Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

For Kate Bush, and indeed many in her strong fanbase, The Kick Inside is the album that started it all. Her 1978 debut was certainly attention grabbing; it propelled her to fame and got the ball rolling for a phenomenal career as a much...

Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the infamous concert at Altamont where a man was murdered by a Hells Angel in front of the stage while the Stones played on....

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Released in 1976, Destroyer was Kiss' first album to go platinum, and ranks in Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. All nine songs are transcribed here note for note with tab: Beth * Detroit Rock City * Do...

The hitmakers behind Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" recount their rise to songwriting stardom while authoring the classic American R&B sound of countless chart-topping singles.In 1950 a couple of rhythm and blues-loving teenagers named Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller met for the...

THE ROAD GOES ON FOREVER utilizes history, personal interviews, and many collected documents to aid in the telling of the story of the humble beginnings and career of the original Southern rock band on this, the 50th anniversary of their formation. Author Michael Buffalo...

With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock 'n roll icon. The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae,...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 62 songs from this gifted singer-songwriter, plus a discography of his early-'70s output. Includes: Another Saturday Night * Father and Son * The First Cut Is the Deepest * Hard Headed Woman * If You Want to Sing Out Sing Out...

The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This great collection features complete note-for-note transcriptions of 8 Knopfler favorites: Expresso Love * Love over Gold * Once upon a Time in the West * Private Investigations * Romeo and Juliet * Sultans of Swing * Telegraph Road * Tunnel...

Complete, including all the songs from Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV, Houses of the Holy, Presence, Physical Graffiti, In Through the Out Door, and Coda. The arrangements include all the critical instrumental riffs and figures. Other contents include...

Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way," Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums,...

A comprehensive A-Z of over 100 Rap-Rock, Rap-Metal and Funk-Metal bands, including acts from the hip-hop and hardcore punk branches of metal. A full history of the events that led to the birth of nu-metal, starting with the story of grunge and the early...

Renowned British music journalist and author Steve Turner surveys the religious and spiritual influence of the Beatles, the band that changed the history of music forever. With new interviews, never-before-published material, and fresh insights, Turner helps the reader understand the religious and spiritual ideas...

(Berklee Press). An essential guide for all songwriters and Beatles fans, this book explores John Lennon's songwriting genius with a guided tour through 25 of his Beatles-era hits. Author John Stevens explains Lennon's intuitive talent from a technical point of view, through the lens...

Metallica is the most successful hard-rock band of all time, having sold more than one hundred million albums worldwide. Receiving unique, unfettered access, acclaimed filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed Metallica over two and a half years as they faced monumental personal and...

One journalist's wild summer on the road with the world's most popular cult rock band, Phish. Despite their enormous success and their status as America's biggest cult rock and roll band, Phish remains an enigma. Each of their albums has sold more than 500,000...

The authorized story of an American band who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n...

In four years the teenage members of the Runaways did what no other group of female rock musicians before them could: they released four albums for a major label and toured the world. The Runaways busted down doors for every girl band that followed....

Oh Elvis, where art thou? Living on the Moon? Witness Protection? Kalamazoo? For more than 35 years Elvis lovers have been asking themselves this question, desperately wanting to believe their musical hero is still alive. Seeking to finally put the matter to rest, Xaviant...

"Ryan Adams, one of America's most consistently interesting singer/songwriters, has written a passionate, arresting, and entertaining book of verse. Fans are going to love it, and newcomers will be pleased and startled by his intensity and originality. The images are vivid and the voice...

An illustrated A-to-Z, celebrating the unparalleled artistic impact of the cultural icon Grace Jones. Singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, actress, and iconoclast, Grace Jones is truly one of a kind, equal parts intriguing, intimidating, and indefatigable. From her early days as a model working...

I Am Morbid tells the astounding story of David Vincent, former bassist and singer with Morbid Angel, and now outlaw-country performer and leader of the I Am Morbid supergroup. Written with the bestselling author Joel McIver, it's an autobiography that transcends the heavy metal...

In the early 1970s, an era of grand gestures in rock, no band could match the scale of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Boasting an impressive pedigree in previous bands, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer were huge from the off, the ultimate progressive...

In the fall of 1969, a rumor swept across two continents that the lovable Beatle, Paul McCartney, had been killed in a car crash. According to some, he was replaced by "Billy Shears." This book is an attempt to separate fact from fiction. Join...

