In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul music of the 60s. Full of personal interviews, this book goes in search of the artists behind this blend of music.
In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul musi...
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, The Doors, Niggaz With Attitude, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and fulled by drugs, alcohol, sun, sex and surf, LA has seen it all. Barney Hoskyns tells the definitive story of L.A.'s post-war music scene and spent nearly a decade researching this account of music which developed into a culture of its own.
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....
From the offices of Rock's Backpages and edited by famed rock writer, critic and author Barney Hoskyns, The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock presents the most iconic pieces of rock music writing from the past half century. Coming at rock and roll from a different angle - with various takes on its love, its loathing and its access and excess, pieces include Al Aroniwitz documenting the Beatles' arrival in America; Nick Hornby reappraising pop deities Abba; and Will Self taking on Morrissey, just a few of the many stories selected from the rich RBP online library.
From the offices of Rock's Backpages and edited by famed rock writer, critic and author Barney Hoskyns, The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Ro...
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock--the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident--was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the...
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Wood...
A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.
A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns...
