📚 Rock Music

30 works · ordered by editions in print

From the roots to the arena: the records, the culture, and the serious writing that grew up beside the amps.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rock music in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Beatles - Instrumental Play-Along	The Beatles	2017	25
The Beatles	Hunter Davies	1968	24
Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan	1974	24
Rock and roll	Joe Stuessy	1990	20
The great rock discography	Martin C. Strong	1994	18
Mystery train	Greil Marcus	1975	17
The sound of the city	Charlie Gillett	1970	15
Rockin' in time	David P. Szatmary	1987	15
Classic Rock	Hal Leonard Corp.	1995	13
Rock on	Norm N. Nite	1974	12
Steve Miller Band - Young Hearts	Steve Miller Band	2004	11
What's That Sound?	John Covach	2006	11
Polaroids from the Dead	Douglas Coupland	1996	10
American popular music	Larry Starr	2002	10
The Rock History Reader	Theo Cateforis	2007	10
Fuzz, Acid and Flowers	Vernon Joynson	1988	9
Slash	Anthony Bozza	2007	9
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!	Bob Stanley	2013	9
Psychotic Reactions and Carburettor Dung	Lester Bangs	1987	8
All Music Guide to Rock	Michael Erlewine	1995	8
Burning Britain	Ian Glasper	2004	8
The Beatles	Bob Spitz	2005	8
The Day the Country Died	Ian Glasper	2006	8
U2 18 Singles	U2	2007	8
Christgau's record guide	Robert Christgau	1981	7
Elvis and me	Priscilla Beaulieu Presley	1985	7
The Billboard book of number one hits	Fred Bronson	1985	7
Our Band Could Be Your Life	Michael Azerrad	2001	7
England's Hidden Reverse	David Keenan	2003	7
Love Is a Mix Tape	Rob Sheffield	2007	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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