Rock category: 3054 books
Foo Fighters
Learning to Fly
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
There’s a reason why Dave Grohl is known, however naively, as “the nicest man in rock.” A reason why millions have bought his Foo Fighters albums and DVDs, his concert and festival tickets. A reason why generations have bought into his story, his dream, his self-fulfilling prophecies. Dave may...
Disco's Out...Murder's In!
The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs.
The Los Angeles, Orange County, and South Bay punk scenes, populated by blue collar kids...
Everything Is Combustible
Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful early life, starting in Pittsburgh and soon moving to New York City, and...
You Only Rock Once
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Jerry Blavat's rockin' life story pulses with celebrity names, infamous episodes and "offers readers an insider's view into the golden era of rock and roll and pop music and entertainment" raves Publishers Weekly.
The long-awaited autobiography of entertainment icon Jerry Blavat,...
by Jake Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
AC/DC have reigned over rock 'n' roll for almost four decades. Their signature power chord rock was the sonic standard bearer of the genre they pioneered, summarised in Rolling Stone's declaration that they 'are one of the top hard rock bands in history'. The group has transcended their Australian...
Big Bang, Baby
Rock Trivia
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000
In the middle of the conservative 1950s, rock and roll hit popular culture like an explosion a Big Bang, Baby! And the fallout from that explosion is still electrifying music fans today.
Popular music expert Richard Crouse has ventured deep into the far reaches of rock history to bring together...
by Zoë Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
What's it like growing up as the offspring of rock royalty? Living through bizarre backstage and onstage experiences, unconventional childhoods, drugs, debts and mad babysitters, the subjects of this book may have grown up quickly but their backgrounds shaped them in very different ways. In this frank...
by Joel McIver
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
In 1975 legendary bassist Lemmy decreed that Motörhead would be “the dirtiest rock’n’roll band in the world. If you moved in next door, your lawn would die.” Overkill: The Untold Story Of Motörhead tells the whole story of the ultimate rock trip.
The Omnibus Enhanced edition includes...
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...