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  • All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows by Robertson, Ray
    Ray Robertson

    All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows

    A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia's heart did, what the band left behind is the...
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  • None of This Rocks: A Memoir by Trohman, Joe
    Joe Trohman

    None of This Rocks: A Memoir

    None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman--lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy--that reads like a double album full of revealing stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom. With wit and wisdom, and maybe...
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  • Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death by Steiner, Adam
    Adam Steiner

    Darker with the Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs of Love and Death

    This book dives into the world of Nick Cave--a complex and often mysterious icon--and looks at his influences, inspirations, and deeper meanings in his most beloved songs throughout his career.Adam Steiner reflects on Cave's journey from childhood, struggles with drug addiction, reckoning with Christianity,...
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  • Harmony: Analyzing the Music of Elton John, 1968-1977 by Robinson, Scott
    Scott Robinson

    Harmony: Analyzing the Music of Elton John, 1968-1977

    Elton John's place in rock history is secure. He is one of the most consequential musicians of the past half-century - and, alongside songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, a part of the only duo to approach Lennon & McCartney in talent and range. Harmony examines...
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  • Rock Legends at Rockfield by Collins, Jeff
    Jeff Collins

    Rock Legends at Rockfield

    A history of the legendary music studio behind Queen, Oasis, and more--updated with new chapters about the last twenty years. Rockfield is a recording studio that lives up to its name. Over the past fifty years, this rural Monmouthshire locale has played host to...
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  • Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History by Weinstein, Deena
    Deena Weinstein

    Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History

    What is rock? This book offers a new and systematic approach to understanding rock by applying sociological concepts in a historical context. Deena Weinstein, a rock critic, journalist, and academic, starts by outlining an original approach to understanding rock, explaining how the form has...
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  • Experiencing the Beatles: A Listener's Companion by Halpin, Brooke
    Brooke Halpin

    Experiencing the Beatles: A Listener's Companion

    Starting an undeniable revolution, the Beatles took pop culture by storm, shook up the recording industry, and provided a soundtrack for the lives of millions of American teenagers. No band would ever come close to the mania inspired by these four Liverpudlian exports. Brooke...
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  • Hard Rock: Drum Play-Along Volume 3 [With CD] by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Hard Rock - Drum Play-Along Volume 3 Book/Online Audio [With CD]

    (Drum Play-Along). Play your favorite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along Series . Just follow the drum notation, listen to the audio to hear how the drums should sound, then play along using the separate backing tracks. The lyrics are also included...
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  • Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Paul, Alan
    Alan Paul

    Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author Alan Paul's in-depth narrative look at the Allman Brothers' most successful album, and a portrait of an era in rock and roll and American history.The Allman Brothers Band's Brothers and Sisters was not...
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  • Eddie Cochran: In Person!: The Lost Treasures of a Rock 'n' Roll Legend by Bullman, Lee
    Lee Bullman

    Eddie Cochran: In Person!: The Lost Treasures of a Rock 'n' Roll Legend

    A lavishly illustrated intimate glimpse into the life of legendary guitarist and rock 'n' roll icon Eddie Cochran, through unique access to never-before-seen personal treasures that were thought to be lost for more than sixty years. In the golden era of rock 'n' roll,...
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  • Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser by Attfield, Nicholas
    Nicholas Attfield

    Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser

    A surprising history of Seattle's Sub Pop Records, pioneer of grunge . . . and champion of losers. This book is a critical history of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential grunge bands in the...
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  • Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Holm-Hudson, Kevin
    Kevin Holm-Hudson

    Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

    In 1974 the British progressive rock group Genesis released their double concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. The story was described by Genesis's then front-man Peter Gabriel as a 'moral fable' about Rael, a half-Puerto-Rican New York City street tough who is...
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  • The Beatles Through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album by Osteen, Mark
    Mark Osteen

    The Beatles Through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album

    The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly...
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  • A Dreamer of Pictures: Neil Young: The Man and His Music by Downing, David
    David Downing

