Rock History

Kerrang! has an unparalleled reputation as one of the world's best-loved rock-focused publications. It continues to be at the forefront of alternative music, flying the flag for metal, hardcore, punk and beyond, introducing millions to their new favorite bands. Anyone who's anyone in the metal scene has featured Kerrang's hallowed pages and this unique book chronicles these appearances. If it happened in metal, Kerrang! covered it, as confirmed in this year-by-year survey of alternative music.

Welcome to the ultimate backstage pass to the afterlife, where the music never stops and the encores are eternal. In this collection of spectral true tales, we'll journey from smoke-filled recording studios to haunted hotel rooms, chasing the ghosts of rock & roll royalty who refuse to let a little thing like death keep them from the spotlight. These aren't your grandmother's ghost stories—unless, of course, your gran was a groupie for The Doors.

Gegenstand der neusten Folge ist die Gruppe, welche nicht bloß über 100 Millionen verkaufte Alben zählt, sondern auch durch ihre aufwendige Kostümierung und ihr charakteristisches Make-Up Kultstatus erreicht hat. Natürlich geht es um: the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman, the Catman, the Fox und the Ankh Warrior. Kurz und prägnant: KISS! Im ultimativen Nerdtalk beweisen Andy Brings und sein Gast Kevin Kuhn (DIE NERVEN), dass sie wortwörtlich „made for loving” KISS sind.

Cierre de la trilogía autobiográfica del mayor baterista argentino de rock, que abarca el período 2010-2017: de Charly & The Prostitution, las giras, el Colón y su disco Random a los conciertos europeos con el francés Benjamin Biolay.

From behind the walls of a handful of well-hidden, unlikely recording studios in the Los Angeles area, legends-in-waiting created masterpiece albums. It was a time of astonishing creativity and unprecedented fame and fortune. It was also a time of unfettered excess that threatened to unravel everything along the way. With access that only a longtime music business insider can provide, Kent Hartman packs Goodnight, L.A. with never-before-told stories about the most prolific time and iconic place in rock 'n' roll history.

Of all the musical developments of rock in the 1960s, one in particular fundamentally changed the music's structure and listening experience: the incorporation of extended improvisation into live performances. While many bands—including Cream, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground—stretched out their songs with improvisations, no band was more identified with the practice than the Grateful Dead. In Get Shown the Light Michael Kaler examines how the Dead's dedication to improvisation stemmed from their belief that playing in this manner enabled them to touch upon transcendence.

Many of our assumptions about empathy, sensual pleasure, and the essence of work, community, country, race, and the divine have germinated in Bob Dylan's need to know what's blowing in the wind and how it feels. Tracing his work and vision through themes that have shaped religious and cultural history for millennia, Stephen Daniel Arnoff uncovers how Bob Dylan has re-enchanted ancient questions of meaning and purpose throughout popular culture, inspiring a pantheon of prophetic musicians along the way.

Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more—iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but also change the direction of music. In Anatomy of 55 More Songs, based on his column for the Wall Street Journal, music journalist and historian Marc Myers tells the story behind fifty-five rock, pop, R&B, country, and soul-gospel hits through intimate interviews with the artists who wrote and recorded them.

In a long line of beloved books, Loud Pictures stands as Marc Spitz’s final project. This big, broad, noisy, and expansive exploration of art marries the two things Marc loved most—movies and rock and roll. In many ways, films can become imprinted on our brains because of their soundtracks.

Was ergibt Paul McCartney inkognito + Punk + 2263 Shows in 22 Jahren? RAMONES! Zu Gast begrüßt Andy Brings den Frontmann der DONOTS und Fan von RAMONES Ingo Donot sowie George Dubose, den Hoffotografen der Band. Doch den ultimativen Einblick garantiert Marky Ramone höchstpersönlich! Der Schlagzeuger bringt die ROCK`N`ROLL HALL OF FAME ins ROCK SCHOOL Studio und in Eure Wohnzimmer! "ROCK SCHOOL", die Hörbuch-Serie mit Andy Brings, in Kooperation mit dem ROCK CLASSICS- Magazin, veröffentlicht im Hause LAUSCH.

