Rock And Roll Is Life

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Random House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 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!

Author : D. J. TAYLOR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472128826

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'Rock and Roll is Life' by D. J. TAYLOR Pdf

Author : Graham Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385347549

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Wild Tales by Graham Nash Pdf

A founding member of the bands Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Hollies shares the story of his life from his youth in post-war England through his creative relationship with Joni Mitchell and his career as a solo musician and political activist

Author : Lisa Robinson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 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.

Author : Bill Milkowski
Publisher : White Star Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8854406457

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Keith Richards by Bill Milkowski Pdf

For half a century he has been the heart and soul of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band. A riff master of the highest order, his direct, incisive and catchy licks have energized such timeless rock anthems as "Satisfaction," "Start Me Up," "Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." A disciple of such great guitarists and proto-rockers as Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters, Keith Richards has forged a personal vocabulary on the instrument that has influenced generations of aspiring rockers. And as the song-writing partner of lifelong friend and frequent foe Mick Jagger, he formed an indelible team that has secured a spot in the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. The personal life of this larger-than-life rock star and bona fide guitar hero has been plagued by heroin addiction and excessive recreational drug use, which transformed his one-time baby face into a grizzled visage that bears the scars of a road warrior's life. And yet, he is still here. The ultimate rock 'n' roll survivor, Keith Richards is still rocking and rolling after all these years. AUTHOR: Bill Milkowski is a New York-based freelance writer who has contributed to several publications since the 1970s, including Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Bass Player, Guitar Player, Modern Drummer, Absolute Sound, Jazzthing (Germany), Guitar Club (Italy) and Guitar (Japan). He is also the author of JACO: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, Swing It! An Annotated History of Jive, Rockers, Jazzbos & Visionaries, and Legends of Jazz (Edizioni White Star, 2010). Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he began his career in music journalism, Milkowski relocated to New York City in 1980. He moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1993, returning to New York in 1997 and settling in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan, where he currently lives. Milkowski was named Writer of the Year in 2004 by the Jazz Journalists Association. An avid guitar hobbyist, he is also the proud father of a 16-year-old daughter, Sophia Vincenza Milkowski. ILLUSTRATIONS: 140 colour photographs

Author : D.J. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912914555

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Flame Music: Rock and Roll is Life: Part II by D.J. Taylor Pdf

It's 1978 and Nick Du Pont, one-time PR man to Sixties rock behemoths the Helium Kids, is back in London and bent on founding his own record label. A new kind of music - sharp, hard and dangerous - is bursting onto the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic and Nick wants a slice of the action - in particular, the work of The Flame Throwers, the most provocative assemblage of street-smart desperadoes ever to hail from downtown Los Angeles. Picking up from where the highly-praised Rock and Roll is Life (2018) left off, this is the story of Resurgam Records and the personal traumas and tragedies that attended its coruscating rise - until the time when, as so invariably happens, the dancers shuffle to a halt and the music stops.

Author : David John Taylor
Publisher : Constable
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fame
ISBN : 1472128842

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Rock and Roll is Life by David John Taylor Pdf

"You may remember the Helium Kids. Back in their late '60s and early '70s heyday they appeared on Top of the Tops on 27 separate occasions, released five Billboard-certified platinum albums, played sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden and were nearly, but not quite, as big as the Beatles and the Stones. Three decades later, in the big house on the outskirts of Norwich, Nick Du Pont is looking back on the rollercoaster years he spent as their publicist in a world of licensed excess and lurking tragedy. What follows is not only the story of a rock band at a formative time in musical history, when America was opening up to English music and huge amounts of money and self-gratification were there for the taking. For the tale is also Nick's - the life and times of a war-baby born in a Norwich council house, the son of an absconding GI, whose career is a search for some of the advantages that his birth denied him. It is at once a worm's eye of British pop music's golden age and a bittersweet personal journey, with cameo appearances from everyone from Elvis and Her Majesty the Queen Mother to Andy Warhol"--Dust jacket cover.

Author : Seth Kim-Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798765101339

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Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life by Seth Kim-Cohen Pdf

No Boomeresque celebration of the "music that defined an era," Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life is instead a deeply critical analysis of rock and roll as a chaotic, caterwauling project to upend the foundational presumptions of postwar values. What we have here is the closest thing yet to a unified field theory of rock and roll. In seminal performances, films, and recordings, Iggy Pop, James Brown, Patti Smith, the Last Poets, and the Sex Pistols disrupt the implicit ontologies of modernism and late-stage capitalism. With its comrades, conceptual art, Black power, and poststructuralism, rock and roll strips back the linoleum surface of modern life to reveal a feral sensibility unwilling to be boxed up for clean consumption.

