Boynton rocks! So does Blues Traveler, who perform a stomping version of the title song, a moody rock journey that Boynton wrote especially for them. And then there's Alison Krauss with "Evermore." And Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme - really - who do the "Boring Song." The Spin Doctors, who channel rock's rebellious side - with a taste of punk - ...
Fans can find out what it's like to "live the life" with this exclusive, all-access look into Hannah's rockin' world! This behind-the-scenes gift book allows Hannah's biggest fans to go on tour and backstage with her. It features 10 interactive elements, including a removable backstage pass, a fashion wheel, and a plastic guitar pick.
This great collection features all 194 songs written and sung by The Beatles, specially transcribed here for strumming guitarists, from the actual recordings, in the original keys. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Also features a helpful playing guide and a full discography.
For undergraduate courses in Rock and Roll Music History, Recent American History, American Sociology, and African-American History. Rockin' in Time intrigues students by providing a social history of Rock and Roll music and explaining its influence. Story: This book was written to address an area that seldom has been discussed. Rather than a ...
The second edition of What's That Sound? offers a balanced, insightful look at the evolution of rock music from its roots to the present. With innovative listening guides (both print and electronic), a rich visual program, and a strong support package, the text gives students a comprehensive and engaging introduction to rock history.
A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard notation and tablature. Also includes a full discography. Songs include: All You Need Is Love * And I ...
From Black Flag to Mudhoney, Michael Azerrad's OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE is a comprehensive overview of the most influential post-punk bands of the 1980s. Packed with intelligent insights, revealing interviews with key players like Mike Watt of the Minutemen and Firehose and Black Flag's Henry Rollins, and useful analysis of influential bands ...
Here is the ultimate illustrated history of rock & roll--the most important artists and their music, fully revised and updated for the 1990s. Here are eye-opening portraits and critical assessments of Elvis and Chuck Berry, the Beatles and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Madonna. Discographies on every important performer. Photographs throughout, ...
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) is one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. A stunning exploration of madness, death, anxiety, and alienation, it remained on the Billboard charts for 724 weeks--the longest consecutive run for an LP ever--and has sold 30 million copies worldwide. It still sells some quarter million copies every ...
The story of the American rock band, The Doors, by its drummer. John Densmore remembers how the music grew, but cannot forget how Jim Morrison tore himself, and the band, apart. Here, Densmore wrestles with the demons that have haunted him since Morrison's death in 1971.
A veteran journalist tells the inside story of the Laurel Canyon music scene of the '60s and '70s, an unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boom's leading musical lights who forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.
The short life and mercurial career of Jim Morrison, the charismatic lead singer of the Doors who died under mysterious circumstances in Paris in 1970, is surveyed by noted Morrison authority Jerry Hopkins in his richly detailed biography, THE LIZARD KING. The rock star's prodigious appetite for life, sex, drugs, and poetry is brought to vivid ...
Twenty years ago this July, Jim Morrison died under mysterious and still-controversial circumstances. Now, James Riordan--a consultant on the just-released Oliver Stone film The Doors--and Jerry Prochnicky tackle the entire story of Morrison's life and death, based on interviews with new sources who conclusively disprove the official finding of ...
The reputation of Brian Wilson's abandoned masterpiece, SMILE--one of the most storied albums never to have seen the light of day--has grown in stature over the years through the release of countless bootleg versions. (Wilson finally released a re-recorded facsimile of the album in 2004 to widespread acclaim.) Domenic Priore's detailed and well ...
A sumptuously illustrated book of lyrics from three decades of Bruce Springsteen's career, from his 1973 debut, GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK to 1992's HUMAN TOUCH, SONGS provides a panoramic view of the artist's body of work. Springsteen himself provides explanatory introductions to each album's songs, setting them in the context of his personal ...
Face it, being a rock guitarist is just about the coolest thing you can be -- next to a secret agent with a black belt in karate. But even if you were a butt-kicking international person of mystery, playing rock guitar would still be cooler because it involves art, passion, power, poetry, and the ability to move an audience of listeners. Whether ...
The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values ...
"Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene...This is a riveting story, sensitively told." - Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, "Rolling Stone". From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L. A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies ...
Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications.
In this unique exploration of rock and roll, Campbell and Brody take an evolutionary approach, giving students the whole picture of this vastly popular music and its inherent musical relationships. Beginning with the roots of rock, the authors proceed chronologically to discuss all rock styles and their influences, from '50s R&B up through the ...
This acclaimed biography of Jim Morrison is co-authored by the late singer's protégé, Danny Sugerman. Beginning with Morrison's childhood, the novelistic narrative details his developmental years and illuminates the evolution of his artistry. Famous Doors concerts are recreated and accompanied by back-stage drama. Fans are invited to crawl into ...
Too young to remember the Sex Pistols, Chuck Klosterman has nevertheless spent much of his young life thinking about rock & roll and its meaning for him and other members of his generation. Here he writes with a kind of wide-eyed detachment about his pilgrimage to the death sites of famous--or in some cases notorious--rock figures. Beginning at ...
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