The Dead Straight Guide to Queen

The Dead Straight Guide to Queen
Author: Phil Chapman
Publisher: This Day In Music Books
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 178759050X

Few bands embodied the pure excess of the Seventies like Queen. Theatrical, brilliant, even mercurial – there has never been another band like them, or a frontman like Freddie Mercury. Their performance at the 1985 Live Aid Concert is the stuff of legend and 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have become anthems at sporting events around the world. With one of the most iconic videos ever, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ achieved even greater recognition through inclusion in the movie Wayne's World. Their 1981 Greatest Hits album has sold more than 25 million copies to date. Queen were one of the biggest Eighties stadium rock bands of the Eighties but the death of frontman, songwriter and producer Mercury at the start of the Nineties brought the band to a premature halt. This book tells the full story of the band and its members from pre-Queen to post Freddie.

The Dead Straight Guide to Led Zeppelin

The Dead Straight Guide to Led Zeppelin
Author: Nigel Williamson
Publisher: Ovolo Publishing, Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781905959525

This guide to Led Zeppelin tells the story of the life and afterlife of this most extraoridinary supergroup.

The Dead Straight Guide to The Jam

The Dead Straight Guide to The Jam
Author: Rick Buckler
Publisher: This Day In Music Books
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1787590496

The Jam had 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, That’s Entertainment and Just Who Is the 5 O’Clock Hero? remained the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, hit number one on the UK album charts.

The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin

The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin
Author: Nigel Williamson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1405384212

Rock legends Led Zeppelin remain a colossal music force with songs at once mystical, heavy, traditional and highly original. The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin tells the story of the life and afterlife of this most extraordinary supergroup. Features include: The Story: from the first meeting of Plant and Page to the untimely death of John Bonham, detailing the magic, mayhem and excesses of the era. The Music: the band’s fifty best songs unpicked, plus coverage of blues influences, bootlegs, solo careers, and the best Jimmy Page guitar solos and most outstanding Robert Plant vocals. The Passengers: profiles of collaborators and colleagues including Roy Harper and Mickie Most. The Cargo: Zeppelin films, places, myths and memorabilia, books, websites and the afterlife of “Stairway to Heaven.”

Galactic Ramble

Galactic Ramble
Author: Richard Morton-Jack
Publisher: Foxcote Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Popular music
ISBN: 9781905880072

'Galactic Ramble' is a study of the 60s and 70s UK music scene. It covers thousands of albums, from pop, rock, psych and prog to jazz, folk, blues and beyond.

Evenings with Led Zeppelin

Evenings with Led Zeppelin
Author: Dave & Tremaglio Lewis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10
Genre: Rock concerts
ISBN: 9781783057016

"Evenings With Led Zeppelin chronicles the 500-plus appearances Led Zeppelin made throughout their career. From their earliest gig in a Denmark school gymnasium on September 7, 1968, through to the last gig that Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones ever performed with John Bonham, in Berlin on July 7, 1980, this is the Led Zeppelin story told from where their legend was forged live on stage. Deploying impeccable research spread over many years, Dave Lewis and Mike Tremaglio brings clarity, authority and perspective to a show-by-show narrative of every known Led Zeppelin performance. With pinpoint accuracy they trace the group's rapid ascent from playing to a few hundred at London's Marquee Club to selling out the 20,000 capacity Madison Square Garden in New York--all in a mere 18 months. Supplemented by historical reviews, facts and figures and expert commentary that capture the spirit of the times, Evenings with Led Zeppelin is illustrated throughout with rarely seen concert adverts, posters, venue images, ticket stubs and photos, all of which offer matchless insight into their concert appearences."--Back cover

The Dead Straight Guide to Bob Dylan

The Dead Straight Guide to Bob Dylan
Author: Nigel Williamson
Publisher: Ovolo Publishing, Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781905959518

The Dead Straight Guides are a new series of music books. The first looks at the music legend, Bob Dylan.

When Giants Walked the Earth

When Giants Walked the Earth
Author: Mick Wall
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429985615

The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a never-before-seen side of the genius and debauchery that defined their heyday. Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock ‘n' roll standards. Led Zeppelin was the last great band of the 1960s and the first great band of the 1970s—and When Giants Walked the Earth is the full, enthralling story of Zep from the inside, written by a former confidante of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Rich and revealing, it bores into not only the disaster, addiction and death that haunted the band but also into the real relationship between Page and Plant, including how it was influenced by Page's interest in the occult. Comprehensive and yet intimately detailed, When Giants Walked the Earth literally gets into the principals' heads to bring to life both an unforgettable band and an unrepeatable slice of rock history.

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin
Author: Martin Popoff
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0760363773

Just in time for their 50th anniversary, Led Zeppelin breaks down one of the world’s most prolific bands—track by track, album by album—in this expanded edition, revised to include rarities, outtakes, and B-sides from their storied catalog?. Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins from the north, Led Zeppelin went on to create the template for the modern marauding rock ’n’ roll band. Though Zeppelin is often described as “heavy,” any true fan will tell you that the band’s catalog is actually a complex amalgam of blues, psychedelia, rock, folk, and country that reflect the specific influences carried by each of Led Zeppelin’s four members. Veteran music journalist Martin Popoff picks apart each of these 81 studio tracks, as well as a slew of non-album tracks in exquisite detail, and, for the first time ever, he analyzes the circumstances that led to their creation, the recording processes, the historical contexts, and more. Celebrate Led Zeppelin's 50th anniversary with this veneration of the band's extensive catalog of rock music.

The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan

The Rough Guide to Bob Dylan
Author: Nigel Williamson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Rock music
ISBN: 9781843537182

In his seventh decade and still going strong, Bob Dylan is the ultimate singer-songwriter - hugely revered, bafflingly idiosyncratic, an enigma and a music legend responsible for a staggering number of classic songs. Now in it's second edition, the Rough Guide clarifies the mysteries surrounding the man and the music, looking at the lyrics, the influences, the legends and the musicians he worked with. Features include- The Life - from Minnesota to Manchester, from the Albert Hall to the Never Ending Tour, The Music - 50 essential Dylan songs and the stories behind them and Dylanology - the movies, the sayings, books and websites.