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Manchester, Music and Me!
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
As the only person with a camera attending the first Sex Pistols gig outside London at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester on Friday June 4th 1976, I unwittingly captured a piece of musical history which still intrigues people to this day. I was covering the event for the magazine that I was producing...
by David Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
David Bowie: The Music and The Changes is the ultimate guide to the music of the genius, fashion icon and near-mythical rock god. Author, David Buckley, was awarded a PhD on David Bowie so is best placed to guide you through an album by album and track by track exploration of this incredible man's...
Almost Grown
Living with a Dansette in the Dining Room
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Pete Fowler has been a writer, lecturer, university professor, railway enthusiast, question-setter for Johnny Walker's Radio One quiz, Pop the Question, and very nearly a rock star. Almost Grown opens with a brush with death and proceeds to explore the author's awakening to life, in the Fifties and...
Back to the Miracle Factory
Rock Etc. 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Paul Williams has been writing about pop music for decades, never flagging in his enthusiasm or his emotional and intellectual openness to the newest music. He has been doing this ever since he founded the rock magazine, Crawdaddy, in 1966. His insight into how it feels when we listen to certain performers...
The Who For Starters
Pop Gallery eBooks, #14
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
"The Who For Starters" (Includes Video and Audio links at the End of The Manuscript)First they were The Detours and then they were Mods and Rockers who took London and the rest of the free world by storm by the end of the 1960s. They are always mentioned in the same breath with The Beatles, Rolling Stones...
If You Like the Beatles...
Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era, when Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals, the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music – from...
Dalirium Sonic
Dalí, su relación con la música y las estrellas de su tiempo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2016
La relación de Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) con la pintura, el cine y la literatura ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios y es profusamente referenciada. Pero no puede decirse lo mismo acerca de sus vínculos y múltiples conexiones con la música, un territorio muy inexplorado en el que por fin, Karles...
David Bowie. Fantastic voyage
Testi commentati
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Simbolo di libertà e creatività, edonismo e decadenza. Creatura in apparenza aliena, attraversata tuttavia da umanissime angosce sulla vita e sulla morte, la religione, la fama e il sesso: David Robert Jones, in arte Bowie, è ritenuto un genio (dagli estimatori) o uno scaltro manipolatore (dai...
The Cake and the Rain
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
"Novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written." - The Wall Street Journal
Jimmy Webb’s words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer...
by Eric Morse
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2015
"A punk primer for the youngest set....Yi's incredibly detailed clay figures are a kinetic and inspired art choice. Their crazy creativity matches the expressive spirit of punk....As [Morse] points out, the best way to learn about punk it...
Europe's Stars of '80s Dance Pop
32 International Music Legends Discuss Their Careers
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Beginning early in the 1980s, a dance music revolution swept across Europe and Britain, merging rock, new wave, disco and worldbeat sounds. The resulting explosion of high-energy, increasingly electronic dance-pop caused a sensation worldwide. In this book of original interviews, 32 of the era’s...
Untouchable
The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
"A dishy Michael Jackson biography that makes the exhaustively covered King of Pop fascinating all over again."-PeopleThe first deep-dive narrative by a veteran journalist covering the King of Pop’s convoluted final years on earth . . . [Untouchable] helps cast Jackson in a new light.”-Los Angeles...
by Ric Menck
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to begin work on this album, they were basically falling apart at the seams. "Ladyfriend", a song written by Crosby, had just failed miserably as a chart single despite the fact that he lobbied...
by John Robb
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
The band, the lifestyle, the revolution. This classic biography charts the phenomenal rise of The Stone Roses to the icons they are today, using interviews, rehearsal tapes and the archives of author John Robb who was with them from the beginning.
Robb's exclusive inside knowledge of The Stone...