From O sole mio, Enrico Caruso, to Stylo, Gorillaz, through Hey Jude, Do not stop me now or Satisfaction, are some of the songs that everyone should hear before dying. So says the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before Dying (Editorial Grijalbo), a list of a thousand better songs that were played during the last decades in radio stations around the world.
Written by a team of journalists and music critics, this exhaustive journey begins in 1916 with O sole mio, from Enrico Caruso and ended in 2010 with the theme Stylo, the group Gorillaz. In just over 900 pages, 1001 songs to listen to before dying offered to all music lovers a musical journey always hits as Thriller, Michael Jackson, In the Ghetto, Elvis Presley, Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen; or The sounds of silence, Simon and Garfunkel.
Each song is accompanied by a brief description, history, their influences, their versions and the album cover that was published. The book begins the tour in 1916 and from there, go classic in the first half of the twentieth century as St. James Infirmary Blues, Louis Armstrong, Route 66, Nat King Cole, Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson; Foi Deus , Amalia Rodrigues, or Please love me, B.
B King. In the decades of 60 and 70, the manual includes iconic songs such as Tous les garçons et les filles, Françoise Hardy, Your cheating heart, Ray Charles, You Really Got Me, The Kinks, or The house or the rising sun, The Animals. The anthology also contains pieces like Amsterdam, Jacques Brel, Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, My Way, Frank Sinatra, Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen, Hotel California, The Eagles, or Dancing Queen, ABBA.
Once entered in the 80's, music lovers can enjoy books and Redemption Song, Bob Marley, Back in Black AC / DC, Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics, Every Breath You Take, The Police, With or Without You, U2, Private Dancer, Tina Turner, or Like a Prayer, Madonna. In recent years, the work reflects the rhythms of Nirvana (Smells like a teen spirit), RE M (Losing my religion), Metallica (Enter Sandman), Radiohead (Creep), Oasis (Live forever), Beyoncé (Crazy in love ), Coldplay (Viva la vida), Green Day (Jesus of Suburbia) and The Killers (Mr Brightside). 
Written by a team of journalists and music critics, this exhaustive journey begins in 1916 with O sole mio, from Enrico Caruso and ended in 2010 with the theme Stylo, the group Gorillaz. In just over 900 pages, 1001 songs to listen to before dying offered to all music lovers a musical journey always hits as Thriller, Michael Jackson, In the Ghetto, Elvis Presley, Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen; or The sounds of silence, Simon and Garfunkel.
Each song is accompanied by a brief description, history, their influences, their versions and the album cover that was published. The book begins the tour in 1916 and from there, go classic in the first half of the twentieth century as St. James Infirmary Blues, Louis Armstrong, Route 66, Nat King Cole, Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson; Foi Deus , Amalia Rodrigues, or Please love me, B.
B King. In the decades of 60 and 70, the manual includes iconic songs such as Tous les garçons et les filles, Françoise Hardy, Your cheating heart, Ray Charles, You Really Got Me, The Kinks, or The house or the rising sun, The Animals. The anthology also contains pieces like Amsterdam, Jacques Brel, Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, My Way, Frank Sinatra, Sweet Home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen, Hotel California, The Eagles, or Dancing Queen, ABBA.
Once entered in the 80's, music lovers can enjoy books and Redemption Song, Bob Marley, Back in Black AC / DC, Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics, Every Breath You Take, The Police, With or Without You, U2, Private Dancer, Tina Turner, or Like a Prayer, Madonna. In recent years, the work reflects the rhythms of Nirvana (Smells like a teen spirit), RE M (Losing my religion), Metallica (Enter Sandman), Radiohead (Creep), Oasis (Live forever), Beyoncé (Crazy in love ), Coldplay (Viva la vida), Green Day (Jesus of Suburbia) and The Killers (Mr Brightside).
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