Rock category: 3054 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence...
Rec & Roll
Una vida grabando el rock nacional
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2017
La historia de la grabación de los discos más emblemáticos del rock nacional por el creador del sonido de los últimos cuarenta años.
Breuer es una marca registrada en el rock nacional. Ha sabido crear, con los músicos más emblemáticos de la Argentina, el sonido característico de artistas...
Fuck You
Rock and Roll Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
For more than 30 years, legendary music photographer Neil Zlozower has shot a who's-who of rock and metal titans. When the session demands, Neil has been known to yell, "Give me some fucking attitude!" The go-to gesture in the next photo frame is nearly always the rocker giving Neil the...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
This edition of The Little Black Songbook presents the complete lyrics and chords to a huge selection of pop and rock hits. This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to explore the rich history of popular Western music.
This...
Hey Joe
The Unauthorized Biography of a Rock Classic
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
The song Hey Joe was a momentary blip on the pop music scene in 1965 courtesy of a Southern California band called The Leaves. It would be their only hit. But over the next 50 plus years, the quirky song about premeditated murder went on to become something special, a musical rite of passage for the...
Jimi Hendrix
La storia del Rock - I protagonisti
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Bono l'ha definito "il più grande genio del rock"; perché Jimi Hendrix non è stato soltanto il più importante, influente e fantasioso "guitar hero" della storia. Hendrix è stato un artista sensazionale, un talento creativo sublime, un performer inimitabile. Ma pur essendo un'autentica icona del...
Polvere di stelle
Il glam rock dalle origini ai giorni nostri
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Da Marc Bolan ad Alice Cooper, da Gary Glitter a Lou Reed, dai Roxy Music ai New York Dolls, da Wayne County ai Queen, dagli Ultravox ai Kraftwerk, dal Rocky Horror Picture Show a L’uomo che cadde sulla Terra, senza dimenticare un’esauriente panoramica sugli strascichi del fenomeno: Johnny Rotten,...
The Who For Starters
Pop Gallery eBooks, #14
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
"The Who For Starters" (Includes Video and Audio links at the End of The Manuscript)First they were The Detours and then they were Mods and Rockers who took London and the rest of the free world by storm by the end of the 1960s. They are always mentioned in the same breath with The Beatles, Rolling Stones...
by Caleb Quaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Caleb Quaye, perhaps the greatest rock guitarist of the British Invasion, worked with many of the best known rockers of his era, including Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Hall & Oates, and Elton John. During that time he thought he had what mattered most in life -- fame,...
If You Like the Beatles...
Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era, when Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals, the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music – from...
by John La Torre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
America's first professional, racially integrated, rock 'n' roll band starts with the background of Johnny's family. It quickly leads into his fun and equally exhausting teenage years where Johnny leaves school early to help with the family business. After years of self taught devotion and practice...
by Melody Rose
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2011
Fun facts about Originators of Rock: Del Shannon, Gene Pitney & Roy Orbison. Gary Wright of Space Pop, Eric Clapton, guitar god, and Mama Cass Elliott, folk queen and pop diva are discussed.
The Grail Guitar
The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record “Purple Haze” in January 1967....
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Gig Book returns with another volume of crowd-pleasers, this time weaving through the anthemic world of Classic Rock, jam packed with 100 hits from the likes of Tom Petty, Foo Fighter, Iggy Pop and Bruce Springsteen. Presented with melody line arrangements in standard notation, with guitar chord...