Music - Genres & Styles - Rock

Power Chord is the story of one man's epic pilgrimage to gain rock enlightenment from the gods and guitar heroes of the Golden Age of heavy metal. Author Scott McKenzie set off to make contact with the legendary metal superstars he worshipped in his...

Yes are the archetypal 1970s progressive rock group. Playing powerful and adventurous music when it was briefly part of the mainstream, the band thrilled millions with their iconic albums and epic live shows. Records like Fragile and Close to the Edge helped define an...

Eric Clapton's position as the world's greatest rock guitarist is unlikely to change in our lifetime. His career over the past four decades has been closely followed by millions of fans, as a member of the influential Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith,...

The Byrds were just a little bit ahead of their time. By releasing six genre-defining albums in three years, their transformative powers took electric guitars to traditional folk music, brought jazz into psychedelic pop and helped introduce what we now know as Americana, by...

The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own context and era. The Music and Noise of the Stooges,...

A forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Two-Headed Doctor is a forensic investigation into a single LP: Dr. John, the night tripper's Gris-gris. Though released in 1968 to poor sales and a minimum of critical attention, Gris-gris has...

1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film based on Pete Townshend's album...

This book examines the work of the first decade-and-a-half of Lou Reed as a solo artist. It would be easy to paint these years with a broad brush; with the ghost of The Velvet Underground in its aftermath slowly yet gradually gaining cultural influence,...

Unless you lived through the 1970s, it seems impossible to understand it at all. Drug delirium, groovy fashion, religious cults, mega corporations, glitzy glam, hard rock, global unrest--from our 2018 perspective, the seventies are often remembered as a bizarre blur of bohemianism and disco....

Titles are: Boat Drinks * Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes * Cheeseburger in Paradise * Come Monday * Fins * Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit * He Went to Paris * Margaritaville * Pencil Thin Mustache * A Pirate Looks at Forty * Son of a...

Tomorrow Never Knows takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered--as if it offered meaning and sustenance, not just escape and entertainment? What did...

Rock bands have been an important part of Liverpool's culture and identity since the 1950s, and a 1980 survey discovered the existence of over 1,000 bands in the city. This book delineates and discusses rock culture in Liverpool as a way or style of...

Twenty Parrothead classics arranged for ukulele. Titles: Beach House on the Moon * Boat Drinks * Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes * Cheeseburger in Paradise * Come Monday * Far Side of the World * Fins * Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit * He Went to...

Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts...

Before soundtracking the Summer of Love as The Mamas & The Papas, musicians John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, and Denny Doherty honed their talents in groups like The Smoothies, The Journeymen, The Halifax Three, The Big 3, and The Mugwumps. In Gettin' Kinda...

With assistance from Lizzy Goodman and Rob Sheffield, beloved music journalist Marc Spitz's final work explores the myriad ways that music and movies have always been linked.Each of the films herein, whether huge or small, reflect the zeitgeist and has pushed both the medium...

The 1980's were a unique period in Rock and Roll history shaped by some of the greatest names in the Hard Rock/AOR genre including the likes of Whitesnake, Journey, Survivor and Warrant. These bands are some of many that signed multi album deals, made...

Among the more than 140 pages of piano/vocal/guitar sheet music in this collection, you'll find every song from Jimmy Buffett's classic Songs You Know by Heart greatest hits album. Plus there's a dozen more songs selected from eight additional albums, including popular live recordings...

An in-depth look at the Rolling Stones in their early days, published to coincide with the first major exhibition dedicated to the band.Author: Robin Morgan, Terry O'Neill, Gered MankowitzISBN-10: 1851498168ISBN-13: 9781851498161Publisher: Acc Art BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2016Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.00lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.50w x 1.00d

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, with their distinct vocal harmonies, blending of rock, jazz, folk, and blues, and political and social activism, have remained one of the most enduring musical acts of the 1960s. This book examines their songs and themes, which continue to...

On a cold night in January 1961, Bob Dylan arrived in New York. Within hours, he made his first New York performance at the Greenwich Village coffeehouse Cafe Wha? This guide charts Dylan's journey through the city from that first day through the 1960s,...

OZ was an underground alternative magazine. First published in Sydney, Australia, in 1963, a second version appeared in London, England from 1967 and is better known.The original Australian OZ took the form of a satirical magazine published between 1963 and 1969, while the British...

This book is part of an instrumental series arranged for Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Trumpet, Horn in F, and Trombone. The arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book contains a carefully edited...

Psychedelic Rock - the ultimate type of Rock and Roll music. Learn all about its history, formative bands, and future in this collection by writer/guitarist Lino M. Moore.Author: Lino M. MooreISBN-10: 1530040221ISBN-13: 9781530040223Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2016Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.02h x...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This second edition features 30 great guitar-driven rock anthems, including: Aqualung * Back in Black * Born to Be Wild * Crazy Train * Day Tripper * Hey Joe * Iron Man * Layla * Mississippi Queen * Smells like Teen...

This day-by-day chronicle of every live concert by the Rolling Stones from 1962 through 1982 traces their development from a band playing small clubs around London to the global phenomenon we know today. Comprehensive coverage of the shows includes set lists, venues, concert reviews,...

"John Robb is as punk rock as The Clash." -- Alan McGeeDo You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll? is a history of alternative rock from music writer John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This collection follows Robb's...

New Wave: Image is Everything traces the evolution of the often neglected pop music genre, new wave. Using artists from Elvis Costello to Cyndi Lauper as illustrations, the book argues that new wave was among the first flowerings of postmodern theory in popular culture.Author:...

Out of the dozen different line-ups since Fleetwood Mac formed in 1967, there's only one incarnation that truly matters for most listeners. During their time together, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham created some of popular music's most enduring...

Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music. The release of Thick as a Brick (1972) and A...

Completing a trilogy that began with The Rhino Records Story (2013) and continued with My British Invasion (2017), this 40-year diary documents Harold Bronson's progress from student musician and journalist to label executive, where his fandom, wit and wildly creative imagination augmented and altered...

In 1973, the Allman Brothers Band were one of the most popular in America: they headlined the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, attended by an estimated 600,000 people and their album Brothers and Sisters was a number one for five weeks on the Billboard listings...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The astonishing run of albums unleashed upon an unsuspecting public within the span of five years created the legend of Alice Cooper that lives on to this day. But we're talking about the original Alice Cooper group here, a band called that with a...

(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...

The Damned are forever in the history books as the first UK punk band to get an album out. Damned Damned Damned was a flamethrower of a record, led by the incendiary violence of "New Rose" (first UK punk single as well) and "Neat...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

It wasn't just clothes and hair that changed as the 1960s progressed - social awareness crept into youth culture and music ceased to be simply about dancing.A counter-culture gradually emerged, and rock 'n' roll was its defining feature. Pop music broadened beyond the traditional...

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...

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...