Life is but a rock 'n' roll dream. Thirty years ago, artist Guy Peelaert teamed up with author Nik Cohn to create this fantasy tribute to Rock 'n' Roll and R&amp;B. Through surreal texts and images, Cohn and Peelaert paint an imaginary world where the great gods of mid-century popular music appear in their own settings (the drifters under the boardwalk, Otis Redding on the dock of the bay, the beach boys on the beach). Here, rock music is a ""secret society, an enclosed teen fantasy"" treated with the same kind of passion and obsession famously generated by the most fanatic of lovesick, pimply adolescents. All of the founding heroes of rock, soul, and pop appear in Peelaert and Cohn's colorful hallucinations, including Buddy Holly, Elvis, Ray Charles, Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, and many more. Taschen's revival of this unique book comes at a time when rock is making a strong comeback and young musicians are taking inspiration from the very stars featured in rock dreams.

Rock dreams

Arts & Photography

Peellaert, Guy

History & Criticism

Pan Books

Striking surrealistic, poignant and powerful, with 48 images that provide a unique and distinctive commentary on America's ambivilant love affair with success.

The Big Room

Herr, Michael

Pan/Macmillan

Twentieth Century Dreams

COHN, Nik

Literature & Fiction

Vintage Books

Who introduced Babe Ruth to Albert Einstein, and why? Who was privy to the pact between Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, the romance of the artist formerly known as Prince and Princess Di, and the fate of Marilyn Monroe? Behold Max Vail (b. Maxim Valesky, 1900, St. Petersburg; d. 1999, Manhattan)--a middleman of genius who be-strode the realms of politics, entertainment, art, sport, crime and science. "I have witnessed the world," he said simply. Yet the man who knew everyone--kept their secrets, did their deals and never forgot where the bodies were buried--was himself known to virtually none. His private diaries, here made vivid with eighty-six extraordinary computer collages, provide nothing less than the secret history of our century, confirming some long-rumored events and revealing others that are freshly shocking. In all, some two hundred iconic personalities throng these pages, and their sagas--comic, ignominious, tragic, heroic and bizarre--make a strange, compelling narrative from the conflicted desires and obsessions of our times, and a rare gift to the millennium.

20th-Century Dreams

KNOPF

Rock Dreams

Paintings of a wide variety of rock and roll performers feature many of them in fantasy scenes that capture the spirit of their music

Music

Rogner and Bernhard

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Presenting a view in text and paintings of Las Vegas, this book features portraits of the celebrities who have played in the casinos and in the life of America and offers a unique view of the country's popular culture and politics

Summit Books

A Pop Art classic from the 1960s, The Adventures of Jodelle (written by Pierre Bartier) is a very early adult graphic novel from the legendary French comics publisher Eric Losfeld. The Adventures of Jodelle is a satirical spy adventure set in an Asterix-style anachronistic Cesarepoch fantasy Rome featuring both billboards and vampires. It melds the bold compositional skills of a top pop-art-era draftsman with a unique sensitivity to the comics medium, and was published in English in 1967 by Grove Press, whose epic editor-in-chief Richard Seaver also provided the translation.

The Adventures of Jodelle

Bartier, Pierre

Graphic Design

Fantagraphics Books

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