Rock category: 3054 books
Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor. Unfortunately, his many musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by a morbid fascination with his drug overdose in the Joshua...
Juke Box Hero
My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock’s most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and ’80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as “Cold As Ice,” “I Want to Know What Love Is,” “Waiting...
by Andrea M. Rotondo
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Tom Petty: Rock 'n' Roll Guardian is the first intimate portrait of one of rock’s most enduring figures. Songs like American Girl, The Waiting and I Won’t Back Down have touched people from all walks of life because he sung about what he knew love won, love lost and hardship overcome.
Tom...
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
"In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle." --Publishers Weekly
The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist...
Tattoos & Tequila
To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Mötley Crüe's lead singer and rock's ultimate bad boy, Vince Neil, lets the real dirt fly in this raw, raunchy, and completely uncensored road trip through the unbelievable depths of rock n' roll debauchery. You've seen The Dirt on Netflex, now read the nitty gritty stories in Vince's own words.
For...
Bring It On Home
Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond--The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The authorized biography of the most notorious rock manager of all time, Peter Grant, best known for his work with Led Zeppelin
Peter Grant is the most famous music manager of all time. Often acknowledged as the "fifth member of Led Zeppelin," Grant's story has appeared in fragments...
Let's Spend the Night Together
Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This intimate account of 24 legendary groupies reveals what went on behind the closed doors of rock stars from Elvis to Marilyn Manson. Consisting of Pamela Des Barres's revealing interviews with and profiles of other supergroupies, this book offers firsthand glimpses into the backstage world of...
by David Weigel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts—and has divided listeners ever since.
The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive (“prog”) rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands...
I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It)
Extremely Important Stuff About the Songs and Bands You Love, Hate, Love to Hate , and Hate to Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians make this two-lane path very easy to follow. Half the time they're creating timeless works of art that...
by Lynn Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The story of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs. After coming of age in the Midwest in the tumultuous 1960s, she crashed the music scene in New York and emerged as one of its leading image-makers. She chronicled Bruce Springsteen’s passage to glory, the Rolling Stones’ legendary stadium...
Your Band Sucks
What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
**• A New York Times Summer Reading List selection • A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 *•*A Business Insider Best Summer Read • An Esquire Father’s Day Book selection • A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 •
A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent...
Sh-Boom!
The Explosion of Rock 'n' Roll, 1953–1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
A rip-snorting rock ‘n’ roll memoir from the legendary disc jockey who’s been called “the missing link to the Sixties.”
There was a small sliver of time between Bebop and Hip-Hop, when a new generation of teenagers created rock ‘n’ roll. Clay Cole was one of those teenagers, as...
Everybody's Heard about the Bird
The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
If you didn’t experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock bands erupted out of a small Midwest market and made it big. It was a brief, heady moment for the...
The Band
Pioneers of Americana Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
At a time when Acid Rock and Heavy Metal dominated popular music, The Band rebelled against the rebellion with a masterful mix of tight ensemble arrangements, great vocals, highly literate lyricism, and a respect for the musical traditions of the American South. Comprising Canadians Robbie Robertson,...