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Author: John Goddard Publisher: Doubleday Canada ISBN: 9780385256001 Category : Musique rock - Ontario - Toronto - Histoire et critique Languages : en Pages : 245
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From Alanis Morisette to Led Zeppelin, from the Crew Cuts to Barenaked Ladies--rock and roll history has been made in houses, apartments, hotels, clubs, public buildings, laundromats, and recording studios throughout the city of Toronto. Part guide-book, part music story collection, "Rock and Roll Toronto is a compilation of 40 fresh, revealing tales of Toronto landmarks, intimately detailing the seminal rock and roll events that took place at each one. It reveals where Bob Dylan met the Band, where Margaret Trudeau entertained the Rolling Stones, and where Joni Mitchell struggled in poverty while pregnant with a daughter she later gave up for adoption. Also featured are more than 50 photographs chronicling the Toronto appearances of such legends as the Beatles, Nirvana, Madonna, Neil Young and Teenage Head.
Author: John Goddard Publisher: Doubleday Canada ISBN: 9780385256001 Category : Musique rock - Ontario - Toronto - Histoire et critique Languages : en Pages : 245
Book Description
From Alanis Morisette to Led Zeppelin, from the Crew Cuts to Barenaked Ladies--rock and roll history has been made in houses, apartments, hotels, clubs, public buildings, laundromats, and recording studios throughout the city of Toronto. Part guide-book, part music story collection, "Rock and Roll Toronto is a compilation of 40 fresh, revealing tales of Toronto landmarks, intimately detailing the seminal rock and roll events that took place at each one. It reveals where Bob Dylan met the Band, where Margaret Trudeau entertained the Rolling Stones, and where Joni Mitchell struggled in poverty while pregnant with a daughter she later gave up for adoption. Also featured are more than 50 photographs chronicling the Toronto appearances of such legends as the Beatles, Nirvana, Madonna, Neil Young and Teenage Head.
Author: Greig Stewart Publisher: ISBN: 9781775187615 Category : Languages : en Pages : 426
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Time-travel back to an era of Cadillac tail fins, T-Bird opera windows, jukeboxes, malt shops, and cottage country dance pavillions. The inside story of how 1950s rock and roll invaded Canada from the U.S. and set the stage for the British invasion of the 1960s.
Author: Ryan Edwardson Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442697067 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 754
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The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The Tragically Hip. Céline Dion. Arcade Fire. K-oS. Feist. These musicians are national heroes to generations of Canadians. But what does it mean to be a Canadian musician? And why does nationality even matter? Canuck Rock addresses these questions by delving into the myriad relationships between the people who make music, the industries that produce and sell it, the radio stations and government legislation that determine availability, and the fans who consume it and make it their own. An invaluable resource and an absorbing read, Canuck Rock spans from the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s through to today's international recording industry. Combining archival material, published accounts, and new interviews, Ryan Edwardson explores how music in Canada became Canadian music.
Author: Daniel Tate Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459745442 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 708
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A visual tour de force showcasing Toronto’s vast concert history. “Not sure there’s ever been anything like this...The graphics are fascinating, the script is comprehensive. It’s staggering what’s been unleashed from the Vault.” — Gary Topp, promoter, half of the legendary duo the Garys “These pages will take you on a musical magical mystery tour of Toronto’s important place in concert history. Reading The Flyer Vault gives you a rush, just like the one you get when the house lights go down!” — Dan Kanter, multi-platinum-selling songwriter/producer “The Flyer Vault book helps bottle the lore, bringing me a little bit closer to my Toronto and its shows that have only grown in renown.” —Danko Jones, lead singer/guitarist of the rock trio Danko Jones Duke Ellington. Johnny Cash. David Bowie. Nirvana. Bob Marley. Wu-Tang Clan. Daft Punk. These are just some of the legendary names that played Toronto over the last century. Drawing from Daniel Tate’s extensive flyer collection, first archived on his Flyer Vault Instagram account, Tate and Rob Bowman have assembled a time capsule that captures a mesmerizing history of Toronto concert and club life, ?running the gamut of genres from vaudeville to rock, jazz to hip-hop, blues to electronica, and punk to country. The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History traces seminal live music moments in the city, including James Brown’s debut performance in the middle of a city-wide blackout, a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix backing up Wilson Pickett in 1966 — the year a new band from London named Led Zeppelin performed in Toronto six times — and the one and only show by the Notorious B.I.G., which almost caused a riot in the winter of 1995. Complementing the book’s flyers is the story of the music, highlighting such iconic venues as Massey Hall, the Concert Hall/Rock Pile/Club 888, and the BamBoo, alongside lesser-known but equally important clubs such as Industry Nightclub and the Edge.
