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by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Neil Diamond began his career in the Sixties. He started as a songwriter. He grew his career from songwriter to singer to major recording artist to international star. He has withstood the changes in the music industry, starting as a teen idol and growing into a performer that is listened to and enjoyed...
Demonized
Hunted by the Darkness A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2020
A candid and unflinching memoir by the lead singer of multi-platinum rock band Korn.
After an unconventional childhood plagued with severe illnesses, family dysfunction, sexual abuse, and bullying, it's amazing that Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was able to overcome his demons to become one...
Killing Yourself to Live
85% of a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, preeminent pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman unleashes his best book yet—the story of his cross-country tour of sites where rock stars have died and his search for love, excitement, and the meaning of death.
For...
Little Richard
The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A brilliant new biography of the extraordinary, outrageous performer who helped open the floodgates of Rock 'n' Roll. In June, 2007, Little Richard's 1955 Specialty Records single, "Tutti Frutti," topped Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World." But back in...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
"It's All About the Music!"Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series.This is, like the others, a mini-biography of one the greatest of American bands, The Four Seasons. Come with me for a walk down memory laneas I review the life of the guys who made up the Four Seasons,...
Shock and Awe
Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
NPR Great Read of 2016
From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars,...
Good Rockin' Tonight
Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'N' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're pickin' hillbilly boogie.
At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's something different going on....
A Very Irregular Head
The Life of Syd Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
“I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.”—Syd Barrett’s last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971
Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett (1946–2006) was, by all accounts, the very definition of a golden boy....
Fell in Love with a Band
The Story of The White Stripes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
With only two members and no bass player the White Stripes certainly seemed like the ultimate makeshift band. So how is it that this enigmatic couple—who publicize themselves as brother and sister though official documents say they're ex-husband-and-wife—became a multi-platinum musical sensation?...
Lemmy
The Definitive Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In 'The Ace of Spades', Motörhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, 'Actually, I want to go the day before forever. To avoid the rush...'. This...
Kids of the Black Hole
Punk Rock Postsuburban California
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notorious as that of New York City, emerged full-throated in 1977 and boasted bands like The Germs, X, and Black Flag. This book explores how, in the land of the...
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus.
by Erik Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2005
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots-and leaves the reader...
by Ray Lowry and Ben Myers
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
When punk arrived in the UK in the mid-seventies it sent shock waves around the country. Spearheading the musical assault on all we had previously known were The Clash - a mighty punk rock machine that exhilarated its audience and that dared to draw on influences such as dub reggae, rockabilly and...