Rock category: 3054 books
Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars
The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This intimate story of Lynyrd Skynyrd tells of how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits with uncertain artistic objectives clawed their way to the top of the rock 'n’ roll world. Based on interviews with surviving band members, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars shares how lead singer...
I Am the Wolf
Lyrics and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale and a foreword by Moby
With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens...
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 Robb Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Recording with Joe Meek, backing Billy Fury, summer seasons with Marty Wilde and Adam Faith, encounters with The Kray Twins and bleak journeys to remote venues - all the highs and lows of a recording and touring band are detailed here... Robb was a member of three groups, all managed by legendary...
by Abigail Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and popular music shifts popular music studies in a...
Dylan Judas 1966 Like The Night (Revisited 2)
The Road To The Manchester Free Trade Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Documenting the most legendary concert and tour in rock history, Like The Night (Revisited), a riveting eyewitness account of Dylan's pivotal 1966 show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, was one of the essential Dylan books of the millennia. It documented the controversial time when Dylan turned his...
Life on Tour with Bowie
A Genius Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When David sat down later, he tucked one leg up under him and I noticed that the sole of his shoe was as clean as the day he'd bought it. OK, maybe the shoes were new, but it struck me that he hardly ever sets foot in the street. It's all hotel, limousines, sterilized airports—the life I was about...
by The Jesus Lizard
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
In the 1990s, The Jesus Lizard were the reigning kinds of indie rock, heralded by Nirvana and all other rock musicians.
The band's reunion shows in the past year have been phenomenally successful.
Possible band reunification to help promote the book.
Major review/profile coverage...
by Janiss Garza, Lemmy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
“Few could claim with any conviction to have taken more drugs, drunk more bourbon, or entertained more women than Motörhead’s lead singer.”—Sunday Times
“The heaviest drinking, most oversexed speed freak in the music business."
Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on Christmas...
The Clash Takes on the World
Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "bored with the USA,†? but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as "Hate and War†? were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit "Police and...
Led Zeppelin
All the Albums, All the Songs, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**Just in time for their 50th anniversary, Led Zeppelin breaks down one of the world’s most prolific bands—track by track, album by album—in this expanded edition, revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog†‹.
Formed by the unlikely alliance of...
by Bill Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
This is the first instructional singing book to address exclusively rock singing in the singers' own words. Learn what it takes to sing like a professional, maximise your vocal range, and increase power. Includes interviews and quotes with a range of singers including Bruce Dickinson, Geoff Tate, Joe Lynn Turner, John Bush and James Labrie.
Party Out of Bounds
The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s...