Pop Rock category: 3054 books
AC/DC FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the World's True Rock 'n' Roll Band
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
AC/DC FAQ spans AC/DC's 40-year career, starting from the band's inception in 1973. This book covers everything from their early days in Australia to their first tour of England and the United States. It also includes personal experiences, stories, conversations, and interviews by author Susan Masino,...
by Brian Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Manchester’s Stone Roses woke up a stagnant late-Eighties music scene with an eponymous debut album of danceable rock that set the charts ablaze and remains a fixture in critics’ lists today. The UK went mad for them but legal hassles, family responsibilities and personal problems ensured it was...
The Last Sultan
The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout the world. As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, among them Ruth Brown; Big Joe Turner; Ray Charles; Bobby Darin;...
by Steve Lukather, Paul Rees, Steve Vai
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant sound of the late ‘70s and ‘80s was not punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of rock and R&B first staked out on Boz Scaggs’ Silk Degrees. That album was shaped...
by Dave Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2006
By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial superstar in recent rock history, Bowie was seen as a spent force....
50 Years of Rolling Stone
The Music, Politics and People that Shaped Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and—above all—music. This landmark book documents the magazine’s rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present...
This Is Gonna Hurt
Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This Is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe’s and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs, This Is Gonna Hurt is an arresting,...
Clapton
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.
More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by...
I'm with the Band
Confessions of a Groupie
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset...
Wonderful Tonight
George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and...
Eye Mind
The Saga of Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
“One of the most exhilarating and important rock ’n’ roll stories ever told.”—Julian CopeThe trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released the first “psychedelic” rock album in America, transforming culture throughout the 1960s and beyond. The Elevators followed their own spiritual...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
During his lifetime and a musical career that spanned five decades, Frank Zappa released almost 60 albums of rock, jazz-rock, and classical music. The Frank Zappa Buying Guide is an album by album guide to navigating the often daunting Zappa catalog, with cover photos for each album, as well as descriptions, band history, and much more.
Van Halen
A Visual History: 1978 - 1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
From their eponymous 1978 debut through their colossal 1984 album (they've sold over 75 million albums worldwide), Van Halen rewrote all the rules. Nobody rockedor partiedharder. Photographer Neil Zlozower first met the band in 1978, worked with them again on Van Halen II, and soon became their friend,...
From the Velvets to the Voidoids
The Birth of American Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads,...