Author: Ray Manzarek Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698151011 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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"The best book yet about The Doors." --Booklist Now available as an ebook for the first time...the inside story of the Doors, by cofounder and keyboard player Ray Manzarek. Includes 16 pages of photos. "A refreshingly candid read...a Doors bio worth opening." --Entertainment Weekly No other band has ever sounded quite like the Doors, and no other frontman has ever transfixed an audience quite the way Jim Morrison did. Ray Manzarek, the band's co-founder and keyboard player, was there from the very start--and until the sad dissolution--of the Doors. In this heartfelt and colorfully detailed memoir, complete with 16 pages of photographs, he brings us an insider's view of the brief, brilliant history...from the beginning to the end. "An engaging read." --Washington Post Book World
Author: Phil Saunders Publisher: ISBN: 9781772140378 Category : Alternative rock music Languages : en Pages : 0
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Literary Nonfiction. Music. Photography by Derek von Essen. The music scene in the mid-eighties was in transition, just as the entire music business was, unaware that it was all about to change in 1991 when Nirvana's watershed release, Nevermind would unexpectedly hit number one on the Billboard chart. But that explosion didn't happen over night. It was the product of years of music scenes like Toronto's developing, clubs seeking original music and communities of musicians, artists and fans supporting them. NO FLASH, PLEASE! documents an important period in Toronto's music community. As seen and heard by two journalists covering it for a number of monthly independent magazines, not only did they experience the local bands they knew and loved becoming famous, they also witnessed soon-to-be legends, come through those same clubs and concert halls. Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Henry Rollins, all played Toronto during this period and von Essen's camera and Saunders' ears were there to witness their performances in crowds that varied in size from 20 to 500. NO FLASH, PLEASE! doesn't just focus on the music, it also captures the crowds and the community that spawned one of the richest periods in Toronto's music history.
Author: Bob Mersereau Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation ISBN: 1495028909 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 228
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(Book). Rock and roll was born in the United States during the 1950s. Its popularity rapidly grew, spreading across the Atlantic to England. The Brits transformed rock, bringing it back to the States in a new form with the British Invasion. Since that time, the two countries have dominated headlines and histories, in terms of rock music. What's often forgotten in these histories is the evolution of Canadian rock and roll during the same period. Over the years, a huge contingent of Canadian artists has made invaluable contributions to rock and roll. The list of innovative Canadian artists is quite impressive: Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Paul Anka, Arcade Fire, The Band, Bryan Adams, Rush, Leonard Cohen, Celine Dion, Diana Krall, Gordon Lightfoot, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Tegan and Sara, Feist, Nickelback, and many others, not to mention the all-star producers, such as Daniel Lanois (U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel), Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi), Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Kiss), and David Foster (Michael Jackson, Celine Dion). The history of Canadian rock and roll is a lively, entertaining, and largely untold tale. Bob Mersereau presents a streamlined, informative trip through the country's rich history and depth of talent, from the 1950s to today, covering such topics as: Toronto's club scene, the folk rock and psychedelic rock of the 1960s, Canadian artists who hit major stardom in the United States, the challenges and reform of the Canadian broadcasting system, the huge hits of the 1970s, Canadian artists' presence all over the pop charts in the 1990s, and Canada's indie-rock renaissance of the 2000s.
Author: Glenn C. Altschuler Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198031912 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 241
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The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception to it--in fact can tell us a lot about the values of the United States in the 1950s, a decade that saw a great struggle for the control of popular culture. Altschuler shows, in particular, how rock's "switchblade beat" opened up wide fissures in American society along the fault-lines of family, sexuality, and race. For instance, the birth of rock coincided with the Civil Rights movement and brought "race music" into many white homes for the first time. Elvis freely credited blacks with originating the music he sang and some of the great early rockers were African American, most notably, Little Richard and Chuck Berry. In addition, rock celebrated romance and sex, rattled the reticent by pushing sexuality into the public arena, and mocked deferred gratification and the obsession with work of men in gray flannel suits. And it delighted in the separate world of the teenager and deepened the divide between the generations, helping teenagers differentiate themselves from others. Altschuler includes vivid biographical sketches of the great rock 'n rollers, including Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly--plus their white-bread doppelgangers such as Pat Boone. Rock 'n roll seemed to be everywhere during the decade, exhilarating, influential, and an outrage to those Americans intent on wishing away all forms of dissent and conflict. As vibrant as the music itself, All Shook Up reveals how rock 'n roll challenged and changed American culture and laid the foundation for the social upheaval of the sixties.
Author: Michael Barclay Publisher: ISBN: 9781770414693 Category : Rock musicians Languages : en Pages : 0
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The first print biography of one of Canada's most famous and impactful bands, The Tragically Hip, explores how the group has helped define today's cultural conversations, including Gord Downie's inspirational story and his role in reconciliation with Indigenous people.
Author: John Goddard
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