Author: Dean Boland
Publisher: Right Recordings Limited
ISBN: 9780953544653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This definitive encyclopedia explores rock bands and how they got their names. Comprehensively covering everything from AC/DC to ZZ Top, the volume spans four decades of the rock 'n' roll name game. Illustrations.
Rock 'n' Roll Call
Author: Dean Boland
Publisher: Right Recordings Limited
ISBN: 9780953544653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This definitive encyclopedia explores rock bands and how they got their names. Comprehensively covering everything from AC/DC to ZZ Top, the volume spans four decades of the rock 'n' roll name game. Illustrations.
Publisher: Right Recordings Limited
ISBN: 9780953544653
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
This definitive encyclopedia explores rock bands and how they got their names. Comprehensively covering everything from AC/DC to ZZ Top, the volume spans four decades of the rock 'n' roll name game. Illustrations.
Rock 'n Roll Call
Author: Dean M. Boland
Publisher: Dowling Press
ISBN: 9780964645295
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This definitive encyclopedia explores rock bands and how they got their names. Comprehensively covering everything from AC/DC to ZZ Top, the volume spans four decades of the rock 'n' roll name game. Illustrations.
Publisher: Dowling Press
ISBN: 9780964645295
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This definitive encyclopedia explores rock bands and how they got their names. Comprehensively covering everything from AC/DC to ZZ Top, the volume spans four decades of the rock 'n' roll name game. Illustrations.
Rock'n'Roll's Strangest Moments
Author: Mike Evans
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN: 1849941815
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Rock music, since its pre-history in blues, country music and 40s and early 50s pop, through to the well-publicised excesses of touring bands of today, has left a legacy of thousands of weird and wonderful stories in its wake. We’ve all read about the Who’s Keith Moon driving a Rolls Royce into a hotel swimming pool, but far more bizarre tales of on-the-road mayhem have never been widely told. Likewise, Svengali-like managers have manipulated starstruck musicians since rock began, though hanging your well-known client from a third floor window was a less usual way of ensuring their loyalty. And just where was the stalled hotel lift in which all four Beatles, according to legend, were turned on to marijuana? There are the unsung heroes of rock – pioneering eccentrics who helped make the music what it is and ended up as mere footnotes in the history books. Men such as UK producer Joe Meek who created seminal classics from a bed-sit above a cleaners on the Holloway Road, and the New York DJ who originally coined the phrase ‘rock 'n’roll’ and died in alcoholic poverty. Not to mention the stories behind the stars: when Debbie Harry was a 'Playboy' Bunny, Paul Simon wrote ‘Homeward Bound’ on Widnes railway station in Lancashire, and the Gallagher brothers (so they claim) were petty thieves.
Publisher: Batsford
ISBN: 1849941815
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Rock music, since its pre-history in blues, country music and 40s and early 50s pop, through to the well-publicised excesses of touring bands of today, has left a legacy of thousands of weird and wonderful stories in its wake. We’ve all read about the Who’s Keith Moon driving a Rolls Royce into a hotel swimming pool, but far more bizarre tales of on-the-road mayhem have never been widely told. Likewise, Svengali-like managers have manipulated starstruck musicians since rock began, though hanging your well-known client from a third floor window was a less usual way of ensuring their loyalty. And just where was the stalled hotel lift in which all four Beatles, according to legend, were turned on to marijuana? There are the unsung heroes of rock – pioneering eccentrics who helped make the music what it is and ended up as mere footnotes in the history books. Men such as UK producer Joe Meek who created seminal classics from a bed-sit above a cleaners on the Holloway Road, and the New York DJ who originally coined the phrase ‘rock 'n’roll’ and died in alcoholic poverty. Not to mention the stories behind the stars: when Debbie Harry was a 'Playboy' Bunny, Paul Simon wrote ‘Homeward Bound’ on Widnes railway station in Lancashire, and the Gallagher brothers (so they claim) were petty thieves.
Encyclopedia of the Blues: K-Z, index
Author: Edward M. Komara
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415927017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415927017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Marc Dolan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393081354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Describes the life and music of one of America's greatest rock artists, providing an overview and analysis of the cultural, political, and personal forces that influenced his music and led him to explore issues like war, class disparity, and prejudice.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393081354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Describes the life and music of one of America's greatest rock artists, providing an overview and analysis of the cultural, political, and personal forces that influenced his music and led him to explore issues like war, class disparity, and prejudice.
