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This is the definitive review of the career and work of Aerosmith a band that can truly say that its seen and done it all.­­ In selling more than 150 million albums worldwide, they became the biggest selling US hard rock act of all time. This eBook features a biography of the band tracing their rise to fame. Also included is a critical review of all Aerosmiths studio work.

Jimmy Page knew that Led Zeppelin had to take America by storm for the group to be successful. Sonic Boom is the story of how they did it, as told by the people who helped make it happen.Author Frank Reddon conducted over 40 primary source interviews. Discover what deejays, promoters, musicians, studio...

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield’s solo career was taking off: She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy. Ben Stiller directed the video for her song "Spin the Bottle" from the Reality Bites film soundtrack. Then, after canceling a European...

Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest punk bands ever. It’s a tale of success--and excess: great music, drugs (he overdosed and was pronounced dead three times), and resurrection. The Dead Boys, with roots in the band Rocket from...

This is the story of the band that re-shaped rock music. Nirvana were the kings of grunge, while doomed singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain became a cultural icon who wrote songs that spoke to an entire generation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members and those closely involved with the group,...

The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Genesis, one of the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1980s. An album by album, track by track rundown of the music of Genesis, including special sections detailing the work of members Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve...

Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium. The road to...

“Miret’s captivating and harrowing, no-holds-barred account of a life lived in the trenches . . . You don’t have to be a major Agnostic Front fan to get maximum enjoyment out of this book. . . . A compelling read.” ―Classic Rock Revisited "Miret’s memorable, affecting stories...

‘ A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972… Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today’ The Times The Stones’ 1972 tour of the States was perhaps their best – and certainly most notorious – ever. Their previous visit in 1969...

Am 13. Oktober 2016 hat Bob Dylan, der im Mai 2016 75 Jahre alt wurde, als erster Musiker den Literaturnobelpreis zugesprochen bekommen und damit seine einzigartige Karriere um eine weitere Besonderheit ergänzt. Leonard Cohen nannte ihn "the Picasso of Song": Kein anderer Künstler hat...

"Two Solitudes" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and...

The Beatles were the greatest rock band of all time. And their influence spread far beyond music, influencing the culture and politics of the sixties in a profound way. In Long and Winding Road, editor Luis Miguel curates the very best writing about the Beatles, from the mysterious death of...

The Little Black Songbook returns to give you all the complete lyrics and chords to over 195 classics by the greatest band of all time: The Beatles! This handy chord songbook is perfect for any aspiring guitarist, ideal for group singalongs, a spot of busking or simply to play some of the most finely...

This superb selection of Michael Jackson hits spans the whole of his extraordinary career. From his piping Rockin’ Robin’ at the age of 14 to 2003’s One More Chance, these are the musical highlights of The King of Pop’s journey from child prodigy to global superstar. Each song is beautifully...