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Rock Music: 1960s
"So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star?": Rock Music in the 1960s
With the establishment of rock journalism, rock music was seen as a more legitimate genre during the 1960s. However, many artists branched away from the perceived 1950s solidification of rock 'n' roll. These library resources delve into the splintering of rock music styles and examine its reflection on social and cultural movements of the era.
Books
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Rock and Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s
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A rousing, poignant look at the cultural history of rock & roll during the early 1960s. Received Gold for the IPPY Book Award in the Catergory of Popular Culture by the Independent Publisher In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called "the American Century." Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For "one brief, shining moment" in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars. From the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America, Richard Aquila's Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America offers an in-depth look at early 1960s rock & roll, as well as an unconventional history of Kennedy's America through the lens of popular music. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with Dion, Bo Diddley, Brenda Lee, Martha Reeves, Pete Seeger, Bob Gaudio, Dick Clark, and other legendary figures, the book rejects the myth that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was "the day the music died." It proves that rock & roll during the early 1960s was vibrant and in tune with the history and events of this colorful era. These interviews and Aquila's research reveal unique insights and new details about politics, gender, race, ethnicity, youth culture, and everyday life. Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America recalls an important chapter in rock & roll and American history.
Call Number: ML3534.3 .A76 2022ISBN: 9781421444987Publication Date: 2022-11-29 -
British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence
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Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for sixty percent of all recorded music sold in the United States; in 1964 and 1965 British acts occupied the number one position for 52 of the 104 weeks; and from 1964 through to 1970, the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, the Kinks, the Hollies, the Yardbirds and the Who placed more than one hundred and thirty songs on the American Top Forty. In The British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence, Simon Philo illustrates how this remarkable event in cultural history disrupted and even reversed pop culture's flow of influence, goods, and ideas--orchestrating a dramatic turn-around in the commercial fortunes of British pop in North America that turned the 1960s into "The Sixties." Focusing on key works and performers, The British Invasion tracks the journey of this musical phenomenon from peripheral irrelevance through exotic novelty into the heart of mainstream rock. Throughout, Philo explores how and why British music from the period came to achieve such unprecedented heights of commercial, artistic, and cultural dominance. The British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence will appeal to fans, students and scholars of popular music history--indeed anyone interested in understanding the fascinating relationship between popular music and culture.
Call Number: ML3534.3 .P55 2015ISBN: 9780810886261Publication Date: 2014-11-06 -
Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s
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Tomorrow Never Knows takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered--as if it offered meaning and sustenance, not just escape and entertainment? What did young people hear in the music of Dylan, Hendrix, or the Beatles? Bromell's pursuit of these questions radically revises our understanding of rock, psychedelics, and their relation to the politics of the 60s, exploring the period's controversial legacy, and the reasons why being "experienced" has been an essential part of American youth culture to the present day.
Call Number: HN59 .B76 2000ISBN: 0226075532Publication Date: 2000-12-01 -
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing, and scattered cheers. It was the shot heard round the world--Dylan's declaration of musical independence, the end of the folk revival, and the birth of rock as the voice of a generation--and one of the defining moments in twentieth-century music. In Dylan Goes Electric!, Elijah Wald explores the cultural, political and historical context of this seminal event that embodies the transformative decade that was the sixties. Wald delves deep into the folk revival, the rise of rock, and the tensions between traditional and groundbreaking music to provide new insights into Dylan's artistic evolution, his special affinity to blues, his complex relationship to the folk establishment and his sometime mentor Pete Seeger, and the ways he reshaped popular music forever. Breaking new ground on a story we think we know, Dylan Goes Electric! is a thoughtful, sharp appraisal of the controversial event at Newport and a nuanced, provocative, analysis of why it matters.
Call Number: ML420.D98 W34 2015ISBN: 9780062366689Publication Date: 2015-07-14 -
There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the 60s
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Between 1965 and 1972, students and other political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul music fueled this revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti, were being dragged into the fray. Some joined the protestors on the barricades; some were persecuted for their political activism; some abandoned the cause and were dismissed as counter-revolutionaries. From Mick Jagger's legendary appearance in Grosvenor Square, standing on the sidelines and snapping pictures, to the infamous incident at Woodstock when Pete Townshend kicked Yippie Abbie Hoffman off the stage while he tried to make a speech about an imprisoned comrade, to Lennon's display of self-promotion when he auctioned off his hair on top of the "Black House," Doggett unravels the truth about how these ambitious musicians weren't always the "Street Fighting Men" they saw themselves as. There's A Riot Going On is a rich, fact-filled, exceedingly well-researched social history at the nexus of pop culture, celebrity, and politics.