Author : The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Publisher : Time Home Entertainment
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Author : Paul Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2025-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1786751682

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Guns N' Roses by Paul Elliott Pdf

Guns N' Roses emerged from Los Angeles in the 1980s with a reputation for hard-hitting music and a riotous rock 'n' roll lifestyle that earned them the title of "The Most Dangerous Band in the World." Their first album, 1987's Appetite For Destruction, took the music industry by storm, becoming the biggest selling debut in the history of American music. Since then, rock writer Paul Elliott has interviewed the band many times, and he brings real insight to this updated exploration of the group; its music; its success; its struggles. With more than 200 stunning colour photographs from the band's 40-year career, this comprehensive biography is the complete, incredible story of one of the hardest-rocking bands in music history.

Author : Liel Leibovitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393244205

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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen by Liel Leibovitz Pdf

Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts, blockbuster movie sound tracks, and television singing competitions? And why is it that while most of his contemporaries are either long dead or engaged in uninspired nostalgia tours, Cohen is at the peak of his powers and popularity? These are the questions at the heart of A Broken Hallelujah, a meditation on the singer, his music, and the ideas and beliefs at its core. Granted extraordinary access to Cohen’s personal papers, Liel Leibovitz examines the intricacies of the man whose performing career began with a crippling bout of stage fright, yet who, only a few years later, tamed a rowdy crowd on the Isle of Wight, preventing further violence; the artist who had gone from a successful world tour and a movie star girlfriend to a long residency in a remote Zen retreat; and the rare spiritual seeker for whom the principles of traditional Judaism, the tenets of Zen Buddhism, and the iconography of Christianity all align. The portrait that emerges is that of an artist attuned to notions of justice, lust, longing, loneliness, and redemption, and possessing the sort of voice and vision commonly reserved only for the prophets. More than just an account of Cohen’s life, A Broken Hallelujah is an intimate look at the artist that is as emotionally astute as it is philosophically observant. Delving into the sources and meaning of Cohen’s work, Leibovitz beautifully illuminates what Cohen is telling us and why we listen so intensely.

Author : Dariia Zakharchenko
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783711512598

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Deutschland. Bureaucracy. Rock`n`roll. Life is a Story - story.one by Dariia Zakharchenko Pdf

Migration and living in a new country are not always easy. Sometimes it's quite the opposite. It's one thing to migrate out of your own desire and understanding that you want to live and develop abroad. It is quite another to be forced to move because of the war and aggression of a neighbour, which we had to face. And in this case, getting used to new realities and a new life is not only not easy; it is catastrophically difficult. I know that sometimes you give up and often even have a great desire to stop trying, leave everything and go home. The problem is that there might be nothing left of the place you used to call home. I would like this book to be a little cheat sheet with tips on how not to lose yourself, your common sense and your love of life itself in migration. It's about how to take things in stride, what moments are best ignored, and how to build your own support system. How to find light in the darkness and how to never give up even when everything is lost.

Author : briann kearney,Judith Ann Thomas
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781329551664

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A PRIVATE LIFE in Rock 'N Roll Brisbane 1961 by briann kearney,Judith Ann Thomas Pdf

Judith Ann Thomas's diary for 1961 follows part of her short life in Brisbane, Australia as she goes to dances and parties with various Brisbane musicians like Johnny Pickering & the Planets and visiting bands and singers including Peter Allen, the Allen Bros. and Lucky Starr and is invited to Queensland's first O.B. of "Bandstand" from Lennons Broadbeach before she follows her dream as a showgirl at Chequers Nightclub with modelling.

Author : Beth Fowler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793613868

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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Beth Fowler Pdf

The rock and roll music that dominated airwaves across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s is often described as a triumph for integration. Black and white musicians alike, including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis, scored hit records with young audiences from different racial groups, blending sonic traditions from R&B, country, and pop. This so-called "desegregation of the charts" seemed particularly resonant since major civil rights groups were waging major battles for desegregation in public places at the same time. And yet the centering of integration, as well as the supposition that democratic rights largely based in consumerism should be available to everyone regardless of race, has resulted in very distinct responses to both music and movement among Black and white listeners who grew up during this period. Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort" traces these distinctions using archival research, musical performances, and original oral histories to determine the uncertain legacies of the civil rights movement and early rock and roll music in a supposedly post-civil rights era.

Author : Editors of Life
Publisher : Life
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 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.