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The beatles: the music and the myth
From their 1962 debut single Love Me Do to the most recent remastered albums, this is an album-by-album, track-by-track catalogue of every songs ever released by The BeatlesIncludes: A chronology of key events in the life of the greatest ever rock band Separate sections on compilation albums, th...
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Pomus & shuman: hitmakers together & apart
The first joint biography of one of rock n roll's greatest song writing teams, Hitmakers Inc. explores the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman. Between 1958 and 1965, usually working out of Manhattan s famous Brill Building, they wrote some 500 teen an...
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Green day: rebels with a cause
Rebels With A Cause is an in-depth account of Green Day's 20-year journey from their scrappy high school band days to international stardom.It's a punk-roots journey told through incisive interviews and first-hand accounts that expose as much about the music scene as the band members themselves!F...
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Psychic confusion: the sonic youth story
In the early 80s Sonic Youth regenerated the spirit of punk by creating their own spectacular brand of noise rock. Without them, much of the independent rock community that followed would never have come into being and it was a direct result of their influence that Nirvana releases Nevermind on a...
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Thin lizzy: the boys are back in town
One of the defining rock groups of the 20th Century, Thin Lizzy began life in Dublin in 1969 when childhood friends Phil Lynott and Brian Downey were approached by two former members of Van Morrison's band 'Them', Eric Wrixon (keyboards) and Eric Bell (guitar). Now for the first time, their story...
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Gotta get signed: how to become a hip-hop producer
Learn how the industry works, and how to tip the odds in your favour and get your beats heard. Multi-platinum producer Sahpreem King of Miami's South Beach club scene gives you his expert guide to the games of Hip Hop production, exposing the pitfalls and giving you a step-by-step approach to dev...
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Crazy in love: the beyoncé knowles biography
Crazy in Love explores the astonishing life and career of Beyoncé Knowles, the Texan teenager who rose from performing in hometown backyards to being the most recognisable face on the planet.Beyoncé now towers above the entertainment industry – Music, film, fashion. She has released critically ac...
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Black knight: ritchie blackmore
Eine nicht autorisierte Biographie, die über den Mythos und die Gerüchte von diesem charismatischsten aussieht, aber missverstanden von Rock-Gitarristen.Ritchie Blackmore's frühen Tagen sah ihn Vermischung mit bunten Figuren wie Screaming Lord Sutch, Joe Meek und Jerry Lee Lewis. Dann wurde er ei...
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Oasis: talking
For a few short publicity-fuelled months, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur was something akin to The Beatles and the Stones in the sixties. And though Oasis’s musical inspiration came squarely from The Beatles, the Gallagher brothers were clearly more than comfortable to inherit Jagger and Rich...
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Giving the game away: the thunder story
The legend of Thunder spans 27 years and is studded with 18 Top 40 UK singles, as well as a haul of gold and platinum albums. They've had their share of breakups and re-formations, and their story, told in their own words and illustrated with rare photos and memorabilia, reflects both the price a...
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Rachmaninoff: the illustrated lives of the great composers.
In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the fascinating story of Rachmaninoff's life with the historical background of his times. The author shows, too, how outside influences- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the Great War, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression- very much affect...
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Welcome to my nightmare: the alice cooper story
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has pioneered a grandly theatrical and violent brand of hard rock designed ...
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The white stripes and the sound of mutant blues
In the past few years, Detroit siblings Jack and Meg White have in conjunction with a stream of similar-minded bands, revitalised rock music. Their sound is raw, stripped right back – back to the primal fury and alienation of bluesmen like Son House and protopunks The Stooges and the MC5. In the ...
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Metallica: the music and the mayhem
Here is the ultimate illustrated discography of the world's greatest metal band, Metallica, covering everything from 1983's Kill 'Em All through all their multi-million selling albums and bringing the story right up-to-date with their video game Metallica: Guitar Hero.Metallica where inducted int...
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Paul weller: my ever changing moods
The best-selling biography to the life and mood-swings of the one and only Modfather. Through his work with The Jam, The Style Council and ultimately as a solo artist, Weller has remained one of our most uncompromising artists and social commentators. John Reed charts the turbulent course of Well...
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Songwriting secrets of the beatles, the
From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles. Within only a decade they created an arsenal of songs which set the template for all popular music that followed, and, over half a cen...
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I'll be there
Spanning over decades, this is the remarkable, heartfelt memoir from Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, the last surviving member of The Four Tops. Amidst a backdrop of Detroit, I’ll Be There features revealing anecdotes from the group’s formation, their early days as backup singers for the likes of Jackie Wils...
