This is the definitive guide to rock bands, detailing every significant artist, from AC/DC to ZZ Top, The Beatles, to Smashing Pumpkins. Beginning with the founding fathers of the genre in the '40s and '50s, to exciting new wave groups and the groups that have reinvented and defined music for generations, this comprehensive line up features artists from all sub-categories: grunge, punk rock, metal, classic rock, and everything in between. This guide shows in pictures and words, how rock bands have become some of the most influential icons of modern society and have continued ti evolve and progress over the past 50 years.
