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(Guitar Recorded Versions). Complete, note-for-note tab transcriptions for Frank Zappa's epic 1974 tour de force, featuring over-the-top zany lyrics and subject matter, searing guitar virtuosity, and tight arrrangements veering between rock and jazz fusion. Includes all 9 songs that have become classics...

The Best of Fleetwood Mac Chord Songbook presents, for the first time in print, the best of every incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in one songbook, from the ’60s Peter Green blues-rock hits of Black Magic Woman, Albatross and Oh Well, through the incredible success of such ’70s & ’80s albums...

For over forty years, Don Walker’s songwriting has captured what it is to be Australian. From Cold Chisel to Catfish, Tex, Don & Charlie to his solo work, as well as many other writing collaborations, Walker’s words are poetic, moving and incisive. Including classics such as “Khe Sanh”,...

Die Beatles haben 1965 behauptet, sie seien populärer als Jesus - und sie hatten Recht. Auf Facebook haben sie fast zehnmal so viele 'Fans' wie Christus. Trotzdem spielt Spiritualität für sie und andere Rockstars eine große Rolle. Wenn Robbie Williams über "Angels" singt, dann meint er himmlische...

Un diamante grezzo, non un diamante pazzo. Syd Barrett, il genio che inventò il rock psichedelico e che continua a essere un autentico mito per decine di milioni di persone, ha vissuto sessant'anni, trenta dei quali in assoluto silenzio. A dieci anni dalla morte, una biografia nuova e ricca di contenuti...

Popular music has always attracted the kind of morally bankrupt individuals who are too unhinged to hold down a proper job. And thats just as well. After all, if your local fishmonger told you hed just snorted his fathers ashes, you might think twice about doing business with him. But when Keith Richards...

La musica di Matthew Bellamy e dei suoi Muse ha letteralmente traghettato il suono del rock nel nuovo millennio. La collisione tra un romanticismo à la Jeff Buckley e le chitarre rombanti dei Rage Against The Machine ha creato un marchio di fabbrica inconfondibile. Da qui i Muse hanno poi dato il...

In meno di tre anni di carriera, nell'arco di un pugno di canzoni e nel giro frenetico di qualche concerto, i Sex Pistols hanno sconvolto le tradizionali unità di misura della popular music, costringendo giornalisti, operatori del settore e pubblico ad attrezzarsi di fronte alla rottura delle regole...

For years we’ve been saying that there’s a Great Mystery in the history of Rock’n’Roll. One of the 20th Century’s most outstanding stories, concerning the alleged death of Paul McCartney and his subsequent replacement with a lookalike. The story was based on "clues" from record...

combining elements of traditional rock, jazz, fusion and funk, the Super String Shaman begins on a fabled story of an earlier age of humanity in a distant time on earth. a time when humans were moving from their primitive natures into what would perhaps be best described as the first evolution of mankind, an evolution of magic and mystery, wonder and discovery.

Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's...

Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo cinco años (1967-1971), grabó algunas de las mejores canciones de la historia del rock. Con su estilo...

Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple - die Trinität dieser Bands wird meist genannt, wenn zur Debatte steht, wer den Hardrock oder gar das Genre des Heavy Metal erfunden hat, sofern denn ein Genre erfunden werden kann und sich nicht vielmehr aus einer ziemlich unübersichtlichen Gemengelage zeit-...

1967. A band called The Premiers has arrived in London, hoping for fame and fortune. They meet an older man, Paul, who decides to help them find their way in the music business. They have an encounter with a famous bandleader, Cyril Stapleton, who records them, but nothing comes of it, and the band...