Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night
Backbeat Books (Verlag)
978-1-4930-7482-2 (ISBN)
While New Wave pop music was dominating the charts in the early 1980s, one band made up of a trio of throwback-loving musicians from the suburbs of Massapequa, Long Island—guitarist/singer Brian Setzer, drummer Slim Jim Phantom, and bassist Lee Rocker—returned rockabilly to the international pop charts as the Stray Cats, releasing such infectious Top 10 singles “Rock This Town,” “Stray Cat Strut,” and “(She’s) Sexy + 17.” Over forty years and many classic studio and live albums later, the Stray Cats still epitomize the spirit of the founding fathers of rock and roll—a coolness that never goes out of style.
Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Story of the Stray Cats tells the full story of the band’s history and catalog as musicians. It not only celebrates the Cats as one of the most successful rock revival groups, but follows their exploits as a throwback act in the years when MTV was still new, going on to enjoy long-lived popularity in rockabilly culture across the globe from Massapequa to Memphis and beyond.
A Long Island, NY native, Christopher McKittrick is the author of Gimme All Your Lovin’: The Blues, Boogie, and Beard of ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons and other books. McKittrick's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Observer, Rolling Stone, and numerous entertainment and news platforms. He has appeared on television on the Tom Petty episode of HLN’s How It Really Happened and Al Araby TV’s Hekayat Al Cinema, and on various radio shows and podcasts.
Prologue: Nine Lives from Long Island
Chapter 1: Rockabilly Is Here to Stay
Chapter 2: Becoming Vintage
Chapter 3: Escape from New York
Chapter 4: Big in Europe
Chapter 5: Lows in London
Chapter 6: Built for America
Chapter 7: Stray Cat Fever
Chapter 8: The Cats Go Astray
Chapter 9: Separate Lives
Chapter 10: Crossing Paths
Chapter 11: This Cat Swings
Chapter 12: A Few Lives Left
Epilogue: Rockabilly Forever
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Color Photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 331 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4930-7482-2 / 1493074822 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4930-7482-2 / 9781493074822 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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