Pop Rock category: 3054 books
by Jim Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
It's a chronicle of the last fifty years of American culture as viewed through the lens of one man's love affair with rock and roll. It's an inspiring, sometimes humorous, sometimes despairing, personal reflection on growing up a small town misfit in the '60s and '70s. It's a soap opera. It's a manual...
by Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In the mid-1970s, after a decade as the undisputed “greatest rock and roll band in the world,” The Rolling Stones were forced to confront not only the cold reality of the new punk rock era, but how guitarist Keith Richards’ mounting personal problems were threatening the band’s very existence.
Keith’s...
Rock and Roll Cage Match
Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up with zealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . and heap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place their allegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’s leading cultural critics, humorists, music...
Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock
A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
In Women Singer-Songwriters in Rock: A Populist Rebellion in the 1990s, Ronald D. Lankford Jr. argues that women singer-songwriters formed a substantial movement within popular music during the 1990s, making a significant social and aesthetic contribution that pushed feminism into mainstream American...
All the Madmen
Barrett, Bowie, Drake, the Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. All the Mad Men tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend,...
U2
Rock 'n' Roll to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
U2’s significant career far exceeds that of most average successful rock bands, with a prolific output of thirteen well-received studio albums and a sometimes relentless touring schedule. The band is famous for uniquely drawing together music, art, faith, and activism, all within a lucrative career...
Rock in a Hard Place
Music and Mayhem in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting...
Who Did It First?
Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
“Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions aren’t very different – some songs...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
If you have any plans of putting up your own rock band then check this " How To Start a Rock Band" guide.
In this step-by-step guide you'll enjoy the following benefits:
- Learn choose the genre and search for band members.
- Discover organizational issues.
- Learn how to choose instrument...
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Full of noise and color, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll looks at scientists and their craft, how hedonistic impulses inform our highest pursuits, and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our deepest impulses. It is a fascinating tale of scientists on the edge, experimenting...
by Richard Balls
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author...
A Fan's Tribute to the Beatles
Growing up with John, Paul, George and Ringo
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
The Beatles were the largest selling group of the past decade as determined in the year 2010. Their popularity as a rock group has its longevity in the fact that their music is timeless. Their diversity and ingenious song writing is a factor in their ongoing success as well.
This e-book...
by Bob Yates
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Angels roared out of the 1970s with multi-platinum albums, hits and record-breaking tours. The band was formed by the trio of Rick and John Brewster and Doc Neeson. Songs from their classic albums are as pertinent today as they were when they were released, thanks to John and Rick, the genius...
Let the Good Times Roll
My Life in Small Faces, Faces, and The Who
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The long-awaited memoir of the legendary drummer's life and times in the bands Small Faces, Faces, and The Who.
From the Mod revolution and the British Invasion of the 1960s, through the psychedelic era of the 1970s, and into the exuberance and excesses of stadium rock in the 1980s, Kenney...