Dylan Jones: 19 books
Elvis Has Left the Building
The Death of the King and the Rise of Punk Rock
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
“An interesting look at how 1977 marked the explosion of punk alongside this heartbreaking (though not altogether surprising) loss of a legend” (USA Today).
In the late 1970s, punk music was setting out to destroy everything Elvis Presley had come to represent. But punk couldn’t destroy The...
by Dylan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
First came fire, the wheel, and penicillin...and then, according to Dylan Jones, a compulsive album collector, music journalist, and multi award-winning men's magazine editor, the next great invention to bless the human race was the iPod, Apple's groundbreaking mp3 player. Small, sleek, and sexy,...
David Bowie
The Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell...
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music
From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief. This A to Z reference is the true musical...
London Rules
So Get Over It
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
We are constantly being told that 1966, the very first iteration of Swinging London, was the time when the city was at its cultural, most fashionable height. And if not 1966, then it's the punk '70s or the Britpop '90s when London was meant to be most fun. Not so, argues GQ's Dylan Jones. Not only...
Mr Mojo
A Biography of Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly...
Mr. Mojo
A Biography of Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists, and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub at only twenty-seven, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of the Doors, Morrison was...
The Wichita Lineman
Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
'It's just another song to me. I've written 1,000 of them and it's really just another one.' Jimmy Webb
'When I heard it I cried. It made me cry because I was homesick. It's just a masterfully written song.' Glen Campbell
The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude,...
by Dylan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Masculinity, it appears, is in crisis. Diminished by feminists, mocked by their peers and ridiculed by the media, it seems not a week goes by when men are not being accused of being too violent, too stupid or too sexual.
The world in which men roamed the planet with an innate sense of entitlement,...
by Dylan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man. It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise and how to suck up to your boss. Then there are the minor irritations: how do you beat jet-lag, and how do you stop your...
When Ziggy Played Guitar
David Bowie, The Man Who Changed The World
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
And then there was David Bowie, the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils, the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience, the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist....
by Dylan Jones, Mehrdad Tamiz
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Practical Goal Programming is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a...
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