Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

The Irish rock band U2, and especially its frontman Bono, are among the most effective activists ever. U2 has convinced wealthy governments to forgive tens of billions of dollars in loans while spreading its activist messages to billions of people, helping save millions of...

In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to...

Rock 'n' roll is a style that was born out of the great American melting pot. An outgrowth of the blues, rock 'n' roll music combines driving rhythms, powerful chords, and lyrics that communicate the human experience to audiences around the world. Although rock...

Elvis Presley's stature as the "King of Rock and Roll" will never be challenged. Between his first RCA hit single in 1956--the number-one smash "Heartbreak Hotel"--and his death in 1977, Elvis amassed more than 100 hits on the music charts. Presley's dominance on the...

When they were creating and releasing their most influential albums in the mid to late 1970s, Kraftwerk were far from the musical mainstream - and yet it is impossible now to imagine the history of popular music without them. Today, Kraftwerk are considered to...

A superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of "The Killer" himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed."The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee Lewis.'...

(Signature Licks Guitar). Explore the songs and solos of Southern rock guitar legend Duane Allman with this instructional book/online audio pack. Songs covered include: Blue Sky * Dreams I'll Never See * In Memory of Elizabeth Reed * It's Not My Cross to Bear...

(Bass Recorded Versions). Play all of Flea's basslines from all 28 tracks from the double-CD release, including: Charlie * Dani California * Desecration Smile * Especially in Michigan * and more. 2007 Grammy Winner for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song, Best Rock PerformanceAuthor:...

(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily Just follow the tab, listen to the online audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and...

"Eddie Trunk is one of the greatest true rock-and-roll fans I've ever met. He hears it, sees it from all angles, with an unusually unbiased point of view." --Slash "Eddie's a true flag-waving defender of all things rock." --Bret Michaels "Eddie's name should be...

In Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet, Seth Rogovoy, an award-winning critic and expert on Jewish music, rectifies that oversight, presenting a fascinating new look at one of the most celebrated musicians of all time. Rogovoy unearths the various strands of Judaism that appear throughout...

Riff-Raff, Rebels & Rock Gods chronicles the rise of the most exciting generation of British music and musicians the world has ever seen - before or since. In rapid succession came Ska, New Mod, anarcho-punk, Oi and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....

This musical memoir traces the author's life in the corrugated-iron clad ruins of West London's Squat Land during the two years immediately prior to the Punk Explosion of '76, playing with Strummer's seminal garage band "The 101'ers" in the spit-and-sawdust music bars of the...

THE WHO FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OF MAXIMUM R&BAuthor: Mike SegrettoISBN-10: 1480361038ISBN-13: 9781480361034Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2014Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.05w x 0.85d

NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Alongside hilarious anecdotes about pranks and drunkenness and teenage failures--featuring the trademark NOFX sense of humor--the book also shares the ugliness...

The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who's somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at...

From the 1950s through the 1980s girl groups were hot --- and not just because of their looks. These rocking women had a profound impact on our culture and left us with a lifetime's worth of memorable tunes. Now you can learn about all...

Based on the widely used Accent on Achievement band method, Accent on Achievement Pop, Rock, and Movie Instrumental Solos offers a versatile selection of music for flute, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, horn in F, and trombone. Carefully selected and edited by Accent...

Alfred's Easy Pop & Rock Hits Instrumental Solos series offers a versatile selection of pop & rock music for flute, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, horn in F, trombone, violin, viola, and cello. Each book contains carefully edited arrangements appropriate to each instrument,...

Learn all about the major artists of Progressive Rock in this in-depth collection of biographies by German author/guitarist Torsten Foerster.Author: Torsten FoersterISBN-10: 1533641617ISBN-13: 9781533641618Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2016Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.54d

Krautrock is one of the defining musical genres to emerge from the 1970s - learn all about the groups that made the movement in this book by author/musician Ralph Lemann.Author: Ralph LemannISBN-10: 1533132909ISBN-13: 9781533132901Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2016Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 11.02h...

Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks...

Interview with Billy Gibbons about his four decade career and how ZZ Top came to be. Jimmie Vaughan talks about his friendship with Gibbons and how they first met. Award winning journalist and former Editor of Guitar Player Jas Obrecht gives us a timeline...

Following the success of his 2016 book Razama-Snaz! The Listener's Guide to Nazareth, Robert Lawson returns with this meticulous reviewing of every Cheap Trick album, song by song. In his book, Still Competition: The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick, Lawson outlines the band's significant...

Progressive rock threw a wrench into popular music - learn all about this beloved and revered genre of rock and roll in this collection of articles by author/music historian Markus Freytag.Author: Markus FreytagISBN-10: 1519180187ISBN-13: 9781519180186Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2015Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize:...

Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and reached peak popularity in the early 1990s. Learn more about this particular genre in this book by author/musician Alexander Farrell.Author: Alexander FarrellISBN-10:...

Over 2,300 Bubble Gum Card images of The Beatles from 1959 to 1970. Over 20 sets of trading cards with images on the fronts and backs. It even includes many "Bootleg" sets with very rare images. There are even several sets from foreign countries...

Many Beatles authors and scholars have cited John F. Kennedy's assassination on 22 November 1963 as a cause of the Beatles' sudden popularity in the United States in early 1964. Their logic: Kennedy's assassination made America sad, then the Beatles made America happy again....

From a childhood spent among such key roots-music figures as Bob Wills and Big Joe Turner, and an extended dual career as a musician and journalist, Michael H. Price has forged this frenzied chronicle of life among the denizens of the vanishing borderlands of...

Combining oral and illustrated history with a connective narrative, Turn Up the Radio captures the zeitgeist of the Los Angeles rock and pop music world between the years of 1956 and 1972. Featuring hundreds of rare and previously unpublished photographs and images of memorabilia,...

Author: Carol Selby PriceISBN-10: 1587151022ISBN-13: 9781587151026Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.40d

Which Song is the Best and Why? Read it and see! Organized by rank, from 1 to 100, this illustrated celebration of the best songs by the boys who revolutionized rock-and-roll includes expert commentary, historical context, interview material, and lots of great sidebars (including...

The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the...

This sensational album-matching greatest hits collection features Bruce's best from the past 20 years as well as three great new songs. Titles include: Atlantic City * Badlands * Better Days * Brilliant Disguise * Blood Brothers * Dancing in the Dark * Glory Days...

The complete history of the photogenic Beatles is here told and illustrated with contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, memorabilia (from the collection of Peter Nash), and 750 classic, rare and unseen photographs drawn from the Associated Newspaper Archive.Author: Timothy G. HillISBN-10: 1566493986ISBN-13: 9781566493987Publisher: Welcome...

"Beautiful...a last transmission from a dying star." - Time Out One of the last works completed by beloved pop icon David Bowie before his death in early 2016, the otherworldy musical Lazarus is a poignant homage to his legacy. Inspired by the 1963 novel...

Author: Michael HarlingISBN-10: 1553657470ISBN-13: 9781553657477Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2003Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This 38x platinum album recently passed Michael Jackson's Thriller to become the best-selling album of all time. Our revised and updated folio features new note-for-note guitar transcriptions of all ten tracks, including: Already Gone * Best of My Love * Desperado...

In the studio and more than 2,300 concerts between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead performed more than 400 different songs. Their music continues to be tremendously popular as surviving band members and countless tribute bands memorialize the legacy the band left us upon...

A camera and a show; that's all you need. Tasked with taking pictures of rock concerts on behalf of a local radio station, Steven Sanchez turned his love of music into a passion for photography, attending performances in every type of venue--from clubs and...

Photo book by Malia James of the Dum Dum Girls-many of the photos are of the Dum Dum Girls when they were on tour in the late-00s/early-10sThe Dum Dum Girls were a band on Sub Pop Records and have a devoted followingJames is now...

Says Danko Jones, "After playing rock music for the last twenty-one years, I've found time to put away the guitar and write down some of my thoughts on music and my experiences of life in a touring band. This book is a collection of...

The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and other professionals...

In the 1950s, as the leader of the Upsetters, the original backing band for rock pioneer Little Richard, Grady Gaines first exposed the music world to his unique brand of "honkin'," bombastic, attitude-drenched saxophone playing. In the years that followed, the Upsetters became the...

American Bandstand, one of the longest-running shows in television history, spotlighted well-scrubbed, properly dressed dancing teenagers on every show. They mirrored the show's perpetually youthful host, Dick Clark, who spun the music Clark often described as the "soundtrack to our lives."These are the memories...

This book presents the musical facts in a fast-moving, fan-friendly read. The five incarnations of the Rolling Stones are highlighted with in-depth explorations of the band's hit records, albums, films and tours.Author: Gary J. JuchaISBN-10: 1617137243ISBN-13: 9781617137242Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2019Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize:...

Pearl Jam FAQ is what the British refer to as a spanner covering the entire arc of the band's career, from their pre-Pearl Jam days to the present. Each chapter explores a different aspect of Pearl Jam's fascinating history. You will read about the...

FRANK ZAPPA FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FATHER OF INVENTIONAuthor: John CorcelliISBN-10: 1617136034ISBN-13: 9781617136030Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2016Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Ringo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With a Little Help...

JIMI HENDRIX FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE VOODOO CHILDAuthor: Gary J. JuchaISBN-10: 1617130958ISBN-13: 9781617130953Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2013Pages: 382Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.34h x 5.86w x 0.90d