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In the first ten years of their career, the Kinks underwent a creative explosion that was almost unparalleled in popular music. Starting with simple but potent garage rock tracks like You Really Got Me, the band, and lead singer/songwriter Ray Davies, quickly became one of the most idiosyncratic...

Inspired by the "From You To Us" letters section in the UK's New Music Express publication, The Beatles' 1963 single From Me To You topped the Record Retailer chart - which later became the Official UK Singles Chart. It marked the start of The Beatles' chart-topping superstardom. The...

From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his...

"Le canzoni dei Modena City Ramblers" è una biografia dell'Italia ai tempi dei MCR, la storia del nostro paese degli ultimi vent'anni. Il libro è un percorso fra le storie contenute nei testi, spiegando e raccontando l'ispirazione, l'origine, la fonte di ogni brano. Con la scusa...

Between 1983 and 2017 the Beach Boys released dozens of albums, together and apart, 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...

Encore! You’ll find this second volume in this series an indispensible cross-reference manual to the music of the 1960’s With the British Invasion, the success of Motown, all the way to Woodstock, music, especially rock and roll, went through an amazing transformation creating classics that still...

I Jethro Tull prima della svolta progressive. Per questo volume abbiamo scelto di analizzare tre dischi che formano un corpus unico (la trilogia celtico-sassone) in un susseguirsi di incrementi di durezza ed elettricità che sfoceranno nel capolavoro Aqualung. I Jethro Tull sono uno dei pochissimi...

A íntegra das entrevistas de Egberto Gismonti e Geraldo Carneiro para Charles Gavin e o programa Som do Vinil. As histórias por trás de um dos mais transgressores discos brasileiros, "Academia de danças" (EMI, 1974) "O sexto LP de Egberto Gismonti redefiniu a paisagem sonora de...

A íntegra das entrevistas de Lô Borges e Milton Nascimento para Charles Gavin, do Som do Vinil, sobre suas carreiras e um dos mais emblemáticos discos brasileiros: Clube da Esquina (EMI, 1972). "A proposta deixou o departamento artístico da Odeon desnorteado: a realização de um disco de...

Counting Down Southern Rock: The 100 Best Songs, C. Eric Banister considers the best songs to emerge from the bands who made Southern rock what it is. Banister examines the impact of the songs on the society and culture of devoted fans and delves deep into the history and production of each song....

Rarely is a book about the theatre as entertaining and informative as Stephen Citron's new guidebook to the creation of the musical. Filled with anecdotes, practical advice, and sparkling comments from the biggest Broadway insiders, The Musical from the Inside Out examines this major theatrical form...

So you think you know soul music? Well check this out! The BBSAT has a main test of 250 questions that actually read like the history of soul and R&B. Then there are over twenty smaller, one-paged quizzes, that are broken into categories like; male / female duets, songs about destinations, songs...

This book covers all that you need to learn about playing music on your smart Kindle device. Music and Kindle – Does that sound like a rare combination? Well, now the smart Kindle device can play music for you and entertain you with its exclusive music player called ‘Cloud Player’. Buy...

David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie was regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime,...