Rock category: 3054 books

As meteoric rises go - Gareth Ashton's takes some beating. Born and bred in Derbyshire, he had always been a keen drummer, like his father, and in 1977 discovered the joys of punk via The Jam's performance on Top Of The Pops. Within weeks he was forming his own band 'The Ruin' and within months he was...

A fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs - an album that was afforded "classic" status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in...

From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is a definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of...

Who is this book for? Guitarists who play Blues, Country, Rock, Jazz, Classical or Steel String guitar. Anyone who wondered where the idea for "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin originated or who wondered how to use the Dorian mode, and actually make it sound good! What will you get...

Das unverzichtbare Verbraucher Leitfaden für die Musik von Elvis und seiner enormen weltweiten Einfluss wie das Original King of Rock'n'Roll. Ein Alb aufgenommen, aus seinem mittlerweile legendären Anfängen mit Scotty Moore zu den Filmen und den Ruhm seiner späteren Jahre. Eigenschaften...

Sid Vicious lived the quintessential punk life fast, furious, out of control and over far too quickly. Twenty-five years after his death, Vicious, perhaps more than any other rock icon, remains a figure of heated debate, a man both loved and loathed, sometimes simultaneously. What is it that continues...

Uno charming man capace di incantare il pubblico, un musicista eclettico, un punk affascinato da voci femminili senza tempo, come quelle di Billie Holiday e Nina Simone, dall’energia dei Led Zeppelin e dalla sfrontatezza dei Dead Kennedys, un artista in costante conflitto con le logiche di mercato...

Nati nel fermento creativo della Bologna dei primi anni Novanta, quella del DAMS e delle case occupate, e da lì partiti per una carriera che li ha portati sui palchi di tutta Italia, i Massimo Volume sono uno dei gruppi più importanti e amati della generazione che ci ha regalato gli Afterhours,...

Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively...

Joe Jackson is a freelance journalist with The Irish Times. He also is an author and a broadcaster whose programmes include ten one hour specials titled 'The Essential Elvis.' He also happens to be a life-long Elvis fan who lightheartedly suggests he has been "writing about Elvis since January...

It is clear, from their career to date that the Arctic Monkeys are a band that has paved a new way for acts following them. Using the new systems of making and distributing music to their advantage, they have proved that compromises dont need to be made at the expense of good music, if you have the backing...

Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez?...

"She's been in our lives every decade. She kind of grew up with us." - Cyndi Lauper Cher started her career as a backing vocalist for Phil Spector's iconic Wall of Sound, before shooting to superstardom herself with the sixties anthem I Got You Babe. Cher mastered folk-rock, achieved...

In September 1969, the Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, using a variety of progressive musical ideas that expressed the group's approach to multi-track recording and offering songs that constituted a highpoint in the Beatles' musical corpus. Of particular interest is the concluding...