Rock category: 3054 books
Living Like a Runaway
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
“Heavy metal’s leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs and lows of her trailblazing career
Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded stereotypes of female musicians throughout...
by Gene Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
You wanted the truth, you got the truth—the hottest book in the world!
Fueled by an explosive mix of makeup, costumes, and attitude, KISS burst onto the music scene thirty years ago and has become a rock institution. The band has sold more than eighty million records, has broken every concert...
Runnin' with the Devil
A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music.
Van Halen’s rise in the 1980s was one of the most thrilling the music world...
Man on the Run
Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock icon—the only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself.
As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by...
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s rise again from the ashes.
In...
So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star
How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton's Ball Four did for baseball.
After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered if his dreams of rock stardom were a...
Let's Go!
Benjamin Orr and The Cars
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
“When Ben got out of the hospital he said, ‘When I fall down and can’t pick myself up we’ll know it’s over. Until then, we rock!’” – Jeff Carlisi
Benjamin Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars. Often considered the band’s...
Ultimate Classic Rock
A guide to the best rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
From a 2014 perspective, the classic rock era falls basically between the years of 1965 and 1985, It is the rock music produced during these years that is the focus of this book. The book serves as a guide to that music, as well as later recordings produced by the artists that came to prominence during...
by C. Dismas Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Rock & Roll! It burst upon the scene in the 1950s, turned political in the 1960s,
self-indulgent in the 1970s, philanthropic in the 1980s, and historical by the 1990s.
It’s the soundtrack to the post-WWII American experience.
Each generation has it’s own anthems, superstars,...
Growing Up Rocking
(it begins...)
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
In the 1950s, Cleveland, Ohio was the number one music city in the world. It was in Cleveland that DJ Alan Freed first coined the term “rock and roll” and it was in Cleveland that the teenage Henry Niedzwiecki, aka The OlDoowopper, grew up with a ringside seat to the birth of rock and roll or doo-wop...
by Peter Miles
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Are you a fan of rock metal? Can you name the bands that are synonymous with this type of music and the songs that made them famous? Do you go to the Download Festival on the trail of your favourite rock stars? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you definitely won’t want to be without...
Crazy Like Me
From Memphis and the Rock 'n Roll Trio to Fleetwood Mac
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Billy Burnette is the epitome of a rock star – he exudes talent, good looks, and the rock star aura wherever he goes and understandably so, given his journey as a musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist.
Born in Memphis, singer/songwriter/guitarist, Dorsey William Burnette III (aka Billy...
Uncommon People
The Rise and Fall of The Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal
An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture
Recklessness, thy name...
TV-a-Go-Go
Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television-as this critical look brilliantly shows-has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining...