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Relix: The Book
The Grateful Dead Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
For the first time in one volume, here is the best of Relix magazine: the ultimate, spectacular history of the Grateful Dead and their fans. Relix magazine – much like the Grateful Dead, the band they captured relentlessly – was not just the backdrop for a generation, it was an inspiration. Begun...
by Roland McCalsburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Fan, quite simply, is a game of Rock 'n' roll trivia, mostly focusing on indie/punk/post-punk/alternative music from its inception in the 1960 to now.
Introduction: I’ve written this book to share an enthusiasm (obsession?) with those who love popular music as much as I do....
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Stolen Melodies, Ripped-off Riffs, and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Sounds Like Teen Spirit provides hundreds of pairings of songs that appear to have "borrowed" their melodies from earlier songs. Readers wil discover the music that influnced the songs of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and many more. Sounds...
by Joe Gross
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic...
TIME-LIFE Rock & Roll
The Stories Behind the Songs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
From iconic love songs and odes to domestic bliss, to bloodcurdling screams and provocative performances, TIME-LIFE presents a history of rock and roll, and the stories behind the songs.
by Miles Marshall Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas) during...
Complicated Fun
The Birth of Minneapolis Punk and Indie Rock, 1974-1984 --- An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In the early 1970s, the Minneapolis music scene was no scene at all. Radio stations played Top 40 music; bars and clubs booked only rock cover bands and blues bands. Meanwhile, cities like New York, Detroit, and London were spawning fresh and innovative—and loud and raw—sounds by musicians creating...
by Guy Oseary
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Foreword by Ben Stiller
Afterword by Perry Farrell
Jewish achievement in the sciences? Celebrated. Jews in literature? Lionized. But until now, there's been no record of the massive contributions of Jews in Rock n' Roll. Jews Who Rock features 100 top Jewish rockers, from Bob Dylan to Adam...
by Mark Duffett
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Bryan Adams is a one man rock’n’roll success story: he went from washing dishes for $2.50 per hour to becoming a multi-millionaire by making music that people liked. Adams’ ‘Reckless’ album sold over 10 million units globally whilst his ballad ‘Everything I Do (I Do It For You)’ cleared...
Johnny's Jukebox Trivia
1,001 Fantastic Questions from the Golden Age of Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
Jukebox Johnny presents 1,001 of his best trivia questions about all of your favorite performers from the Golden Age of Rock & Roll. The questions in this book will thrill, entertain, amuse, and stump you! Even hard core fans will learn new tidbits about their favorite performers and how they...
You're Making Me Hate You
A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
New York Times bestselling lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour's hilarious trawl through the endless backwaters of human stupidity
Corey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries of human behavior and life in this postmodern digital blanked-out waiting room that passes for a world. Reality...
by Steven Charles
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
This is the candid and unabridged story of the Beatles as told by the insiders who worked, recorded and toured with the group from the Hamburg days to the bitter end. This in-depth book features a meticulously researched and comprehensive array of inside sources. Here, at last, is the whole uncensored...
Up and Down with the Rolling Stones
My Rollercoaster Ride with Keith Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Legendary among fans since its 1979 release, originally titled I Was Keith Richards' Drug Dealer, this is the absolutely over-the-top, outrageous account of the Stones at their debauched peak
Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands, and...
by Steven Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2012
Were The Who the godfathers of Punk? They are certainly one of the most influential rock bands of all time, and they continue to impress audiences and gain new fans to this day. This is the true story of The Who in the words of those who knew best: the band themselves. With the help of a leading team...