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Summary: Superb...a great rock guide
Review: This 2nd edition is definitely worth it! I found all my favourites here, Duran Duran, Abba, The Icicle Works, Elton John, and many more! Great reviews of the albums for each artist, and much information on the artist/band background and history. 2 thumbs up!
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Summary: The best book about rock
Review: This book was an experiment: thousands of fans were asked to write something about their favourite band, and these aricles were collected. Thus, some focus on the music, others on the history and some are just gossipping, but altogether they make up a great work, containing thousands of reviews and record recommendations. You need this book absolutely, it is the only one I know that gives so much information about such a lot of artists in one single volume.
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Summary: Pseudo-Thorough
Review: While this book is filled with entries on hundreds of bands, and is an overall substantial resource, there is something fundamentally wrong with it concerning the bands it excludes at the expense of those it includes. In it you will find entries on dozens of inessential, seventh-rate acts, while groups such as, for instance, The Nice and the Moody Blues aren't included. A book that purports to be comprehensive, and doesn't include these bands, isn't. There's got to be something better out there than this trendy and stupidly-biased book. At any rate, whoever solicited the articles needs to bone up on rock history.
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