Pop Rock category: 3054 books
The Blondie Quiz Book
100 Questions on the American Rock Band
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Blondie is a pioneering new wave rock band, popular during the 1970s and ‘80s, with a career spanning several decades, and an army of loyal fans. Fronted by original member, Debbie Harry, the band is still going strong today, but how much can you remember about Blondie over the years?Which American...
A Spy in the House of Loud
New York Songs and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, “the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it.” In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes...
by Daniel Ichbiah
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2012
La biographie du groupe Téléphone - édition 2016
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Téléphone est demeuré le groupe de rock français de référence, continuellement diffusé sur les radios.
Téléphone au coeur de la vie est la seule histoire du groupe Téléphone réalisée...
by Daniel Ichbiah
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Téléphone est demeuré le groupe de rock français de référence, continuellement diffusé sur les radios.
En décembre 2015, à l’annonce d’une tournée 2016 des Insus (les 3 garçons de Téléphone), 200 000 places ont été écoulées en quelques heures, marquant un record et témoignant...
This Is Spinal Tap
Music on Film Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In 1984, four comedians – Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer – unleashed This Is Spinal Tap, the world's first “mock-rockumentary” and a joke that has lasted into the 21st century and inspired a generation of imitations. Now, award-winning film journalist John...
by Mark Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
**We were all equal, but sometimes the band could be led by whoever shouted the loudest.**�
Step inside one of Australia's most beloved and hard-working bands.
For eighteen years, Mark Seymour fronted Hunters and Collectors - although he was never remotely in control of it. Together they released...
Counting Down the Rolling Stones
Their 100 Finest Songs
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
No band has ever been able to demonstrate the enduring power of rock and roll quite like the Rolling Stones, who continue to enthrall, provoke, and invigorate their legions of fans more than fifty years since they began. In Counting Down the Rolling Stones: Their 100 Finest Songs, rock writer Jim...
Woodstock 1969
The Lasting Impact of the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
As the fiftieth anniversary of the Woodstock festival nears, Woodstock 1969 stands out for its singular voice. Photojournalist Jason Lauré followed his unerring instinct for being in the right place at the crucial moment. He and coauthor Ettagale Blauer trace the historic events that preceded the...
Of Grunge and Government
Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Nirvana bassist “offers specific platforms for electoral reform . . . as well as charming anecdotes about rock ‘n’ roll as a pursuit of happiness” (Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review).
A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic’s...
Experiencing Led Zeppelin
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In Experiencing Led Zeppelin: A Listener’s Companion, musician and writer Gregg Akkerman looks behind the curtain of “rock gods” sensationalism at this performing acts musical legacy through their studio and live recordings. Drawing on his many years as a rock musician and music scholar, Akkerman...
Still Competition
The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Following the success of his 2016 book Razama-Snaz! The Listener’s Guide to Nazareth, Robert Lawson returns with this meticulous reviewing of every Cheap Trick album, song by song. In his book, Still Competition: The Listener’s Guide to Cheap Trick, Lawson outlines the band’s significant television...
Tramps Like Us
Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
As rock critics have noted in the past, Bruce Springsteen's songs exist in a world of their own--they have their own settings, characters, words, and images. It is a world that even those who know only a handful of Springsteen's lyrics can instantly recognize, a world of highways and factories, loners...
My Generation
Rock 'n' Roll Remembered, An Imperfect History
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1996
'A fascinating compilation - Some of the recollections are funny, others are moving, and some reveal more about the contributor's life than their taste in music. My Generation is Desert Island Discs With Attitude.' - Lise Hand, The Sunday Tribune 'A treasure trove of music, nostalgia and fiery ardour.'...
The Coolest Music Book Every Made
The MC 500
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
The Coolest Music Book Ever Made aka MC 500 is a two volume set containing write-ups for 500 songs spanning over 40 years. More than 250 artists are represented from the genres of Funk, R&B, Hard Rock, Hip-Hop, Soft Rock, Disco, Jazz, House, Metal, and Reggae.
This musical All-Star Team...