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by Kay Stammers
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
A personal diary of 1964, when the music world changed forever1964 was the year of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, mod fashions and Mary Quant – the year the British pop scene really made its impact on the world.Television presenter and reporter Kay Stammers was a sixteen year old...
by James Hoag
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Jerry Lee Lewis, also known as “The Killer”, and the “Ferriday Fireball” had a tumultuous career. Is there an early rock and roller who had the energy he had, who could play (or pound) a piano with the ferocity that Jerry Lee could? With an ego the size of Louisiana, he took the music world...
by Steve Pafford
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
*’Style, for Bowie, is inextricable from art. It is less a flight from reality than an entire way of life.’
A richly-illustrated 160-page chronicle of pop's greatest exponent of style. This visual examination of a celebrated multi-faceted career documents the impact of David Bowie on twentieth-century...
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 9th Edition
Complete Chart Information about America's Most Popular Songs and Artists, 1955-2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The Essential Reference Guide to America’s Most Popular Songs and Artists Spanning More than Fifty Years of Music
Beginning with Bill Haley & His Comets’ seminal “Rock Around the Clock” all the way up to Lady Gaga and her glammed-out “Poker face,” this updated and unparalleled resource...
A Very Irregular Head
The Life of Syd Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
“I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.”—Syd Barrett’s last interview, Rolling Stone, 1971
Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett (1946–2006) was, by all accounts, the very definition of a golden boy....
Remember the Time
Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A compellingly candid memoir that details Jackson's life in seclusion, by the bodyguards who were with him in his final days - with a new introduction to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Michael Jackson's death .
Hounded by the tabloid media, driven from his self-made sanctuary, Neverland,...
by Stuart Maconie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics,...
Bring the Noise
20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists-Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead-with...
by John Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Madness were true originals who mixed ska and reggae rhythms with social comment and music hall humour to become a British group like no other. They were the most successful UK singles band of the 80s, offering a larky down-to-earth take on Thatcher’s Britain through hits like ‘My Girl’, ‘One...
SAHB Story
The Tale of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
When Alex Harvey died in 1982 he left behind a legacy and a passion which survives to this day - truly cult status. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (SAHB) were the biggest-grossing mid-70s live act in the UK; they released eight critically-acclaimed albums in their five years together; and they inspired...
by Brett Callwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
The influence of The Stooges on the world of punk and rock 'n' roll is immeasurable. The band's three albums - The Stooges, Fun House and Raw Power - have all gone down in history as bona fide classics. The fact that the band only existed for a few short years makes their achievements all the more...
Roots, Radicals and Rockers
How Skiffle Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come...
Baby You're A Star
The Rise and Rise of Pop Svengali Louis Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Since Louis Walsh formed Boyzone in late 1993, acts under his management have reached Number One in the UK singles charts twenty times, and have also topped the charts in Europe, Asia, and the US. Baby You’re A Star investigates the secret of Walsh's success and tells the inside story of his rise...
The Awfully Big Adventure
Michael Jackson in the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Michael Jackson died on June 25 2009 in Los Angeles, from of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication (according to Wikipedia). The one-time King of Pop was preparing for one last assault on the mainstream with a proposed 50 night run of shows at the 02 (thereby trumping his arch-rival, Prince,...