Author: Bill Wyman
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.
Bill Wyman's [blues Odyssey]
Author: Bill Wyman
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.
Old Gods Almost Dead
Author: Stephen Davis
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0767909569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band. The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death_while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones’ musical successes_and personal excesses. Born into the wartime England of air-raid sirens, bombing raids, and strict rationing, the Rolling Stones came of age in the 1950s, as American blues and pop arrived in Europe. Among London’s most ardent blues fans in the early 1960s was a short blond teenage guitar player named Brian Jones, who hooked up with a lorry driver’s only son, Charlie Watts, a jazz drummer. At the same time, popular and studious Michael Philip Jagger–who, as a boy, bawled out a phonetic version of “La Bamba” with an eye-popping intensity that scared his parents–began sharing blues records with a primary school classmate, Keith “Ricky” Richards, a shy underachiever, whose idol was Chuck Berry. In 1962 the four young men, joined by Bill Perks (later Wyman) on bass, formed a band rhythm and blues band, which Brian Jones named the “the Rollin’ Stones” in honor of the Muddy Waters blues classic. Using the biography of the Rolling Stones as a narrative spine, Old God Almost Dead builds a new, multilayered version of the Stones’ story, locating the band beyond the musical world they dominated and showing how they influenced, and were influenced by, the other artistic movements of their era: the blues revival, Swinging London, the Beats, Bob Dylan’s Stones-inspired shift from protest to pop, Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s New York, the “Underground” politics of the 1960s, Moroccan energy and European orientalism, Jamaican reggae, the Glam and Punk subcultures, and the technologic advances of the video and digital revolution. At the same time, Old Gods Almost Dead documents the intense backstage lives of the Stones: the feuds, the drugs, the marriages, and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows. The first new biography of the Rolling Stones since the early 1980s, Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive book to date, and one of the few to cover all the band’s members. Illustrated throughout with photos of pivotal moments, it is a celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists who not only showed us new worlds, but new ways of living in them. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves.
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0767909569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band. The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record—setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death_while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones’ musical successes_and personal excesses. Born into the wartime England of air-raid sirens, bombing raids, and strict rationing, the Rolling Stones came of age in the 1950s, as American blues and pop arrived in Europe. Among London’s most ardent blues fans in the early 1960s was a short blond teenage guitar player named Brian Jones, who hooked up with a lorry driver’s only son, Charlie Watts, a jazz drummer. At the same time, popular and studious Michael Philip Jagger–who, as a boy, bawled out a phonetic version of “La Bamba” with an eye-popping intensity that scared his parents–began sharing blues records with a primary school classmate, Keith “Ricky” Richards, a shy underachiever, whose idol was Chuck Berry. In 1962 the four young men, joined by Bill Perks (later Wyman) on bass, formed a band rhythm and blues band, which Brian Jones named the “the Rollin’ Stones” in honor of the Muddy Waters blues classic. Using the biography of the Rolling Stones as a narrative spine, Old God Almost Dead builds a new, multilayered version of the Stones’ story, locating the band beyond the musical world they dominated and showing how they influenced, and were influenced by, the other artistic movements of their era: the blues revival, Swinging London, the Beats, Bob Dylan’s Stones-inspired shift from protest to pop, Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s New York, the “Underground” politics of the 1960s, Moroccan energy and European orientalism, Jamaican reggae, the Glam and Punk subcultures, and the technologic advances of the video and digital revolution. At the same time, Old Gods Almost Dead documents the intense backstage lives of the Stones: the feuds, the drugs, the marriages, and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows. The first new biography of the Rolling Stones since the early 1980s, Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive book to date, and one of the few to cover all the band’s members. Illustrated throughout with photos of pivotal moments, it is a celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists who not only showed us new worlds, but new ways of living in them. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves.
Brian Jones
Author: Paul Trynka
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 0147516455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain as Sympathy of the Devil: The Birth of the Rolling Stones and the Death of Brian Jones by Bantam Press."
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 0147516455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"First published in Great Britain as Sympathy of the Devil: The Birth of the Rolling Stones and the Death of Brian Jones by Bantam Press."
Can I Get a Witness
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780932259417
Category : Blues musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Collection of photographs of a variety of rock and roll, blues, folk, and pop musicians taken by John Gibbs Rockwood at concert venues in southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio from the early 1970s through the 2000s.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780932259417
Category : Blues musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Collection of photographs of a variety of rock and roll, blues, folk, and pop musicians taken by John Gibbs Rockwood at concert venues in southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio from the early 1970s through the 2000s.
Stone Alone
Author: Bill Wyman
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
An autobiography, by the bass player, of the Rolling Stones band describing the band's early years and success.
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
An autobiography, by the bass player, of the Rolling Stones band describing the band's early years and success.
The Stones
Author: Bill Wyman
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780750942485
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A collection of cartoons about the band's history combined with entries from the author's diary written on the day the drawings were published provides insight into what was actually happening in the band's lives when the cartoons were drawn.
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780750942485
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A collection of cartoons about the band's history combined with entries from the author's diary written on the day the drawings were published provides insight into what was actually happening in the band's lives when the cartoons were drawn.
Titanic
Author: Richard Havers
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9780857331670
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers a unique insight into this terrible, yet endlessly fascinating, disaster. It tells the whole story from the commissioning of the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic following their construction, launches and maiden voyages, through to the Titanic's demise, the immediate aftermath, and the very public enquiries on both sides of the Atlantic. Based on the words of contemporary newspaper reports the story comes alive as it never has before. The depth of detail is fascinating, revealing fresh insights into a tragedy that continues to captivate us today. Use of contemporary newspaper photography and iconic images all help to make this book one of a kind.
Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9780857331670
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers a unique insight into this terrible, yet endlessly fascinating, disaster. It tells the whole story from the commissioning of the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic following their construction, launches and maiden voyages, through to the Titanic's demise, the immediate aftermath, and the very public enquiries on both sides of the Atlantic. Based on the words of contemporary newspaper reports the story comes alive as it never has before. The depth of detail is fascinating, revealing fresh insights into a tragedy that continues to captivate us today. Use of contemporary newspaper photography and iconic images all help to make this book one of a kind.
All Music Guide to the Blues
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307363
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Reviews and rates the best recordings of 8,900 blues artists in all styles.
101 Essential Rock Records
Author: Jeff Gold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584234883
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story behind rockmusics most famous record covers as told by some of music business' most profilic rockstars.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584234883
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story behind rockmusics most famous record covers as told by some of music business' most profilic rockstars.
Chasin' that Devil Music
Author: Gayle Wardlow
Publisher: Backbeat Books
ISBN: 0879305525
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s
Publisher: Backbeat Books
ISBN: 0879305525
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s