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Burning Britain
The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
Featuring hundreds of brand new interviews and photographs, Burning Britain is the true story of the UK punk scene from 19801984 told for the first time by the bands and labels who created it. Covering the country region by region, Ian Glasper profiles not only big names like Vice Squad, Anti Pasti,...
Look Wot I Dun
Don Powell of Slade
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Look What I Dun is the story of Slade told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell whose life was shattered when, in 1973 at the height of the group s fame, he was involved in a horrific car crash. Unflinching in his honesty, Powell deals frankly with the aftermath of the accident that took the life...
Music Express
The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
The glory days of rock from the perspective of Canada’s original music magazine.
The story of Music Express is told through the unique perspective of Keith Sharp, the magazine’s founder and editor. During its seventeen-year existence, Music Express rose from a small, Calgary-based regional...
Singing from the Floor
A History of British Folk Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and sound systems were unheard of, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians,...
Maximum Volume
The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926–1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. George Martin's working-class childhood and musical influences profoundly shaped his early career as head of the EMI Group's Parlophone Records. Out of them flowed the genius behind his seven years...
Sound Pictures
The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so.
The second and final volume of the definitive biography of the man, Sound Pictures traces the story of the...
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg
Mi vida en los Ramones
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 26, 2015
La revista Rolling Stone puso a Ramones en el número 26 de la lista de los mejores artistas de todos los tiempos. En 2011 recibieron un Grammy por su trayectoria profesional y fueron incluidos en el Rock and Roll Hall of Fame en 2002. Marky Ramone fue una parte esencial de la consecución de este...
The Never-Ending Present
The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The biography of “Canada’s band”
In the summer of 2016, more than a third of Canadians tuned in to watch what was likely the Tragically Hip’s final performance, broadcast from their hometown of Kingston, Ontario. Why? Because these five men were always more than just a band. They sold...
Exploring U2
Is This Rock 'n' Roll?: Essays on the Music, Work, and Influence of U2
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Exploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. Edited by Scott Calhoun, with a foreword by Anthony DeCurtis, Exploring U2 contains selections from the 2009 inaugural gathering of "The Hype and The Feedback: A Conference Exploring The Music, Work...
I'm the Man
The Story of That Guy from Anthrax
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The long-awaited and vastly entertaining autobiography of Scott Ian, guitarist and founder of groundbreaking and influential thrash metal legend Anthrax
Black Tooth Grin
The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Black Tooth Grin is the first biography of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the Texas-bred guitarist of the heavy metal band Pantera, who was murdered onstage in 2004 by a deranged fan-24 years to the day after John Lennon met a similar fate.Darrell Abbott began as a Kiss-inspired teenage prodigy...
Access All Areas
Stories from a Hard Rock Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Entertaining, crazy, and hilarious stories from Scott Ian of Anthrax
Scott Ian, famous for cofounding legendary thrash metal band Anthrax and only slightly less so for his iconic beard, has done and seen a lot in his decades of touring. Those of you who have read Scott's memoir I'm the Man...
by Paul Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The New York Times bestselling author and front man and rhythm guitarist of KISS grants fans an all-access backstage pass to his personal life and shows them how to pursue a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of their own, offering hard-won advice from a music legend.
In...
BMF
The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T," rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. After a decade in the drug game, the Flenorys had it all—a fleet...