Booked On Rock with Eric Senich
For Those About To Read & Rock...
Join host Eric Senich for deep dive discussions of the greatest artists, albums, songs and moments in rock history with the authors who've written all about them and those who were there when it all happened!
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 329
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
"Electric Light Orchestra: Every Album, Every Song"/Barry Delve [Episode 48]
The ELO story is one of continued success for over 50 years. From inauspicious beginnings in 1971, where live audiences barely reached double figures, ELO would become one of the most popular bands i…
01:24:27 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
"Aerosmith On Tour, 1973 - '85"/Julian Gill [Episode 47]
"Aerosmith On Tour" focuses on the touring history of one of rock’s legendary bands based on local reviews of the shows and the contemporaneous critical perception of the band. This first volume of "…
01:08:44 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
"1970: A Year In Rock "/John Van der Kiste [Episode 46]
1970 was a year of change in pop and rock music, with divisions between both becoming ever more blurred. More ambitiously constructed epics, heavy rock numbers and contemporary folk songs competed wi…
00:46:04 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
"Paint My Name in Black and Gold: The Rise of the Sisters of Mercy"/Mark Andrews [Episode 45]
In the early 1980s two bands dominated the independent charts: the Smiths and the Sisters of Mercy. They have proved to be equally influential. In every city in the world you will find people dressed…
01:23:04 |
Thu 20 Jan 2022
"Yes In The 1980s: Decades"/Stephen Lambe [Episode 44]
When Yes ran into problems recording their tenth album in Paris at the end of 1979, it was almost the end. Yet in the 80s the band rallied, firstly as part of an unlikely collaboration with a new wav…
01:33:14 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
"Led Zeppelin: Every Album, Every Song"/Steve Pilkington [Episode 43]
Think about Led Zeppelin and the image coming to mind would be of them straddling the world as the archetypal 'rock gods', defining the 1970s like no other artist did. Dig deeper though, and there's …
01:35:55 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
"Nothin' But A Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal"/Justin Quirk [Episode 42]
From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture. This was the world stalked by bands like Bon Jovi, Kiss, W.A.S.P., Skid Row, Dokken, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt and many more. B…
01:49:37 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
"Where Did You Get That Shirt?"/Bill Zygmant & David Bedford [Episode 41]
Renowned British photographer Bill Zygmant and Beatles historian and
author David Bedford have released a new book entitled “Where Did You Get That Shirt?”, featuring three decades’ worth of Zygmant’s…
author David Bedford have released a new book entitled “Where Did You Get That Shirt?”, featuring three decades’ worth of Zygmant’s…
01:18:12 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
"Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide For The Advancing Songwriter"/Mike Errico [Episode 40]
This is the songwriting class you always wish you'd taken, taught by the professor you always wish you'd had. "Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide For The Advancing Songwriter" takes a deep dive i…
01:48:30 |
Sat 18 Dec 2021
"U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots In Mythic America"/Bradley Morgan [Episode 39]
U2 planted the seeds for 'The Joshua Tree' during an existential journey through America. As Irishmen in the 1970s, the band grew up with the belief that America was a place of freedom and prosperity…
01:00:40 |
Sat 11 Dec 2021
"The Doors: Every Album, Every Song"/Tony Thompson [Episode 38]
The Doors remain one of the most original acts in the history of Rock and Roll. However, their actual music is sometimes overshadowed by the cult of Jim Morrison. Those with long memories will recall…
02:04:16 |
Sat 04 Dec 2021
"Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters"/Arthur Lizie [Episode 37]
"Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters" is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty year…
01:07:13 |
Sat 27 Nov 2021
"Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles"/William McKeen [Episode 36]
Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations"…
01:34:32 |
Sat 20 Nov 2021
"Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix"/Philip Norman [Episode 35]
Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was…
00:43:47 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
"Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock"/Michael Christopher [Episode 34]
Come the late '70s, the rock music landscape was littered with the bloated carcasses of bands who partied too hard, burned out, or became complacent in success. The door was open for something fresh,…
01:42:51 |
Sat 06 Nov 2021
"Haunted Rock & Roll" & "More Haunted Rock & Roll"/Matt Swayne [Episode 33]
"Haunted Rock & Roll: Ghostly Tales Of Musical Legends" - From Rock & Roll’s pioneers to its contemporary rebels, the greatest names live on after death - in unexpected and frightening ways. Discover…
00:50:46 |
Sat 30 Oct 2021
"I May Be Old but I've Seen All the Cool Bands"/Ken Schwartz [Episode 32]
You’ve probably read about Led Zeppelin’s success in their famous biography "Hammer of the Gods". You watched Queen take over the world in "Bohemian Rhapsody". And although you probably won’t admit i…
01:24:01 |
Sat 30 Oct 2021
"Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There"/Marc Myers [Episode 31]
Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience—and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In "Rock Concert", a…
01:29:52 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
"Searching For Jimmy Page"/Christy Alexander Hallberg [Episode 30]
"Searching For Jimmy Page" is the fictional story of Luna Kane. The unraveling of eighteen-year-old Luna’s haunted past begins in the winter of 1988, when her dying great-grandfather, a self-proclaim…
00:41:14 |
Sun 17 Oct 2021
"Southern Man: Music and Mayhem in the American South"/Alan Walden [Episode 29]
Written with S.E. Feinberg, Alan Walden’s "Southern Man" is the memoir of a life in music during one of the most racially turbulent times in American history. It presents the voice of Alan Walden—a r…
01:43:18 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
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