Rock category: 3054 books
Nobody Likes You
Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
The full story of the rise and spectacular comeback of the band hailed as the saviors of punk rock and the next U2
It's hard to believe that in early 2004 Green Day was considered over--the band was still together, but they were dismissed as a strictly 90s phenomenon, incapable of re-creating...
Stuart Adamson
In a Big Country
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The book that fans of the Skids, Big Country and the Raphaels have been waiting for - a critical perspective not only of Adamson's music and its wider cultural influence, but also the excesses of fame and how the music business really works. Stuart Adamson: In A Big Country tells the story of how...
Good Night and Good Riddance
How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be called the most influential figure in post-war British...
by Dave Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Dave Thompson, author of Virgin's acclaimed Red Hot Chili Peppers biography, takes a new and very detailed look at the creation of one of the world's most influential bands. After all the streets of London had been covered in 'Clapton Is God' tributes, the three top rock instrumentalists of their...
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
One of the most tangible aftershocks of Punk was its urgency to prompt individuals into action. Document your reality: do it yourself. From this, a generation of young men were inspired and, with often zero financial planning or business sense, in a bedroom, garage or shed, labels such as Factory,...
by Neil Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
From life in an East End pub to fame on a global stage, Matt Johnson founder, songwriter and visionary lynchpin of iconic band The The created some of the most engaging, challenging and enduring music of his era.
Then he walked away from it all.
In this authorised biography Neil Fraser...
Singing from the Floor
A History of British Folk Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and sound systems were unheard of, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians,...
by Patrick Humphries
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
'It's Number One... it's Top Of The Pops', for every generation from 1964, until the show ended in 2006, that was the sentence every young television viewer sat down to hear. At its peak, a quarter of the UKs entire population was watching. 'Top Of The Pops' was the pivotal pop television programme...
Tim Book Two
Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Tim Book Two is the follow-up to Telling Stories, the hugely successful memoir of Tim Burgess, singer of the Charlatans.
In 2012, Tim published his hugely successful and critically acclaimed memoir, Telling Stories. Tim really enjoyed his new role as an author, and so here it is: Tim Book Two - a...
Maximum Volume
The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926–1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. George Martin's working-class childhood and musical influences profoundly shaped his early career as head of the EMI Group's Parlophone Records. Out of them flowed the genius behind his seven years...
Black Tooth Grin
The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Black Tooth Grin is the first biography of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the Texas-bred guitarist of the heavy metal band Pantera, who was murdered onstage in 2004 by a deranged fan-24 years to the day after John Lennon met a similar fate.Darrell Abbott began as a Kiss-inspired teenage prodigy...
Diary of a Madman
The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
One of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2015
From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance.
Scarface...
by Hugh Barker, Yuval Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2007
Musicians strive to “keep it real”; listeners condemn “fakes”; ... but does great music really need to be authentic?
Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and...
by Ric Menck
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to begin work on this album, they were basically falling apart at the seams. "Ladyfriend", a song written by Crosby, had just failed miserably as a chart single despite the fact that he lobbied...