Piero Scaruffi, "A History of Rock Music: 1951 - 2000"
iUniverse, Inc. | 566 pages | 2003-10-15 | ISBN: 0595295657 | PDF | 7.2 MB
This history of rock music is not a history of the charts (which I consider an aberration), but a history of the great ideas introduced by rock musicians over 50 years of relentless innovation, and the history of their greatest albums (regardless of how many copies were sold). It ends up being more focused on “alternative” rock than on “mainstream” rock, simply because alternative musicians tend to be more innovative and sincere than mainstream musicians.