Pop Rock category: 3054 books
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The Complete Guitar Player: Rock Songbook features a massive collection of 50 hard-rocking hits from the best of classic and contemporary rock music. Each song has been carefully arranged with melody lines in standard notation, lyrics, Guitar chord boxes, as well as strumming and picking patterns...
by Jonathan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
An electrifying new biography about the four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars and champions of synth pop! Jonathan Miller's groundbreaking book features in-depth interviews with founder member Vince Clarke and producers Gareth Jones and Mark Bell and contains never-before seen...
Dig If You Will the Picture
Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal
A unique and kaleidoscopic look into the life, legacy, and electricity of the pop legend Prince and his wideranging impact on our culture
Ben Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New...
80s Chart-Toppers
Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy.
The glamour of costume, greasepaint and cross-dressing was put to good...
Love for Sale
Pop Music in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music critic
From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth-century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic...
by Peaches, Yoko Ono, Michael Stipe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
One of the Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2015
"[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy...
Take a Walk on the Dark Side
Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons.
Updating, revising,...
by Barry J. Faulk, Brady Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash, punk culture, and the intersections between pop music and politics, on both sides of the Atlantic....
Making New Zealand's Pop Renaissance
State, Markets, Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Since the early 2000s New Zealand has undergone a pop renaissance. Domestic artists' sales, airplay and concert attendance have all grown dramatically while new avenues for 'kiwi' pop exports emerged. Concurrent with these trends was a new collective sentiment that embraced and celebrated domestic...
by Joel Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Each of the 13 songs from Sgt. Peppers are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.
Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said about it, what was unique...
World Domination
The Sub Pop Records Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Founded in the late 1980s by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, Seattle-based Sub Pop Records released early recordings by then-upstart regional bands such as Green River, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad, Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Afghan Whigs, and Screaming Trees.
When the world went grunge crazy...
Behind the Boards
The Making of Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest Records Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The term “soundtrack of our lives” is one commonly tossed around by artists, fans, critics, and historians in discussing rock 'n' roll's timeless hits, spanning every subgenre, from pop to hard rock, heavy metal to new wave. In the pages of Behind the Boards: The Making of Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest...
Experiencing Peter Gabriel
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In Experiencing Peter Gabriel, author Durrell Bowman delves into the sounds and stories of the innovative, versatile, English pop icon. As not only a singer-songwriter and musician, but also a music technologist, world-music champion, and humanitarian, Gabriel has consistently maintained an unabashed...
Eat Like a Rock Star
More Than 100 Recipes from Rock ‘n' Roll's Greatest
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Who knew that Bill Wyman (The Rolling Stones) makes an amazing Lamb Chops with Endive and Blue Cheese Salad, that Michael McDonald (The Doobie Brothers) loves Pasta with Ham and Parmesan Cheese, or that Boz Scaggs eats Tuscan Grilled Chicken?
With more than a hundred recipes from seven decades...