Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

Take The Minor Pentatonic Scale Scale Beyond Blues & Classic Rock... The journey of virtually every guitar player begins with the pentatonic scale. No other scale has been used more to further the connection between the guitar and modern music. However, pentatonic shapes fall...

The Beatles made music within a virtuous circle, together reaching heights that none of them could alone. Then, in a flash, that circle collapsed, and the solo years which followed were patchy, indeed.But a secret has been hiding in plain sight ever since: John,...

"For a few short years in the 1970s, the unique music of Focus entertained the world. Build around the prodigious instrumental talents of Dutch masters Jan Akkerman (guitar) and Thijs Van Leer (keyboards and flute), the band produced three classic hit albums in quick...

Elvis Presley and his relationship with African-AmericansAuthor: Paul F. BelardISBN-10: 0997272600ISBN-13: 9780997272604Publisher: Linden PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2016Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.17lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.79d

Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It examines their motivations, their uniqueness and the routes to success which made them into enduring musical innovators. It looks at...

Back in the 1970's I was still at school. A child of the sixties, growing up in the crazy seventies, a floppy fringe and very naff 'ill fitting' clothing. For a few years previously the UK - where I live - was awash with...

KISS are the ultimate 'stack-heeled superheroes' made flesh. A cartoon of a band, but with the tunes and attitude to back their image up. If Marvel comics did a comic strip series on a mean and dirty rock 'n' roll band, KISS would be...

Growing up in the 1970's I was subjected, through choice to all sorts of rock and metal music - especially at school and beyond. I used to have a huge 'ghetto-blaster' back in the day and my 'mates' and me would hang around listening...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Researchis the first comprehensive academic survey of the field of rock music as it stands today. More than 50 years into its life and we still ask - what is rock music, why is it studied, and how...

Rock City, Narita, Fire Down Under, Restless Breed, Born in America... These are the pioneering, superlative heavy metal records that represent the classic first decade of Brooklyn's Riot's, before the band would break up, eventually storming back with Thundersteel and The Privilege of Power,...

Deadheads may disagree on which Grateful Dead concert was their best ever, but no one would argue that their performance at Englishtown on Sept. 3, 1977, was something special. For Jim Daley, who saw the band for the first time on that date, it...

When I was growing up I initially came across Bon Jovi by pure accident. I had heard the name but managed to see them for the first time at the Cornwall Coliseum, which used to be in St. Austell in Cornwall, UK, when they...

"Fairport Convention are a great British institution - or, at least, they should be. For more than 50 years they have helped to keep traditional music alive and kicking by injecting it with a healthy dose of electric rock 'n' roll. Their finest albums...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are the best-selling alternative rock band of all time. This book tells their whole story in an easily digestible format for new fans, with the most interesting trivia and all the juicy details revealed for hardcore fans.Author: Dan BogosianISBN-10:...

Fire up the crimpers and get backcombing Hairspray and heartbreak abound as the painted youth of the 1980s go on the rampage in a North West London suburb. Further Tales of a Rock Star's Daughter' by Nettie, eldest offspring of Cream/Blind Faith drummer Ginger...

Having written the first book ever on UFO, 2005's long out-of-print Shoot Out the Lights, Martin Popoff, author of over seventy rock books, has now greatly expanded and rewritten the later years material from that title, bringing us now Lettin' Go: UFO in the...

Charting a pathway of historical analysis and speculative association outward from The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP, The Magic Circle is a meditation on the form of the concept album as a point of convergence between the worlds of rock and...

Listen to Psychedelic Rock! contains more than 50 entries covering the people, records, places, and events that shaped one of the most exciting and influential periods in popular music. This addition to the Exploring a Music Genre series concentrates solely on psychedelic rock music....

Author: David WatkinsonISBN-10: 1789520592ISBN-13: 9781789520590Publisher: Sonicbond PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2020Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

In 2013 I made another once in a lifetime trip halfway across the world to Los Angeles.I flew each way with the excellent Air New Zealand and stayed in Beverly Hills's the Crowne Plaza - this was in March, but the weather of course...

Though The Velvet Underground were critically and commercially unsuccessful in their time, in ensuing decades they have become a constant touchstone in art rock, punk, post-punk, indie, avant pop and alternative rock. In the 1970s and 80s Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico produced...

Cinderella from Philadelphia were put in with the 'Hair Metal / Glam Metal' scene, but they were so much more. All talented musicians and a vocalist that had a voice that stood out from all the other 'wannabe' bands, Cinderella were always destined for...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the...

Die Not hat ein Ende The Swiss Art of Rock ("Need Comes To an End-The Swiss Art of Rock") is Lurker Grand's third and most recent book project in a trilogy published by Edition Patrick Frey. Here the focus is not so much on...

First edition of photographs by Gina Lee, an American poet, journalist, and dancer. This is a road book where the photographer is embedded as a dancer with Tav Falco & Panther Burns, an itinerant rock & roll band adrift on three continents. The camera...