Hast auch du Angst vor der Dunkelheit? Dann sei beruhigt. Denn diese Folge bringt Licht ins Dunkel und eine Menge Fakten rund um “Iron Maiden”. Als Gast begrüßt Andy Brings den Schlagzeuger Johnny Dee (Britney Fox), der sich mit den Giganten des Rocks bereits die Bühne teilen durfte und die Band maßgeblich bei der “Somewhere in time”-Tour in Osteuropa und den USA unterstützt hat. Wolfgang Rott komplementiert die Runde. Seit dreiundzwanzig Jahren promotet er “Iron Maiden” in ganz Europa und verdankt der Presse seinen Spitznamen “Mister Heavy Metal”.

"ROCK SCHOOL" geht heavy weiter mit der Band, die so groß ist, dass man versucht ist zu sagen, "and nothing else matters". Die Rede ist natürlich von METALLICA! Die neue Folge "ROCK SCHOOL mit Andy Brings" hat Gäste wie Mille Petrozza (KREATOR) sowie Veranstalter Matthias Prill, der die unschuldige Anfangszeit der Band hautnah miterlebt hat! "ROCK SCHOOL" die Hörbuch-Serie mit Andy Brings, in Kooperation mit dem ROCK CLASSICS-Magazin, veröffentlicht im Hause LAUSCH.

Nach dem fulminanten Auftakt der Hörbuch-Serie "ROCK SCHOOL", bleibt "ROCK SCHOOL" seinem Namen treu und nimmt in Episode zwei die Band unter die Lupe, welche sich als Symbiose aus Hard-Rock, Punk und Rock'n'Roll bezeichnen lässt: Die Rede ist selbstverständlich von "Motörhead"! In Erinnerung an diesen Propheten des Rocks, lädt "ROCK SCHOOL" exklusive Gäste ein, mit denen leidenschaftlich über "Motörhead" sowie die Licht- und Schattenseiten des personifizierten Hard-Rocks diskutiert wird.

"ROCK SCHOOL": Eine Ode an die geilste Musik der Welt: Leidenschaft, Einblicke hinter die Bühne und natürlich "Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll". Fans und Freunde des Rocks sind eingeladen, zusammen mit Andy Brings und Stargästen der Branche in der neuen Serie "ROCK SCHOOL" über die einflussreichsten Größen der Musikszene zu philosophieren und zu schwärmen. "ROCK SCHOOL" wäre dabei nicht "ROCK SCHOOL", wenn es nicht mit einem Knall beginnen würde.

Psychiatric Tissues focuses on Arab on Radar, one of the most iconic and influential noise rock bands in underground music history. Tales of their interests in sex, drugs, and violence have swirled for years. In this memoir about playing guitar in the band, Jeff Schneider aka Mr. Clinical Depression candidly reveals the truth about life inside the band, stripping away the myths and revealing what life was like for musicians on top of the scene, enjoying artistic creation on a level that has yet to be understood.

Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides by Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Vichy France and Francoist Spain, every day Gibraltar had to let thousands of people cross its frontier to work, among them spies and saboteurs eager to blow up its 25 miles of secret tunnels.

Critiquing avant-garde rock bands from the 1960s to 2000, Bill Martin examines how social upheaval gave rise to this new form of musical expression. He covers early experimentation by artists such as James Brown; initiation into the mainstream and the resulting adaptations by the Beatles and the Who; and continues into the next era looking at how groups like Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, and others continued to innovate.

Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues with concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more.

Un concienzudo y emocionante repaso a la historia del rock progresivo, desde sus raíces contraculturales en los años sesenta a la fusión con otros lenguajes musicales, pasando por la veta sinfónica británica o la instrumentación multicultural que marca tendencia en la actualidad. Un audiolibro ideal para entendidos en la materia y para neófitos que quieren iniciarse en el apasionante mundo del rock progresivo.

The Great Book of Rock Trivia contains hundreds of riveting facts about your favorite rock songs. Whether you’re interested in what your favorite musicians like to do in their spare time, where they get the ideas for their music, or which artist had an exorcism in his home, you’re in for a treat. This book will satisfy your curiosity and help you impress your friends with your rock and roll knowledge.