Pop Rock category: 3054 books
Red Rock
The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Rebellious, individualistic, and explosive, rock and roll seems incongruent with modern Chinese society. However, as the music has evolved from a Western import into something uniquely Chinese, it has been shaped by the nation’s unique system and its relationship with the outside world. As it tracks...
Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin, 2nd Edition
The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This second edition of the history of rock's heaviest band gives you even more reasons to rock! This all-star tribute features many of today's top rock journalists from Rolling Stone, CREEM, Billboard, and more, as well as reflections on the band from some of rock's greatest performers, including...
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1
1920-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative—from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise...
Patti Smith
America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Nicknamed the “Godmother of Punk,” Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a strong-willed woman in the mainstream rock community by breaking not only the fragile glass ceiling,...
From Cradle to Stage
Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David Bowie-Virginia never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first time, she...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Chuck Berry is known as “the Father of Rock and Roll”. Without Chuck Berry, rock and roll would have been very different. He is its greatest songwriter, one of its greatest guitar players and one of its greatest performers. He influenced The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series.The Legends of Rock & Roll series is about the music we have listened to over the past fifty years. This is a mini-biography of the band Fleetwood Mac, but even more importantly, it's about the music that they created; the songs that...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Some people call them “the greatest band in America.” Are they the greatest? Only you can decide that. For me, they truly are a great band. They’ve also been known as “the bad boys from Boston.” Read Legends of Rock & Roll - Aerosmith to find out just how bad. Also called the American Stones...
Everybody Must Get Stoned:
Rock Stars On Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Keith's on guitar, Charlie's on drums, and Ronnie's on rhythm. But who's on drugs?
Everybody.
Welcome to the red-eyed world of rock and roll, where every riff comes with a spliff--a coked-up compendium of your favorite musicians and their favorite drugs. Loaded with sordid tales of debauchery,...
Allen Klein
The Man Who Bailed Out the Beatles, Made the Stones, and Transformed Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The story of the notorious rock and roll manager, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest bands in music history.
Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. Though he became infamous for allegedly causing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the...
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop
The Music and Artists of the 1950S and Early 1960S
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Making Your Memories with Rock & Roll and Doo-Wop: The Music and Artists of the 1950s and Early 1960s digs back through the catalogue of popular music and brings to life the solo artists, duos, and groups whose music once filled the airwaves and turntables with rock & roll and doo-wop. The...
by Andrew Earles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The ultimate guide to one of the most revered periods and movements in American rock history. The 1980s are one of the most ridiculed and parodied epochs in popular music—what with all the skinny lapels, synthesizers, spandex, and Aqua Net. However, music fans in the know recognize that beneath...
Another Little Piece of My Heart
My Life of Rock and Revolution in the '60s
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
"A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews
In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein...
by Jim Driver
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Over 60 gripping accounts tracking the dark side of rock 'n' roll from the early days of the drugs-and-drink culture, and the birth of rock 'n' roll, through The Beatles, Stones, Sex Pistols, Madonna, Kurt Cobain and Oasis, to Amy Winehouse, Pete Doherty and other stars of the current rock-music scene.
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