Pop Rock category: 3054 books
You Only Rock Once
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Jerry Blavat's rockin' life story pulses with celebrity names, infamous episodes and "offers readers an insider's view into the golden era of rock and roll and pop music and entertainment" raves Publishers Weekly.
The long-awaited autobiography of entertainment icon Jerry Blavat,...
MBGU Rock Curriculum: Fluid Soloing, Book 1
Arpegios for Lead Rock Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
A modern arpeggio handbook and comprehensive training manual for developing fast, flowing arpeggio runs that connect the entire fretboard. Emphasis is on developing fluid, non-shifting arpeggio patterns (across the neck) using hammer-ons and pull-offs for speed and fluidity; and also on developing...
Revolver
How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Acquired wisdom has always put Sgt. Pepper at the head of the class, but it was Revolver that truly signaled The Beatles' sea change from a functional band to a studio-based ensemble. These changes began before Rubber Soul but came to fruition on Revolver, which took an astonishing 300 hours to produce,...
Terminated for Reasons of Taste
Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in this new collection...
The Beatles through a Glass Onion
Reconsidering the White Album
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group’s oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording...
Rock and Roll Always Forgets
A Quarter Century of Music Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades. His byline has appeared everywhere from the Village Voice and Rolling Stone to Creem, Spin,and Vibe. Eddy is a consistently incisive journalist, unafraid to explore and defend...
Too Much Too Young
Popular Music Age and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Too Much Too Young investigates how age and gender have shaped the careers and images of pop music stars, examining the role of youth and youthfulness in pop music through a series of themed case studies.
Whiteley begins by investigating the exploitation of child stars such as Brenda Lee and...
by Jim Newport
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
A Rock ‘n’ Roll Period Piece.One year. 1966 to 1967. Struggling guitar player Jimmy James becomes Rock God Super Star Jimi Hendrix.Like any starving musician Jimi would sign anything for the price of a square meal. Or a block of hash or a tab of acid.While seducing Rock’s...
Gathered From Coincidence
A Singular history of Sixties’ pop
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Combining the personal memories and critical analysis of a self-confessed pop addict with a wealth of contemporary documentary evidence, Gathered From Coincidence reconstructs a truly momentous era to tell the story of the music of the Sixties year by year. By tracing in parallel the origins and development...
by El Pirata, Javier Broco
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Lo que vas a encontrar en este libro es lo que El Pirata y Javier Broco mejor saben hacer: divulgar la historia del rock. Desde el programa El Pirata y su banda en la cadena Rock FM, con una audiencia diaria de 400.000 oyentes, se acercan cada mañana a los músicos, los discos y las miles de anécdotas...
by UK Jung
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
There are so many k-pop boy groups, while the groups are too numerous to mention one by one. However, some of them just disappear after debut, and only a very small minority of k-pop boy groups can become popular. By the way, there is a boy group who has been on the steady rise since its debut and...
Anatomy of a Song
The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“A winning look at the stories behind 45 pop, punk, folk, soul and country classics” in the words of Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper and more (The Washington Post).
Every great song has a fascinating backstory. And here, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades...
Pink Floyd FAQ
Everything Left to Know ... and More!
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
More than four decades since their first album, and 35 years after the release of the iconic Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd continue to inspire and mystify rock fans around the world. Pink Floyd FAQ, by pop culture author Stuart Shea, lays out the band's strange, winding history through a new series...
SAHB Story
The Tale of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
When Alex Harvey died in 1982 he left behind a legacy and a passion which survives to this day - truly cult status. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB) were the biggest-grossing mid-70s live act in the UK; they released eight critically-acclaimed albums in their five years together; and they inspired...