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David bowie: the music and the changes
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'...
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Typical girls? the story of the slits
Wild, defiant and startlingly inventive, The Slits were ahead of their time, embodying the creative fire of punk music and rebellion like few others.Although they created unique hybrids - dub reggae and pop-punk, funk and free jazz - they were dismissed as being unable to play. Their lyrics were ...
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Go, girl, go!: the women's revolution in music
Women have been important players in the recording industry from the very beginning, but not until 1996 did they out-chart their male competitors and pull ahead in the race for hits. Go, Girl, Go! provides a nearly 100-year history of women in music, beginning with Lil Hardin Armstrong and Billie...
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Butterfly on a wheel: the great rolling stones drugs bust
Four pep pills, a Sunday tabloid, two celebrated rock stars and a court case. Butterfly on a Wheel: The Rolling Stones Great Drugs Bust documents how these ingredients came to form a huge slice of British social history; a watershed where attitudes to drugs prompted a seismic change in popular cu...
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Phil lynott: the rocker
The definitive biography of Thin Lizzy's charismatic lead singer . Using dozens of interviews with family, friends and band members, Putterford gives a touching and sometimes shocking account of the life of the one and only black Irish rock legend.
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The beatles: off the record 2 - the dream is over
This edition of the book compiles more outrageous opinions and unrehearsed interviews from the former Beatles and the people who surrounded them. Keith Badman unearths a treasury of Beatles sound bites and points-of-view, taken from the post break up years. Includes insights from Yoko Ono, Linda ...
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Fings ain't wot they used t' be: the lionel bart story
Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!He also wrote the famous songs Living Doll (Cliff Richard) and From Russia With Love (Matt Munroe).He was unable to read music. He was a millionaire aged thirty i...
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How's your dad?: living in the shadow of a rock star parent
What's it like growing up as the offspring of rock royalty? Living through bizarre backstage – and onstage – experiences, unconventional childhoods, drugs, debts and mad babysitters, the subjects of this book may have grown up quickly but their backgrounds shaped them in very different ways. In t...
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The listener's companion: the great composers and their works
Renowned for his literary style as well as his musical scholarship, Nicolas Slonimsky wrote many program notes and articles for newspapers and other periodicals, in addition to his well-known books. These shorter writings, edited by Slonimsky’s daughter, Electra Yourke, are collected for the firs...
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Scott: the curious life & work of scott walker
The extraordinary personal and professional journey of Scott Walker who went from golden-voiced sixties pop-singer to iconoclastic musical adventurer. Author Paul Woods examines how the celebrated vocal range and philosophical concerns of Noel Scott Engel - aka Scott Walker - continue to challeng...
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The story of judas priest: defenders of the faith
Defenders Of The Faith is what heavy metal fans have been waiting for. This epic biography of Judas Priest includes over 50 interviews with prominent musicians, producers, record company personnel, journalists, childhood friends and ex-band members.From their deprived beginnings in late-sixties W...
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Without frontiers: the life & music of peter gabriel
He became famous with Genesis but simply to call Peter Gabriel a pop star would be to sell him very short indeed. A quintessential Englishman, he has since pursued several overlapping careers, bringing to each of them his trademark preoccupation with quality control and restless curiosity.In 1975...
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Pop goes to court: rock 'n' pop's greatest court battles
Elvis, Ozzy, George Michael, Metallica, George Harrison, The Smiths... They've all been involved in legal action over the past fifty years or so.Pop Goes To Court recalls some of the most entertaining and bizarre court cases ever to take rock'n'rollers into a courtroom. Bono went all litigious ov...
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Pj harvey: siren rising
Polly Jean Harvey has won worldwide recognition for her raw, bluesy music while remaining one of rock's most enigmatic and private figures. Starting out as PJ Harvey, the first female artist to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize has spent more than a decade creating a series of scorching alb...
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Young, gifted & black: the story of trojan records
When it was formed, Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976. With a blizzard of individual labels and a marketing strategy that involved selling product out of the backs of vans, the company spearheaded the injection of reggae and ska into the vein of British youth ...
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The fall
Over the years, The Fall have given me more pleasure than any other band and, when people ask me why I always say, 'they are always different, they are always the same' John Peel.The first ever authorised biography of this most inscrutable of bands! Together music writer Mick Middles and Fall lea...
