Review: Short history of Rock and Roll
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2011
I tend to like the TextVooks for subjects that I don't know anything about, and I sure don't know the history of Rock and Roll although I love the music.  There are facts and figures that really surprised me, such as the 27 Club.  I'd never heard of it before, the group of musicians who died at age 27.This short history takes the reader from the first Jazz record in 1917 by Nick LaRocca's Original Dixieland Jazz Band to the advent of MTV to Napster's lawsuits for illegal downloading of music.  Napster only recovered 2 to 3% of its money from lawsuits and finally gave up suing individual people.Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Queen, Van Halen, The Beatles, Woodstock and a special couple of paragraphs about "Stairway to Heaven" are all discussed plus much more in a short history.  I enjoyed it and all the songs mentioned I could hear in my head.  For fun reading and nothing serious, it isn't bad.