Italian publisher Armando Curcio Editore assembled this wide-ranging rock survey featuring Bobby Hebb’s soul-tinged pop, Blue Cheer’s heavy psych thunder, and Jack Bruce’s jazz-inflected rock virtuosity alongside Johnny Preston, Johnny Hallyday, and The Taste. La grande storia del rock positions itself as a comprehensive historical document, drawing from American R&B, British blues-rock, and European rock traditions across the 1960s and beyond. The compilation’s strength lies in its refusal to canonize—mixing genuine innovators with chart-friendly interpreters to show how rock’s geography and demographics shifted across continents and decades.