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Syd Barrett was an English composer and purveyor of some of the most intriguing music ever written. Famous before his twentieth birthday, Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at London’s famed UFO club. With a Fender Telecaster and a primitive Binson echo unit, Barrett liberated the guitar...

From the early days of my childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, to the very first sounds of punk rock that followed me to my final home in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is a simple recollection of my years as a drummer, and the high-flying time I had in various rock bands through out Indianapolis during the early 80's.

Il magnifico volo spiccato dai Pink Floyd nel 1967 è iniziato sin da subito da un’altezza quasi irraggiungibile, considerata l’importanza storica, per il Rock, rivestita da The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. La loro carriera, successiva a quella formidabile opera prima, segnata dalla presenza determinante...

ELVIS meets the BEATLES** By Chris Hutchins and Peter Thompson HOW did John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ever get to America in the first place? How did Elvis Presley, a poor boy from the Tennessee backwoods, arrive in Hollywood? Full of previously unpublished detail, this...

When Pete Doherty was imprisoned for burgling his best friend and bandmate Carl Barat in August 2003 it seemed the light had gone out on Britain's most exciting new band. Released early and reconciled with Barat, The Libertines confounded the critics by rounding off 2003 with three triumphant sold-out...

Se pensate che la matematica sia fatta soltanto di aride formule e noiosi calcoli con polinomi e frazioni, vi sbagliate di grosso. La matematica, quella vera, è ovunque: perfino nei testi delle canzoni e nelle copertine dei dischi. E il bello è che è pure divertente. Però prima bisogna saperla...

If you remember the Sixties, you werent there. Tony Norman turns the cliché on its head with his memories of an amazing decade. Sex, drugs, laughter, gang fights, groupies, lovers, broken hearts. Theyre all part of growing up with the Mod band he loves like brothers. It is a golden age for music and...

Best seller in tutto il mondo e ora ripubblicato in versione aggiornata, il libro analizza l'universo Zeppelin, soffermandosi tanto sugli aspetti più oscuri e scioccanti della band quanto sulla loro musica e i loro concerti che hanno restituito al rock la dimensione più selvaggia e genuina. Dall'esordio...

Il libro prende in rassegna le strutture del blues e come queste si sono evolute a partire dagli inizi del secolo scorso fino ai giorni nostri. Viene prima analizzata la progressione standard, così come definita nella sua forma primordiale del Country Blues, cristallizzatasi nel periodo del Blues...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Complete, note-for-note tab transcriptions for Frank Zappa's epic 1974 tour de force, featuring over-the-top zany lyrics and subject matter, searing guitar virtuosity, and tight arrrangements veering between rock and jazz fusion. Includes all 9 songs that have become classics...

The Best of Fleetwood Mac Chord Songbook presents, for the first time in print, the best of every incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in one songbook, from the ’60s Peter Green blues-rock hits of Black Magic Woman, Albatross and Oh Well, through the incredible success of such ’70s & ’80s albums...

For over forty years, Don Walker’s songwriting has captured what it is to be Australian. From Cold Chisel to Catfish, Tex, Don & Charlie to his solo work, as well as many other writing collaborations, Walker’s words are poetic, moving and incisive. Including classics such as “Khe Sanh”,...

Un diamante grezzo, non un diamante pazzo. Syd Barrett, il genio che inventò il rock psichedelico e che continua a essere un autentico mito per decine di milioni di persone, ha vissuto sessant'anni, trenta dei quali in assoluto silenzio. A dieci anni dalla morte, una biografia nuova e ricca di contenuti...

Popular music has always attracted the kind of morally bankrupt individuals who are too unhinged to hold down a proper job. And thats just as well. After all, if your local fishmonger told you hed just snorted his fathers ashes, you might think twice about doing business with him. But when Keith Richards...