So You Think You Know Rock and Roll? (eBook)

An In-Depth Q&A Tour of the Revolutionary Decade 1965-1975

Peter E. Meltzer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
416 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1768-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Rolling Stone magazine recently released its list of the 100 greatest albums in rock music history, a period spanning more than fifty years. Nearly 60 percent of those albums were released in the decade from 1965 to 1975the golden age of classic rock. This book is a wide-ranging portrait of that transformative and remarkable time, from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era to days before disco.This book is presented in a question-and-answer format, but it is hardly a trivia book. It covers such diverse topics as censorship, chart phenomena, album covers, rock groupies, manufactured bands, one-hit wonders, rock festivals, supergroups, novelty songs, and the Beatles.All of the major figures of the 60s and 70s are here: Cream, CCR, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Neil Young, the Eagles, the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, James Taylor, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Carly Simon, Laura Nyro, and many others.Exhaustively researched, So You Think You Know Rock and Roll? is filled with I never knew that! moments on every page.

Autor

Peter E. Meltzer is a practicing attorney in Philadelphia. He has been a lifelong fan of rock music (and a frustrated musician). He is the author of The Thinker’s Thesaurus, So You Think You Know the Presidents?, and So You Think You Know Baseball?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: albums • allman • aretha • books on albums books on skynyrds • books on arethas • books on carly • books on carole • books on discos • books on eagles • books on elton • books on festivals • books on floyd • books on garfunkel • books on groupies • books on hendrix • books on jimi • books on lynyrd • books on question-and-answers • books on singer-songwriters • books on springsteen • books on stevie • books on zeppelin • Carly • Carole • Disco • Eagles • Elton • exhaustively • Festivals • Floyd • Garfunkel • Groupies • Hendrix • jimi • Lynyrd • nyro • one-hit • question-and-answer • Roll • Rolling • Singer-Songwriter • Skynyrd • Springsteen • stevie • Transformative • Zeppelin
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1768-4 / 1510717684
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1768-8 / 9781510717688