Product Description: The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world―alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief...read more

Product Description: Mark Beech's 1998 predecessor, The A-Z of Names in Rock generated over 50 radio interviews, 15 articles, 7 features in nationals and two serializations. This extended and updated version covers more genres than just rock (e.g. pop, punk, indie, reggae, soul, country, blues, folk, jazz, heavy metal, grunge and rap artists and bands) and will appeal to music fans internationally, as well as being the must-buy book for pub quiz fans...read more

Product Description: The British rock band The Who has been hailed as the world's greatest live rock and roll act, if not the greatest rock band, period. In the band's prime, its members--Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Peter Townshend--frequently clashed, but their conflicts also resulted in ten years of remarkable music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A detailed, inclusive reference on the personalities who have shaped modern rock music profiles more than one thousand musicians representing every genre and era of rock music, along with hundreds of photographs and the latest information on trends and performers. Original.

Identifies rock singers, musicians, and composers, and provides complete discographies for each artist (view table of contents)

A fascinating, fact-filled book profiles the details of more than 2,500 rock legends' lives and careers and spotlights the key players who changed the course of popular music. Original.

Product Description: The Essential CD Guides is a series devoted to popular music on compact disk. Each title in the series is dedicated to a recognized genre of music and covers its history, its greatest performers, the classic albums every fan should have and the masterworks that are available on CD...read more

Product Description: The Essential CD Guides is a series devoted to popular music on compact disc. Each title in the series is dedicated to a recognized genre of music and covers its history.

Discusses four hundred fifty of the most successful artists and bands from the 1950s to the present, including artists in rock, pop, soul, disco, dance music, heavy metal, reggae, and other fields