Rock Rhythm Guitar Playing illustrates the musical components of metal, such as power chords, single-string lines, open and power chord riffs, embellishments and much more using real musical examples.Author: Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789330637ISBN-13: 9781789330632Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2019Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.21d

Rock Guitar Un-CAGED includes 100 original rock guitar licks based around the 5 CAGED system shapes, 100 minutes of free audio downloads so you can hear what you're learning, and full explanations of how to open up the whole guitar neck in any key,...

Explore one of the most important and influential bands in the world as never before--through the objects that defined it.The story of Pink Floyd has been told . . . but never like this. Pink Floyd in Objects looks at the great psychedelic rock...

Dirty Windshields is the long-awaited memoir from CBC host and award-winning author Grant Lawrence, baring all the salacious and hilarious details from his touring days as the lead singer of Vancouver-based rock and roll band The Smugglers. Formed when most of the members were...

July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe" knocked the Beatles' "All...

"[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy Pop . . ....

On the evening of February 9, 1964, Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles to America. Across the country, teens were glued to their TV sets and witnessed a turning point in rock and roll history. Vibrant and creative teen scenes sprang up all across the...

QUEEN GETS ROYAL TREATMENT The English rock band Queen gets the royal treatment from the English language in a book called QUEEN MAGIC. The world class group is brought to life through amazingly vivid detail in two pieces of writing from longtime rock music...

Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were rooted in the distinctive regional traditions of country, blues, and R&B. As the impact of the British Invasion and the...

Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we...

The music that has been produced in Memphis over the past 100 years is as unique and diverse as the city itself. Growing out of the Mississippi Delta, the Memphis blues have been transported worldwide by such ambassadors as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf....

Author: Peter Ames CarlinISBN-10: 1432887769ISBN-13: 9781432887766Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2021Pages: 523Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.10dLarge Print

If you're stuck in a rut with your rock guitar soloing, Shred legend Chris Zoupa is here to set you straight.Creative Shred Guitar Exercises is an eccentric collection of Zoupa's most devilish shred guitar ideas - all lovingly crafted to sharpen every area of...

Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.But when Jimmy arrived...

A Book of the Year, Uncut 'A wild rock 'n' roll fairground ride of the damned.' Observer *** A candid frontline account of an illustrious gonzo career as an independent music publicist during the post-punk heyday of the 80s and 90s, featuring an introduction...

'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans will love it' Classic RockA Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and...

The Clash were an extraordinary band. Bursting out of the Punk explosion in 1977, they recorded their self-titled first album over three weekends. It is now regarded as the quintessential Punk record. Over the next five years they recorded another fourteen sides of long-playing...

This long-awaited treatise on Montrose and Gamma is first and foremost the story of the five Montrose and four Gamma records, their making and baking, the hirings and firings, the superlative delivery live. Within the detailed analysis, one of course gets to celebrate with...

It started off so well. As Jon Lord enthused in the October 1975 issue of Melody Maker: 'Tommy can't be so bad for us with so many good ideas. All I can say is when you hear the album (Come Taste The Band) you'll...

As UK government legislation, standardised music and bad drugs forced the euphoria of the rave into the darkness, a new underground movement emerged - jungle/drum & bass. It was the true sound of the beating heart of 1990s UK. A melting pot of Britain's...

Unquestionably, the Beatles remain the key band of the rock era. Although their official recording career spanned just seven years, the musical legacy that they continue to bestow upon global popular culture over 50 years later is immense. It is testament to the incredible...

Nashville's Tommy Womack writes about his life as a road musician, childhood, alcoholism, Jesus, Dad, Fender Telecasters, high school, drugs and a slew of other things in a rollicking, hair-raising, and damned funny narrative. "A brilliant book by one of Nashville's finest singer-songwriters. For...

(Bass Recorded Versions). Essential for Peppers fans Features Flea's inimitable playing transcribed note for note with tab on top tracks from Mother's Milk to By the Way, plus two new bonus songs 16 hits: Breaking the Girl * By the Way * Californication *...

Includes a bonus excerpt from Bob Greene's forthcoming Late Edition: A Love Story "There is something absolutely magical about Bob Greene's voice."--Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor, The Last Lecture Running away to join the circus is a dream we're told to put away once we're no...

Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions.Author: Clinton HeylinISBN-10: 0312150679ISBN-13: 9780312150679Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/1997Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.20w x 0.56d

When Nick Drake (1948-1974) died of a drug overdose at twenty-six, he left behind three modest-selling albums, including the stark Pink Moon and the lush Bryter Layter. Three decades later, he is recognized as one of the true geniuses of English acoustic music. Yet...