Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Sammy Hagar--legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of rock music's most notoriously successful performers--tells his unforgettable story in this one-of-a-kind autobiography of a life at the top of the charts. From his decade-long journey alongside...

"An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . . with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths"-- BECK In 1977 Sniffin' Glue verbalised the musical zeitgeist with their infamous 'this is a chord; this is another; now form...

Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision! The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest running TV programs, and has become a much loved tradition across the world. From the spandex to the glitter, ABBA to Lordi, and...

Few, if any bands, have been as prolific or consistently creative as Genesis were in the 1970s, both together and apart. Across that decade, the mothership released eight studio and two live albums, played a thousand concerts and launched the solo careers of four...

Ever since their debut single was released in 1983, The Smiths have influenced musicians worldwide with their jangly guitar pop, infectious melodies and front man Morrissey's passionate lyrics. During their relatively short lifespan (1982-1987) the quartet released four now iconic albums and lots of...

The definitive book on Australian punk and post-punk music, long unavailable, now reissued in a much-expanded new edition with 175 photos. Stranded offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Laughing Clowns, the Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, the Triffids,...

From the earliest days of rock and roll, white artists regularly achieved fame, wealth, and success that eluded the Black artists whose work had preceded and inspired them. This dynamic continued into the 1960s, even as the music and its fans grew to be...

Discover The Secrets of Rockabilly GuitarDiscover 100 Licks to Supercharge your Rockabilly Guitar PlayingStruggling to master the authentic Rockabilly guitar sound?With its roots in early Rock 'n' Roll, Country and Rhythm & Blues, the Rockabilly revolution is still going strong... and there's no one...

The first major biography of Little Richard, a rollicking, nuanced celebration of the late singer/songwriter's life and his role in the history of American music--gospel, soul, rock, and more "Tutti Frutti" - "Rip It Up" - "Good Golly Miss Molly" - "Lucille" - "Long...

An all-star lineup of rock-n-rollers-from Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell to Suzi Quatro and Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire-relay the uproariously wild, sentimental, and unexpected pre-stardom stories behind their favorite records. Rock Stars on the Record is a collection of first-hand tales by...

During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with Christian Bale, gone...

"I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute--as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what's really important: the work, not everything around it. If you have faith in...

Forty years in the business...six gold & platinum U.S. albums...classic songs like (Don'tFear) The Reaper, Godzilla, Burnin' For You, Astronomy and E.T.I. Donald "BuckDharma" Roeser, Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Albert Bouchard & Joe Bouchard comprised one of the great stadium acts of the '70s...

This adult coloring book about the recently deceased rock legend Lemmy Kilmister, famous for his hard metal and hard living, features drawings from many of his fans as well as many personal stories of the guitarist and vocalist's life and work with the bands...

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, po鑼e maudit, Pop-Artist,...

How did a lifeless, concrete bunker inthe inner city come to be a cornerstone of theunderground music scene? How did a club stuckbetween nowhere foster an atmosphere of creativity and promote a vibrant music scene readyto explode? Simply: with dedication, drive andpassion. The story...

A revelatory, redemptive, and "wild...juicy" (Rolling Stone) memoir from the lead guitarist of the legendary hard rock band Def Leppard--the first ever written by one of its members--chronicling the band's extraordinary rise to superstardom and how they maintained it for three decades.Meet Phil Collen....

This collection of short poems is my tribute to actresses and singers I've admired, as well as models I've had the pleasure of working with.The poems pretty much were written in the order in which they appear.* I originally intended it to be a...

(Chart). This second edition features a great collection of 92 Beatles tunes, including: All My Loving * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Eleanor Rigby * Golden Slumbers * A Hard Day's Night * Help * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude...