By the Time We Got to Woodstock

This was the year that saw the Beatles go supernova while Bob Dylan hightailed it to Nashville. From the Byrds, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, and the Dead - not to mention the birth of Heavy thanks to British guitar monsters Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath - 1969 stands up as a decade-smashing anomaly in the annals of rock'n'roll captured gloriously in this blistering book.