A provocative, entertaining but ultimately serious examination of rock's most essential questions: Beatles or Stones? Which is the best air guitar to play? Does Rush suck? And what is the meaning of Billy Joel? Metaphysical Graffiti is a book for music fans, humor fans,...

If you love Prince and Purple Rain, then your just found the right book Lots of great facts about Purple Rain (the film, the album, and the song), The Revolution, The Time, First Avenue, Wendy, Lisa, and Apollonia ...and the great word search puzzles...

The rock and roll era was the teenagers' "Perfect Storm." It settled hard and fast in Buffalo with underlying currents of music, but in 1957 when WBNY-AM transitioned to the Top 40 music format, everything fell into place. No Stoppin' This Boppin' is a...

Billy Joel once called it "an acoustic nightmare." Rodger Waters called the place "a real compromise." And Robert Plant said, "This is the first gig I've ever done that was rained out inside the building." However, what they might not have understood at the...

*****This book was originally released (and is still available) as part of the book 'Reading Festival: Music, Mud and Mayhem - The Official History', but many people have said that they were only interested in the 70's, 80's or 90's sections of the original...

Whether you want to become a tour guide or are already working in the industry, How to Be an Award-Winning Tour Guide can help transform your guiding skills from basic to brilliant and open new doors to one of the world's most exciting professions....

"Unique and highly personal. The photos are beautiful and vivid, providing an eyewitness account of this remarkable moment in time. "--Dennis Elsas, WFUV-Radio and Sirius XM On-Air Personality, from his Foreword Fifty years have passed by the impact of the Woodstock music festival--three days...

We All Want to Change the World provides a cogent and fascinating evaluation of post-World War II American commercial music and its complex, multi-faceted impact on the world of politics.Author: Tom WaldmanISBN-10: 1589790197ISBN-13: 9781589790193Publisher: Taylor Trade PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2003Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.34h x...

Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest...

The summer of 1969 was a momentous one in modern history. It was a season punctuated with change. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, thousands of young fans flocked to rock 'n' roll festivals like Woodstock and the controversial Altamont Freeway concert, the Manson...

(Easy Guitar). This fantastic collection assembles ten of the very best from DMB for easy guitar with tab. Includes: Ants Marching * The Best of What's Around * Crash into Me * Crush * Don't Drink the Water * Satellite * So Much to...

By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial superstar in recent rock history, Bowie...

A Tale of Twisted Fate chronicles Bob Dylan's rapid ascent to immortality as the preeminent songwriter of his time, and contrasts that with the Grateful Dead's long strange trip, during which they went from being a psychedelic band with a cult following to the...

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it...

'I'm going to camp out on the land ... try and get my soul free'. So sang Joni Mitchell in 1970 on 'Woodstock'. But Woodstock is only the tip of the iceberg. Popular music festivals are one of the strikingly successful and enduring features...

Being Time invites a deep consideration of the personal experience of temporality in music, focusing on the perceptual role of the listener. Through individual case studies, this book centers on musical works that deal with time in radical ways. These include pieces by Morton...

To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering...

Author: James P. AlexanderISBN-10: 162249315XISBN-13: 9781622493159Publisher: Biblio PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2016Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d

The second book in The Vinyl Dialogues series by award-winning journalist Mike Morsch features interviews with classic rock artists such as John Oates of Hall & Oates, Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys, Don Felder of the Eagles, Elliot Easton of the Cars, Clem...

The new book by Mike Morsch features interviews with Rock luminaries such as Hall & Oates, Stevie Van Zandt, Dave Mason, Edgar Winter, Joe Vitale, The Doobie Brothers, Al Stewart and more. The Vinyl Dialogues offers the stories behind 31 of the top albums...

In the 1950s, Cleveland, Ohio was the number one music city in the world. It was in Cleveland that DJ Alan Freed first coined the term "rock and roll" and it was in Cleveland that the teenage Henry Niedzwiecki, aka The Ol'Doowopper, grew up...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). All 16 tracks from the band's acclaimed 2010 concept album transcribed note for note with tab. Includes the hit single "Isolation" and: All Hope Is Gone * Breathe Again * Coeur D'Alene * Fallout * Ghost of Days Gone By *...

"Nearly two decades after the death of Kurt Cobain, a friend and fellow musician not only continues to mourn his suicide, but also rages against the culture that he holds responsible. These 52 'letters' . . . combine the subject matter of the Byrds'...

Bill Haley - the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream. His song "Crazy Man, Crazy" was the first rock 'n' roll song to break the Billboard Top 20 in 1953 and was followed by his evergreen "We're Gonna Rock Around the...

As our world was racked by military conflicts, governmental scandals, political assassination attempts, and a near-total erosion of the public trust, Pink Floyd emerged victorious, responding to this external dissonance with their ultimate band statement.Author: Will RomanoISBN-10: 1617136840ISBN-13: 9781617136849Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2020Pages: 328Format:...