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Salesrank: 49101
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Editorial Review:
Sixty-one of the best songs of the rock era, all chosen from Rolling Stone® magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue. The songbook covers 61 classic songs spanning 1954 to the late 1960s all arranged to include all important guitar parts and yet remain easily playable. Songs include: 96 Tears * All Along the Watchtower * All I Have to Do Is Dream * Be-Bop-A-Lula * Blowin' in the Wind * Born to Be Wild * Both Sides, Now * The Boxer * Bye Bye Love * A Change Is Gonna Come * Dance to the Music * Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood * Eight Miles High * Everyday People * For What It's Worth * Gimme Some Lovin' * Gloria * God Only Knows * Great Balls of Fire * Heartbreak Hotel * Help! * Higher and Higher * Honky Tonk Women * Hound Dog * House of the Rising Sun * I Can See for Miles * I Got a Woman * I Got You Babe * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In the Midnight Hour * Jumpin' Jack Flash * The Letter * Like a Rolling Stone * Maybellene * Mr. Tambourine Man * Mustang Sally * My Generation * Mystery Train * Papa's Got a Brand New Bag * People Get Ready * Piece of My Heart * Ring of Fire * Rock Around the Clock * Runaway * Satisfaction * Soul Man * The Sound of Silence * Spoonful * Stand By Me * Subterranean Homesick Blues * Summertime Blues * Sunshine of Your Love * Sympathy for the Devil * That's All Right * Wake Up Little Susie * The Wanderer * The Weight * What'd I Say * White Room * A Whiter Shade of Pale * Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On.
Selections from Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: Early Rock to the Late '60s (Easy Guitar TAB) Reviews:
OK 
2009-11-22 - A great book. But I was fooled by the title "500 greatest songs...". I didn't read the description of tehe product good enough.
Cool guitar transcriptions of songs from "when music mattered"
2008-08-14 - This is a great book. It has classics by rock legends from Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who mixed in with the most influential works of other stars from Sam Cooke to Sly & the Family Stone, Joni Mitchell to Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Cash to Cream. There's no fluff here. Every song is a bona fide classic.
In addition to the awesome song selection, the arrangements are spot on. The book is labeled "easy" but what it has are essential parts from the original recordings distilled down to one- or two-guitar arrangements (with TAB). The trademark intros and solos are all there. I find they really sound like the record without being too challenging for an intermediate player like myself.
It's obvious that special care was taken to transcribe the songs in the original record keys (even altered tunings such as used on "Honky Tonk Women" and "Both Sides Now" are explained).
This book has come in handy for both jam sessions with friends and playing along with the records.
The book's only downside is I wish it had more songs. I'm looking forward to getting volume 2!