Call Number: ML3534 .D64 2008ISBN: 9781847671806Publication Date: 2008-09-01 -
Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965-1970
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This is the most detailed and most revealing and enjoyable story yet of the British blues boom and its key players, focussing on guitarists Eric Clapton, Peter Green, and Mick Taylor and their various bands, including John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Blind Faith, The Rolling Stones, and Derek & The Dominoes, from 1965 to 1970.
Call Number: ML3521 .H56 2007ISBN: 9781906002008Publication Date: 2007-02-09 -
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
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A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music. This enhanced edition includes: Exclusive video footage prepared specifically for the enhanced eBook that has never been seen before. Rare audio clips.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780316199438Publication Date: 2014-11-04 -
Girl Groups, Girl Culture: Popular Music and Identity in the 1960s
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Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Lovenbsp;all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of "girlhood" in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s--including key hitmakers like the Ronettes, the Supremes, and the Shirelles - studies of girl-group music that address race, gender, class, and sexuality have only just begun to appear. Warwick is the first writer to address '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience--teenage girls--drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation. Girl Groups, Girl Culture stands as a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. It promises to be a classic work in American musicology and cultural studies.
Call Number: ML3534 .W35 2007ISBN: 9780415971126Publication Date: 2007-02-20 -
Phil Spector: Sound of the Sixties
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Phil Spector is a musician, songwriter and producer whose musical ability and visionary foresight as a producer charted the future of popular music and culture of the late 20th century. He revolutionized recording processes and re-shaped the business and marketing approach of the music industry. While he raised the bar for other musicians and producers to follow and gave a voice to groups struggling to achieve equality during the 60s, Spector was, however, a complex character whose need for control brought much damage and confusion into the lives of those around him as well as into his own career and life. Phil Spector: Sound of the Sixties follows the ups and downs of Spector's career as an entrepreneur and businessman, technical wizard and musical visionary, record label master and collaborator with the biggest bands of the age. Spector left an indelible mark on American pop music, creating an iconic soundtrack that still attracts new listeners today.
Call Number: ML429.S64 M3 2018ISBN: 9781442267053Publication Date: 2017-11-15 -
By the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock 'N' Roll Revolution of 1969
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(Book). A fast-paced, fun, and sometimes brutal look at America's most volatile and creative year in music 1969: a time of euphoria and devastation, freedom and assassination, revolution and retribution, moonwalks and sit-ins, love-ins and race riots, sex, drugs, and guns. Idyllic college campuses became killing fields and inner cities went up in flames as the drumbeat of popular music tried to drown out the drums of war. 1969 was birthed through the visions and violence of 1968. By the Time We Got to Woodstock breathlessly documents a year that saw more music-as-manifesto and rock-as-revolution than ever before. At one mad outdoor party after another from Miami to Denver, and from Woodstock to Altamont cracks in the promised hippie utopia quickly turned to canyons. This was the year that saw the Beatles go supernova while Bob Dylan hightailed it to Nashville. From the Byrds, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, the Airplane, and Janis Joplin to the Velvet Underground, the Mothers of Invention, Funkadelic, and the Fugs, 1969 stands up as a decade-smashing anomaly in the annals of rock'n'roll captured gloriously in this blistering book.
Call Number: ML3534 .P6248 2009ISBN: 9780879309794Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Articles
- "Quincy Jones: One of the Greatest" by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 26 October 1963
- "The Ronettes: Wrong Phone Number Brought Success" by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 11 January 1964
- "The Who: The Group That Slaughters Their Amplifiers..." by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 3 April 1965
- "Beneath the Festival's Razzle-Dazzle" by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 1 August 1965
- "Ike & Tina Turner: Mother of Four Rocks in Revue" by Ann Moses, Rhythm 'n' News, 10 September 1965
- "The Velvet Underground, Nico, the Mothers of Invention: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco CA" by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 30 May 1966
- "Jimi Hendrix: The Black Elvis?" by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 25 February 1968
- "Clubs Give Sly and Family First Hit" by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 July 1968
- "Obituary: Brian Jones" by Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 9 August 1969
- "Woodstock: Peace Mecca" by Danny Goldberg, Billboard, 30 August 1969
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Rock's BackpagesAn archive of music journalism and popular music writing of the last 60 years. Includes 38,000 articles on all subcategories of popular music.
Archival Materials
Roger McGuinn Collection, 1999-2000
This collection contains an audiocassette oral history interview with founding Byrds member Roger McGuinn. The interview was conducted on March 24, 2000 by John Covach, Paul Jones, and Steve Weiss (FS-20319/6088).
Dick Waterman Photograph Collection, 1960-2003
This collection includes photographic negatives and proof sheets of prominent blues-rock, country-rock, and folk-rock musicians as well as the traditional musicians that influenced them. Images depict artists such as Joan Baez, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Lightening Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, and Muddy Waters performing at festivals and events during the 1960s, like the Newport Folk Festival.
Jerry Wexler Collection, 1967-2004
This collection includes newspaper clippings, artists and producer materials, and commercial recordings documenting Jerry Wexler's time at Atlantic Records and his impact on the music industry by further defining rhythm and blues and rock music during the late 1960s.
Bebo White Collection, 1927-2018
This collection contains an open reel sound recording of an interview conducted on March 19, 1965 by Bebo White with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Raleigh, N.C. (FT-20544/1) and an autographed photograph from the session (PF-20544/6).
Burk Uzzle Photographic Collection, 1960s-2010s
This collection includes photographs relating to the career of photojournalist Burk Uzzle. A portion of this collection contains photographic material relating to the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival. Uzzle captured the iconic image used for the album cover.
Audio
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Videos
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The Ed Sullivan Show Featuring the Beatles and Various Other Artists
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The Four Complete Historic Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring the Beatles. 1964. Variety Shows. Ed Sullivan Show. The Beatles. Television--History. Broadcast History--United States. Rock Music. Ed Sullivan. The Beatles. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. on a wave of hype and hysteria, it was their appearance on Ed Sullivan's that stoked the American fervor for the 4 lads from Liverpool to even higher levels. The Beatles' appearance on the Sullivan show, just as Elvis' had been less than a decade before, would prove an epochal TV event. This four disc set of the four Sullivan shows starring the Beatles is fascinating for reasons beyond the appearance of them alone. The discs, beautifully re-mastered and digitized, contain all performers on the show and the commercials. This is not just the presentation of a great group's debut before the American public, but a fascinating look at America in the early '60s through one of the most popular television shows of the era. Notes: Produced by Bob Precht. Directed by Tim Kiley. Music by Ray Bloch. Assoc. Producer, Jack McGeehan.
The Ed Sullivan Show, February 23, 1964. Following Sullivan's opening announcements in order of appearance: The Beatles singing Twist and Shout, Please Please Me; Gloria Bleezarde singing the novelty song Safety in Numbers; Pinky and Perky, puppeteers doing a Catepillar and Crow routine followed by a Doag and cow routine; Morecambe and Wise [Louis XIV comedy sketch]; Acker Bilk [Acker's Lacquer]; Gordon and Sheila McRae [a very extended and sophisticated send-up of the then popular Garry Moore TV show]; Dave Barry, comic [routine about his daughter's marriage]; Cab Calloway singing St. James Infirmary and a jazzed-up Old Man River; Morty Gunty, comedy stand-up; ending with the Beatles' singing I Want to Hold Your Hand. The Ed Sullivan Show, September 12, 1965. The group had made an extremely successful tour of the U.S since there appearance on Sullivan and this would be there last television appearance. After Sullivan's opening in order of appearance; Soupy Sales pokes funs at Sullivan's European vacaction; Cilla Black sings September in the Rain; Fantasio, magician with sleight-of-hand tricks; The Beatles sing I Feel Fine, I'm Down, Act Naturally; Allen and Rossi do Try to Remember and a skit; Cilla Black sings Goin Out of My Head; Soupy Sales does the novelty tune The Mouse; and the Beatles end the show with Ticket To Ride, Yesterday and Help!.
The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964. Following Ed's opening comments in order of appearance: The Beatles sing All My Loving, Till There Was You, and She Loves Me; Fred Kaps, magician [an elaborate card and salt shaker trick]; The cast of the Broadway show Oliver singing I'll Do Anything For You; Georgia Brown, from the Oliver cast singing As Long As He Needs Me; Frank Gorshin, comedian/impressionist; Terry McDermott [Olympic athlete]; Tessie O'Shea [British dance hall star [singing a medley of show tunes]; McCall & Brill comedic team [office sketch]; The Beatles back to sing I Saw Her Standing There and I Want to Hold Your Hand. The Ed Sullivan Show, February 16, 1964. In order of appearance: The Beatles sing She Loves You, This Boy, and All My Loving; Sullivan introduces Sonny Liston, Heavyweight Champion to the audience [this was just before his stunning loss to young Cassius Clay]; Sullivan also introduced former Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis to the audience; Comic duo Allen and Rossi doing a boxing skit; Mitzi Gaynor singing and dancing to It's Too Darn Hot and then a medly of 'blues' hits; The Nerveless Knocks [doing a sway pole routine in Hialeah (the show was broadcast from Miami Beach]; Myuron Cohen [Cohen's subtle topical jokes seemed almost out of place]; and the Beatles ending the program with I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You, and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Presents the four complete one-hour Ed Sullivan Shows that launched the "British Invasion" of the music industry and introduced the Beatles to America. Includes the original commercials.
