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Cover of Why the Beach Boys Matter
by Tom Smucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early...
Cover of The Great Australian Songbook (PVG)
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017

This fantastic new edition of The Great Australian Songbook showcases an unforgettable selection of songs by the greatest Australian artists. From ’80s classics to contemporary hits, this collection presents many songs and artists never even available in print before, reflecting the extraordinary...
Cover of This Ain't No Picnic

This Ain't No Picnic

Your Punk Rock Vegan Cookbook

by Joshua Ploeg
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014

This Ain't No Picnic is the first cookbook featuring creative and delicious recipes that match the quality and presentation of a gourmet restaurant with the self-parody and humor of punk rock culture and history. A comedic art book full of social commentary, it explores and improves the favorite foods...
Cover of In the court of the Crimson King
by Alessandro Staiti
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 30, 2017

IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING segna una forte discontinuità con la psichedelia e il blues revival, e le varie forme miste, popolari in Inghilterra verso la fine degli anni Sessanta. Supera cliché estetici e filosofici ormai in crisi e inaugura una nuova era del rock non solo per mezzo di strumenti...
Cover of Majorlabelland and Assorted Oddities
by Pete Crigler
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013

Majorlabelland and Assorted Oddities is comprised of an essay about hard rock bands in the eighties and nineties and their struggles with major record labels which resulted in several albums that have never been released. Interviews have been conducted with almost forty musicians from some two dozen...
Cover of Keine Zukunft für immer - Das Punk-Lexikon
by Axel Klingenberg
Language: German
Release Date: June 19, 2015

Nachdem Axel Klingenberg Mitte der 80er Jahre in der Film-AG des Herzog Ernst-Gymnasiums in Uelzen »The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle« gesehen hat, kaufte er sich eine Lederjacke und einen Haufen Sex Pistols- und Exploited-Platten. Kenntnisreich, leidenschaftlich und (selbst-)ironisch lässt er 25...
Cover of Sur la route avec Springsteen
by Olivier Démoulin
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2015

Novembre 1980. Quand Daniel, quinze ans, découvre l'album de rock "The River", il devient fan de Bruce Springsteen. Mais, comme tant de personnages des chansons de l'artiste américain, il ignore encore que sa vie s'annonce remplie d'écueils...
Cover of George Michael

George Michael

Bio Rock

by Claudia Valentini
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2017

Un ragazzino cicciottello e un po’ tarchiato, un adolescente problematico con gli occhiali spessi, un adulto inquieto che paga a caro prezzo il successo, la fama, il denaro, ma soprattutto un grande autore con una voce stupenda. Questo e molto altro è stato George Michael, un artista spesso incompreso...
Cover of Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Bio Rock

by Claudia Valentini
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 17, 2017

La parabola di un uomo che per molti è stato un dio e per tutti un re: Michael Jackson. Dalle origini umili, in una piccola casa di un’America ignorata dalle luci della ribalta, ai palcoscenici di tutto il mondo dove quelle luci erano tutte per lui, il divo, il Re del Pop. Dalle tribolazioni insieme...
Cover of Linkin Park - What they've done

Linkin Park - What they've done

Die inoffizielle Biografie

by Michael Fuchs-Gamböck, Thorsten Schatz, Georg Rackow
Language: German
Release Date: June 4, 2014

Von Xero über Hybrid Theory zu Linkin Park - die Band durchlebte in ihrer Karriere bis heute viele Höhen und Tiefen, feierte weltweit Erfolge, war jedoch nicht immer unumstritten. Kaum eine andere Band ist so vielseitig, so wandelbar, so innovativ. Mit ihren Songs heben sie die Grenzen der Genres...
Cover of Ian Gillan - The Autobiography of Deep Purple's Lead Singer
by Ian Gillan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

In 1970, Deep Purple burst on to the British rock scene with their hit "Black Night" and bestselling album "Deep Purple in Rock". This is the autobiography of their lead singer, Ian Gillan. Here he tells his life story, and that of the band he helped to make great. Stories of friction and violence,...
Cover of Viaggi interstellari

Viaggi interstellari

Le canzoni che hanno fatto la storia dei Pink Floyd

by Stefano Magnani
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Dagli esordi nei locali underground di Londra ai fasti degli anni Ottanta e Novanta, I Viaggi Interstellari dei Pink Floyd hanno tratteggiato uno dei percorsi artistici più singolari e fortunati della nostra epoca, puntellato da veri e propri standard della musica rock: dalla psichedelia di Arnold...
Cover of Jim Morrison
by Roberto Caselli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2016

Eccentrico, visionario, egocentrico, Jim Morrison ha rappresentato la classica figura del frontman delle rock band anni ’60, capace di stupire prima ancora che per la voce, per i suoi atteggiamenti irriverenti nei confronti del suo pubblico e del mondo intero. Con i Doors ha costituito un fenomeno...
Cover of Musik ohne Handkäs

Musik ohne Handkäs

Eine kurze Geschichte der hessischen Rockmusik

by Alfred Neumann
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2017

Alfred Neumann, ein Frankfurter Nachkriegskind, entdeckt in seiner Schulzeit Anfang der 60er Jahre seine unsterbliche Liebe zur Rock- und Soulmusik. Nachdem er ein Klavier geerbt hatte, erlernte er dessen Bedienung autodidaktisch. In der Schule erhält Alfred durch einen dummen Zufall den Spitznamen...
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