A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs vol 2: From the Million Dollar Quartet to the Fab Four

by Andrew Hickey

Overview

In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop. Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and the music they were making. Volume two looks at fifty songs from the origins of rock and roll, starting in 1956 with the Million Dollar Quartet session at Sun Studios, and ending in 1962 with "Love Me Do" by the Beatles. Along the way, it looks at Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Wanda Jackson, the Chantels, Little Richard, and many more of the progenitors of rock and roll.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166399953
Publisher:	Andrew Hickey
Publication date:	12/06/2021
Series:	A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	792,037
File size:	842 KB

About the Author

Andrew Hickey has, at various times, been an ordained minister who performed a wedding on the banks of the Mississippi dressed as Elvis, pretended to be David Aaronovitch on TV for money, had his poetry praised by UA Fanthorpe, been called a genius in a novel that topped the bestseller charts in Germany, and ghostwritten YouTube videos that have been watched over ten million times. After accidentally writing two books, he decided he should probably try to do it deliberately, and has been stressed and short of money ever since.