cover image Rock Day by Day

Rock Day by Day

Steve Smith. Guinness Media, $0 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-85112-825-2

This book of music facts devotes six pages to each year from 1954 to 1986, listing major events of the year as well as weekly listings of number-one singles in both Britain and the U.S. For example, in the 1975 section is the notation that ""Apple Records was dissolved'' (May 10), and a week later ``Mick Jagger cut his hand badly after putting it through a window in a Long Island restaurant.'' That same week Tammy Wynette's ``Stand By Your Man'' topped the U.K. charts. Other sections feature short summaries of trends from year to year, alphabetical listings of number-one singles and coverage of the ``pre-rock era''from 1877 to 1953. An extremely comprehensive index of 4000 entries makes this encyclopedic chronology a must for rock buffs. (November)