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One of Jim Paris’ first jobs after serving in the Army from 1962 to 1965 was in the mailroom of the entertainment public relations giant, Rogers and Cowan. He spent his nights exploring and enjoying the clubs, music, sex and drugs that defined the Hollywood scene in the late 60s. He formed Paris...

La musique rock des années hippie : progressive, expérimentale, au-delà des limites... De Good Vibrations à Dark Side of the Moon Panorama de la musique rock des années 1966 à 1975 : Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, The Who, Frank Zappa, Rolling Stones, Yes, Genesis...

Eine Analyse ihrer Musik, die im Laufe ihres Aufstiegs von einer naiven, schüchternen Schülerband zur Supergroup, entstanden ist. In das ambitioniert geschriebene Buch des Progressive-Rock-Experten Chris Welch fließen neben detaillierten Kommentaren auch O-Töne der Mitglieder ein. Der Text wird...

Questa serie di guide all'ascolto ha lo scopo di svelare i segreti custoditi dentro ogni disco preso in esame, per offrirli al lettore per dare nuova linfa vitale ai successivi ascolti. In questo libro viene analizzata in dettaglio la musica contenuta nel disco. Soltanto la musica. L’analisi...

Da session band per artisti prestigiosi fino all’Olimpo del Rock italiano e non solo. Il percorso della PFM viene raccontato in questo libro attraverso analisi e sintesi musicale, brano per brano, dei nove album pubblicati tra il 1972 e il 1978 (da Storia di un Minuto fino a Passpartù), inseriti...

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as a "sound" or a "style" as many previous works have done, it investigates the places that the subculture...

Tori Amos: Soul Searching and Uncensored contains an new Back Story, also My Spirit Walk With Tori Amos, a 3,5000 word fragment of memoir about how meeting Tori Amos changed the author's life and it includes the complete unexpurgated, sometimes to to 8,000 word texts of four of the most in-depth...

Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to shape, punk culture. They can be described as the...

I Genesis sono stati il gruppo delle illusioni e delle apparenze, con i circolari, doppi, tripli arpeggi che ipnotizzano, le canzoni-fiabe dal sontuoso drappeggio simbolico, talvolta ermetico; loro, dai brani lunghi, lunghissimi, suite e dischi concept e dai rapidi e semplicissimi bozzetti. Sovente...

This fantastic new edition of The Great Australian Songbook showcases an unforgettable selection of songs by the greatest Australian artists. From ’80s classics to contemporary hits, this collection presents many songs and artists never even available in print before, reflecting the extraordinary...

My Chemical Romance emerged from New Jersey in the aftermath of the 9/11 atrocity to become the standard bearers for a new fusion of punk, glam and emo. After steadily building a committed and enthusiastic following on the back of their first two albums, 'I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your...

In 1963, author Tommy Janette and his neighborhood buddies in West Haven, Connecticut, were looking for something to do. And that something was starting a band and playing music. He had no idea what the future would hold for this group that originally was formed to impress the girls. In Happy...

Keine Fragen bleiben offen. Hier erfahren Sie die ganze Geschichte: Von ihrem furiosen Debüt 1974 im CBGBs-Club der Wiege des New York Punk, über die klassischen Alben bis hin zu ihren gewaltigen Live-Auftritten - mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte durchlebten die Ramones die Höhen und Tiefen einer...

For decades, the story of the Beach Boys has been the story told in the 2015 Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy: Brian was the genius who put the band on the map, but a combination of drug addiction and mental illness led to his downfall. Some versions of the story, like the TV movies Summer Dreams...