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Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Tom Waits - one of rock's great enigmas - is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. This biography charts Waits' life step-by-step and album-by-album. It offers an investigatio...n of this notoriously private artist and performer.
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This definitive history of one of the great iconic bands of the 1960s and 1970s, spans the entire course of American rock and roll, with a supporting cast that includes Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and U2.
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From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the LA pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other. This title looks at the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's house; the Eagles' backstage fistfights after the ...success of Hotel California ; and more.
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Gathers some of the best and most entertaining rock writing, coming at rock and roll from several different angles and spanning four decades of Good, Bad and Ugly. This book includes such pieces as: Al Aronowitz documenting The Beatles' arrival in America; Glenn O'Brien dishing t...he dirt with Madonna; and, Nick Hornby reappraising pop deities Abba.
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Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. This book recreates Woodstock's community of brilliant... dysfunctional musicians, and opportunistic hippie capitalists.
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What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage that protected them, from Peter Grant to Richard Cole to Ahmet Ertegun, giant figures from long-vanished world of 1970s rock. This book is a history, adven...tures, myths and realities of this legendary and powerful of bands.
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A Rock's Backpages anthology, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns, of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century.
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A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique ...take on one of rock's great enigmas.
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No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians. Defined by the music of Brian Wilson, NWA, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and fulled by drugs, alcohol, sun, sex and surf, LA has see...n it all. This book tells the story of LA's post-war music scene.
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A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.
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