Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

HEAVY METRO: ACCESS ALL ERAS is Gene Ambo's first book. This unique and special photo collection spans his legendary career to date, with a specific focus on rock, hard rock, heavy metal, punk, and hardcore as captured through his peerless lens. From G.B.H., Corrosion...

BOWIE'S PIANO MAN: THE LIFE OF MIKE GARSONAuthor: Clifford SlapperISBN-10: 161713693XISBN-13: 9781617136931Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2018Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

A never-before-seen collection of photos and stories about Bob Barry, the iconic celebrity DJ of Milwaukee.Bob Barry ruled Milwaukee's airwaves in the '60s and '70s. The only time the Beatles performed here, Barry introduced them to the audience, and he was the only local...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Transcriptions in notes & tab for all ten tunes off the 1992 debut by these Raleigh rockers. Includes the chart-topping hit "Peace Pipe" and: Bad Thing * Carnival * Drive It Home * Gotta Love Me * Hand Me Down *...

A creative compendium of recipes that reclaims the kitchen for the hip crowd. Historically, a love of cooking has been left to those considered far from cool: suburbanite Betty Crockers toiling over a hot stove. But the new youth-culture sensibility has taken over, merging...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Our official songbook for the third installment of this wildly popular video game features notes & guitar tab for 36 hits: Barracuda * Black Magic Woman * The Devil Went Down to Georgia * Even Flow * La Grange * Mississippi...

(Chart). A great collection of over 80 Beatles tunes, including: All You Need Is Love * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * A Hard Day's Night * Help * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your...

(Easy Piano Personality). Ten of the Eagles' best arranged for easy piano. Includes: Already Gone * Best of My Love * Desperado * Lyin' Eyes * One of These Nights * Peaceful Easy Feeling * Take It Easy * Take It to the Limit...

The Beatles Are Coming covers the Beatles first visit to the United States and the events leading up to the group's arrival on February 7, 1964. It is the most thorough and accurate book ever published on how Beatlemania evolved in America. The book...

In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett's departure, but it went on to...

In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett's departure, but it went on to...

Levon Helm's Rambles have quickly become the stuff of legend. Helm, of course, is the charismatic drummer, singer, and sometimes mandolin picker for The Band, a group whose songs and stature have made them a pillar of classic rock and rootsy Americana. Beyond their...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This hit-filled collection features over 70 unforgettable songs from rock's early years: Daydream Believer * Earth Angel * Good Golly Miss Molly * Hello Mary Lou * In My Room * It's My Party * Limbo Rock * Louie, Louie * Runaway...

As featured in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence, Mashable, Mental Floss, Book Riot and more!"Weird Al" Yankovic continues as one of our most beloved comedians, actors, and musicians. A skilled accordion player and lyricist, the California native not only crafts meticulous parodies,...

A comprehensive illustrated portrait of the popular and critically acclaimed postmodern rock duo illuminates the band's emergence from the Detroit underground as well as its musical roots in the blues and earlier rock. Original.Author: Dick PorterISBN-10: 0859653501ISBN-13: 9780859653503Publisher: Plexus PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2004Pages: 141Format: PaperbackWeight:...

(Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along). The Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along series is designed for pianists ready to play their first solo. Each volume comes with audio of orchestrated arrangements. The music in this book matches these recorded orchestrations, and is carefully arranged for beginning pianists....

The bestselling, definitive account of the 1960s Mod movement. With over 150 dazzling photographs the book reveals the reality of the movement in dances, clothes, style and scooters. The book contains ephemera gathered from the earliest days of Mod, from the seaside to Carnaby...

This is the ultimate story of a life of rock music, from the 1950s to the present day. Rock is the enduring sound of music, once just the preserve of the rebellious young, now the rock gods of the 60s and 70s are still...

In 1965, after a stint as a session player in New York, guitarist Jimi Hendrix signed with former Animals bassist Chas Chandler and went to England. In 1966, he burst on to the London music scene with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, blowing away the...

Here is the story of how the Sex Pistols shocked and shamed EMI--the UK's most revered and profitable record company--and ended up 40,000 the richer thanks to manager Malcolm McLaren's cunning business strategy. A must read for any punk or Sex Pistols music fan,...

Mapping the Rockumentary: Images of Sound and Fury is the first anthology to explore the rockumentary as a central component of both the documentary and world cinema. The book includes case studies of bands and performers such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob...

More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories - many previously unpublished - from the golden days of music reporting. Long nights of booze, drugs and unguarded conversations which...

A definitive celebration packed with previously unseen material of the original punk band--the group that defined a movement, energized a generation, and brought punk music and the safety-pin aesthetic to the mainstream. The Sex Pistols have defined the look, sound, and feel of the...

