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Don't let the tattoos, black eyeliner and spiked hair fool you – Quick Silverman is not the dangerous bad boy he appears to be on the outside. A career musician who spent his youth chasing down the rock and roll dream, Quick finally has the brass ring in his sights, thanks to an invitation to join...

La historia de la grabación de los discos más emblemáticos del rock nacional por el creador del sonido de los últimos cuarenta años. Breuer es una marca registrada en el rock nacional. Ha sabido crear, con los músicos más emblemáticos de la Argentina, el sonido característico de artistas...

For more than 30 years, legendary music photographer Neil Zlozower has shot a who's-who of rock and metal titans. When the session demands, Neil has been known to yell, "Give me some fucking attitude!" The go-to gesture in the next photo frame is nearly always the rocker giving Neil the...

Bono l'ha definito "il più grande genio del rock"; perché Jimi Hendrix non è stato soltanto il più importante, influente e fantasioso "guitar hero" della storia. Hendrix è stato un artista sensazionale, un talento creativo sublime, un performer inimitabile. Ma pur essendo un'autentica icona del...

Da Marc Bolan ad Alice Cooper, da Gary Glitter a Lou Reed, dai Roxy Music ai New York Dolls, da Wayne County ai Queen, dagli Ultravox ai Kraftwerk, dal Rocky Horror Picture Show a L’uomo che cadde sulla Terra, senza dimenticare un’esauriente panoramica sugli strascichi del fenomeno: Johnny Rotten,...

Caleb Quaye, perhaps the greatest rock guitarist of the British Invasion, worked with many of the best known rockers of his era, including Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Hall & Oates, and Elton John. During that time he thought he had what mattered most in life -- fame,...

America's first professional, racially integrated, rock 'n' roll band starts with the background of Johnny's family. It quickly leads into his fun and equally exhausting teenage years where Johnny leaves school early to help with the family business. After years of self taught devotion and practice...

In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record “Purple Haze” in January 1967....

The Gibson Les Paul is possibly the electric guitar most associated with rock ’n’ roll. The result of a collaboration between Gibson’s Ted McCarty and jazz guitarist Les Paul in response to the success of Fender’s Telecaster, the Les Paul has gone on to become a prized instrument played by...

"Brilliant; the best book I have ever read about the recording industry; a classic."--Larry King On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history....

Hendrix is the definitive, illustrated biography of the man widely considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time. Coinciding with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 75th year on this mortal coil, this (incredibly) is the first full-blown illustrated gift book exploring the life and career...

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated...

Connie Francis is the biggest selling female performer of them all. Having sold in excess of 100 million albums and who knows how many singles, she made her mark on the music of the Fifties and of the Sixties. This is the fourth in a series of tributes to the rock and roll legends of the Fifties.Find...

Quella che ci propone in questo libro Lorenzo Giovagnoli è una storia del rock progressivo che nasce da una grande passione e dalla convinzione che questo genere sia prima di tutto “musica per la mente”, capace cioè di liberare lo spirito e di proporre modi di vita e di pensiero alternativi. Un...