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Life: Rock & Roll At 50

Editors of Life

Author : Editors of Life
Publisher : Life
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1929049498

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Life: Rock & Roll At 50 by Editors of Life Pdf

Here are 50 years of Rock Roll, from Chuck Berry to the Beatles to Beck, with an introduction by Dick Clark. On March 21, 1952, rock roll was forged in fire as Alan Freeds Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland ended up in a riot when frenzied fans stormed the arena. There was a new sound and it caused an entirely new reaction: loud, passionate, no-holds-barred, Katie-bar-the-door.This was rock roll, and even as things were getting out of hand in Cleveland, a producer named Sam Phillips was debuting his Sun record label in Memphis, the future launching pad for Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and, of course, the King, Elvis Presley. In the 1960s came the Beatles. Bob Dylan counseled Dont Look Back, and rock never did, as the music defined the times: the Whos My Generation, the Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youngs Woodstock.Today, rock lives on, and not just in reunions of KISS and Yes, nor in age-defying gigs by Aerosmith. It has seeped into our culture and into the new music. It changed America then, and, at 50, it continues to do so.

Rock & Roll Generation

Time-Life Books

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : PSU:000043100989

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Rock & Roll Generation by Time-Life Books Pdf

300 pictures and countless quotations, bringing back the hopes, fear, and dreams of a one-of-a-kind generation, the nifty 50s.

There Goes Gravity

Lisa Robinson

Author : Lisa Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101632086

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There Goes Gravity by Lisa Robinson Pdf

From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home. She spent hours talking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment--and in recording studios just weeks before his murder. She introduced David Bowie to Lou Reed at a private dinner in a Manhattan restaurant, helped the Clash and Elvis Costello get their record deals, was with the Rolling Stones on their jet during a frightening storm, and was mid-flight with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. A pioneering female journalist in an exclusive boys' club, Lisa Robinson is a preeminent authority on the personalities and influences that have shaped the music world; she has been recognized as rock jounralism's ultimate insider. A keenly observed and lovingly recounted look back on years spent with countless musicians backstage, after hours and on the road, There Goes Gravity documents a lifetime of riveting stories, told together here for the first time.

Rock-and-Roll Woman

Meredith Ochs

Author : Meredith Ochs
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781454933533

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Rock-and-Roll Woman by Meredith Ochs Pdf

This “crisp, absorbing” fully illustrated tribute to fifty iconic female musicians and bands is “a must for rock and roll and women's studies enthusiasts.” (Library Journal) Award-winning radio personality Meredith Ochs takes an insightful look at fifty rock icons who indelibly shook up the music scene, whether solo or in a band. Profiling women from the 1950s to today, and from multiple genres, Ochs tells the dramatic stories behind their journeys to success, their music, and their enduring impact. More than 100 photographs make this a rich volume, and the idols include Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Heart, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Joan Jett and the Runaways, the Go-Go’s, Karen O, Sleater-Kinney, Grace Potter, and more.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life

Steve Almond

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Random House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679603658

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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond Pdf

Drooling fanatic, n. 1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars. 2. Any of a genus of rock-and-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with songs constantly ringing in their ears, own more than 3,000 albums, and fall in love with at least one record per week. With a life that’s spanned the phonographic era and the digital age, Steve Almond lives to Rawk. Like you, he’s secretly longed to live the life of a rock star, complete with insane talent, famous friends, and hotel rooms to be trashed. Also like you, he’s content (sort of) to live the life of a rabid fan, one who has converted his unrequited desires into a (sort of) noble obsession. Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life traces Almond’s passion from his earliest (and most wretched) rock criticism to his eventual discovery of a music-crazed soul mate and their subsequent production of two little superfans. Along the way, Almond reflects on the delusional power of songs, the awkward mating habits of drooling fanatics, and why Depression Songs actually make us feel so much better. The book also includes: • sometimes drunken interviews with America’s finest songwriters • a recap of the author’s terrifying visit to Graceland while stoned • a vigorous and credibility-shattering endorsement of Styx’s Paradise Theater • recommendations you will often choose to ignore • a reluctant exegesis of the Toto song “Africa” • obnoxious lists sure to piss off rock critics But wait, there’s more. Readers will also be able to listen to a special free mix designed by the author, available online at www.stevenalmond.com, for the express purpose of eliciting your drool. For those about to rock—we salute you!

Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll

Stephen Pearcy,Sam Benjamin

Author : Stephen Pearcy,Sam Benjamin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451694581

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Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll by Stephen Pearcy,Sam Benjamin Pdf

Welcome to heavy metal rock 'n' roll, circa 1980, when all you needed was the right look, burning ambition, and a chance. Stephen Pearcy and supergroup Ratt hit the bull's-eye. Cranking out metal just as metal got hot, Ratt was the perfect band at the perfect time, and their hit single "Round and Round" became a top-selling anthem. As Ratt scrambled up a wall of fame and wealth, so they experienced the gut-wrenching free fall, after too many hours in buses, planes, and limos; too many women; too many drugs; and all the personality clashes and ego trips that marked the beginning of the end. Pearcy offers a stunningly honest self-portrait of a man running on the fumes of ambition and loneliness as the party crashed. His rock 'n' roll confessional, by turns incredible, hilarious, and lyrical, is a story of survival--and a search for the things that matter most.--From publisher description.

