Rock & Roll Year by Year: In Association With the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

From Abba to ZZ Top, from the birth of rock and roll in the 50's to the hybrid music of the present day, Rock & Roll Year By Year is the definitive guide to the music that influenced generations and helped shaped history. Meticulously written to cover key stories of every year in every decade with insights into the seminal artists and music of the times, this is the only full-color guide that details all the major events in the first fifty years of rock and roll. Co-founders of Original Media and www.musicinformationdatabase.com, creators/executive producers of CNN's global music series, "World Beat" and "The Music Room", Luke Crampton and Dafydd Rees have written more than 20 books about popular music, including DK's Encyclopedia of Rock Stars.