Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

'A magisterial biography... Thomson's book adds something new to this conversation...' - Chicago TribuneBehind The Locked Door is Graeme Thomson's rich, insightful account of George Harrison's extraordinary life and career.As a Beatle, Harrison underwent a bewilderingly compressed early adulthood, buffeted by unprecedented levels of...

More than a band, the Cramps are a uniquely special rock'n'roll phenomenon that has endured for over 35 years. Formed in the creative maelstrom of late 1970's New York by Ohio natives Lux Interior (Erick Purkhiser) and Poison Ivy Rorschach (Kirsty Wallace), the Cramps...

This book charts all of the albums which feature The Chic Organisation, helmed by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. As well as records under the Chic name, they also wrote, produced and played on records by Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Johnny Mathis,...

Rock music has been the principal outlet of youth rebellion for more than half a century, and though rock rebels have been idolized and profiled extensively, their humor has not been at the center of attention. In Rebels Wit Attitude, music writer Iain Ellis...

(Violin Play-Along). The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the printed music, download or stream the online audio to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With...

In 2024, women swept the Grammy awards, prompting headlines about their arrival in music. However, women have been shaping pivotal musical developments over the past 3,000 years. A History of Women in Music from Antiquity to the Present Day is a magisterial survey of...

A revised and expanded edition of the long out-of-print history of Factory Records, the legendary record label that launched Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays. Featuring a foreword by Jon Savage. "Definitive and comprehensive, this is the actual story of Factory Records" -...

Author: Peter Ames CarlinISBN-10: 0593312538ISBN-13: 9780593312537Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.97d

Dubious, unlikely, improbable......but indeed, verifiable and certifiable! The book is in fact the story of the finest rock 'n' roll band that ever was. Zeppelin, The Beatles, U2, Springsteen, Queen, King's X... none can hold an expiring lighter to the conflagration that was the...

'An Anarchy of Demons' is the long anticipated autobiography by U.K. Subs' legendary leader Charlie Harper. Charlie's fascinating story is told in his own unique style, taking the reader through his early years as a 'war baby', his time at boarding schools for misfit...

In Giant Steps, Derek Shulman chronicles a truly incredible life and career in music--first as the leader of the progressive-rock pioneers Gentle Giant, then as the record-label executive responsible for cultivating and signing the likes of Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, and Slipknot and orchestrating...

The neglected psychedelic classics 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' and 'Mister, You're A Better Man Than I'carried their legacy over into the punk era. Their cult albums, Five Live Yardbirds, Roger The Engineer and Little Games, remain highly esteemed and collectable decades later, while...

Get onboard the tour bus and travel down memory lane to the formative years of the music business on a journey with amazed audiences, destroyed hotel rooms, lovestruck groupies and scandalised towns. And getting stuck in a lift with Steve McQueen. Get ready to...

Author: Bruce N. CarlsonISBN-10: 1456807684ISBN-13: 9781456807689Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2010Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.07d

Poetry by Maiche Lev. Deadlock Backdraft explores the pressures we all face growing up. It takes punches at the tawdriness of it all. There's something in this book to delight and offend everyone.Author: Maiche LevISBN-10: 0997575751ISBN-13: 9780997575750Publisher: Hdw PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2018Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize:...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Complete, note-for-note tab transcriptions for Frank Zappa's epic 1974 tour de force, featuring over-the-top zany lyrics and subject matter, searing guitar virtuosity, and tight arrrangements veering between rock and jazz fusion. Includes all 9 songs that have become classics of the...

Author: Brian OrlandoISBN-10: 1958481521ISBN-13: 9781958481523Publisher: Aurora Corialis PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2025Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Sex. Drugs. Loud music. Wild costumes. Dazzling light shows. These words can all describe a great rock concert or a hot dance club, but they were also part and parcel of the ancient cultural phenomenon known as the "Mystery religions." In this book, author...

More than at any time in human history, our daily lives are scored and imprinted by music. We listen while bicycling, while taking walks, on the train to and from work, and at home on stereos or streaming. We're immersed in music and music...

Author: Insight EditionsISBN-13: 9798337403052Publisher: InsightsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Format: PaperbackSize: 9.00h x 6.25w x 2.00d

"Brian Wilson. SMiLE: Excellent! The man is my hero. I love him. I weep when I hear his band, I hear him sing. I love him." --Paul McCartneyThis is the story of the Brian Wilson's legendary SMiLE album from Beach Boys authority David Leaf....

Tales from Topographic Oceans has been described as progressive rock's biggest and most difficult work. The story that surrounds its creation, challenging reception and troublesome but ground-breaking tour deserves careful and painstaking attention. In this book, Kevin Mulryne delves more deeply than ever before...

