Rock category: 3054 books
Touched by grace
La mia musica con Jeff Buckley
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2012
A quindici anni dalla morte di Jeff Buckley (29 maggio 1997), il grande e sfortunato cantautore americano è ancora uno dei volti più amati del mondo del rock e una delle voci più angeliche che la musica abbia mai avuto. La sua “grazia” – GRACE è appunto il titolo del suo unico album –...
by Benoît Vincent
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: April 6, 2016
MK (Mark Knopfler), guitare héros venu de la terrificque mer du Nord, est un Perceval rock. Sa table ronde à lui s'appelle la dèche : Dire Straits est son nom. Comme son aïeul avant lui, il a aperçu le Graal et n'a rien su en faire, (non) geste qui le condamne à l'entre-deux. Il échoue à la...
by Luca Garrò
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Ancora oggi, a cinquant’anni dalla fondazione, ogni notizia riguardante i Led Zeppelin è in grado di catalizzare l’attenzione degli amanti del rock più di qualsiasi altra. Quasi come se la band fondata da Jimmy Page si fosse sciolta solo dopo il leggendario concerto del dicembre 2007 all’O2...
by Benoît Vincent
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2018
Ils sont quatre, issus de différentes réalités, et ensemble ils vont révolutionner un genre : leur album phare The Dark Side of the Moon en 1973 est un moment de bascule dans l’histoire du rock. Peut-être le début de la fin ? Car rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant après cet opus. Deuxième...
Rock und Pop
Von Elvis Presley bis Lady Gaga
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2011
«We all want to change the world», sangen die Beatles 1968. Mit der Gitarre in der Hand die Welt verändern: Dieser Traum ist mit der Rock- und Popmusik untrennbar verbunden. Peter Wicke erzählt ihre Geschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Dabei kommen Stilrichtungen, Soundformen und Aufnahmetechniken...
Io e gli Stones
La nascita della leggenda
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Nel 1962, un gruppo ancora sconosciuto chiamato Rolling Stones iniziò a incendiare la scena musicale londinese suonando cover di R&B americano. Una sera, prima di lanciarsi in Sweet Little Sixteen di Chuck Berry, il cantante Mick Jagger annunciò che lui e i chitarristi, Brian Jones e Keith Richards,...
Deutschrock
30 Fragen und die eine oder andere kritische Nachfrage an 55 Bands
Language: German
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Deutschrock - was ist das eigentlich? Hier kommen die zu Wort, die es wissen müssen: 118 Musiker aus 55 Bands: Analgewitter, Berserker, Bremsspur, Brenstoff, Controvers, Das Gremium, Delirium Rock'n Roll, Dezibold, Die Eskalation, D.o.F Dresden, Einheit 13, 110 Prozent, Endgegner, Feindbild, Frei.Wild,...
Talk About a Dream
The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Bruce Springsteen often prefers to let his music do the talking. His onstage stories and shaggy dog tales have long entertained his fans, but his songs and his guitar provide the most direct line to their hearts. Considering his prominence on the rock 'n' roll landscape, Springsteen has spent remarkably...
Chapter and Verse
New Order, Joy Division and Me
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Bernard Sumner pioneered the post-punk movement when he broke onto the scene as a founding member of Joy Division, and later as the front man of New Order. Heavily influencing U2 and The Cure while paving the way for post-punk revivalists like Interpol, Sumner's has left an indelible mark on punk...
I'm Your Man
The Life of Leonard Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential musical artists of the past fifty years—and one of the most elusive. In I’m Your Man, journalist Sylvie Simmons, one of the foremost chroniclers of the world of rock ’n’ roll and popular music, explores the extraordinary...
In the Pleasure Groove
Love, Death, and Duran Duran
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
With a new introduction by Nick Rhodes
The talent. The charisma. The videos. From their 1981 hit "Planet Earth" to their latest number-one album, All You Need Is Now, John Taylor and Duran Duran have enchanted audiences around the world. It's been a wild ride, and—for John in particular—dangerous....
One Way Out
The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
A New York Times Best seller!
One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at...
by Robbie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
**The New York Times Bestseller
On the 40th anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest...
Jim Morrison
LIfe, Death, Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as...