Glam Rock, Paperback

Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. Glam Roc...

A wonderful evocation of a Britain torn between glam and gloom, the Britain of 1970-74. It was the land of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, David Bowie ...

London, 1972: An ordinary schoolgirl is inadvertently pulled into the world of a fading rock star and becomes the secret weapon in a plan to revive...

A nostalgic look at growing up in the 1970s, a great gift for anyone who remembers glam rock, flares, huge collars, kipper ties and chopper bikes. ...

Enter the immersive world of 1970s London. Between the hippies and skinheads and the era of disco and punk, there was an age when attitudes became ...

Brian Eno is arguably one of the most influential musicians working in rock music. Starting out as synthesizer peacock of the early glam rock era R...

This book looks at the music recorded by Roy Wood, The Move, early ELO, The Idle Race, and Wizzard, taking in genres including Rhythm and Blues, Ps...

For many, T. Rex founder Marc Bolan remains forever frozen in time as the poster boy of glam, the pop-rock genre he effectively launched with his M...

Reducere. In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie--the original lead singer of '70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways--powerfully recounts her year...

Reducere. Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of ...

Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing ...

Reducere. A Rave Fable. This play hurls one of Greek tragedy's most compelling sagas into a sleek netherworld of sex, drugs and trance music. Iphigenia is th...

DescriptionIn this "exhilarating yet poignant account of one boy taking flight" (Shelf Awareness, starred review), one of rock music's most entranc...

(Book). If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together, " his place in rock-and-roll history would stil...

Shooting at the Moon celebrates the music and lyrics of Kevin Ayers, one of the great bohemian voices of British music. Kevin Ayers was an English ...

Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary thin...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Wes, a Millenial fashion designer, purchases an abandoned building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, he finds himself transport...

After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept...

In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this third volume of essays adapted from the acclaimed blog TARDIS Eruditorum you'll find a critical history of the Jon Pertwee years...

Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little commercial success, the influence of their three original albums - #1 Recor...