Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

"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...

Titles are: Born in the U.S.A. * Born to Run * Cadillac Ranch * Cover Me * Dancing in the Dark * Fire * Glory Days * Hungry Heart * I'm on Fire * My Hometown * Pink Cadillac * Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)...

(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...

It is now 35 years since Deep Purple first came together and today -- 14 musicians, 17 albums, and millions of record sales later -- the group remains a monster. Smoke on the Water is the first book in more than 20 years to...

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:...

In a career spanning five decades, Elton John has sold over 250 million records worldwide and has appeared in nearly 4 000 live performances. Inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Grammy, Oscar, and...

FLEETWOOD MAC FAQ: ALL THAT'S LEFT TO KNOW ABOUT THE ICONIC ROCK SURVIVORSAuthor: Ryan ReedISBN-10: 1617136670ISBN-13: 9781617136672Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2018Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.90d

In October 2016, the Swedish Academy finally conceded to a quarter-century's worth of clamorous petitions and sustained lobbying enacted by a chorus of poets, novelists, songwriters, and academics. At long last, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, his vast corpus spread...

The true life story of Elvis's original guitarist, the masterful Scotty Moore When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to...

The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ, Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone, as well as interviews that have never previously appeared...

It was 1967. Judy Huddleston's parents had just gotten divorced, and she spent her last year of high school attending Doors concerts. Transformed from a perceptive child into a rebellious teenager bent on attracting boys and fueled by psychedelics, she had lost her sense...

The bible of music's deceased idols--Jeff Buckley, Sid Vicious, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac, Elvis--this is the ultimate record of all those who arrived, rocked, and checked out over the last 40-odd years of fast cars, private jets, hard drugs, and reckless living. The truths behind...

"If I had a name like Wyndham Wallace I would not associate or correspond with anyone with a simple name like mine. However, since you have lowered yourself to such depths, how can my old Indian heart (west not east) not respond favourably." -...

It's 1967, the Summer of Love, and Bob Dylan is holed up in Woodstock with a group of musicians once known as The Hawks, laying down a set of recordings that will soon turn the music world on its head. These recordings - the...

Return Of The King tells the story of a tumultuous period in the life of Elvis Presley. By 1967, The King Of Rock 'n' Roll was all but washed-up, thanks to a string of bland movie roles and lackluster records. But within a year...

This special edition features a new cover in celebration of Robert Smith's curation of the Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in London in June 2018. The cover image is Vella's photograph of Robert featured on the posters advertising the festival.The content is the...

Andy Vella has been observing Robert Smith and The Cure since 1981. He has designed the majority of the artwork for The Cure's record releases, either as one half of Parched Art or working solo, and has photographed the band in its multiple incarnations....

In 1980, John Bonham, considered one of the greatest drummers of all time, died under tragic circumstances. Two months later, a simple letter signed by fellow band members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones stated that Bonham could not be replaced. After...

Robert Dean Lurie's biography is the first completely researched and written since R.E.M. disbanded in 2011. It offers by far the most detailed account of their formative years--the early lives of the band members, their first encounters with one another, their legendary debut show,...

The astonishing outpouring of rock 'n' roll in the 1960s in Australia and New Zealand gave birth to such iconic bands such as the Easybeats, the Masters Apprentices, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, the Purple Hearts, and the Missing Links. It also launched the...

Beyond his work as a musician, Jon Langford has attracted attention as a visual artist in recent years. Nashville Radio is the first collection of his art. It reproduces 215 paintings, as well as song lyrics and autobiographical writings. The book includes a CD...

Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of "The Summer of Love", featuring The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.Author: Baron WolmanISBN-10: 1851498745ISBN-13: 9781851498741Publisher: Acc Art BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2017Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 10.30h x 7.50w x 0.60d

Michael Sells brand new Imagine That series--short, popular histories of how the past didn't quite happen--launches with four titles this year.Each book is a flight of imagination that explores how the smallest changes to history could have spiraled out of control.Would a happy ending...

(The Little Black Songbook). This little book packs in over 80 Oasis tunes with chords and complete lyrics for each. Songs include: Be Here Now * Better Man * Champagne Supernova * Cum on Feel the Noize * D'You Know What I Mean? *...

Extreme metal--one step beyond heavy metal--can appear bizarre or terrifying to the uninitiated. Extreme metal musicians have developed an often impenetrable sound that teeters on the edge of screaming, incomprehensible noise. Extreme metal circulates on the edge of mainstream culture within the confines of...

How did Calvin Harris go from stacking shelves in his local supermarket to such astonishing global success? He's come a long way from making music in his bedroom in his native Dumfries but since bursting onto the music scene with "Acceptable in the 80s"...

Complicated Shadows paints a detailed and accurate portrait of an intensely private and complex individual. It draws on nearly 50 exclusive interviews with schoolmates, pre-fame friends, early band members, journalists as well as members of The Attractions, producers, collaborators and musicians from all stages...

Many people dream of meeting their favorite rock star or celebrity. Several years ago I met a rock star from a very famous 1980's rock band. We met, became friends, had a brief relationship, and remain in contact to this day. If this small-town...

"The Beatles, as a band, released over 200 songs in the eight years between 1962 and 1970. After they split, each commenced a solo career to varying degrees of commercial and critical success. All four of the Beatles achieved number one solo singles in...

Exotic Pentatonic Soloing for Guitar covers the 'Robben Ford', 'Lydian', 'Iwato', 'Hirojoshi' 'm7b5' and 'Hindu' Pentatonic Scales, plus many more. Each scale is taught around the five CAGED shapes with five exciting licks for each scaleAuthor: Simon Pratt, Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789330602ISBN-13: 9781789330601Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present tells of a musical phenomenon whose continuing influence on global popular culture is immeasurable. The story begins in 1950s America, when classic rock 'n' roll was reaching middle age, and...

he Experience: Jimi Hendrix at Masons Yard is the boldest story of 1967, a defining moment in history when a young prodigy from Seattle stormed London, broadcasting live on the BBC, changing music forever and forging his own legend in the immortal halls of...

Are you a romantic optimist with a cheery disposition? You might be a "Paul." Brooding, introverted, and artistic? You are probably a "John." If you tend to take life as it comes with a happy go-lucky attitude, most likely you are a "Ringo." Thoughtful,...

The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n' roll legends Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and...