Pop Rock category: 3054 books
by Brett Callwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The influence of The Stooges on the world of punk and rock 'n' roll is immeasurable. The band's three albums - The Stooges, Fun House and Raw Power - have all gone down in history as bona fide classics. The fact that the band only existed for a few short years makes their achievements all the more...
Roots, Radicals and Rockers
How Skiffle Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come...
Love Rock Revolution
K Records and the Rise of Independent Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Punk isn't a sound--it's an idea! In its history, K Records has fostered some of independent music's greatest artists, including Bikini Kill, Beat Happening, Built to Spill, Beck, Modest Mouse, and the Gossip. In 1982, K Records released its first cassette and put its own spin on punk's defiant manifesto:...
Dig
Australian Rock and Pop Music, 1960-85
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
David Nichols tells the story of Australian rock and pop music from 1960 to 1985 formative years in which the nation cast off its colonial cultural shackles and took on the world.
Generously illustrated and scrupulously researched, Dig combines scholarly accuracy with populist flair. Nichols...
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
When Lou Reed and Iggy Pop first met David Bowie in the fall of 1971, Bowie was just another English musician passing through New York City. Lou was still recovering from the collapse of the Velvet Underground, and Iggy had already been branded a loser... Yet within two years they completely changed...
by Bobby Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Take a Ride with "the Boy" Through the** Heart of the Last Great Era of Hard Rock!**
Drumming phenom Bobby Rock takes you behind the scenes to the genesis of his extraordinary musical journey: from the moment he decided to become a drummer, to his fanatical practice and training...
Music That Matters: Classic Pop
Pop Gallery eBooks, #13
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
“Music That Matters (Classic Pop)” (Includes 11 Video Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript)What makes music have a lasting impact on your soul minutes, days, months, years and decades after you first experienced a particular group, song or album? Chances are you were experiencing something emotionally...
Fucked by Rock b/w I Have the Greatest Respect for You, George
The Unimaginable Confessions of Zodiac Mindwarp
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Bringing together the previously unpublished I Have the Greatest Respect for You George and the new, expanded Fucked by Rock, the man behind Zodiac Mindwarp offers shocking, hilarious episodes and events from a decade of debauchery, derangement, and brain-damaging excess
Mark Manning...
by Chandra Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A music review of Ronnie Mayor’s debut CD “A Singersong A Rotator,” unforgettable and haunting, an offering of soulful love songs from Britain's best.Born in Liverpool, UK’s Ronnie Mayor is among the greatest talents of present day singer songwriters. A mature singer and songwriter,...
Rock'n'Roll's Strangest Moments
Extraordinary But True Tales from 45 Years of Rock & Roll History
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Rock music, since its pre-history in blues, country music and 40s and early 50s pop, through to the well-publicised excesses of touring bands of today, has left a legacy of thousands of weird and wonderful stories in its wake. Weve all read about the Whos Keith Moon driving a Rolls Royce into a hotel...
by Randy Ray, Mark Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Anyone who grew up in Canada in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, knows how amazing Canada's music scene was in those magical decades. Etched in the musical memories of millions of music fans in Canada and around the globe are great tunes, television appearances and live shows featuring The Diamonds,...
Rock und Pop
Von Elvis Presley bis Lady Gaga
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2011
«We all want to change the world», sangen die Beatles 1968. Mit der Gitarre in der Hand die Welt verändern: Dieser Traum ist mit der Rock- und Popmusik untrennbar verbunden. Peter Wicke erzählt ihre Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Dabei kommen Stilrichtungen, Soundformen und Aufnahmetechniken...
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
"In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle." --Publishers Weekly
The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
They called Michael Jackson the "King of Pop". He outsold Elvis and every other performer of the past fifty years. His story is one of success, heartbreak and loneliness: extreme highs and terrible lows. He was accused of being a child pedophile. He was called every name the press could think of....