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Killing Bono
I Was Bono's Doppelganger
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Longtime friend and reporter, Neil McCormick, reveals childhood and present day stories about Bono and his band, U2.
Some are born great.
Some achieve greatness.
Some have greatness thrust upon them.
And some have the misfortune
to go to school with Bono.
Everyone wants to be famous....
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Easiest Keyboard Collection: 40 Chart Toppers is a collection of 40 of the biggest pop hits, in easy melody line arrangements for all electronic keyboards. These arrangements are ideal for the beginner player, and each song includes chord symbols, lyrics, suggested registration, rhythm and tempo.
Songlist:
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by Robb Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Recording with Joe Meek, backing Billy Fury, summer seasons with Marty Wilde and Adam Faith, encounters with The Kray Twins and bleak journeys to remote venues - all the highs and lows of a recording and touring band are detailed here... Robb was a member of three groups, all managed by legendary...
MBGU Rock Curriculum: Fluid Soloing, Book 1
Arpegios for Lead Rock Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
A modern arpeggio handbook and comprehensive training manual for developing fast, flowing arpeggio runs that connect the entire fretboard. Emphasis is on developing fluid, non-shifting arpeggio patterns (across the neck) using hammer-ons and pull-offs for speed and fluidity; and also on developing...
by Abigail Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
For female pop stars, whose star bodies and star performances are undisputedly the objects of a sexualized external gaze, the process of ageing in public poses particular challenges. Taking a broadly feminist perspective, 'Rock On': women, ageing and popular music shifts popular music studies in a...
Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years
Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
On paper Steve Katz’s career rivals anyone’s except the 1960s’ and ’70’s biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even producing rock’s most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were world tours, and his...
Rock Gets Religion
The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Rock music, once largely the domain of hedonism and debauchery of every kind, is now populated by a surprising case of upstanding and in many cases devout citizens who create all different kinds of music and oftentimes are animated by religious ideas that would have been completely alien to rock stars...
Somebody Scream!
Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power movement which begat the Black Arts movement. Fast forward to 1979 and the release of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."...
99 Problems
Superstars Have Bad Days, Too
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Poor Superstar. All the money and fame in the world won’t prevent him from having a bad hair day. Or stepping in gum. Or not being able to fit into skinny jeans, or watching helplessly as a scoop of ice cream falls from its cone.
Or so an unnamed Superstar’s life is ingeniously imagined...
The Michael Jackson Song Guide
237 Songs by the King of Pop
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Michael Joseph Jackson made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. His music videos, including those of "Beat...
Jeff Buckley
His Own Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
The journals, notebooks, musings, and early song drafts of Jeff Buckley, the late singer best-known for the definitive version of "Hallelujah" and his classic album Grace, including dozens of evocative photos of his personal effects and ephemera.
After the release of his acclaimed...
by The Jesus Lizard
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
In the 1990s, The Jesus Lizard were the reigning kinds of indie rock, heralded by Nirvana and all other rock musicians.
The band's reunion shows in the past year have been phenomenally successful.
Possible band reunification to help promote the book.
Major review/profile coverage...
Bullet for My Valentine
Scream, Aim, Conquer: The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the early 2000s, a few small ex-mining towns around the South Wales valleys became an unlikely hotbed for some of the most exciting new rock and metal bands in the world. Following on from the vanguard of Lostprophets and Funeral for a Friend, four childhood friends formed Bullet for My Valentine...
Revolver
How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Acquired wisdom has always put Sgt. Pepper at the head of the class, but it was Revolver that truly signaled The Beatles' sea change from a functional band to a studio-based ensemble. These changes began before Rubber Soul but came to fruition on Revolver, which took an astonishing 300 hours to produce,...