Rock And Roll Is Life Part I

Author : D. J. TAYLOR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472128826

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

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Random House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : D.J. Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912914531

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Rock and Roll is Life: Part I by D.J. Taylor Pdf

Rock and Roll is Life pays homage to a formative period in music history, at the height of the Helium Kids' popularity. Three decades after their heyday in the late '60s and early '70s, the band's publicist Nick Du Pont looks back on the turbulent trajectory of the supergroup, traversing the bacchanalian excesses and tragedies of a golden age in British music.

Author : David John Taylor
Publisher : Constable
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Paul Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Nikki Sudden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8862311788

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The Last Bandit. A Rock'n'roll Life by Nikki Sudden Pdf

Author : Kenny Aronoff
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781495082931

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Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll! by Kenny Aronoff Pdf

(Book). Foreword by Neil Peart. Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, spirit, vision, honor, truth, and drums make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest drummers of all time, Aronoff is arguably the most sought-after recording and touring beat master ever. Ignited by the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, Aronoff's passion for drumming fervently grew and carried him from the kit in his childhood living room in the Berkshires to Bernstein at Tanglewood to Mellencamp, Etheridge, Fogerty, Smashing Pumpkins, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles his heroes and beyond. But none of this would have been possible without his fierce work ethic and unique approach to drumming an integration of all parts of his being, along with meticulous attention to note-for-note detail, feel, and what the song needs . Both a leader and a team player in the mission to realize a greater good an unforgettable recording, a riveting show Aronoff brings it every time. Through any setbacks heartaches, failures, injuries, or plain fatigue from the rigors of the biz Aronoff has stayed the arduous and wild rock 'n' roll course. His tale of what is possible with unrelenting dedication to one's bliss is an inspiration to all. Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll! details Aronoff's youth in the Berkshires and the Midwest, from his early inspirations to his serious classical and jazz study, which gave him the foundation to be able to play anything. The failure of a first rock band in his early twenties had a silver lining: it freed him up for an audition that would change his life John Mellencamp. His work with Mellencamp catapulted Aronoff to the top of the charts with such hits as "Hurt So Good," "Little Pink Houses," and "Jack and Diane" and paved the way for session and recording work with droves of remarkable artists: Melissa Etheridge, John Fogerty, Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, Smashing Pumpkins, the BoDeans, Paul Westerberg, Celine Dion, Iggy Pop, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Brian Wilson, Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker, and countless others. In addition to his work as a world-famous recording and touring drummer, Aronoff finds time to be a dedicated teacher and has shared his expertise with students all over the world, teaching clinics for Tama and Zildjian. Heading into his fourth decade of rocking hard, Aronoff shows no signs of slowing down. Featuring rare photos, testimonials from major artists and from those who know him best, a chronology of live performances, a discography, and a foreword by Neil Peart, this book is the story of one of the greatest musicians of all time.

Author : Editors of Life
Publisher : Life
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Author : Eugen Galasso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 889435136X

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Rock 'n' roll and my life by Eugen Galasso Pdf

Author : Joe S. Harrington
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634028618

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Sonic Cool by Joe S. Harrington Pdf

(Book). In the tradition of Nick Tosches, Tom Wolfe and Lester Bangs comes an epic and riveting history of rock and roll that reads like a novel. Sonic Cool presents the saga of rock and roll as the closest thing we have to genuine "myth" in the modern world, and it is the first book about rock to be written in the spirit of rock. Immense, fierce, opinionated and hilarious, Joe Harrington masterfully presents rock as a movement of near-religious proportions, against a backdrop of social factors and important events such as the invention of the guitar, the jukebox, LSD, the 12-inch phonograph record, the '70s recession, the Reagan Revolution, and the Internet. This is the history of rock as it's never been told, as the legend of a massive cultural movement, one that had meaning, but ultimately failed because it sold its soul. Radically egalitarian in its assessments towering figures such as Lennon, Dylan and Cobain stand along side lesser-known but equally influential artists like the MC5, the Misfits and Joy Division Sonic Cool is gripping reading for anyone who ever believed in the music. Includes a 16-page black-and-white photo insert. Joe S. Harrington began writing at the age of 10, an act that provoked a rejection slip from Mad magazine. He has written about music for the Boston Globe , Boston Phoenix , New York Press , Seattle Stranger , Lowell Sun , Wired , Reflex , Raygun , High Times , Seconds , Rollerderby and numerous fanzines. He is currently employed as an on-line jazz critic at Amazon, and lives in Portland, Maine. Softcover.

Author : Bruce Welch,Howard Elson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990-06-01
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0140119841

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Rock 'n' Roll by Bruce Welch,Howard Elson Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Psalms
ISBN : UIUC:30112103555865

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Bibliotheca pastorum ...: Rock honeycomb : broken pieces of Sir Philip Sidney's Psalter, part 1 by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Carmine Appice,Ian Gittins,Rod Stewart
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613735558

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Stick It! by Carmine Appice,Ian Gittins,Rod Stewart Pdf

Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life—and now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin to support him on tour, taught John Bonham to play drums (and helped Fred Astaire too), and took part in Zeppelin's infamous deflowering of a groupie with a mud shark. After enrolling in Rod Stewart's infamous Sex Police, he hung out with Kojak, accidentally shared a house with Prince, was blood brothers with Ozzy Osbourne and was fired by Sharon. He formed an all-blond hair-metal band, jammed with John McEnroe and Steven Seagal, got married five times, slept with 4,500 groupies—and, along the way, became a rock legend by single-handedly reinventing hard rock and heavy metal drumming. His memoir, Stick It!, is one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll books of the early twenty-first century.

Author : Nicholas G. Galanakis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781387263813

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God Listens To Rock 'N' Roll by Nicholas G. Galanakis Pdf

A five month period. A relationship doomed to fail. A friendship forged in the beginning of adult life. A rock ïnÍ roll tale filled with poor judgment, alcohol, recreational drug use and the definition of taking crazy to a whole new level. Most importantly, the witnessing of the era, that any smart person would like to be a part of, fade away, being replaced by a new revolting, empty and soulless way of life. To you, supporters of that lifestyle, I proudly sayƒ God listens to rock ïnÍ roll