
| Here are 100 classic blues licks and chiops, perfectly transcribed, in every key and every mode, over all the most important progressions. Comes complete with a CD, so you can first hear... |

| Here are 100 classic rock licks and chops, perfectly transcribed, in every key and every mode, over all the most important progressions. Comes complete with a CD, so you can first hear... |

| Phil Capone has distilled all the essential licks and chops into this easy to use collection. Each example is presented within a subgenre: perspective rock, heavy metal, and blues rock, to provide... |

| This is the definitive guide to rock bands, detailing every significant artist, from AC/DC to ZZ Top, The Beatles to Smashing Pumpkins. Beginning with the founders of the genre in the 40’s... |

| It has been said that rock ‘n’ roll was a boys-only club in the 1960s and 1970s. Among the few women who gained entry was a high-spirited, half-Sicilian and half-Cherokee beauty named... |

| Abba are consistently one of the most popular bands of all time and the stage musical 'Mamma Mia' has ensured that the music reaches a new audience. The big screen version of... |

| Follow the band from its roots in Sydney, Australia, to its most recent releases and sold-out world tours. Over 400 illustrations include handbills, posters, backstage passes, and vinyl from around the globe,... |

| This first complete illustrated history of one of the world's most successful and popular bands includes hundreds of stunning performance and backstage photographs, as well as rare memorabilia, including gig posters, backstage... |

| Guitarists love amps—really love them. Amplifiers may look dull to the rest of the world, but to guitarists they are full of mystique, romance, and rockin' sound. And while there are many... |
| Punk rock gave birth to an art movement that was little appreciated at the time but soon became influential around the globe. This is the first book to chronicle the art of... |

| With such coverage and interest in The Beatles, how can there be anything new to say about the band? This book manages to do so thanks to the remarkable collection of photographs... |

| Culturally the Beatles were a global phenomenon - changing all facets of popular music for good, but not just because they were a band that made great recordings. How big a part... |

| Two of the world's preeminent music journalists tackle the liveliest debate in rock history: which band is the greatest ever--the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?... |

| The lead guitarist for ZZ Top riffs on his life as a noted collector whose own designs have manifested themselves in his cars and in hundreds of mind-bending custom guitars. ... |

| This autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, is a tale of success-and excess: great music, drugs and resurrection. ... |

| Here at last is the first complete illustrated history of Eric Clapton's entire career, illustrated throughout with candid and performance photography, as well as memorabilia spanning all five decades of his career.... |

| The history of classical music is very much the history of western civilization; a reflection of the ages in which the individual composers lived and of the instruments... |

| For more than five decades Cliff Richard has sustained an unrivalled career in show business, spanning the cultural universe of rock and pop music, in film, on television and on stage. No... |

| White immigrants to southern states of American and specifically the Appalachian Mountains developed a unique musical style that continues to be extremely popular in the U.S. and around the world. The Carter... |

| Dead Letters is the fully-authorized collection of insightful and brilliantly illustrated letters and envelopes from Deadheads reflecting on concerts and requesting tickets, saved by the Grateful Dead from their earliest days.... |

| Here is the first hands-on, how-to manual devoted to drum sets, providing drummers essential information on buying, maintaining, setting up, modifying, and tuning their drumkits. Packed with photographs and hard-won advice, this book... |

| Dylan: His Life in Pictures does exactly what the title says. In 256 pages with over 300 images it provides a timeline to this amazing career, showing highlights and more mundane moments... |

| This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of selecting and buying electric guitars; maintenance and repairs; troubleshooting; spur-of-the-moment stage-side fixes; and some basic performance enhancements, like adding aftermarket pickups, locking ... |

| This book spans four decades chronicling the public and private journeys of a man voted as one of the 50 greatest artists of all time. With over 30 albums and an endless... |

| Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known simply as Elvis and is often referred to as "the... |

| Here's the first hands-on how-to manual devoted to the legendary Fender electric bass guitar. This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of selecting and buying basses, maintenance and repairs, spur-of-the-moment stage-side... |

| This is the first hands-on how-to manual devoted to a guitar—the legendary Fender electric guitar, the Stratocaster! This guidebook shows owners and dreamers the basics of selecting and buying Strats, maintenance and... |

| Published in honor of the guitar’s 60th anniversary, here is the first detailed history of the Fender Telecaster, one of the icons of the music world. ... |

| Blues music originating from the African-American community in the Southern states of the U.S. went on to influence every popular musical form in Western music. This collection gives the reader/listener a superb... |

| This book comes with a CD and is a brilliant combination of music and a highly illustrated history of the early years of Rock 'n' Roll told through the stories behind the... |

| Here's the first book to dissect the trio that countless critics and musicians have cited as one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. ... |

| Formed in east London in 1975, Iron Maiden went on to become one of the most successful rock acts in history. With more than 85 million album sales to their credit, the... |

| The West Coast, 1950s. Bob Willoughby worked late into the night developing and printing his photographs with his radio firmly dialed into these new sounds. You will find his incredible images of... |

| In the 1940s, a young generation of jazz musicians forged a new style out of the swing music of the 1930s. A new breed of players like Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, and... |

| Song by song, album by album, concert by concert, this book analyzes how Jimi Hendrix achieved his unique sound--so you can, too.... |

| Learn to play country guitar the easy way, including simple, illustrated lessons that will have you jamming in no time.From hybrid picking and double stops, to twang techniques and country licks—discover everything... |

| Liddypool Birthplace of the Beatles is the first major book to concentrate solely on the Beatles and Liverpool, covering their rise from childhood in the 1940s and obscurity to their triumphant civic... |

| The Little Book of Abba" written by Claire Welch is a fantastic stocking filler for Christmas. Abba are consistently one of the most popular bands of all time and the stage musical... |

| Here is the illustrated history of Miles Davis, the world’s most popular jazz trumpeter, written by an all-star team, including Ashley Kahn, Sonny Rollins, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock, George Wein, Francis Davis,... |

| A lavishly illustrated look at the world's most enduringly popular solo artist, with mementos, reviews, cameos, discography--and a life story based on years of exclusive interviews.... |

| While a number of narrative titles have chronicled Neil Young in one manner or another, this is the first illustrated history to span his 41 studio albums, 6 live releases, and 40-plus... |
| While a number of narrative titles have chronicled Neil Young in one manner or another, this is the first illustrated history to span his 43 studio albums, 7 live releases, and 40-plus... |

| Pop is a fun orientated gift book, with a whole range of stories, pictures, lists, tid bits, and lots of things that have been forgotten from the world of Pop Music. An... |

| They were renowned for stunning live performances, envied for rumors of their rock ’n’ roll excess, and beloved for their music, occasionally anthemic and always virtuosic. Nearly twenty years after the death... |

| Packed with stunning performance and offstage photographs--dozens of them previously unpublished--as well as handbills, posters, backstage passes, tickets, T-shirts, LPs, and singles gathered from around the globe, this is the ultimate... |

| The inside story on one of the ’80s most interesting and influential indie rock bands, from unlikely rise to slow implosion.... |

| The illustrated inside story and oral history of the Minneapolis basement band who "rescued a whole planet from '80s music" (Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity).... |

| It's perhaps the relative modernity of rock 'n' roll that makes the genre a minefield of myths and legends accepted as truth. History hasn't had time to dissect the bunk. Until now. Discover... |

| Here's Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and many more rockabillies from the golden years of 1955-1959, in a book chock full of photos, collectible... |

| These are the guitars so famous that their names are often household words: B. B. King's Lucille, Eric Clapton's Blackie, Stevie Ray Vaughan's First Wife, Billy F Gibbons' Pearly Gates, Neil Young's... |