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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must reference for any serious rock music collector, January 26, 2004
When you start getting really serious about music, listening to it stops being enough: you need to learn about the band, the members, the changes, the bios, the history behind it all... Pete Frame, in the course of some 15 years compiled this magnificently complex printed documentary that includes the family trees and evolution of most every rock band you can think of dated before 1993 (too bad this was the last edition of this book, which now also happens to be out of print!)The beauty about the book is that it ties together bands that had a relatively close evolution, such as the case of Roxy Music and King Crimson, for example, who "touched" each other's paths when former Crimson's bass/voice John Wetton landed on Roxy Music #5's album, alongside Phil Manzanera, Bryan Ferry and the crew (the # refers to the nomenclature Frame uses to list the different incarnations of a band). In short, if you can get your hands on a used copy of the book (which is the only way to go about it these days), by all means do so: you will be provided with hours and hours of discovery of musical facts!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An outstanding pop music reference source, September 22, 1998
An exhaustive look at the twists and turns of band members in some of the most important (and some of the most marginal) bands in rock history, thus providing the history of the genre through its participants -- which makes you think how chancy the whole enterprise has been. (If so-and-so hadn't bumped into so-and-so . . .) Frame obviously has a love for his subject and a love for detail, as indicated in the meticulous charts, with very small type (or draghtsman's handwriting, actually) abounding. If there's a problem with the book, it's that it effectively ends in 1980. I'm sure Frame is working on more, if he's still out there. Whattya say, Pete? More!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Invaluable reference for rock music history fanatic, September 6, 1998
If you are a little (or a lot) compulsive about rock music, especially English rock of the sixties and seventies, this book will appeal to you. It explores, via graphic and textual connections, the geneaolgy and development of thousands of bands, from the Yardbirds to the Ramones, from their garage days to fame and fortune. Lovingly and lavishly researched, written and drawn, this tome contains interviews and facts that only Mr. Frame could have produced. A labor of love, and essential for any scholar of rock history, and a thumping good read, too. Hours of fascinating enjoyment.
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