The Billboard Book of Number One Albums: The Inside Story Behind Pop Music's Blockbuster Records

by Craig Rosen

Book Overview

A look at the story behind some of the most influential rock-and-roll albums, containing behind-the-scenes information and revealing anecdotes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823075869
• ISBN13: 9780823075867
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Billboard Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great History Of Albums

Billboard provides the definitive charts for music and Craig Rosen has written the definitive book on the albums that reached number one on those charts. As the title suggests, Mr. Rosen tells the story of behind the making of every number one album. This book is kind of like a mini Behind The Music. You may or may not know the stories behind albums by major artists like The Beatles, The Stones, Springsteen and so on, but it's stories of the more obscure artists like Gerry Rafferty, Janis Ian, Pantera & Vangelis that are the most interesting. Not only do you get the album's story, you get a track listing, the date it reached number and weeks at number one. A great book and hopefully it will be updated with the most recent number one albums.

Very Essential Book

Not Now but back When Albums Were Special & they ROse Too The Top it was always Interesting Hearing The Stories & Creative Process that went into Making them Become the Hits they would Become.and this Book Does a Great Job Of That.hearing how your favorite Album got made or the changes going on with it.Very Essential.

A treasure trove of music information

This book is full of what you would expect from Billboard. This book will last you forever and you can pass it down from generation to generation as an example of music in the last 50 years. Please give us another edition!