Rock category: 3054 books
Reckless
My Life as a Pretender
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure.
Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness...
Twenty Thousand Roads
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
**“A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the ’60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its time, the curse of wealth and the madness of wasted opportunity.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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by Margaret Moser, Bill Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things.
--Where...
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Thirty Years Married to a Rolling Stone
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In this wild, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the biggest rock bands in history, Jo Wood comes clean about her three decades as the girlfriend and eventually the wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. This startlingly honest, laugh-out-loud memoir vividly describes life on tour, in the...
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by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Would you like to learn more about Tom Petty?How he managed to incorporate his personal problems into the greatest music hits of all time?Music to Tom Petty was not just money and fame. It was a way to express himself through difficult times, challenges and struggles. Somehow he found a way...
Red Rock
The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Rebellious, individualistic, and explosive, rock and roll seems incongruent with modern Chinese society. However, as the music has evolved from a Western import into something uniquely Chinese, it has been shaped by the nation’s unique system and its relationship with the outside world. As it tracks...
Storia segreta del rock
Le misteriose origini della musica moderna
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Sesso. Droga. Musica alta. Vestiti sgargianti. Abbaglianti giochi di luce. Tutto questo si può ritrovare in un grande concerto rock o in un bollente dance club, ma era anche parte dell’antico fenomeno culturale conosciuto come “Religioni Misteriche”. In questo libro, Christopher Knowles dimostra...
Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin, 2nd Edition
The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This second edition of the history of rock's heaviest band gives you even more reasons to rock! This all-star tribute features many of today's top rock journalists from Rolling Stone, CREEM, Billboard, and more, as well as reflections on the band from some of rock's greatest performers, including...
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1
1920-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative—from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise...
John Varvatos
Rock in Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
In John Varvatos, the legendary designer reveals his perspective on how rock & roll music and style have influenced his own designs and fashion worldwide. Varvatos’s personally curated collection of more than 250 images are some of the most provocative ever shot by top rock photographers from...
Patti Smith
America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Nicknamed the “Godmother of Punk,” Patti Smith rose to fame during the 1970s New York counterculture movement where she welcomed a new breed of rock and roll. Smith sanctioned the presence of a strong-willed woman in the mainstream rock community by breaking not only the fragile glass ceiling,...
Grit, Noise, and Revolution
The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
". . . a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene."
---Marshall Crenshaw
From the early days of John Lee Hooker to the heyday of Motown and beyond, Detroit has enjoyed a long reputation as one of the crucibles of American pop music. In Grit, Noise, and Revolution,...
Citizens of Hope and Glory: A Story of Progressive Rock
The Story of Progressive Rock
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated in the 1980s Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story. Many of the genres main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as popular as ever, while lesser-known names like...
From Cradle to Stage
Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David Bowie-Virginia never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first time, she...