Rock category: 3054 books
by Pete Prown, Pete Brown, HP Newquist
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
This book is a virtual encyclopedia of great electric guitar players, with 35 chapters examining the major players in each important era of rock. The book begins with rock's birth from the blues, covering masters like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. It proceeds to cover rockabilly greats like Chuck...
One Way or Another
The Story of a Girl Who Loved Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
In 1981, fifteen-year-old Nikki McWatters is living in a Gold Coast suburb, dragging herself through humdrum schooldays and dreaming of losing her virginity to a rock star. With three friends she starts the Vulture Club for aspiring groupies – and so begins a festival of sex, drugs and rock ’n’...
Prog Rock FAQ
All That's Left to Know About Rock's Most Progressive Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Prog Rock FAQ traces the controversial, but much misunderstood musical genre through its five-decade history, highlighting the rise, eventual decline, and recent resurgence of one of the most inventive and storied popular musical forms of the latter half of the 20th Century. Prog Rock FAQ digs deep...
Take a Walk on the Dark Side
Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons.
Updating, revising,...
Appetite for Definition
An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Part reference book, part history, and part road map to the connectivity of popular music, this book is a must for all rock ‘n’ roll fans as it brings together a compilation of over two hundred genres of rock music—an entertaining, enlightening, knotty family tree of America’s favorite musical...
by Barry J. Faulk, Brady Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash, punk culture, and the intersections between pop music and politics, on both sides of the Atlantic....
by Kristine Weglarz
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Political Rock features luminary figures in rock music that have stood out not only for their performances, but also for their politics. The book opens with a comparative, cultural history of artists who have played important roles in social movements. Individual chapters are devoted to The Clash...
Apollo Memories
The Venue - The Story - The Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
From 1927 until 1985 the Glasgow Apollo was a landmark in Glasgow's architecture and culture. Opened as Green's Playhouse, it shone through the golden age of cinema and ballroom until, for its last 12 years of life, it was the rock venue to play in Scotland, Britain and even Europe. Everyone who was...
American Bandstand
Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
"I don't make culture, I sell it" Dick Clark once remarked. Indeed, the man who reigned as host of American Bandstand for nearly four decades may not have invented rock 'n' roll, but he sold it to the American public better than anyone before or since. Before Clark, rock 'n' roll was the...
Food Rocks
The Real-Life, Near-Death Tales of a True RockNRoll Chef
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The world of Rock and Roll overflows with more decadence than you can shake a coke vial at: sex, drugs, booze, more sex, music and… food. Yes, food. Before the legends take the stage, they need their high-protein, low-fat, gluten-free, carbo-loaded favorite foods. And they need a lot of it; more...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Let It Rock! is a collection of rock ‘n’ blues album and book reviews written by the “Reverend of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Rev. Keith A. Gordon. The third of four planned archive volumes documenting the Reverend’s 44+ years as an award-winning music journalist and critic, Let It Rock! features...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives is a series collecting vintage artist interviews from the archives of award-winning rock critic and music historian Rev. Keith A. Gordon.
Volume One of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives features interviews with ten of the new breed of “Southern Rockers” who emerged...
Alien Rock
The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
From Elvis to the Beatles, from Michael Jackson to Marilyn Manson, rock stars claim to have seen, communed with, been inspired by, and sometimes even descended from extraterrestrials. Alien Rock is an irreverent, illuminating, all-access pass to the stars' unearthly encounters--some friendly, some...
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2
1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
From rock and roll historian Ed Ward comes a comprehensive, authoritative, and enthralling cultural history of one of rock's most exciting eras.
It's February 1964 and The Beatles just landed in New York City, where the NYPD, swarms of fans, and a crowd of two hundred journalists await their...