Download or read book The Trivia Book of Rock N Roll Music written by Jimmy Correa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book The Great Book of Rock Trivia written by Bill O'Neill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you the type of rock fan that isn't satisfied with simply listening to the radio? Sure, you enjoy it, but you want more. Do you look up the lyrics and wonder what they mean or if there is a story behind them? What on earth does "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" mean, anyway? We've got those answers for you in The Great Book of Rock Music! This book contains hundreds of riveting facts about your favorite rock songs. Do you want to know how your favorite group got together and who is really the brains behind the band? 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. As easy to follow as a good drummer, this book will take you through the early years of rock and its development through the hippie era, the synthesizer-filled eighties, and the grunge age. You'll read about dramatic, absolutely hilarious, and downright odd moments during the concerts that shaped music history and defined generations. Whether you're a passive listener of your friend's rock playlists or a connoisseur of guitar riffs, you're sure to learn something new that will increase your enjoyment of your favorite music. For an extra challenge, try the quizzes at the end of each chapter. So go ahead, open the cover and enter the world of rock!
Download or read book Pink Floyd Trivia Book written by Dale Raynes and published by Bridge Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun Facts & Trivia Questions! - Special Launch Price Pink Floyd's music has resonated with listeners of all ages on a deep personal level for more than half a century. They were one of the most prominent British rock bands to achieve worldwide fame after the initial "British Invasion" led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in the early 1960s. Founded in 1965, the band reached the height of its popularity and influence in the 1970s and early '80s. Pink Floyd is one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, with an estimated 250 million albums sold, and the band remains highly influential among fellow musicians. To help you connect, or perhaps reconnect, with the lives, music, and legacy of this fascinating band, interesting facts and historical moments are highlighted in this book, Pink Floyd Trivia Book. We will cover the history of Pink Floyd, beginning with the origins of the band, through changes in personnel and musical philosophy, up to their influence and reputation today. A series of multiple choice and true/false questions opens each chapter, with the corresponding answers on the following page. The "Did You Know?" section consists of interesting facts and stories, which close each chapter so that you can develop a stronger understanding of the life and music of Pink Floyd. Use this book to test your knowledge with a round of trivia questions and perhaps review or gain information along the way. Whether you consider yourself a die-hard fan or are only faintly familiar with Pink Floyd, this book offers the opportunity to reinforce your knowledge of one of the most innovative and influential bands in the history of popular music. Let's see how much you know about Pink Floyd! Get yours today.
Download or read book The Big Book of Rock Roll Names written by Adam Dolgins and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world’s most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it’s been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend. From Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, this diverting and handsome collection reveals the often overlooked but defining histories of hundreds of the biggest names in rock and pop.
Download or read book Guns N Roses Trivia Book written by Dale Raynes and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lot of rock bands are wild. Many of them cultivate that sex, drugs, and rock and roll image. But Guns N' Roses is the real thing, so hedonistic and haunted by demons that they are ready to spin off the tracks at any given minute, as we will see. They did so. Repeatedly. Many of the questions and facts here will deal with their outrageous lifestyles and seemingly endless capacity for petty and profound feuds. The stories are jaw-dropping, and hopefully, you will enjoy every salacious detail. But let's not forget why we care in the first place: the amazing music. Sure, everyone appreciates Appetite for Destruction for what it is, the perfect debut album. But returning to their music today gives us a remarkable (though all too sparse) body of work. Patience is far more interesting than it seemed at the time. Use Your Illusion is not the bloated mess that critics made it out to be. It is a masterpiece. Even the troubled Chinese Democracy is far superior to what we had a right to expect. Guns N' Roses is a phenomenal band first-debauched train wreck second. We are excited that the boys are back together. While we wait for their next album, let's take a trip down memory lane. Do you know rock's ultimate bad boys? Let's see.
Download or read book The Music Trivia Book of Rock n Roll Music written by Jimmy Correa and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Johnny Ace to the Zombies, covering R&B, Pop, Country, and everything in between. Take the challenge-- you'll be amazed at what you know, didn't know, or have forgotten.
Download or read book History of Rock n Roll in Ten Songs written by Greil Marcus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission” by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic. “One of the epic figures in rock writing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.”—The Washington Post Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
Download or read book Rock Trivia Madness written by Bill O'Neill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GET SCHOOLED IN ROCK WITH ROCK TRIVIA MADNESS! Rock and Roll. For more than 60 years, it has been the soundtrack to our lives. Albums like "Highway 61 Revisited", "Born to Run" and "Nevermind" have helped us make sense of who we are. Not only that, the daring passion and bold visions of rock artists have shaken up social norms and even helped change the course of world politics. There've been some wild stories to go with this wild music. If you're eager to learn some of the crazy, random facts of rock, Rock Trivia Madness is the book for you! This collection of rock stories from the 1960s to the 1990s will thrill and fascinate fans of music trivia. You'll learn: How the Beatles helped the Rolling Stones score their first hit How the Velvet Underground helped overthrow the Communists in Poland How David Bowie almost turned his back on fame and fortune What Black Sabbath has in common with James Bond How a PA system helped get David Lee Roth into Van Halen Why the IRA threatened to kidnap U2's Bono How Sarah McLachlan saved a hip-hop legend's life How a girlfriend's gift inspired the Red Hot Chili Peppers to "Give It Away"
Download or read book Fargo Rock City written by Chuck Klosterman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1983, and Chuck Klosterman just wants to rock. But he's got problems. For one, he's in the fifth grade. For another, he lives in rural North Dakota. Worst of all, his parents aren't exactly down with the long hairstyle which rocking requires. Luckily, his brother saves the day when he brings home a bit of manna from metal heaven, SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, Motley Crue's seminal paean to hair-band excess. And so Klosterman's twisted odyssey begins, a journey spent worshipping at the heavy metal altar of Poison, Lita Ford and Guns N' Roses. In the hilarious, young-man-growing-up-with-a-soundtrack-tradition, FARGO ROCK CITY chronicles Klosterman's formative years through the lens of heavy metal, the irony-deficient genre that, for better or worse, dominated the pop charts throughout the 1980s. For readers of Dave Eggers, Lester Bangs, and Nick Hornby, Klosterman delivers all the goods: from his first dance (with a girl) and his eye-opening trip to Mandan with the debate team; to his list of 'essential' albums; and his thoughtful analysis of the similarities between Guns 'n' Roses' 'Lies' and the gospels of the New Testament.
Download or read book Behind the Hits written by Bob Shannon and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classic Rock written by Jim Summaria and published by Amherst Media, Inc. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Rock: Photographs from yesterday and today features the original, high-quality performance photography of veteran photojournalist, Jim Summaria. Through his camera lens, readers get a front row center seat to not only Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers in performance, but additional acts often overlooked and whose contributions are compelling. This book draws an intriguing visual contrast between artists in their prime—and, if still performing, as they have appeared more recently. The addition of quick facts and trivia about these artists, and revealing quotes from these musicians, peers, and critics will further entertain readers.
Download or read book On this Day in Music History written by Jay Warner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with fascinating trivia about popoular music from rock and R&B to country.
Download or read book That Old Time Rock Roll written by Richard Aquila and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places rock & roll music in historical perspective with the decade's top news stories, movies, TV shows, fads, and lifestyles. Hit records are listed by year, artist, popularity, and subject.
Download or read book The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame written by Holly George-Warren and published by Harper Design. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the most famous rock and roll institution in the world. In 2009, the Hall of Fame celebrated its twenty-fifth year with numerous events in Cleveland and a two-day anniversary filmed concert on October 29 and 30, 2009 at Madison Square Garden. A four-hour edited version appeared on HBO. An illustrated, vibrant book commemorating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s twenty-fifth anniversary through colorful profiles of its inductees over the years, this volume includes a wealth of historical photography, archival memorabilia, and the low-down on the musicians and their contributions to the genre. It is published with the full support of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, allowing full access to their archives. Jann Wenner, co-founder and publishier of Rolling Stone magazine, has contributed the foreword. It is an essential volume that completes every rock lover's bookshelf. Every inductee in the Hall of Fame is included--from musicians to producers--in an engaging visual format that features great vintage and contemporary photography, memorabilia from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first-person quotes and anecdotes, encapsulated biographies, statistics on top-selling records, hits, awards, influences and influencers. Often hilarious, sometimes sentimental and sometimes very serious, the book answers questions like: What did Sheryl Crow say when she inducted Fleetwood Mac? What did the Edge say when he inducted the Clash? What did Bono say when he inducted Bruce Springsteen in 1999--and six years later, what did Springsteen say about U2? It is a seminal book for rock and roll fans around the world.
Download or read book 60s Music Trivia Quiz Book written by Clint Glover and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know all about the artists, songs and number one hits of the 1960s? See how much you know and take a trip down memory lane as you remember all the great music from the 60's.Test your knowledge of the music of the 1960's by completing the 38 quiz rounds within this book. The book has 380 questions covering the whole of this amazing decade of music.
Download or read book AC DC Trivia Book written by Dale Raynes and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 150 million albums later, AC/DC still lives on as one of the best, high-voltage rock experiences to ever grace the stage and radio. Angus, Malcolm, and the boys took off from humble beginnings in Sydney, Australia to the world. Through triumph and tragedy, AC/DC has shown an uncompromising commitment to the strong and relentless spirit of loud, defiant, irresistible, and straightforward rock. Now, readers like you won't just learn all about their story and experiences on the road, you'll have fun while you're at it, too! In a one-of-a-kind format, "AC/DC Trivia Book" by author and historian Dale Raynes chronicles the colorful lives of AC/DC's members through: Interesting trivia complete with multiple choice answers that you can use for fun games with friends and family "Did-you-know" facts and stories complete with first-hand accounts and quotes from the AC/DC members themselves And so much more! Whether it's their music, travels, antics, personal lives, or conflicts, let this fun book guide you through it all and enjoy yourself along the way! And when you've come to enjoy it, add another copy of "AC/DC Trivia Book" and gift them to friends who share the same love for AC/DC. Scroll up, Click on "Buy Now", and Grab a Copy of "AC/DC Trivia Book" Today!
Download or read book The World s Hardest Music Trivia written by John Grantham and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you really know the music and groups that shaped the soundtrack of your life? This book will test (or showoff) your knowledge of Rock and Roll and Pop, from the Fabulous Fifties to the New Wave 80's and everything in-between. This is not just a trivia book; it is "A totally fab deep dive down the mind bending rabbit hole of rock n roll history", according to Jack Sonni of Dire Straits. It is the standard by which all other rock books should be judged. There are two ways to enjoy this book. You can take the Masters Level which asks the questions to which you either know the answers or you don't. The Mortal Level gives you a multiple choice of the same questions. This is perfect for hosting your own trivia nights. Even if you know the answers it behooves you to peruse the Mortal section as it is chocked full of behind the scene stories about the music and artists.
