The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music

Author: Jimmy Correa
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059539129X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description
From Aaliyah to ZZ Top, author Jimmy Correa covers it all in The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music: The 80s and 90s-an essential guide to musical factoids. The easy-to-read multiple choice format makes trivia fun while you learn interesting tidbits about all types of music and artists from the 80s and 90s, including pop, country, R & B, one-hit wonders, and the British and foreign invasions. Enjoy questions such as the following: This romantic song by Chris DeBurgh was featured in the 1988 soundtrack of the movie Working Girl, starring Melanie Griffith Sir Mix-A-Lot, the male rapper, charted this song about the female body part that he likes the most Eric Clapton had a hit with this song in 1992 that was written in tribute to his son LeAnn Rimes, the talented, young country singer, gained her stardom by recording this song about loneliness at the tender age of fourteen Marc Cohn recorded this hit song in 1991 about a journey in the Delta Blues Correa draws on his extensive collection of music paraphernalia to share his love of music with others in The Trivia Book of Rock 'N' Roll Music: The 80s and 90s. Long live rock 'n' roll!

Yes

Author: Stuart Chambers
Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN: 9781894263474
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description

80's to 90's Rock

Author: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard
ISBN: 9780793598243
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
(Paperback Songs). 62 terrific rock songs, all in a handy paperback! Includes: Another One Bits the Dust * Barely Breathing * Building a Mystery * Candle in the Wind 1997 * Change the World * Counting Blue Cars * Every Breath You Take * Fast Car * Fields of Gold * Hit Me with Your Best Shot * How Am I Supposed to Live Without You * I Want to Know What Love Is * If I Ever Lose My Faith in You * Ironic * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Let Her Cry * Livin' on a Prayer * Semi-Charmed Life * She Drives Me Crazy * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Tears in Heaven * Total Eclipse of the Heart * Under the Bridge * We Didn't Start the Fire * We Got the Beat * You Give Love a Bad Name * and more. Melody lines, chords and lyrics, plus a section of guitar chord diagrams.

Rock Australia

Author: Glenn A. Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780642476623
Category : Rock groups
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description

Lighter Rock

Author: Hal Leonard Corporation Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781575600673
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
Lighter Rock is full of your favorite rock ballads of the 80's and 90's. Features great songs from Boston, Bush, Foreigner, Van Halen, Hootie and the Blowfish and more!

Your Band Sucks

Author: Jon Fine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 067002659X
Category : Alternative rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
"Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame.' Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour ... diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, despite creeping middle-age obligations of parenthood and 9-to-5 jobs, testament to the remarkable staying power of the indie culture that the bands predating the likes of Bitch Magnet--among them Black Flag, Mission of Burma, and Sonic Youth --willed into existence through sheer determination and a shared disdain for the mediocrity of contemporary popular music"--Amazon.com.

Our Band Could Be Your Life

Author: Michael Azerrad
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316247189
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Book Description
The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties -- when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives re-energized American rock with punk's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith is an indie rock classic in its own right. The bands profiled include: Sonic Youth Black Flag The Replacements Minutemen Husker Du Minor Threat Mission of Burma Butthole Surfers Big Black Fugazi Mudhoney Beat Happening Dinosaur Jr.

Burning Ditches and Getting the Green Light:

Author: Daniel Ostdiek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781521401705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 59

Book Description
Burning Ditches and Getting the Green Light: My account of the life and times of Nebraska's DIY pre internet 80 90s rock band Such Sweet Thunder. 180,000 plus road miles, 5 states, 1200+ live shows, 6 albums and 8000 CD and Casette Sales later(1000 unit sales of the 8000 were in a town of 10,000 perm residents). Their music is currently out of print, but hear some samples at myspace.com/suchsweetthunder. Such Sweet Thunder were the consummate pre-internet guitar/bass/vocals/drums all original band, and one of the few to pay for their own way with their own original music(vs Pay to Play bands or those who relied on covers to pay the bills). FYI this is the biography of the band written autobiographical style by a lead guitarist and manager. It chonicles the Nebraska midwest career and recordings of Such Sweet Thunder and their late 80s early 1990s live/recorded/creative peak and beyond. As Scott Roth would say, Such Sweet Thunder was DIY when do it yourself was not cool and every band from the country thought that the machine of a "Big record company" would make them either the Next Bon Jovi or even the next Nirvana. Such Sweet Thunder went their own path. Read about it here.

Sigh, Gone

Author: Phuc Tran
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250194725
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man’s bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the ‘80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes—and ultimately saves—him.

Swag

Author: Spencer Drate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
"Swag, " a survey of the best rock posters of the 1990s, presents the best in "hip" graphic design as well as a look at what's going on in music under the corporate radar. 250 illustrations.