Even at four in the morning, the strip clubs and watering holes surrounding the Honolulu studio were still hopping. The recording engineer heard a car pull into the lot, and soon the biggest man he had ever seen walked in. When he stepped into...

(Music Sales America). The 2009 release by this alternative rock singer/songwriter features 17 songs: Give * Welcome to England * Strong Black Vine * Flavor * Not Dying Today * Maybe California * Curtain Call * Fire to Your Plain * Police Me *...

(Music Sales America). This is the matching folio to Tori Amos' sprawling and ambitious 9th studio album that debuted at at number five on the US charts, spawning the hit single "Big Wheel." Political and confrontational in nature, the songs on the album are...

The third volume of Music in a Word, an anthology and memoir of veteran music journalist and Trouser Press magazine co-founder Ira Robbins' five-decade career, is an annotated collection of feature articles, previously unpublished interviews, liner notes, book reviews, obituaries, critics' polls and correspondence....

(Music Sales America). The very best of Bob Dylan in piano, vocal, guitar arrangements. Includes: Blowin' in the Wind * All Along the Watchower * Knockin' On Heaven's Door * Lay Lady Lay * Rainy Day Women * Like a Rolling Stone * and...

The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one of the world's most revered and celebrated musicians of the last half century.Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world,...

Clinton Walker's biography of Bon Scott is the definitive account of the life of the iconic rocker, tracing his musical apprenticeship in bubblegum pop band the Valentines and blues-rockers Fraternity through to joining up with Angus and Malcolm Young in AC/DC, where his racy...

(Guitar Book). This unique publication contains 52 favorite Beatles songs arranged exclusively for the guitar. It is designed to provide an accurate look into the lead and rhythm guitar styles of George Harrison and John Lennon. Instead of providing transcriptions of the guitars off...

More than just a biography or discography, this work is a thoroughly detailed guide to every known recording of the legendary British rock band The Who--their entire range, from their early hits of the 1960s through the ambitious concept works to their later successes....

The evening of May 10, 1970, found a young Watt M. Casey Jr. standing awestruck, only a few feet from Jimi Hendrix as the legendary guitarist tore into his unique arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the stage of San Antonio's Hemisphere Arena during...

With more Top 10 hits than any other female-fronted music group in history, beginning with such '70s classics as "Crazy on You," "Barracuda," "Magic Man," and "Straight On," Rolling Stone hailed Heart's "sister team of Nancy and Ann Wilson. . . for] shrewdly pulling...

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomer generation, this book...

Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in the baby boomer generation, this book...

(Fender G-Dec Guitar Play-Along). This book/SD Card series lets you play your favorite songs just like the artists who recorded them by plugging into your Fender G-DEC 3 and playing along with the sound-alike recordings. Each book features 8 songs with an SD card...

The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm. This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend the magic ingredients that...

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITHThe definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan's images of The Cure - with photographs seen here for the very first time.Spanning three decades, more than 20 sessions and hundreds of images,...

In this important book Nick Crossley examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Dominant explanations of these developments have tended to focus upon strains and frustrations, both social and aesthetic, which are...

'In the beginning, ' Billy Joel entertained Long Island locals, with The Hassles and Attila, prior to forging a solo career in 1971. One year later, the singer-songwriter-pianist captivated college students when 'Captain Jack' dominated the Philadelphia airwaves. 'And so, it goes...' Cold Spring...

A tribute to the life and work of one of the great musical icons of the twentieth century, reflected through the lenses of the world's greatest photographers. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release in 1964 of her groundbreaking debut single...

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive...

In a novel look at rock 'n' roll lyrics, psychologist Barry Farber highlights those that rise above the rest because they are not only clever, but also wise in their psychological themes and conclusions. These great lyrics embody enduring truths about topics as diverse...

Laura Nyro (1947-1997) was one of the most significant figures to emerge from the singer-songwriter boom of the 1960s. She first came to attention when her songs were hits for Barbra Streisand, The Fifth Dimension, Peter, Paul and Mary, and others. But it was...

Larry Marion's The Lost Rolling Stones Photographs is a milestone for rock and roll collecting: the largest trove of never-before-seen rock photographs ever uncovered reveals the Rolling Stones on their earliest American tours in the 1960s. Selected from a rediscovered cache of intimate, behind-the-scenes...

Between 1972 and their first break-up in 1976 (and then again following their 1979 reunion), Roxy Music were arguably the most exciting, ambitious and vivacious bans in the land - a core four piece of vocalist Bryan Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, horn player Andy...

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and...

Free were formed in 1968 towards the end of the British blues boom. After two critically acclaimed albums, the release of 'All Right Now' and the album Fire and Water in 1970 brought them major success. Musical and personal differences took their toll and...

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