The rough guide to the best music you've never heard /
Williamson, Nigel,1954-author.
Milton, Matthew,editor.
"The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard tells the amazing stories of the musicians that history forgot: bands that could have been The Beatles, mavericks that mainstream missed and pop stars too good for the charts."--Back cover.
Includes index.
I write the songs : they had singer-songwriter stamped in their passport -- Strictly indie : alt.rock heroes of the bedsit -- Lonesome highways : alternative Americana -- Lost soul : fraught funk and wronged R & B -- Prog and proud : keyboard solos and concept albums -- Bluesmen and bawlers : the Delta elsewhere -- Let there be rock : the amps that went up to 11 -- Forgotten folk : taking the finger out the ear -- Blips, beats and glitches : techno-heads, MCs and electro-geeks -- Psychedelic relics : the troubadours of tie-dye -- Not for export : world, reggae and more -- The art school : conceptualists, bohemians and the too-clever-by-half -- Conservatoires and cocktail bars : classical misfits, jazz hepcats and the pioneers in between -- Outsiders : the musicians that never fitted in.
"The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard tells the amazing stories of the musicians that history forgot: bands that could have been The Beatles, mavericks that mainstream missed and pop stars too good for the charts."--Back cover.
Rock music
Popular music
Popular music.
Rock music.
Rough guide to the best music you've never heard.