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“simon b emery”

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  • In The Court Of Two Crimson Kings

    Greg Lake and John Wetton, A Progressive Journey

    by Simon B. Emery ...
    Two voices that defined progressive rock.Five decades of near misses.One stage they never shared.Greg Lake and John Wetton fronted the bands that defined progressive rock. Both were singing bassists. Both came up in the same era, shared a deep roster of collaborators, and circled the same stages for five decades. Yet neither ever performed with the other.Simon B. Emery set out to understand that ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Citizens of Hope and Glory: A Story of Progressive Rock

    The Story of Progressive Rock

    by Stephen Lambe ...
    Created in the late 1960s, fashionable in the early 1970s and hated in the 1980s Progressive Rock has a colourful and eventful story. Many of the genres main protagonists, including Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, remain as popular as ever, while lesser-known names like Camel, Caravan, Renaissance, Van der Graaf Generator and Gentle Giant retain cult status.Prog expert ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Show That Never Ends

    The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock

    by David Weigel ...
    The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts—and has divided listeners ever since.The Show That Never Ends is the definitive story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive (“prog”) rock. Epitomized by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake & Palmer, along with such successors as Rush, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Producer as Composer

    Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music

    by Virgil Moorefield ...
    The evolution of the record producer from organizer to auteur, from Phil Spector and George Martin to the rise of hip-hop and remixing.In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intricate eclecticism of George Martin's recordings ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Play It Loud

    An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

    by Brad Tolinski, Alan di Perna ...
    By the longtime editor-in-chief of Guitar World and a veteran rock journalist, an unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive impact on music and culture, and the people who brought it to life.Spanning a century and encompassing some of guitar's greatest builders and players, from Les Paul to Keith Richards to Eddie Van Halen, Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna bring the evolution of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bootleg! The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Recording Industry

    by Clinton Heylin ...
    An absorbing account of the record industry's worst nightmare.In the summer of 1969, Great White Wonder, a collection of unreleased Bob Dylan recordings appeared in Los Angeles. It was the first rock bootleg and it spawned an entire industry dedicated to making unofficial recordings available to true fans.Bootleg! tells the whole fascinating saga, from its underground infancy through the CD ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Rush

    The Illustrated History

    by Martin Popoff ...
    Formed in Toronto, Ontario, in 1968 under the heavy influence of British blues, Rush solidified its lineup in 1974 and has gone on to record 18 studio albums (and counting). Notable for bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee’s high register, Neil Peart’s virtuosic drumming and inventive lyrics, and the guitar heroics of Alex Lifeson, the multiplatinum band melds a diverse range of influences and along the way ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Psychic Confusion: The Sonic Youth Story

    by Stevie Chick ...
    In the early 80s Sonic Youth regenerated the spirit of punk by creating their own spectacular brand of noise rock. Without them, much of the independent rock community that followed would never have come into being and it was a direct result of their influence that Nirvana releases Nevermind on a major label.Drawing on interviews with the group and the people closest to them, Steve Chick gives a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Don’t Call It Hair Metal

    Art in the Excess of ’80s Rock

    by Sean Kelly ...
    A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980sThere may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock ’n’ roll of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess. Attention to songcraft, showmanship, and musical ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bastard Instrument

    A Cultural History of the Electric Bass

    by Brian F. Wright ...
    Series series Tracking Pop
    The Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric bass and the musicians who played it, from the instrument’s invention through its widespread acceptance at the end of the 1960s. Although their contributions have often gone unsung, electric bassists helped shape the sound of a wide range of genres, including jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, country, soul, funk, and more. Their innovations ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Sonic Boom: The Impact of Led Zeppelin. Volume 1 - Break & Enter

    by Frank Reddon ...
    Jimmy Page knew that Led Zeppelin had to take America by storm for the group to be successful. Sonic Boom is the story of how they did it, as told by the people who helped make it happen.Author Frank Reddon conducted over 40 primary source interviews. Discover what deejays, promoters, musicians, studio personnel and even audience members had to say about the band destined to become rock'n'roll's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rocking the Classics

    English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture

    by Edward Macan ...
    Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical music's sense of space and monumental scope with rock's raw power and energy. Its dazzling ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD