Presents original Billboard reviews and career histories of more than eighty rock performers and groups (view table of contents)

Presents original Billboard reviews and career histories of more than eighty rock performers and groups (view table of contents)

Ranging from his first trips to London in the early 1960s right up to the 2006 Katrina concert and the publicity surrounding the release of the acclaimed Modern Times, this collection of images is an extraordinary record of Bob Dylan's evolving public persona. As changeable as his music, some 200 different views are presented of one the greatest cultural icons of the last 50 years. This major new series of rock photography books is compiled from the unique archives of Rex Features, London’s top picture library for the performing arts.

Product Description: Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people” (The New York Times)...read more

Burning Up: On Tour with the Jonas Brothers is your backstage pass to life with Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It includes never-before-seen photos of the Jonas Brothers' Look Me in the Eyes tour and exclusive images taken during Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus's Best of Both Worlds tour. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at the band warming up, performing, and having fun backstage. This sizzling souvenir will also give you a glimpse of the downtime that the brothers have between gigs. In addition to pictures of the group laying down tracks at the recording studio for A Little Bit Longer, giving radio interviews, and sight-seeing in London, you'll see snap-shots of them bowling, racing Go-karts, and playing video games with the Bonus Jonas, younger brother Frankie. The dynamic photography is accompanied by a candid narrative by the Jonas Brothers themselves, chronicling their life on the road and their experiences growing up in the music world. They discuss everything from the songwriting process to the importance of family to their favorite kind of ice cream (Kevin's is rocky road!) So pick up your guitar and get ready to strum along--you're going on tour with the Jonas Brothers!

Product Description: They hit the music world by storm in 1993 with their rocking hit "Mr. Jones" from their debut album August and Everything After. They were named “Best New Artist” by MTV and were the talk of the music industry. They have followed up with two other exciting and successful releases, Recovering the Satellites and This Desert Life and the hit singles “A Long December” and “Hanginaround...read more

Product Description: Novel giving detail to the Du-Wop era of music.

Product Description: Three quarters of a million people visit Graceland each year--40,000 of them during "Elvis Week", the anniversary of his death in August. Strausbaugh describes the religious fervor of Elvis followers, and places Elvism in the context of many grassroots movements away from traditional churches, and explores parallels to Elvis worship in other cultures past and present...read more

Product Description: Was Elvis Presley the greatest man to walk the Earth since Jesus Christ? Some of his fans would say so. Will shrines erected to Elvis still be lovingly tended 200--even 2,000--years from now? This intriguing book compares the the rise of Elvis to that of the early Christian church...read more

A celebration of the benefit's twentieth anniversary offers tribute to the many artists who have played on the Farm Aid stage and works to raise awareness about America's ongoing family farm losses, in a compendium of essays, interviews, poems, lyrics, fictional excerpts, and photographs.

Product Description: Teenage hell has never been captured with such intense honesty as these actual letters sent in the late ‘80s from a suicidal girl to the singer of her favorite band.Go Ask Ogre peers into the world of a misfit "cutter" who lives with an abusive mother in the rust belt...read more

Product Description: Teenage hell has never been captured with such intense honesty as these actual letters sent in the late ‘80s from a suicidal girl to the singer of her favorite band.Go Ask Ogre peers into the world of a misfit "cutter" who lives with an abusive mother in the rust belt...read more

A collection of articles and interviews from Golden Road, the magazine published for and by fans of the Grateful Dead, discusses their recording company, songs by others that they have played, concerts available on tape, and other topics

Chronicles the rock band the Grateful Dead, offering an illustrated history, including photographs, biographies, memorabilia, personal essays, listings of albums and songs, and a detailed chronology of tours.

Provides overviews of each tour, road crew interviews, opening act listings, and index of all of the band's songs, and more than 200 photos chronicling their concert history. Original.