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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charlie Gillett |
ISBN: | 0285633430 9780285633438 |
OCLC Number: | 779160190 |
Description: | 540 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Charlie Gillett. |
Abstract:
The third revised edition of a history of rock 'n' roll music, first published in 1970, featuring forty pages of historic photographs, updates as a result of information that has been revealed in recent years, an updated bibliography and a new afterword.
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The best book on Rock 'n' Roll ever written. -- Amazon Reviewer [A] groundbreaking account of pop's rise and dissemination... superbly researched. -- The Independent on Sunday Has never been bettered as the definitive history of rock. -- The Guardian The most thorough history of rock 'n' roll...immensely readable...if you're into rock 'n' roll, this is the book for you." -- Jerry Hopkins * Los Angeles Times * The one essential work about the history of rock 'n' roll...provocative enough to send the reader back to the turntable again and again. -- Jon Landau * Rolling Stone' magazine * Read more...