Who Shot Rock and Roll

Gail Buckland

Author : Gail Buckland
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780307270160

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Who Shot Rock and Roll by Gail Buckland Pdf

More than two hundred spectacular photographs, sensual, luminous, frenzied, true, from 1955 to the present, that catch and define the energy, intoxication, rebellion, and magic of rock and roll; the first book to explore the photographs and the photographers who captured rock’s message of freedom and personal reinvention—and to examine the effect of their pictures on the musicians, the fans, and the culture itself. The only music photographers whose names are well known are those who themselves have become celebrities. But many of the images that have shaped our consciousness and desire were made by photographers whose names are unfamiliar. Here are Elvis in 1956—not yet mythic but beautiful, tender, vulnerable, sexy, photographed by Alfred Wertheimer . . . Bob Dylan and his girlfriend on a snowy Greenwich Village street, by Don Hunstein . . . John Lennon in a sleeveless New York City T-shirt, by Bob Gruen . . . Jimi Hendrix, by Gered Mankowitz, a photograph that became a poster and was hung on the walls of millions of bedrooms and college dorms . . . For the first time, the work of these talented men and women is brought into the pantheon; we see the musicians they photographed and how the images gave rock and roll its visual identity. To bring together these images, Gail Buckland, acclaimed photographic editor, curator, and scholar, looked through the archives of one hundred photographers, selecting pictures not on the basis of the usual suspects, but on the power of the images themselves, often picking an image a photographer didn’t even remember he or she had taken. Buckland writes about the photographers, their influences, their relationships with their subjects, how they took the images, how they saw what they saw and captured what they captured: the spirit and essence of rock. A revelation of an art form whose iconic images changed the world as we knew it.

Never Too Old to Rock & Roll

Thomas L. Hardin,Gail Fink

Author : Thomas L. Hardin,Gail Fink
Publisher : Canterbury Group, LLC
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0976137402

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Never Too Old to Rock & Roll by Thomas L. Hardin,Gail Fink Pdf

Back in the 1960's, a relatively young generation took society by the horns and demanded radical change. Their countercultural revolution impacted everything from voting rights to civil rights, from how people raise their kids to how they relate in the workplace. Now, as 10,000 members of this group turn 50 every day, they're turning their attention to the subject of aging and attacking it like no previous generation ever has before.

TV-a-Go-Go

Jake Austen

Author : Jake Austen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781569762417

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TV-a-Go-Go by Jake Austen Pdf

From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television--as this critical look brilliantly shows--has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining but patently "fake" manner. The dichotomy of "fake" and "real" music as it is portrayed on television is presented in detail through many generations of rock music: the Monkees shared the charts with the Beatles, Tupac and Slayer fans voted for corny American Idols, and shows like" Shindig! "and "Soul Train "somehow captured the unhinged energy of rock far more effectively than most long-haired guitar-smashing acts. Also shown is how TV has often delighted in breaking the rules while still mostly playing by them: Bo Diddley defied Ed Sullivan and sang rock and roll after he had been told not to, the Chipmunks' subversive antics prepared kids for punk rock, and things got out of hand when" Saturday Night Live "invited punk kids to attend a taping of the band Fear. Every aspect of the idiosyncratic history of rock and TV and their peculiar relationship is covered, including cartoon rock, music programming for African American audiences, punk on television, Michael Jackson's life on TV, and the tortured history of MTV and its progeny.

Country Music USA

Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird

Author : Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477315378

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Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird Pdf

“Fifty years after its first publication, Country Music USA still stands as the most authoritative history of this uniquely American art form. Here are the stories of the people who made country music into such an integral part of our nation’s culture. We feel lucky to have had Bill Malone as an indispensable guide in making our PBS documentary; you should, too.” —Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, Country Music: An American Family Story From reviews of previous editions: “Considered the definitive history of American country music.” —Los Angeles Times “If anyone knows more about the subject than [Malone] does, God help them.” —Larry McMurtry, from In a Narrow Grave “With Country Music USA, Bill Malone wrote the Bible for country music history and scholarship. This groundbreaking work, now updated, is the definitive chronicle of the sweeping drama of the country music experience.” —Chet Flippo, former editorial director, CMT: Country Music Television and CMT.com “Country Music USA is the definitive history of country music and of the artists who shaped its fascinating worlds.” —William Ferris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Since its first publication in 1968, Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music. Starting with the music’s folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio into the twenty-first century. In this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Malone, the featured historian in Ken Burns’s 2019 documentary on country music, has revised every chapter to offer new information and fresh insights. Coauthor Tracey Laird tracks developments in country music in the new millennium, exploring the relationship between the current music scene and the traditions from which it emerged.

Just Around Midnight

Jack Hamilton

Author : Jack Hamilton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674416598

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Just Around Midnight by Jack Hamilton Pdf

When Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.

TIME-LIFE Rock & Roll

The Editors of TIME-LIFE

Author : The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781683308119

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TIME-LIFE Rock & Roll by The Editors of TIME-LIFE Pdf

From iconic love songs and odes to domestic bliss, to bloodcurdling screams and provocative performances, TIME-LIFE presents a history of rock and roll, and the stories behind the songs.

Real Life Rock

Greil Marcus

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Newspapers
ISBN : 9780300196641

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Real Life Rock by Greil Marcus Pdf

The Washington Post hails Greil Marcus as our greatest cultural critic. Writing in the London Review of Books, D. D. Guttenplan calls him probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson. For nearly thirty years, he has written a remarkable column that has migrated from the Village Voice to Artforum, Salon, City Pages, Interview, and The Believer and currently appears in the Barnes & Noble Review. It has been a laboratory where Marcus has fearlessly explored and wittily dissected an enormous variety of cultural artifacts, from songs to books to movies to advertisements, teasing out from the welter of everyday objects what amounts to a de facto theory of cultural transmission. Published to complement the paperback edition of The History of Rock & Roll in Ten Songs, Real Life Rock reveals the critic in full: direct, erudite, funny, fierce, vivid, astute, uninhibited, and possessing an unerring instinct for art and fraud. The result is an indispensable volume packed with startling arguments and casual brilliance.

Billy F Gibbons

Billy F Gibbons,Tom Vickers

Author : Billy F Gibbons,Tom Vickers
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780760367988

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Billy F Gibbons by Billy F Gibbons,Tom Vickers Pdf

Expanded for the occasion of ZZ Top’s 50th anniversary, Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead throws wide Gibbons’ garage and studio doors for an exclusive look at his exquisite collection of cars and guitars. Love cars, guitars, and ZZ Top? This visually stunning tour through this Grade-A Texas gearhead's weird, wild life, vintage and way-out custom guitars, and influential hot rods and custom cars is mandatory education. From the near-mythical ’59 Les Paul sunburst known as “Pearly Gates” and the “Furry One” of MTV renown to cars like the Eliminator, CadZZilla, and Kopperhed, they’re all here—more than 60 guitars and 15 astounding vehicles, all expounded upon by BFG himself and shown in commissioned color and artistic black-and-white photography. Cars and guitars that have made their way to light since the book's first publication in 2005 are included: Cars: Mexican Blackbird 1958 Thunderbird Quintana ’50 Ford Custom El Camino Grocery-Getter custom Whiskey Runner '34 Ford Coupe ’51 Willys Wagon Guitars: Party Peelers John Bolin Customs Neiman Marcus BFG SG Nacho Telecaster John Bolin "Think Buck" T-style Mexican Blackbird solidbody Mojo Maker Tone Bender Zemaitis custom Marconi Lab Guitar 1929 Dixie Ukelele 1939 Rickenbacker Frying Pan …and more! While BFG’s cars ’n’ guitars are the stuff of legend, no less intriguing are the tales behind his incredible music career. From teenage Houston garage rocker to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the whole story is between these covers, told in the Good Reverend Willie G’s own words and illustrated with photos and memorabilia from his personal archive. As with many rockers, Billy F Gibbons' jones for hot rods and customs is the stuff of legend. But beyond this bona fide bluesman's mastery of the six-string and unrepentant love for internal combustion is a noted collector whose own designs have manifested themselves in hundreds of mind-bending cars and guitars. This is the definitive and official record of that genius.

Cousin Brucie!

Cousin Bruce Morrow,Laura Baudo

Author : Cousin Bruce Morrow,Laura Baudo
Publisher : Beech Tree Paperback Book
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002595255

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Cousin Brucie! by Cousin Bruce Morrow,Laura Baudo Pdf

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Life Rock Roll At 50

Life: Rock & Roll At 50 by Editors of Life Pdf

Rock & Roll Generation by Time-Life Books Pdf

There Goes Gravity by Lisa Robinson Pdf

Rock-and-Roll Woman by Meredith Ochs Pdf

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life by Steve Almond Pdf

Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll by Stephen Pearcy,Sam Benjamin Pdf

Who Shot Rock and Roll by Gail Buckland Pdf

Never Too Old to Rock & Roll by Thomas L. Hardin,Gail Fink Pdf

TV-a-Go-Go by Jake Austen Pdf

Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone,Tracey Laird Pdf

Just Around Midnight by Jack Hamilton Pdf

TIME-LIFE Rock & Roll by The Editors of TIME-LIFE Pdf

Real Life Rock by Greil Marcus Pdf

Billy F Gibbons by Billy F Gibbons,Tom Vickers Pdf

Cousin Brucie! by Cousin Bruce Morrow,Laura Baudo Pdf

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