    A Dreamer of Pictures: Neil Young: The Man and His Music

    Neil Young is arguably the only rock performer and songwriter whose work has retained the respect of a large following while gaining the allegiance of new generations. He has demonstrated a unique ability to combine commercial success with a willful experimentation. His music has...
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  • Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded by Cullen, Jim
    Jim Cullen

    Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen in American Life, 3rd Edition, Revised and Expanded

    Pioneering the field of Springsteen scholarship when it first appeared in 1997, Born in the U.S.A. remains one of the definitive studies of Springsteen's work and its impact on American culture. Moving beyond journalistic and biographical approaches, Jim Cullen situates the artist in a...
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  • Don't Call It Hair Metal: Art in the Excess of '80s Rock by Kelly, Sean
    Sean Kelly

    Don't Call It Hair Metal: Art in the Excess of '80s Rock

    A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion...
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  • Secret Stars: The Greatest Underdogs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era by Berenson, Matt
    Matt Berenson

    Secret Stars: The Greatest Underdogs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era

    Secret Stars: The Greatest Underdogs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era tells the incredible true stories of the ten best bands and songwriters of the last sixty years that you (mostly) didn't hear on the radio. For every band like the Beatles, the Rolling...
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  • Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the 90s Scene by Rullo, David
    David Rullo

    Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the '90s Scene

    Beginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh's South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades. Artists began to rent empty apartments, what were once shot-and-a-beer bars became hip dive bars and entrepreneurs found inexpensive...
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  • Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen by Wiersema, Robert J.
    Robert J. Wiersema

    Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen

    As he enters his sixties, Bruce Springsteen remains a paragon of all that is cool and right. Born in the U.S.A. still ranks as one of the top-selling albums of all time, and Springsteen the man is an unstoppable force, selling out multi-city arena...
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  • Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song by Meze, Scott
    Scott Meze

    Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song

    Soft Machine are perceived as cold and forbidding. At their peak in the 1970s, they purposefully raised the hackles of pop journalists, the musical establishment, and even their own fans. Their music was designed to exclude all but the most devoted. Their line-up constantly...
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  • Tom Petty: Essays on the Life and Work by Sands, Crystal D.
    Crystal D. Sands

    Tom Petty: Essays on the Life and Work

    Rock and roll hall-of-famer Tom Petty had a musical career that spanned four decades with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and also notably included the co-founding of supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. As a songwriter and rock star, Petty was among the most successful of...
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  • Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd by Byrd, David Edward
    David Edward Byrd

    Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd

    Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd is a stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock 'n' roll's most influential artists--written by Byrd and author Robert von Goeben. Foreword by Marc Myers, Award-Winning Author of...
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  • Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Turner, Steve
    Steve Turner

    Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

    A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene--from backyard skateboard ramps and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon--as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney. In the late 80s and...
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  • Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label by Williams, Simon
    Simon Williams

    Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

    'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY An honest and astonishing memoir by Fierce Panda record-label founder Simon Williams, charting his love affair with indie, his music-industry successes and his heartfelt personal struggles. A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's...
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  • Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story by Brant, Marley
    Marley Brant

    Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story

    Based on one-on-one interviews with members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their families, friends, business associates, and fans, Freebird: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story is the first narrative biography to fully examine the roots, evolution, and success of the most hard-rocking, hard-living band in rock 'n roll...
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  • The Who: The History of My Generation by Snow, Mat
    Mat Snow

    The Who: The History of My Generation

    Explore the trailblazing history of The Who with photos, memorabilia, and stories of rock decadence like no other. Famed music journalist Mat Snow celebrates the Who's debut album, My Generation, with this unofficial illustrated history of the legendary rock band--the ideal visual companion for...
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  • Essential Rock Guitar Techniques: 24 Skills Every Serious Player Should Master [With CD (Audio)] by Johnson, Chad
    Chad Johnson

    Essential Rock Guitar Techniques: 24 Skills Every Serious Player Should Master [With CD (Audio)]

