| Description |
415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Discography: pages [355]-400. |
| Contents |
Life Could Be a Dream ; December 28, 1947 : "Good Rockin' Tonight" ; October 29, 1949 : Red Hot and Blue ; April 1950 : Fender guitars ; Winter 1950-1951 : "The Tennessee Waltz" ; Winter 1950-1951 : "Teardrops From My Eyes" ; 1951 : Top 40 ; March 21, 1952 : The Moondog Coronation Ball ; August 1952 : "Kansas City" ; Summer 1953 : Elvis hears voices ; March 15, 1954 : "Sh-Boom" ; July 30, 1954 : Elvis discovers his body ; November 24, 1954 : copyrighting "Rock and Roll" ; Spring 1955 : Blackboard jungle -- Rock and Roll Music ; March 15, 1955 : "Ain't It a Shame" ; May 21, 1955 : "Maybellene" ; September 14, 1955 : "Tutti Frutti" ; November 1955 : "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" ; December 19, 1955 : "Blue Suede Shoes" -- All Shook Up ; June 5, 1956 : Elvis From the waist down ; March 25, 1957 : Ricky Nelson impresses his girlfriend ; August 5, 1957 : American Bandstand ; October 21, 1957 : Jailhouse Rock ; October 15, 1958 : "Lonely Teardrops" ; November 22, 1959 : Payola ; May 12, 1960 : Elvis comes home -- Glad All Over ; November 9, 1961 : Brian Epstein enters the cavern ; 1961-1962 : Robert Johnson : King of the Delta Blues Singers ; September 4, 1962 : "How Do You Do It?" ; April 28, 1963 : Andrew Loog Oldham enters the Crawdaddy Club ; November 11, 1963 : Beatlemania! ; July 25, 1965 : Dylan goes electric ; October-November 1965 : Rubber Soul -- Break on Through ; December 4, 1965 : the acid test ; February 8-13, 1966 : Andy Warhol, up-tight ; June 1, 1967 : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ; June 16-18, 1967 : Monterey pop ; June 7, 1968 : "Sympathy for the devil" ; 1970-1971 : What's Going On ; July 3, 1971 : the end -- Stairway to Heaven ; July 9, 1972 : Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ; 1972-1973 : The Harder They Come ; August 1, 1973 : American Graffiti ; October 1975 : Rock and Roll future ; December 2, 1976 : "anarchy in the U.K." ; August 16, 1977 : my way |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Rock music -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0684808730 |
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9780684808734 |
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