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La musica di Matthew Bellamy e dei suoi Muse ha letteralmente traghettato il suono del rock nel nuovo millennio. La collisione tra un romanticismo à la Jeff Buckley e le chitarre rombanti dei Rage Against The Machine ha creato un marchio di fabbrica inconfondibile. Da qui i Muse hanno poi dato il...

In meno di tre anni di carriera, nell'arco di un pugno di canzoni e nel giro frenetico di qualche concerto, i Sex Pistols hanno sconvolto le tradizionali unità di misura della popular music, costringendo giornalisti, operatori del settore e pubblico ad attrezzarsi di fronte alla rottura delle regole...

For years we’ve been saying that there’s a Great Mystery in the history of Rock’n’Roll. One of the 20th Century’s most outstanding stories, concerning the alleged death of Paul McCartney and his subsequent replacement with a lookalike. The story was based on "clues" from record...

combining elements of traditional rock, jazz, fusion and funk, the Super String Shaman begins on a fabled story of an earlier age of humanity in a distant time on earth. a time when humans were moving from their primitive natures into what would perhaps be best described as the first evolution of mankind, an evolution of magic and mystery, wonder and discovery.

Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's...

Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo cinco años (1967-1971), grabó algunas de las mejores canciones de la historia del rock. Con su estilo...

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple - die Trinität dieser Bands wird meist genannt, wenn zur Debatte steht, wer den Hardrock oder gar das Genre des Heavy Metal erfunden hat, sofern denn ein Genre erfunden werden kann und sich nicht vielmehr aus einer ziemlich unübersichtlichen Gemengelage zeit-...

1967. A band called The Premiers has arrived in London, hoping for fame and fortune. They meet an older man, Paul, who decides to help them find their way in the music business. They have an encounter with a famous bandleader, Cyril Stapleton, who records them, but nothing comes of it, and the band...

This fantastic new edition of The Great Australian Songbook showcases an unforgettable selection of songs by the greatest Australian artists. From ’80s classics to contemporary hits, this collection presents many songs and artists never even available in print before, reflecting the extraordinary...

This Ain't No Picnic is the first cookbook featuring creative and delicious recipes that match the quality and presentation of a gourmet restaurant with the self-parody and humor of punk rock culture and history. A comedic art book full of social commentary, it explores and improves the favorite foods...

IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING segna una forte discontinuità con la psichedelia e il blues revival, e le varie forme miste, popolari in Inghilterra verso la fine degli anni Sessanta. Supera cliché estetici e filosofici ormai in crisi e inaugura una nuova era del rock non solo per mezzo di strumenti...

Majorlabelland and Assorted Oddities is comprised of an essay about hard rock bands in the eighties and nineties and their struggles with major record labels which resulted in several albums that have never been released. Interviews have been conducted with almost forty musicians from some two dozen...

Nachdem Axel Klingenberg Mitte der 80er Jahre in der Film-AG des Herzog Ernst-Gymnasiums in Uelzen »The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle« gesehen hat, kaufte er sich eine Lederjacke und einen Haufen Sex Pistols- und Exploited-Platten. Kenntnisreich, leidenschaftlich und (selbst-)ironisch lässt er 25...

Novembre 1980. Quand Daniel, quinze ans, découvre l'album de rock "The River", il devient fan de Bruce Springsteen. Mais, comme tant de personnages des chansons de l'artiste américain, il ignore encore que sa vie s'annonce remplie d'écueils...