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The Gibson Les Paul is possibly the electric guitar most associated with rock ’n’ roll. The result of a collaboration between Gibson’s Ted McCarty and jazz guitarist Les Paul in response to the success of Fender’s Telecaster, the Les Paul has gone on to become a prized instrument played by...

"Brilliant; the best book I have ever read about the recording industry; a classic."--Larry King On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and changed the course of musical history....

Hendrix is the definitive, illustrated biography of the man widely considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time. Coinciding with what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 75th year on this mortal coil, this (incredibly) is the first full-blown illustrated gift book exploring the life and career...

Welsh post-punk band Young Marble Giants released one LP in 1980 and then, like their vanishing portraits on the album's cover, disappeared. Even though Colossal Youth received positive reviews and sold surprisingly well, Young Marble Giants quickly slid into the margins of rock 'n' roll history-relegated...

Connie Francis is the biggest selling female performer of them all. Having sold in excess of 100 million albums and who knows how many singles, she made her mark on the music of the Fifties and of the Sixties. This is the fourth in a series of tributes to the rock and roll legends of the Fifties.Find...

Quella che ci propone in questo libro Lorenzo Giovagnoli è una storia del rock progressivo che nasce da una grande passione e dalla convinzione che questo genere sia prima di tutto “musica per la mente”, capace cioè di liberare lo spirito e di proporre modi di vita e di pensiero alternativi. Un...

Ticket to Ride review by Tom "Tearaway" Shulte, inc19.com Graham Sclater, today a music publisher in England, was active as a musician in the "Hamburg Sound" era when Germany was fertile ground for English "beat groups" plying their trade and crafting their...

Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into any of these descriptors. Buried underneath the...

This book is for all beginning and early intermediate rock guitarists. No prior playing experience or note reading ability is required. The solos are written in both standard notation and tablature. While writing the arrangements, the author considered the small hands of children. Many of the songs...

“We never wanted anyone to write the official band biography, and we still feel that way. But if you choose to write your own interpretations, based upon all the things that we have experienced together and about what has happened, I would like to participate in any way that I can. I think that...

In The Meat Puppets and the Lyrics of Curt Kirkwood from Meat Puppets II to No Joke!, Matthew Smith-Lahrman interprets the words of Curt Kirkwood, founding member and songwriter of the Meat Puppets, a pioneering rock ’n’ roll band of the last thirty years. Smith-Lahrman’s analysis covers Kirkwood’s...

From Cleveland to Cincinnati and everywhere in between, Ohio rocks. Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll takes readers behind the scenes to witness the birth and rise of musical legends like the Black Keys, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, the Breeders, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, and...

Eine nicht autorisierte Biographie, die über den Mythos und die Gerüchte von diesem charismatischsten aussieht, aber missverstanden von Rock-Gitarristen. Ritchie Blackmore's frühen Tagen sah ihn Vermischung mit bunten Figuren wie Screaming Lord Sutch, Joe Meek und Jerry Lee Lewis. Dann wurde...

A chi non è capitato di ascoltare di continuo quella canzone che sembra descrivere esattamente il nostro mal d’amore? E chi non è mai esploso in un grido liberatorio cantando a squarciagola il brano che in quel momento sente esprimere meglio di ogni altro il suo stato d’animo? Massimo Cotto...