Based on more than 400 interviews; four years of research; exclusive access to Cobain's unpublished diaries; and a wealth of documentation, Heavier Than Heaven traces Cobain's life from his early days in a trailer to his rise to fame and the adulation of a generation. Cross reveals the familial turmoil that fuelled Cobain's creativity and the ...
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.
/Philip Norman Now back in print--"The best, most detailed, and most serious biography of the Beatles and their times" (Chicago Sun Times). Shout! is the classic chronology of the Beatiles, from the naive joy of their early recordings to the psychedelic triumph of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", from the unified sounds of "Abbey Road" ...
In the summer of 2004, with 20 gold albums to their credit, Rush embarked on a celebratory 30th Anniversary World Tour, which carried them to nine countries to perform 57 shows in front of more than half a million fans. Between shows, Peart travelled by motorcycle, riding 21,000 miles of back roads and highways in North America and Europe, to ...
Culled from the journals, notebooks and typescripts left in the care of his wife Pamela, this title explores the writings of the songwriter and lead singer of the sixties band "The Doors". This is the second volume of Jim Morrison's poetry and writings.
Respected music writer Michael Azerrad's authoritative biography of one of the late 20th century's most influential groups tells how rock music was rescued by a band of badly-dressed, inarticulate twentysomething kids, and the price that one of them in particular paid for being dubbed the spokesperson for his generation. The advent of Nirvana, ...
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 ...
As the author of the Led Zeppelin biography HAMMER OF THE GODS, one of the great rock books about one of the great rock bands, Stephen Davis is perhaps uniquely qualified as a chronicler of rock & roll intemperance. His Aerosmith bio, co-authored with the band's members, is a detailed history of the roots, the music, and the druggy dissipation of ...
The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times. Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on many things such as art, politics and beer.
The shadow of Black Sabbath looms large over Ian Christe's chronicle of the annals of heavy metal; without the Birmingham, England rockers, the genre would arguably have been given over to Led Zeppelin soundalikes. As Christe notes, most bands at first found Zeppelin's sound easier to imitate anyway--to be performed properly, the full-on volume of ...
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.
This book presents the shocking, decadent, true story behind the making of the Rolling Stones' seminal double album "Exile on Main Street". Recorded during the blazing-hot summer of 1971 in the basement of Keith Richards' palatial mansion by the sea in the south of France, "Exile on Main Street" freezes forever in time a moment when the Stones and ...
Since the 1960s, Neil Young has been consistent in remaining artistically vital, baffling critics and fans, and scorning journalistic attention. This reputation makes him an alluring candidate for adventurous biographers like Jimmy McDonough, whose decade-long mission has been to document the artist's life with a combination of persistence and ...
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 ...
This behind-the-scenes look at the most famous group in musical history tells the complete story of The Beatles. This updated edition addresses the changes that have taken place: Paul's marriage, George's death and their new books and records.
In this anthologized tribute to Nirvana's late front man, Kurt Cobain, the editors of Rolling Stone magazine offer previously published commentary, photographs, and interviews with the grunge icon, who allegedly took his own life at age 27.
A giant of the music industry grants an all-access pass to the world of rock and roll, with mesmerizing stories of 35 years spent working with legends from Led Zeppelin to Stevie Nicks to Nirvana.
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 ...
A book that as time goes by increasingly appears to be more of a cultural and historical document than the racy tell-all it started out as, HAMMER OF THE GODS is a blow-by-blow account of the Led Zeppelin story, from its start as Jimmy Page's vision of the New Yardbirds to its messy dissolution in a fog of drugs, violence, and death. Stephen Davis ...
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