Pop Rock category: 3054 books
Ultimate Classic Rock
A guide to the best rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
From a 2014 perspective, the classic rock era falls basically between the years of 1965 and 1985, It is the rock music produced during these years that is the focus of this book. The book serves as a guide to that music, as well as later recordings produced by the artists that came to prominence during...
by C. Dismas Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Rock & Roll! It burst upon the scene in the 1950s, turned political in the 1960s,
self-indulgent in the 1970s, philanthropic in the 1980s, and historical by the 1990s.
It’s the soundtrack to the post-WWII American experience.
Each generation has it’s own anthems, superstars,...
Growing Up Rocking
(it begins...)
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In the 1950s, Cleveland, Ohio was the number one music city in the world. It was in Cleveland that DJ Alan Freed first coined the term “rock and roll” and it was in Cleveland that the teenage Henry Niedzwiecki, aka The OlDoowopper, grew up with a ringside seat to the birth of rock and roll or doo-wop...
by Peter Miles
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Are you a fan of rock metal? Can you name the bands that are synonymous with this type of music and the songs that made them famous? Do you go to the Download Festival on the trail of your favourite rock stars? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you definitely won’t want to be without...
by Will Friedwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented...
Crazy Like Me
From Memphis and the Rock 'n Roll Trio to Fleetwood Mac
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Billy Burnette is the epitome of a rock star – he exudes talent, good looks, and the rock star aura wherever he goes and understandably so, given his journey as a musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist.
Born in Memphis, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Dorsey William Burnette III (aka Billy...
Uncommon People
The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal
An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture
Recklessness, thy name...
TV-a-Go-Go
Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television-as this critical look brilliantly shows-has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining...
by Pete Prown, Pete Brown, HP Newquist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
This book is a virtual encyclopedia of great electric guitar players, with 35 chapters examining the major players in each important era of rock. The book begins with rock's birth from the blues, covering masters like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. It proceeds to cover rockabilly greats like Chuck...
by Jen Crothers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Musicians who find fame on reality TV are supposed to provide a bit of entertainment and then fade away - not have three UK Top 10 albums and more than a dozen UK Top 10 singles. Maybe someone forget to tell Girls Aloud the rules.November 2002 saw the birth of the most successful reality TV-formed...
One Way or Another
The Story of a Girl Who Loved Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
In 1981, fifteen-year-old Nikki McWatters is living in a Gold Coast suburb, dragging herself through humdrum schooldays and dreaming of losing her virginity to a rock star. With three friends she starts the Vulture Club for aspiring groupies – and so begins a festival of sex, drugs and rock ’n’...
Prog Rock FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Rock's Most Progressive Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Prog Rock FAQ traces the controversial, but much misunderstood musical genre through its five-decade history, highlighting the rise, eventual decline, and recent resurgence of one of the most inventive and storied popular musical forms of the latter half of the 20th Century. Prog Rock FAQ digs deep...
Appetite for Definition
An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Part reference book, part history, and part road map to the connectivity of popular music, this book is a must for all rock ‘n’ roll fans as it brings together a compilation of over two hundred genres of rock music—an entertaining, enlightening, knotty family tree of America’s favorite musical...
Ariana
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Ariana Grande captured the hearts of a nation with her One Love Manchester concert. Less than a fortnight after a terrorist killed twenty-two people at her Manchester show, the petite princess stood tall at her tribute concert that united and healed a shaken nation. She was the emotional core of a...