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A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” is Bill Sullivan’s motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’...

Elvis: 30 #1 Hits (PVG) presents the greatest rock ‘n’ roll songs by the King all in one songbook! This beautifully transcribed volume contains arrangements for Piano, Vocal and Guitar of all thirty songs from the number one hit album Songbook: - Heartbreak Hotel - Don’t Be Cruel -...

Fourteen classic rock favorites arranged for beginning/intermediate fingerstyle guitar. These arrangements can be easily played on nylon or steel string guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature, this is the perfect book for those looking to augment their popular music repertoire with great...

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti. In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. L’analisi...

Per aver creato nuove espressioni poetiche nella grande tradizione della canzone americana’. Con questa motivazione, il 13 ottobre 2016, l’Accademia svedese ha assegnato a Bob Dylan il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, l’ultimo e forse il più importante dei tanti riconoscimenti a lui tributati....

Chi non conosce il riff di Satisfaction dei Rolling Stones (tre note), o quello di “Smoke on the Water” dei Deep Purple, tre bicordi, o ancora quello micidiale di “Whole Lotta Love” dei Led Zeppelin (forse il più grande riff di tutti i tempi) assestato sulla ripetizione di due note (nella...

Die wohl kraftvollste und ambitionierteste Biographie, die je über einen Rock'n'Roll-Künstler geschrieben wurde, urteilte der Rolling Stone über die englische Ausgabe dieser Biographie. Eine packende Analyse des musikalischen Phänomens Jimi Hendrix, der durch die Verschmelzung von Blues und Jazz...

Die Musik der Rolling Stones 1964-2008. Von Ernst Hofacker. Musikbiografie. Mehr als 350 Songs haben die Rolling Stones bislang offiziell veröffentlicht, darunter einige der schönsten und wichtigsten der Popgeschichte. Ihre berühmten Hits wie 'Satisfaction' oder 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' bilden dabei...

The music that has been produced in Memphis over the past 100 years is as unique and diverse as the city itself. Growing out of the Mississippi Delta, the Memphis blues have been transported worldwide by such ambassadors as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf. Rock's first baby steps were taken at the tiny...

Un viaggio in versi sulle note di un genere musicale dall'anima unica. Un canto alla notte, alla giovinezza che oscilla in bilico tra menefreghismo e dolore, l'urlo di un popolo di sognatori ribelli, feriti e complessi. E poi... un pezzo suonato in un locale ci porta il calore degli anni di cui abbiamo...

The Beatles, the most popular, influential, and important band of all time, have been the subject of countless books of biography, photography, analysis, history, and conjecture. But this long and winding road has produced nothing like Baby You’re a Rich Man, the first book devoted to the cascade...

In the studio and more than 2,300 concerts between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead performed more than 400 different songs. Their music continues to be tremendously popular as surviving band members and countless tribute bands memorialize the legacy the band left us upon the death of lead guitarist...

Take a volatile rock band, a kingmaking concert promoter, a downtrodden clubowner and a rock critic with questionable journalistic ethics, add one hit record, a drug problem, a couple of riots and shake well. There you have the essence of this book, the very unauthorized account of the rise and fall...

In 1978, Siouxsie and the Banshees declared 'We don't see ourselves in the same context as other rock'n'roll bands.' A decade later, and in the stark aftermath of a devastating storm, the band retreated to a 17th-century mansion house in the deracinated Sussex countryside to write their ninth studio...