The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll
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The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll includes:
— Over 1,300 alphabetically listed entries, each of which contains basic biographical information as well as facts on group personnel and changes, album release dates, and an essay covering a performer's childhood, musical influences, first breaks, critical and commercial hits and misses, and information on his or her place in rock history.
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— The first discography/personnel chronologies for groups, with biographical information for each performer.
— More albums with more release date and label information than any other encyclopedia.
— Information on singles and albums, including Billboard chart positions and the Recording Industry Association of America's gold and platinum certifications.
— More traditional, folk, country, black, R&B, disco, reggae, jazz and avant-garde performers than any other rock encyclopedia.
— Alphabetical listing of all rock, country, pop, R&B and jazz Grammy awards through 1982.
— 150 historical photos.
— Essays on African pop, studio technology, the evolution of reggae, and historical subjects such as rock on television, rock festivals, a list of the best-known one-hit wonders, rock and radio, rock dancing and more.
— Definitions of 34 important musical terms, genres or phenomena from a cappella and doo-wop to heavy metal, from the sound of New Orleans to disco, from new wave to no wave.
— Entries that have been researched, written and fact-checked using interviews with primarily and corroborating information gathered from newspapers, periodicals, books, fan mail letters, press releases, press files, televised and broadcast interviews, and films and live performances.
— Original research, including interviews with Gene Chandler, David Lindley, John Baldry, Jay Black, Paul Simonon of the Clash and many others.
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