Rock
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Who Were the Beatles?
$6.99 Add to cartAlmost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Edgers, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0448439069
- Language: English
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Live Dead: The Grateful Dead, Live Recordings, and the Ideology of Liveness
$26.95 Add to cartThe Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2,300 shows between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a “live band” was-and continues t… [more below]
- Series: Studies in the Grateful Dead
- Author: Brackett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1478025484
- Language: English
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Gen X Pittsburgh: The Beehive and the ’90s Scene
$24.99 Add to cartBeginning in the early 1990s, Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood began to transform from the post-industrial morass it had been suffering for the last few decades. Artists began to rent empty apartm
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Rullo, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153745
- Language: English
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Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
$14.95 Add to cartNon-fans regard C line Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband’s struggle with cancer, her knack… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #52
- Author: Wilson, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 082642788X
- Language: English
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The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds
$14.95 Add to cartPet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released. It has also been written about, pored over, and analyzed more than most other albums put together. In this disarming book,
- Series: 33 1/3 #19
- Author: Fusilli, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416705
- Language: English
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
$18.99 Add to cartThe life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America’s deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surro
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0060524278
- Language: English
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Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
$22.95 Add to cartGrunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there. Taking the form of an “oral” history, this books contains … [more below]
- Author: Prato, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1550228773
- Language: English
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Close to the Edge: How Yes’s Masterpiece Defined Prog Rock
$27.95 Read moreThe first half of the 1970s was an especially fertile period for British progressive rock, laying claim to classics such as Tarkus, Selling England by the Pound, Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, The Dark Side… [more below]
- Author: Romano, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1617136174
- Language: English
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The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
$40.00 Add to cartCelebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the most popular and enduring band ever: “Even the most hardcore Deadheads will be impressed by this obsessively complete look at the Grateful Dead’s lyrics” (Pub… [more below]
- Author: Dodd, David G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1501123327
- Language: English
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Play All Night!: Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
$28.00 Add to cartThe origin story of a groundbreaking album
The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the
- Author: Beatty, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0813069505
- Language: English
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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock
$29.95 Add to cartIlluminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964-1967.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Campbell, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: July 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1438493363
- Language: English
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The Strokes: The First Ten Years
$50.00 Add to cartThe first authorized visual record of one of New York’s greatest bands.
An intimate and impressionistic narrative of The Strokes’ first ten years, including images of the guys when they were students a… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Cody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1644283506
- Language: English
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Master of Reality
$14.95 Add to cartBlack Sabbath’s Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it’s a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who’ve felt exc… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #56
- Author: Darnielle, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0826428991
- Language: English
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And on Piano …Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock’s Greatest Session Man
$22.95 Add to cartThe Beatles. The Rolling Stones. The Who. The Kinks. The Jefferson Airplane. Joe Cocker. Quicksilver Messenger Service. The Yardbirds. Harry Nilsson. At the heart of their music, and of hundreds of ot… [more below]
- Author: Dawson, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 27, 2011
- ISBN10: 0984436227
- Language: English
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Backstage & Beyond Volume 1: 45 Years of Classic Rock Chats & Rants
$25.00 Add to cartJim Sullivan spent 26 years writing about music for the Boston Globe and two decades more writing for national publications. He has interviewed and reviewed countless musicians, many of them multiple
- Author: Sullivan, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985658989
- Language: English
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Krautrock
$19.95 Read moreKrautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history.
In May 1945, the Allies- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Gu, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765103296
- Language: English
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Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll
$29.95 Add to cartLong before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin’ R&B, and a surprising
- Author: Blecha, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0295751258
- Language: English
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Turn It Up!: My Time Making Hit Records in the Glory Days of Rock Music (Featuring Mötley Crüe, Poison, Twisted Sister, Jeff Beck,
$24.95 Add to cartGrowing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He long dreamed of a career in music–first as Elvis, then as the next George Harrison–but it almost di
- Author: Werman, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1911036343
- Language: English
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Lay It on the Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and Triumph
$21.95 Read moreFrom Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and roll
While describing the impulse driving his life and work, Rik Emmett explains, “I was never in it for t
- Author: Emmett, Rik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1770416285
- Language: English
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Hal Blaine & The Wrecking Crew
$23.00 Add to cartHal Blaine came to Hollywood in the late 1950s with a dream of becoming a studio drummer. Over the next 25 years he recorded nearly 35,000 tracks of music and became the heartbeat and backbone of majo
- Author: Blaine, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30, 2022
- ISBN10: 188840812X
- Language: English
