Rock & Roll: Year by Year - Softcover

Crampton, Luke; Rees, Dafydd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0756613345 ISBN 13: 9780756613341

Publisher: Dk Pub, 2005

Synopsis

From Abba to ZZ Top, from the birth of rock and roll in the 50's to the hybrid music of the present day, Rock & Roll Year By Year is the definitive guide to the music that influenced generations and helped shaped history. Meticulously written to cover key stories of every year in every decade with insights into the seminal artists and music of the times, this is the only full-color guide that details all the major events in the first fifty years of rock and roll. Co-founders of Original Media and www.musicinformationdatabase.com, creators/executive producers of CNN's global music series, "World Beat" and "The Music Room", Luke Crampton and Dafydd Rees have written more than 20 books about popular music, including DK's Encyclopedia of Rock Stars.

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About the Author

Co-founders of the Media Research & Information Bureau -- the largest chart-compiling and music research agency in Europe -- Luke Compton and Dafydd Rees have written more than 20 books about the music business, including DK's Encyclopedia of Rock Stars.

From School Library Journal

Adult/High School-Two prolific music writers have followed their Rock Stars Encyclopedia (DK, 1999; o.p.) with this massive photographic chronology of a musical and cultural phenomenon. At first, it seems to walk and talk like a coffee-table production, but the contents reveal considerably more substance than the usual oversized gift volume. Produced with the cooperation of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the book is as notable for the careful research behind the text as for the striking pictorial layouts. Beginning with January 1950, when Sam Phillips opened his first recording studio in Memphis, rock history is chronicled month by month through December 2002, ending with the sudden death of punk star Joe Strummer of The Clash. In addition to the facts, figures, and personalities highlighted within each month, lively essays summarize significant developments of each decade, charts compare No. 1 hits in the U.S. and the U.K. during identical periods, and entertaining sidebars provide expanded commentary and quotations. Every page includes fascinating historical photographs and color images of artifacts from the museum's rich collections. Though considerably larger than a backpack, this visual feast should tempt even thin-book devotees, and provide food for some cross-generational conversation among music-loving teens and adults.-Starr E. Smith, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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Edition details

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0756613345
• ISBN 13: 9780756613341
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 599