    (Guitar Educational). If you want to be a serious rock guitarist and sound authentic, there are some things you simply must know. What would a Metallica riff be without the palm mute? Or how would a Van Halen solo sound without the tapping? Can...
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  • The Rocklopedia Fakebandica by Childs, T. Mike
    T. Mike Childs

    The Rocklopedia Fakebandica

    Have you ever wondered what the name of the cantina band in Star Wars was? Or how many fictional singers Elvis played? Or how many fake bands had real Top Ten hits? This hysterical, witty, and irreverent book answers all these questions and more....
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  • Guitar Legends Alphabet by Feiner, Beck
    Beck Feiner

    Guitar Legends Alphabet

    From Jimi Hendrix to Angus Young, Orianthi to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Guitar Legends Alphabet strings together an A to Z of the most gifted axemen and women to ever strut the stage. Artistically illustrated and passionately written, Guitar Legends Alphabet is an inspiring history...
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  • Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the World's Best Least-Known Guitarist by Armstrong, Kevin
    Kevin Armstrong

    Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the World's Best Least-Known Guitarist

    'Kevin does what I pretend to do. Kevin's a proper musician.' David Bowie'Kevin Armstrong has been around, and around.' Iggy PopGrowing up in a world of punk squats and the London pub-rock scene, suburban rookie guitarist Kevin Armstrong found himself signed to EMI as...
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  • Rock Lick Method for Guitar: Master the Licks, Techniques and Concepts You Need to Become an Awesome Rock and Metal Guitarist by Shipway, James
    James Shipway

    Rock Lick Method for Guitar: Master the Licks, Techniques and Concepts You Need to Become an Awesome Rock and Metal Guitarist

    Learn the rock licks, techniques and concepts you need to become an awesome rock and metal guitar soloist with this easy-to-follow, step-by-step method!No music reading necessary plus over 75 minutes of supporting video lessons and demonstrations and over 50 minutes of backing tracks in...
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  • Turn It Up!: My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music (Featuring Mötley Crüe, Poison, Twisted Sister, Jeff Beck, by Werman, Tom
    Tom Werman

    Turn It Up!: My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music (Featuring Mötley Crüe, Poison, Twisted Sister, Jeff Beck,

    Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He long dreamed of a career in music--first as Elvis, then as the next George Harrison--but it almost didn't turn out that way. Dutifully following the...
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  • Sugarmaggies Groovy Grateful Coloring Pages by Connolly, Karen L.
    Karen L. Connolly

    Sugarmaggies Groovy Grateful Coloring Pages

    A Groovy fun book of Coloring pages for all ages. Fun Grateful dead images and mash ups of Peanut/dead comics . A must for any Grateful Dead fan You get 25 full pages to color with cute comics on the back pages. There are...
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  • More Than a Feeling: Analyzing the Music of Boston, 1976-1988 by Robinson, Scott
    Scott Robinson

    More Than a Feeling: Analyzing the Music of Boston, 1976-1988

    The Seventies were a distinct and provocative chapter in the history of rock, and of the bands that emerged in that era, none was more distinct and provocative than Boston. Tom Scholz's unlikely basement brainchild blasted out of radios across the US with unprecedented...
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  • The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Grohl, Dave
    Dave Grohl

    The Storyteller: Expanded: ...Because There's More to the Story

    #1 New York Times bestsellerNearly 1 MILLION COPIES sold!From the beloved Foo Fighters front man and drummer of Nirvana, a collection of stories that engage, entertain, and astonish--featuring exclusive new content for the paperback!Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included...
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  • Hard Rain by Riley, Tim
    Tim Riley

    Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary

    An in-depth look at over thirty years of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's recordings including analysis of "The Times They Are A-Changing," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "Tangled Up in Blue." Examinging over thirty years of Dylan's recordings, films, and live concerts to deliver...
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  • Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan: Dancing in an Eastern Dream by Keaveney, Christopher T.
    Christopher T. Keaveney

    Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan: Dancing in an Eastern Dream

    Using the framework of Edward Said's Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artists--particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s--perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music...
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  • Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans by Glasper, Ian
    Ian Glasper

    Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans

    Formed in Wiltshire, England, in 1980, the Subhumans are rightly held in high regard as one of the best punk rock bands to ever hail from the UK. Over the course of five timeless studio albums and just as many classic EPs, not to...
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  • 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts by McPherson, David
    David McPherson

    101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts

    101 true stories to surprise and delight Canadian music fans.Did you know that Serena Ryder played the quietest concert ever from the ocean floor during low tide at Fundy National Park? Or that "I'll Never Smile Again," the hit that launched Frank Sinatra's career,...
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  • The Beatles Please Please Me to with the Beatles by Spizer, Bruce
    Bruce Spizer

    The Beatles Please Please Me to with the Beatles

    Please Please Me and With The Beatles, along with their associated singles, introduced the Beatles first to England and then to several countries across the world, including Canada and the United States. Although often overlooked due to the excellence of the group's later albums,...
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  • Phil Collins - Hits by Collins, Phil
    Phil Collins

    Phil Collins - Hits

    (Easy Piano Personality). Easy arrangements of 16 super hits from Phil Collins' solo career. Includes: Against All Odds * Another Day in Paradise * Both Sides of the Story * Easy Lover * A Groovy Kind of Love * In the Air Tonight *...
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  • 1980s Rock Rhythm Guitar Mastery by Brooks, Chris
    Chris Brooks

    1980s Rock Rhythm Guitar Mastery

    Master The Rhythm Guitar Secrets of Rock & Metal's PioneersRip some holes in your skinny jeans and get out your headbands - it's time to rock out like it's 1987 and discover the style that defined a generation. 1980s Rock Rhythm Guitar Mastery is...
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  • The Pleasures of Death: Kurt Cobain's Masochistic and Melancholic Persona by Saint-Aubin, Arthur Flannigan
    Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin

    The Pleasures of Death: Kurt Cobain's Masochistic and Melancholic Persona

    The year 2019 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, an artist whose music, words, and images continue to move millions of fans worldwide. As the first academic study that provides a literary analysis of Cobain's creative writings, Arthur Flannigan Saint-Aubin's...
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  • Bowie at the BBC: A Life in Interviews by Hagler, Tom
    Tom Hagler

    Bowie at the BBC: A Life in Interviews

    The life of an icon, in his own words.David Bowie had a unique relationship with the BBC, making more appearances on 'the beeb' than any other broadcaster throughout his career. An anonymous pre-fame teenager, a blossoming starlet, a white-hot rock star and a veritable...
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  • The Black Keys: The Biography by Thomas, Nick
    Nick Thomas

    The Black Keys: The Biography

    This is the first biography of the Black Keys. Emerging from the rust belt city of Akron, guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney formed the duo in 2001. As perpetual underdogs who recorded their first two albums in Carney's basement, the Black Keys...
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  • Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics by Dettmar, Kevin
    Kevin Dettmar

    Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics

    Considering the work of such artists as Madonna, George Clinton, U2, Elvis Costello, and Nirvana, the contributors deftly combine the rigors of scholarship with the energy of rock journalism to provide an analysis at once critical, contextualized, and enthusiastic. While a number of scholars...
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  • Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead by Kaler, Michael
    Michael Kaler

    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,...
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  • Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness by Brackett, John
    John Brackett

    Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness

    The Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead's reputation as a "live band" was--and continues to be--sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every...
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  • British Rock Guitar: The First 50 Years, the Musicians and Their Stories by Foster, Mo
    Mo Foster

    British Rock Guitar

    The guitar has become the most emotive musical instrument of the last 50 years of rock and roll. From the early days when wannabee stars fashioned homemade guitars out of old tea chests, to today's sophisticated instruments the impact has been phenomenal.Drawing on his...
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  • Mick Rock. the Rise of David Bowie. 1972-1973 by Taschen
    Barney Hoskyns

    Mick Rock. the Rise of David Bowie. 1972-1973

    A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing. In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie's Stardust...
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