Rock category: 3054 books
Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play
Inside Two Long Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musical output with traditions drawn from classical, folk, jazz, and world music. The release of Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973) won the...
Fever
How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In Fever, music critic Tim Riley argues that while political and athletic role models have let us down, rock and roll has provided enduring role models for men and women. From Elvis Presley to Tina Turner to Bruce Springsteen to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Riley makes a persuasive case that rock...
Metallica: This Monster Lives
The Inside Story of Some Kind of Monster
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Metallica is one of the most successful hard-rock bands of all time, having sold more than ninety million albums worldwide. Receiving unique, unfettered access, acclaimed filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky followed Metallica over two and a half years as they faced monumental personal and...
Live at the Fillmore East and West
Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock's Greatest Legends
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
From the Allman Brothers Band to Frank Zappa, and through the interweaving lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Carlos Santana, author John Glatt chronicles the story of the 1960s’ rock music Colossus that stood astride the East and West Coasts—Graham’s twin temples of rock, the Fillmore East and Fillmore West.
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Chuck Berry 1926-2017 presents 14 of chuck berry's greatest songs arranged for guitar tab and standard notation, with chord symbols, chord boxes and full lyrics.
Additionally, a specially-commissioned foreword by renowned rock journalist Chris Charlesworth pays tribute to Chuck Berry in the...
Red Velvet Underground
A Rock Memoir, with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present.
Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such...
Rocks Off
50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
December 3-4, 1969. Keith and Mick stood at the same microphone at Muscle Shoals, lights dimmed, splitting a fifth of bourbon, and simultaneously sang the melodies and harmonies on the three songs that they had recorded over three days: "Brown Sugar," "You Got to Move," and "Wild...
by Michael Heatley
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
By any standards, the Kings of Leon are unique. Consisting of three brothers and their first cousin, all surnamed Followill, the quartet from a God-fearing Tennessee background has conquered the music world on their own terms. They have audaciously mixed elements of classic rock with grunge, garage...
MDC: Memoir from a Damaged Civilization
Stories of Punk, Fear, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2016
A searing punk memoir by an American original rebelling against conformity, complacency, and conservatism with his iconic band, MDC.
From the time Dave Dictor was young, he knew he was a little different than the all-American kids around him. Radicalized politically while in high school, inspired...
AC/DC
The World's Heaviest rock
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Over the decades, AC/DC has carved out a unique niche in the rock world. Thanks to their stubborn refusal to alter their aggressive, in-your-face style that has been their stock in trade, they have emerged as one of the essential cornerstones of contemporary hard rock. Frank, humorous, and accurate, this full-blooded biography takes a look this tenacious Australian quintet.
by Sam Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties including the infamous concert at Altamont where a man was murdered by a Hells Angel in front of the stage while the Stones played on. After the show Sam was left behind to make peace with the Hells...
by Carlo Pasceri
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2017
I Jethro Tull prima della svolta progressive. Per questo volume abbiamo scelto di analizzare tre dischi che formano un corpus unico (la trilogia celtico-sassone) in un susseguirsi di incrementi di durezza ed elettricità che sfoceranno nel capolavoro Aqualung.
I Jethro Tull sono uno dei pochissimi...
Screaming for Change
Articulating a Unifying Philosophy of Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Screaming for Change advances an understanding of punk rock by going beyond description of punk as a musical, political, social, and cultural genre of communication. Previous scholarship about punk rock has primarily dealt with those boundaries of genre. Previous scholars neglected to examine the...
Rush
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Rush is often referred to as a libertarian rock band, but really what the band is channeling is an Aristotelian individualism, a philosophy that strongly resonates with today's 40-somethings. This helps explain the band's resurgence in popularity, culminating in its 2013 induction in the Rock and Roll...