Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

One of the first books in this new series, this pocket guide focuses on a band that changed the sound and scale of pop music forever. It includes the story of Pink Floyd, the music, and Floyd on film.Author: Roy JonesISBN-10: 1905959540ISBN-13: 9781905959549Publisher: Red...

Master the Riffs and Grooves of The World's Greatest Rock Bass PlayersThere's no style of electric bass more immediate, more powerful, or downright satisfying to play than rock! 100 Rock Grooves for Electric Bass is your complete guide to mastering the essential skills of...

'The Smiths' is a collection of Lawrence Watson's photographs of Morrissey and the iconic British band taken in the early 1980s in Manchester and London, many previously unseen.Author: Lawrence WatsonISBN-10: 190579245XISBN-13: 9781905792450Publisher: Foruli LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2013Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 8.40w x 0.20d

Rock is a music of rebellion against authority, and has consequently frightened and outraged people throughout its forty-year history. Anti-Rock is the first book to detail the objections of rock's detractors. Critics from parents to religious groups, industry executives to scientists, government spokesmen to...

Sweep Picking Speed Strategies for 7-String Guitar takes Chris Brooks' highly successful book Sweep Picking Strategies for Guitar and applies it for the growing number of 7-string guitar players demanding a comprehensive and concise approach that will lead to mastery of the instrument. Many...

There is a common misconception about KISS, one of the greatest hard-rock/heavy metal-bands of all-time: that their 'non-makeup' era of 1983-1996 is not as enduring as the period when they stalked stages as the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman, and the Cat. This is...

The biggest edition yet - expanded and updated with 35,000 words of new material Critically acclaimed in its previous editions, The Complete David Bowie is widely recognized as the foremost source of analysis and information on every facet of Bowie's career. The A-Z of...

Full of interviews with the artists who made some of the most memorable - and a few not-so-memorable - albums of the 1970s, the third book in The Vinyl Dialogues series by award-winning journalist Mike Morsch offers more backstories on the music of the...

In January 2020, the world lost not only one of the greatest drummers, but also one of the most insightful lyricists. And a brilliant writer.Though Neil Peart was universally lauded as drummer for legendary rock band Rush, few studies have been devoted to his...

Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshed-out songs and whispers and rumors of half-formed ones....

Rolling Stones 50 x 20 celebrates the remarkable fifty-year career of "The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band" with images captured by twenty of the world's greatest music photographers. Featured are more than eighty exceptional photographs that document the longevity of one of the...

That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound is the definitive treatment of Bob Dylan's magnum opus, Blonde on Blonde, not only providing the most extensive account of the sessions that produced the trailblazing album, but also setting the record straight on much of the misinformation that...

More than a musician, the Grateful Dead's founder Jerry Garcia was also a prolific artist who created hundreds of paintings, drawings, and prints. Get to know another side of this creative legend through his paintings and drawings, and through interviews with those who knew...

A Character Study in Ambition, Perseverance, and Achievement This is a not so simple story of Sidney B. Drashin, The Promoter. If you remember the 60s, you probably weren't there. Sidney was there. He brought 5000+ bands and stars to the Southeast U.S. He...

How To Be A Rock Star is the long-awaited memoir by former EMI head of A&R David Ambrose. Co-authored by acclaimed music writer Lesley-Ann Jones, the book is a riveting rewind through Ambrose's years as a rock musician, performing and recording with Rod Stewart,...

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,...

The Canterbury Scene was one of the most creative and prolific eras in progressive rock history - learn all about it in this new book by author/music historian Mathias Sanger.Author: Mathias SangerISBN-10: 1519670745ISBN-13: 9781519670748Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2015Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 11.00h...

Our young lives became a part of the Grateful Dead shows and a part of the parking lot scene that evolved into Shakedown Street. Tour Head opens a window to the ways of the road and the extreme lengths Tour Heads will go to,...

Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972. The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed...

Who doesn't dream of the rock star lifestyle? Loud music, throngs of adoring fans, and parties that last for days. The glitz, the glamor, and the drinking. In How to Drink Like a Rockstar, Albert W. A. Schmid offers readers a taste of how...

Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or...

A new, definitive look at one of music's greatest songbooks by an expert author The latest book in the bestselling All the Songs series, this is the most in-depth exploration of Prince's songs ever written. Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and...

From Cleveland to Cincinnati and everywhere in between, Ohio rocks. Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll takes readers behind the scenes to the birth and rise of musical legends like the Black Keys, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, the Breeders, Chrissie...

Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting. Drawing on revelations from Dylan's memoir Chronicles and a variety of other sources,...

In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll. ​Few bands are as shrouded...

PJ Harvey's performances are premised on the core contention that she is somehow causing 'trouble'. Just how this trouble can be theorised within the context of the music video and what it means for a development of the ways we might conceptualise 'disruption' and...

Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biography--newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and families--recounts the tragic and triumphant tale of one of America's most beloved bands. Hailed as the great American rock...

Three quarters of a million people visit Graceland each year--40,000 of them during "Elvis Week", the anniversary of his death in August. Strausbaugh describes the religious fervor of Elvis followers, and places Elvism in the context of many grassroots movements away from traditional churches,...

Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash, punk culture, and the intersections between pop music and politics, on both...

(Chart). A great collection of 92 Beatles tunes arranged as instrumental solos. Includes: Across the Universe * All My Loving * All You Need Is Love * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Eleanor Rigby * Golden Slumbers * A Hard Day's Night...

(Drum Recorded Versions). Features transcriptions of Dave Grohl's actual drum tracks on 17 hits culled from four albums: Bleach, Nevermind, Incesticide and In Utero . Includes the songs: About a Girl * All Apologies * Blew * Come as You Are * Dumb *...

From the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music business can look like an uninterrupted rise to become one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. But his...

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...

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...

Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn't stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly every market imaginable: Japan, Yugoslavia, the Philippines, South Africa,...

Alfred's Ultimate Pop & Rock Instrumental Solos series is arranged for flute, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, horn in F, trombone, violin, viola, cello, and optional piano accompaniment. All wind instrument arrangements are fully compatible, and can be successfully performed as ensembles or...

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,...

In Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion, Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to chart the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition over the decades. Originating in the...

Tom Petty has long been considered one of the great songwriters of American rock 'n' roll, as well as one of the key standard bearers of integrity in the music business. Conversations with Tom Petty is the first authorized book to focus solely on...

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:...

(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...

Solid Rock is a visual celebration of the evolution of heavy guitar music. A larger format, landscape, coffee table feature book with a unique commentary drawn from our 'In-conversation' sessions with K.K. Downing - Grammy award-winning guitarist and a founding member of classic heavy...

Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success. In Experiencing Billy Joel, musician and writer Thomas MacFarlane explores that musical journey, from Joel's...

The definitive New York Times bestselling biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, who profoudly influenced George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the world of music as a whole. Leon Russell is an icon,...

How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the concept album in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focus of Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albums marked a departure from the band's...

They Came.They Jammed.They Conquered at the corner of Grand River Ave. and Beverly Court! A scene that rose from School Dances and Teen Clubs from 1965 to 1972, The Grande Ballroom became the epicenter of Rock-n-Roll not only for Detroit but the world. A...

The dawn of folk rock comes to life in Jerry Burgan's unforgettable memoir of the pre-psychedelic 1960s and the summer that changed everything. As a na?e folksinger from Pomona, California, Burgan was thrust to the forefront of the counterculture and its aftermath. The Byrds,...

Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark...

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...

The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged - underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 alternative rock had spawned a revolution in music and style that...