Laughing Hyenas is the saga of one of the most uncompromising quartets in post-punk's artistically dubious history. It's a legacy of hell-bent self-destruction in the name of making an unholy racket, a sound both original and traditional, fueled by a love of punk rock,...

This beautifully designed survey book features a carefully curated selection of the visual works of art by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, made over the last 30 years to accompany LP and CD albums by Radiohead, Yorke and his recently founded band The Smile....

A no-holds-barred journey into the wit, comebacks, and glorious profanity of Noel and Liam Gallagher - the frontmen of Oasis, one of Britain's most outspoken bands. Welcome to The Little Book of Oasis Insults, now kindly piss off. Or stay - if you've got...

In the past decade, a distinctive resurgence of indie music has seen young, queer, and feminist artists reformulating the genre with strategic reappropriations of '90s grunge and 2000s-era pop. Big Feelings offers a nuanced analysis of these musicians and the socio-political crises informing their...

Jack White Complete Lyrics and Selected Writings collects the artist's lyrics for Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, his solo recordings and collaborations. The book additionally features selected poems and writing by White. Pulitzer Prize finalist poet Adrian Matejka, award-winning filmmaker and writer dream hampton, and...

Author: Bruce SpizerISBN-13: 9798986319094Publisher: 498 Productions, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2025Pages: 272Format: Hardcover

Best known for such timeless anthems as "Fresh Air," "What About Me," and the classic album Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, was one of the most renowned and influential bands to emerge from San Francisco during...

Celebrate 50 years of U2, with this career-defining retrospective packed with interviews, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and splendid photography. Relish in over 150 essential images charting the band's journey from performing in Dublin pubs to sold out arena tours. Follow along as music journalist Bradley Morgan...

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet listens entranced when his friend puts on an LP, The Go-Betweens: 1978-1990. As the city outside goes...

David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36. Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David...

David McComb, the driving force behind The Triffids, shaped one of Australia's most revered albums, Born Sandy Devotional ( 1986). But after the band's breakup, illness curtailed his solo career. He died in 1999, age 36. Truckload of Sky: The Lost Songs of David...

Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia's most successful and adored bands. Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's Together Alone (1993) was unprecedented in...

Intertextual, passionate and personal, combining poetics, psychogeography, music theory, lyric analysis and biography, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to scholarship on this cherished band. Fusing pop music with place and landscape, Crowded House's Together Alone was unprecedented in its Australasian context,...

John Lydon is an icon--one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols, the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with...

Elton John: ICON is a luxurious collection of famous portraits, candid snapshots and previously unseen Elton John images. A spectacular celebration of Elton's enduring legacy. Elton John is a legend in his own time, a melodic genius, breaking barriers in performance, fashion and activism....

The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band. The Cure's story is a fantastical pop fable, but their trajectory has not been one of unbroken success. Along the way, their uneven, uneasy pop odyssey has taken in fierce...

Craig Harris dives deeply into The Band, including the myths and confusions surrounding its members, and provides a wide-ranging account from their very beginnings with Ronnie Hawkins, collaboration with Bob Dylan, to the present. A half-century after The Band's original lineup, Robbie Robertson, Rick...

The authorized biography of singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle When Justin Townes Earle died in 2020 at the age of 38 of an overdose, alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in Nashville, his death sent waves of grief through the country-Americana music community. The son...

If you want to be a rock and roll star, you've got to talk like a rock and roll star... 'Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back' Liam Gallagher'All I would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.'...

Author: Terry FurlongISBN-13: 9798999105202Publisher: EnterlaneLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2025Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d

Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan, as a music theorist considers the possibilities ingrained in rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice. Folk troubadour, rock star, country crooner, cultural shapeshifter--for a musician who adopted so many styles, Bob Dylan...

Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year: 365 Songs Annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical genius of John Darnielle through his most meaningful songs. From his early days recording...

Author: Sean KellyISBN-13: 9798282164220Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2025Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

Author: Marc ShapiroISBN-10: 1915246784ISBN-13: 9781915246783Publisher: Wymer UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2025Pages: 162Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.35d

Take a lively look back at the most significant 12-month span in Kiss's career, 50 years on, joining Paul, Gene, Ace, and Peter as they conquer the world. 1976 suffered no shortage of notable events...Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" beat the Yankees in the World...

Best known for such timeless anthems as "Fresh Air," "What About Me," and the classic album Happy Trails, Quicksilver Messenger Service, along with the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, was one of the most renowned and influential bands to emerge from San Francisco during...

A captivating, 2-volume photography collection of more than 200 photos reflecting the life and legacy of The Band from 1968 to 1969, as captured by friend and renowned photographer, Elliott Landy The life and sound of the late-1960s rock sensation, The Band, are brought...

Author: Sandy TroyISBN-10: 1955690146ISBN-13: 9781955690140Publisher: Di Angelo PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2021Pages: 274Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d