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Givin' It Their All

The Backstreet Boys' Rise to the Top

by Sherri Rifkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010

OUT OF THE BACKSTREETS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT There's just no stopping these funky five from Florida. One of the hottest music groups around, the Backstreet Boys (BSB) launched themselves to superstardom in an amazingly short time, topping the charts and winning awards all over the world. Everyone's...
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What Is It All but Luminous

Notes from an Underground Man

by Art Garfunkel
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

**"Poetic musings on a life well-lived—one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story." —Bookreporter "It's hard...
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The Hacienda

How Not to Run a Club

by Peter Hook
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England’s most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order—a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the...
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Stravinsky

The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971

by Stephen Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010

This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh’s magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate,...
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by August Reissmann
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012

Die vorliegende Arbeit Reissmanns über den genialen Reformator der Oper ist nach denselben Gesichtspunkten ausgeführt, wie seine früher erschienenen Darstellungen des Lebens und der Wirksamkeit der anderen großen Meister: Inhalt: Glucks Jugend und seine Vorbereitung für den Künstlerberuf. In...
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New York Dolls

Too Much Too Soon

by Nina Antonia
Language: French
Release Date: February 15, 2011

Du sexe, de la drogue, encore du sexe, toujours plus de drogue, et du rock’n’roll. Too Much Too Soon est l’histoire définitive du groupe de glam rock le plus excessif, les New York Dolls. Leur rock’n’roll incendiaire et leur posture transgenre ont révolutionné ce style, même si le business...
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Country Boy

A Biography of Albert Lee

by Derek Watts
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010

Best known for his unique musical style and blindingly fast hybrid picking technique, English guitarist Albert Lee is often referred to within the music industry as the “guitar player’s guitar player,” renowned for his work across several genres of music and for the respect that he has garnered...
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DEATH IN JUNE

A l'ombre des runes

by Aldo Chimenti
Language: French
Release Date: February 20, 2012

Mené par Douglas Pearce depuis trente ans, Death In June explore inlassablement les chemins de traverse musicaux et esthétiques avec une indépendance farouche. Né sur les cendres du groupe de punk Crisis qui trôna aux côtés de The Clash et de Crass dans le registre d’un engagement politique...
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by Margaret Murray
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2011

Margaret Alice Murray fut, archéologue renommée, fut aussi une autorité reconnue dans l'étude de la sorcellerie. Dans ses ouvrages historico-ethnologiques, dont Le Dieu des sorcières est le plus célèbre, elle affirme que la sorcellerie était une religion de la fertilité datant du néolithique,...
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by Mike Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014

Mike Buchanan is a Bedford-based author who interviewed eight well-known local guitarists, and wrote accounts of their colourful lives:- Finger Pickin' Good Paul Bonas- Hollerin' Bob Foley- Amazin' Max Milligan- Blindin' Dave King- Lightnin' Hands Pete Rose - Mumblin' Cliff Hanson...
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KEITH MOON

La bombe humaine du rock

by Tony Fletcher
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2011

Heureusement pour lui, il était rapidement devenu célèbre, car simple quidam, on l’aurait fait enfermer. Incapable de devenir adulte, lunatique incandescent, il a révolutionné l’art de la batterie rock avec une totale désinvolture : les conventions, la technique, il s’en fichait. Il cognait...
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by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012

Written as a follow-up to 'A Book of Operas', this is another comprehensive study of several great operas from the renowned musicologist Henry Edward Krehbiel. Includes in-depth analyses of: Samson and Delilah and other biblical operas Die Konigin von Saba Herodiade Lakme Pagliacci Cavalleria Rusticana...
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Assimilate

A critical history of industrial music

by Alexander Reed
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2018

« Industriel » est une épithète que les fans et les critiques appliquent à une grande variété de musiques - le battement sur des bidons de Einstürzende Neubauten, le grognement électronique de Throbbing Gristle, le cliquetis rythmique en boucle de Skinny Puppy et les compositions synthpop...
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Gil Scott-Heron

A Father & Son Story

by Leslie Gordon Goffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013

Gil Scott-Heron: a father & son story, is about professional footballer, Gil Heron, who was the first black footballer to play for Scottish club Celtic FC, and his son, acclaimed poet and musician, Gil Scott-Heron.
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