We are going to take you on stage - back stage - and into the lives of the rockers.We will examine their lyrics - and how the captivating tonal elements in the music are fitted together.We will discover why rock music affects people so powerfully - and how it changes those who play it and listen to it.We will learn what makes rock so captivating to the senses - and listen to men and women who tell how it changed their lives.We will also discover how it originated 3,000 years ago - and the purpose it has been used for every since.We will learn when and how it penetrated Christian churches - and what has happened to them since.We will read about how 280 rock stars died and what killed them.It is all here - the whole story of Rock Music and related musical forms - and the demonic forces behind the scenes, capturing and destroying human beings.

"Take a behind-the-scenes look at what life is like in a real band"--Page 4 of cover.

A “richly anecdotal” account of the secluded LA neighborhood’s legendary music scene, a tale of groupies, cocaine, and California dreaming (Salon). Finalist, SCBA Book Award for Nonfiction A Los Angeles Times Bestseller In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Decades later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, earbuds, and concert stages around the world. In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker draws on interviews with those who were there to tell the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the era’s leading musical lights—including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few—who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed. “An exhaustively researched and richly anecdotal book that will fascinate both rock aficionados and cultural historians.” —Salon “Captures all the magic and lyricism of an almost mythological geographical spot in the history of pop music . . . the story of a more melodious time in rock and roll where the great talents of the ‘60s and ‘70s cloistered together in a sort of enchanted valley populated by an all-star cast of characters.” —Steven Gaines, author of Philistines at the Hedgerow

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

Kronologisk fortegnelse over 100 rock-hits fra The Everly Brothers 1960 til Radiohead 2000 med analyser, oplysninger om indspilngen mv.

In this new study, David Pattie examines the apparent contradiction between authenticity and theatricality in the live performance of rock music, and looks at the way in which various performers have dealt with this paradox from rock music's early development in the 1960s up to the present day.