The Noise: Notes from a Rock'n'roll Era  - Duncan Robert - Ticknor and Fields, NY  1984

A Biography - Amburn Ellis  St Martin's Press  1995 (su Buddy Holly)

The Day the Music Died - Lehmer Larry-  Schirmer Books  1997

Shout - Norman, Philip - Hamish - Hamilton,1981

The First Latino Rocker  - Mendheim Beverly - Bilingual Press 1987  (Ritchie Valens)

It Came from Memphis -  Gordon, Robert  - Faber & Faber, Winchester, Ma.  1994

Divided Soul - The Life of Marvin Gaye - Ritz David - Da Capo Press

Sam Cooke: The Man Who Invented Soul -  McEwan, Joe -  Sure Books, New York  1977

The Elvis Encyclopedia - Stanley, David with Frank Coffey - Virgin, London   1995

Cult Rockers - Jancick, Wayne and Lathrop, Tad - Simon & Schuster, New York 1995

Roadside Elvis - Barth Jack -  Contemporary Books, Chicago  1991

James Brown: The Godfather of Soul -  Brown, James and Tucker, Bruce -  Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 1990 

Rock, Roll and Remember -  Clark, Dick and Robinson, Richard - Thomas Y. Crowell, New York   1976

Motown: The History - Davis, Sharon  Guiness Publishing Middlesex, England 1988

Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n'Roll -  Escott, Colin and Hawkins, Martin  - St. Martin's Press, New York 1991

Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound - George, Nelson, - St Martin's Press, New York  1985

Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography  - Goldrosen, John and Beecher, John - Penguin Books, New York  1987

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom -  Guralnick, Peter  - Harper & Row, New York 1986

Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music - Hirshey, Gerri -  Penguin Books, New York 1985

Chicago Soul - Pruter, Robert,  University of Illinois Press 1990

Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story -  Amburn, Ellis - Carol Publishing Company