Pop Rock category: 3054 books
Beyond and Before
Progressive Rock since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
A brilliant new survey and intelligent exploration of progressive rock, from its origins through to contemporary artists. Nicely illustrated, it includes rare photos of artists like Kate Bush and Genesis.
Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars
The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This intimate story of Lynyrd Skynyrd tells of how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits with uncertain artistic objectives clawed their way to the top of the rock 'n’ roll world. Based on interviews with surviving band members, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars shares how lead singer...
I Am the Wolf
Lyrics and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale and a foreword by Moby
With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens...
Dylan Judas 1966 Like The Night (Revisited 2)
The Road To The Manchester Free Trade Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Documenting the most legendary concert and tour in rock history, Like The Night (Revisited), a riveting eyewitness account of Dylan's pivotal 1966 show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, was one of the essential Dylan books of the millennia. It documented the controversial time when Dylan turned his...
Life on Tour with Bowie
A Genius Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When David sat down later, he tucked one leg up under him and I noticed that the sole of his shoe was as clean as the day he'd bought it. OK, maybe the shoes were new, but it struck me that he hardly ever sets foot in the street. It's all hotel, limousines, sterilized airports—the life I was about...
by Janiss Garza, Lemmy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
“Few could claim with any conviction to have taken more drugs, drunk more bourbon, or entertained more women than Motörhead’s lead singer.”—Sunday Times
“The heaviest drinking, most oversexed speed freak in the music business."
Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on Christmas...
The Clash Takes on the World
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "bored with the USA,†? but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as "Hate and War†? were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit "Police and...
Led Zeppelin
All the Albums, All the Songs, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Just in time for their 50th anniversary, Led Zeppelin breaks down one of the world’s most prolific bands—track by track, album by album—in this expanded edition, revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog†‹.
Formed by the unlikely alliance of...
by Bill Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
This is the first instructional singing book to address exclusively rock singing in the singers' own words. Learn what it takes to sing like a professional, maximise your vocal range, and increase power. Includes interviews and quotes with a range of singers including Bruce Dickinson, Geoff Tate, Joe Lynn Turner, John Bush and James Labrie.
Party Out of Bounds
The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s...
Future Nostalgia
Performing David Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Although David Bowie has famously characterized himself as a "leper messiah," a more appropriate moniker might be "rock god": someone whose influence has crossed numerous sub-genres of popular and classical music and can at times seem ubiquitous. By looking at key moments in his...
by Ken Micallef
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Exploring technique, history, musicality and instrumental details, this book covers every aspect of the major drummers of the classic rock era: Keith Moon (The Who), Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Stewart Copeland (The Police) and Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood...
Experiencing David Bowie
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Experiencing David Bowie: A Listener's Companion, musicologist, writer, and musician Ian Chapman unravels the extraordinary marriage of sound and visual effect that lies at the heart of the work of one of the most complex and enduring performers in popular music. Still active in a career now well...
by Mike Chunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2014
In the early 1970s, a group of impoverished students formed a rock band in Auckland, New Zealand, and planned their assault on the world's music charts. For a decade Split Enz fought to be understood by audiences and music critics who often struggled to accept their madcap on-stage performances and...