unpublished photos. Originally published to great acclaim in 1978, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky was writAuthor: David HendersonISBN-10: 0743274016ISBN-13: 9780743274012Publisher: Atria BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2009Pages:...

When Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton...

National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and "cogent, intelligent look at the Dead and the structure of American culture into which they so successfully tapped" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). San...

TURN ON YOUR MIND FOUR DECADES OF GREAT PSYCHEDELIC ROCKAuthor: Jim DeRogatisISBN-10: 0634055488ISBN-13: 9780634055485Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2003Pages: 658Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 8.82h x 6.04w x 1.34dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 02/15/2004 pg. 128

National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of 2018 * A Billboard Best of 2018 * A New York Times Book Review "New and Noteworthy" selectionThe author of the critically acclaimed...