Call Number: 65-DVD1560Publication Date: 2003 -
All 6 Ed Sullivan Shows: The Rolling Stones
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Now fans can see the Rolling Stones as they've seldom seen them -- young, edgy, and electrifying -- and on their way to conquering the world. This deluxe 2-DVD collector's edition features all six Ed Sullivan Show episodes starring the Rolling Stones, who perform seventeen of their greatest hits. This is the first time these full shows have ever been released. Also included in these full episodes are performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, the Muppets, Tom Jones, the original commercials and more.
Call Number: DVD-182Publication Date: 2011 -
A Hard Day's Night
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A lively, good-natured spoof of "Beatlemania" portraying a frantic 36 hours in the lives of the rock group.
Call Number: 65-V8436Publication Date: 2002 -
T.A.M.I. Show
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In 1965, thirteen of the world's top teenage recording acts were assembled for a spectacular show. The TAMI Show was one of the first concert movies of the rock era. Jan & Dean introduces all 13 artists, whose exceptional vintage performances make it clear why these groups influenced an entire generation and are still making the top ten twenty years later.
Call Number: DVD-524Publication Date: 2009 -
Don't Look Back
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Portrait of Dylan as a young man during the period when his music is shifting from acoustic to electric, filmed during his 1965 concert tour of England. '65 revisited' contains outtakes from Don't look back, with new commentary.
Call Number: 65-DVD17159Publication Date: 2007 -
Monterey Pop by Selections of performances and scenes from the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967.
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 1968 -
Elvis '68 Comeback Special
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"Elvis Presley - '68 Comeback Special (50th Anniversary Edition) is the definitive chronicle of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll performances ever televised: Elvis Presley at the peak of his powers. For the first time ever, all previously-released audio and newly-restored video from the taping of the special will be available in one package - including unused performances and studio outtakes that spotlight the real Elvis. The package contains an entire disc showcasing the legendary sessions for the special recorded with Elvis and the Wrecking Crew."--Graceland.com.
Call Number: CD-19044 OversizePublication Date: 2018 -
The Beatles: Get Back
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Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band's intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours of unheard audio, all of which has been brilliantly restored. Also featured, for the first time in its entirety, is The Beatles' last live performance as a group, the unforgettable rooftop concert on London's Savile Row, as well as other songs and classic compositions featured on the band's final two albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be.
Call Number: DVD-848Publication Date: 2022 -
Summer of Soul: (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised)
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In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten, until now. This documentary shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past, and present. The feature includes concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, and more.
Call Number: DVD-849Publication Date: 2022 -
Echo in the Canyon
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Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas), Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield), David Crosby, Roger McGuinn (the Byrds), their contemporaries Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash, and younger followers Jackson Browne and Tom Petty, as well as contemporary musicians influenced by their music.
Call Number: 65-DVD24580Publication Date: 2019 -
Woodstock: 3 Days That Defined a Generation
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the concert that became a touchstone for a generation. This film brings the concert to life through the voices of those who were present at what became the defining moment of the counterculture revolution.
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019 -
Gimme Shelter
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Film of the Rolling Stones' infamous concert at Altamont Speedway in California, in which the Hell's Angels biker gang acted as security and proceeded to brutalize the spectators, leading to many injuries and one death. This DVD features the following supplements: Never-before-seen performances of the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including "Little Queenie," Oh Carol," and "Prodigal Son," plus backstage outtakes ; audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and collaborator Stanley Goldstein ; excerpts from KSAN Radio's Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969, with new introductions by then-DJ, Stefan Ponek ; Altamont stills gallery, featuring the work of renowned photographers Bill Owens and Beth Sunflower The Rolling Stones, Altamont ; GIMME SHELTER: a 44-page booklet with essays by Jagger's former assistant Georgia Bergman, music writers Michael Lydon and Stanley Booth, ex-Oakland Hell's Angels chapter head Sonny Barger, and film critics Amy Taubin and Godfrey Cheshire ; original and re-release theatrical trailers, plus trailers for Maysles Films' classics Grey Gardens and Salesman ; filmographies for Maysles Films and Charlotte Zwerin ; restoration demonstration.
