The Gibson 335 Guitar Book tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models, as played by B. B. King, Alvin Lee, and Eric Clapton, among other virtuosos. It's full of great guitars, cool players,...
Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded some of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. After his high school...
Nach dem 9. Februar 1964 wollte jeder Debbie Gendler sein. An diesem Tag war sie nur eine der wenigen glücklichen Fans, die den historischen Auftritt der Beatles in der Ed Sullivan Show live miterlebt...
An effective new songwriting vocabulary supported by ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC! The Elements of Song Craft does for songwriters what William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's The Elements of Style did for Engl...
Ringo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took...
Freddie Mercury was one of rock's most dazzling front men. When he died in 1991, the music world lost one of its most flamboyant characters, as well as a supremely talented writer and vocalist. Best k...
The first half of the 1970s was an especially fertile period for British progressive rock, laying claim to classics such as Tarkus, Selling England by the Pound, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, The Dark Side...
Here is the authorized biography of the one and only Maynard James Keenan. The book traces Keenan's journey from his Midwest childhood to his years in the Army to his time in art school, from his stin...
Thirty years ago this July, five L. A. punks unleashed their debut album upon the atrophied and decadent rock charts of Reagans America. Within weeks, Appetite for Destruction ascended to number one o...
Revered and massively influential, the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U. K. 1980s music scene. While the group was only active for five years (1982 to 1987), the cult o...