Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. This book covers the beginning of rock and roll all the wayto the grunge era, a little after cobains death. Since taking an actual credited college course, titled the history of rock and roll, from an english professor, writing many papers citing references from this book. I could ramble on but a little research probing this vast wasteland of cyber space and a true quest of rock s history is somewhat void without exploring a few of these elements. Take it off tells the story of this stage in the bands history, often referred to as the. After penning books on the rolling stones, springsteen, david bowie, patti smith, sid vicious and mark bolan, prolific rock author mark paytress raises his sights somewhat, producing this 320page history of rock, a 2011 parragon books release. The rolling stone illustrated history of rock and roll. I am planning on using this in the future in my rock history class. If youare looking for detailed information on the artists of rock and rollthroughout history, this isnt it. Listening to the twentieth century by alex ross, please kill me.
This secret history of east german punk rock is not just about the music. Confessions of the worlds most notorious rock band by neil strauss, no one here gets out alive. The umen, green river, the melvins, skinyard, malfunkshun, 7 year bitch, the fastbacks. Which is the best book to understand the history of rock. Not sure if this would be in the wheelhouse given some of the artists and influences you mentioned, but please kill me by legs mcneil and gillian mccain about the rise and arguable fall of punk rock is one of the most engaging, entertaining, and interesting music history books out there. If you are lookingfor a book that shows the evolution of rock, this is the book. If you can find a single coherent sentence in this book, write and tell the publisher, so they can. After a career that saw him achieve eleven billboard top 40 hits, edward joseph mahoney passed away last week at the age of 70. The book focuses on more of the little known yet important bands to the grunge movement. Not a single title of my humble assemblage of around 100 books on rock and rolls history is mentioned here.
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