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Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton
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Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock's Greatest Legends
In 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson...- $26.95
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Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street JournalA unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our cultureBen Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer...- $28.00
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Brave Punk World: The International Rock Underground from Alerta Roja to Z-Off
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The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain's First Female Rock Band
For readers of Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us comes a fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain's first all-female rock group. The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory,...- $30.00
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Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion
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Conversations with Tom Petty, Expanded Edition
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Allen Klein: The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
An account of the heyday of rock & roll through the lens of Allen Klein, the business manager, producer, and gadfly who "broke up the Beatles" and showed the Rolling Stones how to become the preeminent dynasty in popular music. Author: Fred GoodmanISBN-10: 0544705017ISBN-13:...- $15.95
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Zakk Wylde Anthology
(Play It Like It Is). This folio features 23 note-for-note transcriptions of Zakk's playing from throughout his successful career. Includes: Between Heaven and Hell * Bleed for Me * Concrete Jungle * Darkest Days (Unplugged Version) * Fire It Up * The First Noel...- $24.99
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Solid Rock: The book of guitar gods - with K.K. Downing
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Experiencing Billy Joel: A Listener's Companion
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Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History
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Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album: How to Disappear Completely
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Almost - The Road to the Grande
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Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
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Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
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Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown
Canadian progressive rock band Rush was the voice of the suburban middle class. In this book, Chris McDonald assesses the band's impact on popular music and its legacy for legions of fans. McDonald explores the ways in which Rush's critique of suburban life--and its...- $22.95
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Entertain Us: The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties
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Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
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Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
Though a part of American soldiers' lives since the Revolutionary War, by World War II music could be broadcast to the front. Today it accompanies soldiers from the recruiting office to the battlefield. For this book, Jonathan Pieslak interviewed returning veterans to learn about...- $21.95
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Dlr Book: How David Lee Roth Changed the World
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Experiencing Rush: A Listener's Companion
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Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock
"Golland leaves no stone unturned in this fine-grained chronicle of the rock group Journey.... Golland's passion and precision make this a pleasure." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review. David Hamilton Golland unearths the band's complete story--incorporating exclusive interviews--and dives into their meteoric rise, dissolution, and return.Author:...- $33.00
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Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music
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Record Plant, Sausalito Studios
The Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, was one of America's top-of-the-line music recording facilities. Opened in 1972, Record Plant was known as the "resort studio," just across the Golden Gate Bridge in Northern California and away from the big city. One of three...- $37.99
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Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live performances. While many bands--including Cream, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground--stretched out their songs with improvisations,...- $107.95
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume 8: Genres: North America
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 8 is one of six volumes within the 'Genre' strand of the series. This volume discusses the genres of North America in relation to their cultural, historical and geographic origins; technical musical characteristics; instrumentation and use of...- $400.00
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A History of Rock Music: The Rock-And-Roll Era
A History of Rock Music: The Rock & Roll Era is a celebration of the roots of rock & roll and its emergence as the soundtrack to teenage rebellion and a liberatingly raucous, joyous and rebellious music for one especially fortunate generation. The book...- $30.00
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Don't Dream It's Over: The Remarkable Life of Neil Finn
Across five decades and counting, New Zealand-born singer/songwriter and Crowded House founder Neil Finn has become one of the best-loved figures in popular music, crafting enough hits along the way--'Weather With You', 'Locked Out', 'I Got You', 'Fall At Your Feet', 'It's Only Natural',...- $24.95
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Rockin' in Time
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Shakespeare and Popular Music
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Psychedelic Popular Music: A History Through Musical Topic Theory
Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores the historical...- $35.00
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Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart
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The Jam: Every Album, Every Song
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Listen to New Wave Rock!: Exploring a Musical Genre
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Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music
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Oasis: Every Album, Every Song
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The Origins and Early History of Rock & Roll
Rock and roll's various musical ingredients are examined, including jazz, blues, country, folk and gospel. Also explored are rock's early musical trends such as rockabilly, doo-wop, girl groups, surf music, teen idols, R&B and soul. Additionally, rock and roll was impacted by technological advances...- $25.99
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3 Doors Down [With CD]
(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 CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics...- $14.95
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Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll
An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers...- $135.00
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Through the Eye of the Tiger: The Rock #N' Roll Life of Survivor's Founding Member
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The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present
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Elvis at 21 [limited Edition]: New York to Memphis
In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career and photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label, RCA Victor, to photograph the rising star. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to...- $395.00
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Mick Jagger
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Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music
Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp,...- $200.00
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Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration
The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Through his highly original examination of these two musical legends, Duke University musicologist Thomas Brothers delivers a portrait of the creative process at work, demonstrating that the...- $17.95
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George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door
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The Hot, Sweet, Smokey, Muddy Sound of Chinnichap and Mickie Most - The Greatest Glam Show in the World
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Where's Bowie?: David Bowie in Berlin: 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
Find David Bowie in this interactive jigsaw puzzle, set in 70s Berlin - a city divided and in crisis, and one that Bowie called his home. Where's Bowie? is both a fun 500-piece detail-focused jigsaw puzzle, and a 'Find Bowie' activity too. Hidden in...- $14.95
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Lay It on the Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and Triumph
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