Discography Buyer category: 99 books
The Beginner DJ Handbook You Need To Kickoff Your DJ Career
A Guide For The Aspiring Disc Jockey To Help You Get The DJ Skills You Need To Become A DJ Pro So You Can Play The Hippest And Coolest DJ Music And Be The Most In-Demand Top DJ In The Party Scene!
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
“Hey, Mr. DJ, put the record on, I’m gon’na dance with my baby…” This Madonna song only goes to show how DJ’s are considered big-time stars in the entertainment world. Many DJ’s, in fact, have reached super stardom and are top celebrities in the radio, music and club party scene all...
by Chris Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
From Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions to Radiohead's OK Computer, here is the very best of rock and pop music of the Twentieth Century. A consumer's critical guide to the music, enabling the reader to select the very best of an artist's repertoire before making a buying decision.
by Ian McCann, Harry Hawke
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The indispensable guide to the music of Bob Marley. An album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by Marley and the Wailers from the early sessions in Jamaica to the Island recordings and compilations released after Marley's death.
Featuring details of Marley's recordings...
100 Greatest Cover Versions
The Ultimate Playlist
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Which Blondie Top Five was originally a flop for a West Coast power pop band? Who wrote Alice Cooper's 1973 hit 'Hello Hurray', and which folk singer first recorded it? Who launched their career with a tear and a cover of a little known Prince song? Where was Joe Cocker sitting when he came up with...
by Steve Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop,...
Paul Whiteman
Pioneer in American Music, 1930-1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In a career that spanned 60 years, Paul Whiteman changed the landscape of American music, beginning with his million-selling recordings in the early 1920s of “Whispering,” “Japanese Sandman,” and “Three O’Clock in the Morning.” Whiteman would then introduce “symphonic jazz,” a powerful...
by Brian Westland
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This two-volume book serves a guide to the best popular music ever recorded and the artists who created and recorded it. The book covers a number of genres that comprise popular music including pop, rock, blues, jazz, country, reggae, hip hop, ragtime, folk, and others. The premier performers of these...
The Beach Boys on CD Volume 1: 1961-69
The Beach Boys on CD, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Between 1961 and 1969 the Beach Boys made nineteen albums, including some of the best music ever recorded - and some not so good. In this book, Andrew Hickey looks at this music track by track, analysing every song that Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, Bruce and David recorded and released during that...
The Beatles Lyrics
The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America.
For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime -- songs we all know by heart often began as...
by H.T.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The Beatles experienced huge popularity on the British record charts in early 1963, but record companies in the United States did not immediately follow up the Beatles' successes in the United Kingdom with releases of their own, and even once they began to do so, the Beatles' commercial success in...
The Beach Boys on CD Volume 2: 1970-1984
The Beach Boys on CD, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Between 1970 and 1984 the Beach Boys, both solo and together, made some of the best albums ever recorded - and some not so good.
In this book, Andrew Hickey takes a personal look at this music track by track, analysing every song that Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Al, Bruce, Blondie and Ricky...
by Omnibus Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Published to mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Official Singles Charts in 1952, The Million Sellers tells the story of every million-selling single in the history of the UK music industry.An analysis of the 123 singles which have passed the magical million sales threshold in the UK in...
California Dreaming: The LA Pop Music Scene and the 60s
Guides to Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In 1960, a group of young men in California recorded an instrumental single, Moon Dawg, and started what would become known as surf music. Within a few years, those young men would have been important parts of records by the Beach Boys, Frank Zappa, Canned Heat, the Monkees, and many more.
In...
The 2Pac Song Vault
350 Songs By Tupac Shakur
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Tupac Shakur was a hugely influential American rapper, record producer, actor, and poet, who has sold over 75 million records worldwide - with his double disc albums All Eyez on Me and Greatest Hits being among the best-selling albums in the United States.Shakur has been listed and ranked as one of...