Spike Milligan
Author: Pauline Scudamore
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The biography of Spike Milligan, one of the most gifted, creative individuals of our time, and remembered as a true comic genius. However, many people are unaware that he battled throughout his adult life against anxiety and depression, neither of which he was able to conquer.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The biography of Spike Milligan, one of the most gifted, creative individuals of our time, and remembered as a true comic genius. However, many people are unaware that he battled throughout his adult life against anxiety and depression, neither of which he was able to conquer.
Rock 'n' Roll Rebel
Author: Ginger Rue
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627539662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Tig Ripley has plenty of good reasons for starting an all-girl rock band. Never mind she doesn't play an instrument--she'll figure that out. Fronting a band is sure to propel her out of the background and into the spotlight at her middle school. So after a few weeks' worth of drumming lessons under her belt, she starts assembling her band. With her cousin Kyra agreeing to play bass, soon Tig has her piano-playing friend Olivia down for the keyboard. And then she convinces tough girl Robbie Chan to sign on as lead guitarist. With a cool name--Pandora's Box--all the band needs now is a killer lead singer. How hard can that be? But when Kyra invites obnoxious diva Haley Thornton to join the band, Tig realizes snagging a lead singer--the right lead singer--is not going to be easy. Everyone says the drummer is the heartbeat of a band--does Tig have what it takes to lead Pandora's Box?
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1627539662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Thirteen-year-old Tig Ripley has plenty of good reasons for starting an all-girl rock band. Never mind she doesn't play an instrument--she'll figure that out. Fronting a band is sure to propel her out of the background and into the spotlight at her middle school. So after a few weeks' worth of drumming lessons under her belt, she starts assembling her band. With her cousin Kyra agreeing to play bass, soon Tig has her piano-playing friend Olivia down for the keyboard. And then she convinces tough girl Robbie Chan to sign on as lead guitarist. With a cool name--Pandora's Box--all the band needs now is a killer lead singer. How hard can that be? But when Kyra invites obnoxious diva Haley Thornton to join the band, Tig realizes snagging a lead singer--the right lead singer--is not going to be easy. Everyone says the drummer is the heartbeat of a band--does Tig have what it takes to lead Pandora's Box?
Big Gig in Rock ’N’ Roll Heaven
Author: Allan McFadden
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398430129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Never get sexually involved with a client. I should’ve heeded my own advice. But one look at Mandy and you’d have fallen too. She was a real ball breaker. Serving divorce papers shouldn’t get a private investigator shot. But it happened to me. But life goes on, right? I was summoned upstairs to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven. Someone was trying to sabotage the upcoming big gig. A humorous tale of music and intrigue on a fantasy world.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398430129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Never get sexually involved with a client. I should’ve heeded my own advice. But one look at Mandy and you’d have fallen too. She was a real ball breaker. Serving divorce papers shouldn’t get a private investigator shot. But it happened to me. But life goes on, right? I was summoned upstairs to Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven. Someone was trying to sabotage the upcoming big gig. A humorous tale of music and intrigue on a fantasy world.
Ian Dury: Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll
Author: Richard Balls
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857126989
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author Richard Bells talked to over 50 of Dury's friends as well as Dury himself shortly before his death.Dury's extraordinary life was always a battle. As a rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom - until now. In this classic rock biography, the self-styled 'diamond geezer' stands revealed as a real diamond after all.This edition is updated to cover the release of the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll, and includes original interviews with Oscar-winning actor Andy Serkis who portrayed Dury in the film.
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857126989
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author Richard Bells talked to over 50 of Dury's friends as well as Dury himself shortly before his death.Dury's extraordinary life was always a battle. As a rocker, lyricist, artist and actor he was unsentimental and uncompromising. As a man he was harder to fathom - until now. In this classic rock biography, the self-styled 'diamond geezer' stands revealed as a real diamond after all.This edition is updated to cover the release of the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll, and includes original interviews with Oscar-winning actor Andy Serkis who portrayed Dury in the film.
Let the Good Times Roll
Author: John Chilton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084784
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The first biography of the father of rhythm and blues
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084784
Category : African American musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The first biography of the father of rhythm and blues