The Top 30 Rock Books I Own: #3 The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock and Roll

Title: The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock and Roll
Author: Charlie Gillett
Year Originally Published: 1970
Edition I Own: First Laurel printing - January 1972

What They Say: 1) Time 2) New Musical Express (and others, including Marxism Today!) 3) The editors of The Rolling Stone Record Guide (the first red one): "The most thorough and scholarly history of the music, although far from the breeziest read."

Tuomala's Attempt At A Take: Bought this at Rag & Bone books circa 2000. I've read it twice. It's study of rock 'n' roll's rise in the fifties - its different regional nuances and how the major and indie lables handled them - is invaluable.