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Keine Fragen bleiben offen. Hier erfahren Sie die ganze Geschichte: Von ihrem furiosen Debüt 1974 im CBGBs-Club der Wiege des New York Punk, über die klassischen Alben bis hin zu ihren gewaltigen Live-Auftritten - mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte durchlebten die Ramones die Höhen und Tiefen einer...

For decades, the story of the Beach Boys has been the story told in the 2015 Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy: Brian was the genius who put the band on the map, but a combination of drug addiction and mental illness led to his downfall. Some versions of the story, like the TV movies Summer Dreams...

Just two years ago Alanis Morissette was a former teen pop star, dismissed by some as a footnote in Canadian pop history. Then her album Jagged Little Pill sold over 13 million copies worldwide, and a new queen of alternative rock was crowned. Here Paul Cantin tells the tale of how Morissette...

Syd Barrett was an English composer and purveyor of some of the most intriguing music ever written. Famous before his twentieth birthday, Barrett led the charge of psychedelia onstage at London’s famed UFO club. With a Fender Telecaster and a primitive Binson echo unit, Barrett liberated the guitar...

From the early days of my childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, to the very first sounds of punk rock that followed me to my final home in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is a simple recollection of my years as a drummer, and the high-flying time I had in various rock bands through out Indianapolis during the early 80's.

Il magnifico volo spiccato dai Pink Floyd nel 1967 è iniziato sin da subito da un’altezza quasi irraggiungibile, considerata l’importanza storica, per il Rock, rivestita da The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. La loro carriera, successiva a quella formidabile opera prima, segnata dalla presenza determinante...

ELVIS meets the BEATLES** By Chris Hutchins and Peter Thompson HOW did John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ever get to America in the first place? How did Elvis Presley, a poor boy from the Tennessee backwoods, arrive in Hollywood? Full of previously unpublished detail, this...

When Pete Doherty was imprisoned for burgling his best friend and bandmate Carl Barat in August 2003 it seemed the light had gone out on Britain's most exciting new band. Released early and reconciled with Barat, The Libertines confounded the critics by rounding off 2003 with three triumphant sold-out...

Se pensate che la matematica sia fatta soltanto di aride formule e noiosi calcoli con polinomi e frazioni, vi sbagliate di grosso. La matematica, quella vera, è ovunque: perfino nei testi delle canzoni e nelle copertine dei dischi. E il bello è che è pure divertente. Però prima bisogna saperla...

If you remember the Sixties, you werent there. Tony Norman turns the cliché on its head with his memories of an amazing decade. Sex, drugs, laughter, gang fights, groupies, lovers, broken hearts. Theyre all part of growing up with the Mod band he loves like brothers. It is a golden age for music and...

Best seller in tutto il mondo e ora ripubblicato in versione aggiornata, il libro analizza l'universo Zeppelin, soffermandosi tanto sugli aspetti più oscuri e scioccanti della band quanto sulla loro musica e i loro concerti che hanno restituito al rock la dimensione più selvaggia e genuina. Dall'esordio...

Existing books on the analysis of popular music focus on theory and methodology, and normally discuss parts of songs briefly as examples. The impression often given is that songs are being chosen simply to illuminate and exemplify a theoretical position. In this book the obverse is true: songs take...

Day & Age, the third studio album from The Killers, has been described by the Las Vegas quartet themselves as 'the most playful record' they've made. This collection of the critically acclaimed Day And Age includes every song from the album, arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. The album...

Il libro prende in rassegna le strutture del blues e come queste si sono evolute a partire dagli inizi del secolo scorso fino ai giorni nostri. Viene prima analizzata la progressione standard, così come definita nella sua forma primordiale del Country Blues, cristallizzatasi nel periodo del Blues...