Call Number: 65-DVD444Publication Date: 1970 -
The Wrecking Crew!
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Profiles the group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew--featuring Tommy Tedesco, guitar, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, drums, Carol Kaye, Joe Osborne, bass--who played on many rock and pop hits during the sixties. Gifted, versatile, and possessing the knack for turning a simple tune into something memorable, the Wrecking Crew were the players who turned the Wall of Sound in Phil Spector's head into a reality, and helped Brian Wilson create the musical vision that would redefine California pop. The Wrecking Crew also backed up everyone from Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas and the Monkees to Herb Alpert, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, but while they became legends in the music business, they were all but unknown to the millions of people who made their records some of the biggest hits of the day. Filmmaker Denny Tedesco--whose father Tommy was a member of the Wrecking Crew and perhaps the most recorded guitarist in history--brings the free-wheeling story of the most famous musicians you've never heard of to the screen. Bonus disc includes interviews with guitarists, various performing artists, drummers/percussionists, producers/arrangers, engineers, bassists, pianists, and saxophonists associated with the Wrecking Crew.
Call Number: 65-DVD24960Publication Date: 2015
Suggested Subject Headings
"Rock music -- 1961-1970"
"Avant-garde (Music)"
"Blues-rock music"
"Country rock music"
"Folk-rock music"
"Funk (Music)"
"Garage rock music"
"Psychedelic rock music"
"Progressive rock music"
"Soul music"
"Surf music"
Pictorial Works
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50 Years of Rolling Stone
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For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and--above all--music. This landmark book documents the magazine's rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present day, the book offers a decade-by-decade exploration of American music and history. Interviews with rock legends--Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Kurt Cobain, Bruce Springsteen, and more--appear alongside iconic photographs by Baron Wolman, Annie Leibovitz, Mark Seliger, and other leading image-makers. With feature articles, excerpts, and exposés by such quintessential writers as Hunter S. Thompson, Matt Taibbi, and David Harris, this book is an irresistible and essential keepsake of the magazine that has defined American music for generations of readers.
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Motown
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Motown: The Sound of Young America is the definitive, authorised visual history of the Detroit-based independent record company which became a style unto itself, a prolific and hugely successful production line of suave, sassy and sophisticated music through the sixties, seventies and eighties. Featuring extensive, specially commissioned photography of treasures gathered from the archives, this landmark publication also captures the graphic and design iconography which underpinned Motown's extraordinary creativity. Packed with fresh insights gleaned from scores of interviews with key players, this exceptional, revealing book delves into the workings of the Motown machine and details how a dedicated team of backroom believers, white and black, turned a small family business into a popular music powerhouse. This was the home of Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5, the Temptations and many more. Motown: The Sound of Young America is a spectacular labour of love befitting an incredible story.
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Happy Daze
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In 1967, a photojournalist named Baron Wolman met Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason at a music conference. Wenner and Gleason told Wolman about a new publication they were starting. It would be about contemporary music and the musicians who made it. That magazine, Rolling Stone, would go on to become one of the most iconic magazines ever published and Baron Wolman was the first chief photographer. Happy Daze: From Hendrix to Haight-Ashbury, Festivals and Fashion: The Music, Moments and Magic that Made Up the Summers of Love is a book celebrating Baron Wolman's incredible archive of photographs from three incredible years in cultural history. From festivals such as Woodstock and Altamont, musicians including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead and moments including the Human Be-In and Death of Hippie marches, Wolman was on the visual front lines of an important period in the history of American society. "At that moment it all came together for me as a photographer. I was invited to witness what was happening, "going down," culturally and socially, and I was taking photos along the way... who would have guessed that fully five decades down the line, we would be here still talking about what an incredible time it was." SELLING POINTS: * Features The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead and many more * Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of 'The Summer of Love' * Publication coincides with numerous events and exhibitions in San Francisco and elsewhere in California 100 colour photographs
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Woodstock
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This large coffee table edition is the official 50th anniversary celebration of Woodstock with the festival's creator and founder Michael Lang. It includes hundreds of photographs and documents accompanied by Lang's fascinating memories and insights into the most famous and successful festival of all time, with images of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald and the Grateful Dead.