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The restless generation: how rock music changed the face of 1950s britain
It was our version of a Hollywood epic, shot in black and white over a ten year period, with no script and a cast of thousands who had to make it up as they went along. Tommy Steele, Cliff Richard, Lonnie Donegan, Terry Dene, Marty Wilde, Mickie Most, Lionel Bart, Tony Sheridan, Billy Fury, Joe B...
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Yoko ono 'talking'
One of the most consistently controversial and misunderstood artists of recent years, this is Yoko Ono in her own words, discussing performance, art, and her life with John Lennon.She is the world's most famous widow - the often maligned, largely mysterious Japanese avant-garde artist whose relat...
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Kids in the riot: high and low with the libertines
When Pete Doherty was imprisoned for burgling his best friend and bandmate Carl Barat in August 2003 it seemed the light had gone out on Britain's most exciting new band. Released early and reconciled with Barat, The Libertines confounded the critics by rounding off 2003 with three triumphant sol...
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Rihanna: rebel flower
Rihanna has sold over 15 million albums and 45 million singles world-wide.She has won 4 Grammy Awards and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Artist.Her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad was nominated for nine Grammy Awards and featured the world-wide number one single Umbrella.She is c...
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At this moment: the story of michael bublé
Michael Buble soared to overnight fame at the comparatively late age of 25 after performing at the Canadian Prime Minister’s daughter’s nuptials in 2000. Since then, the UK hit artist has sold over 25 million albums and has won two Grammy Awards.At This Moment: The Story of Michael Bublé tells th...
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Manic street preachers: in their own words
Four volatile bursts of energy whose incendiary music and intelligent lyrics made them articulate spokesmen for a dissatisfied generation. This is the band in their own words - from their anarchic beginnings to their current mainstream success and life in the aftermath of guitarist Richey Edwards...
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Burt bacharach: song by song
Best known as the composer of such hits as Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By," Dusty Springfield's "The Look of Love," and the Carpenters' "Close to You," Burt Bacharach wrote the music for over 700 published songs and has been recorded by some 2,000 artists - from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley to t...
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Gene krupa: his life & times
The life and times of Gene Krupa Traces the life and career of the late drummer and assesses his influence on modern jazz. In depth account of Gene's life and the times surrounding that period. Includes selected discography and plenty of photographs.
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Neil young: love to burn
A collection of articles and reviews. Following Neil Young's career, from his emergence in Buffalo Springfield in 1967 through thirty years of surprising and ever-changing Neil Young music. Includes substantial coverage of unreleased tracks.
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Nailed to history: the story of manic street preachers
Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as one the UK's most enduring, intelligent and credible rocks groups, but that quest for greatness has been a difficult, sometimes torturous path; a path which one of their number – the gifted and troubled Richley Edwards – abandoned for destinat...
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Louis armstrong: his life and times
The biography, life and times of American jazz legend Louis Armstrong.
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Lowdown: the story of wire
The first major book on the post-punk legends! Wire were the seventies band who perhaps did more than any other to usher in the post-punk age. Author Paul Lester has interviewed the four original members of Wire - Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Robert Gotobed and Bruce Gilbert - as well as many of t...
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Tougher than the rest: 100 best bruce springsteen songs
Bruce Springsteen is among the most literate of singers in rock history with songs touch people's hearts and minds. He is the story teller of our generation. Tougher Than the Rest dissects the best of Springsteen's vast body of work, from his earliest pieces on 'Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ' ri...
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The no-nonsense guide to world music
A exploration of what "world music" actually means and an introduction to global sounds.
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The bloody reign of slayer
When the Los Angeles thrash metal band Slayer redefined the parameters of heavy music in 1986 with the horrific Reign In Blood album, few of their fans would have predicted that, nearly a quarter of a century later, their fame would be undimmed and their subject matter still as controversial as e...
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Careless whispers: the life & career of george michael
The unexpected death of George Michael on Christmas Day, 2016 brought to a close the life of one of the UK’s most loved pop icons. Careless Whispers is the gripping story of this musical legend – A record-shattering singer, songwriter and producer whose 30-year career saw him become one of the be...
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Truth and beauty: the story of pulp
Mark Sturdy traces the unlikely saga of Jarvis Cocker and his ever-changing band in meticulous detail, from schoolboy promise to semi-retirement.If Cocker's career was launched by a precocious session on John Peel's show, his stated ambition was always to be on Top Of The Pops... and despite his ...
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The men behind def jam: the radical rise of russell simmons and rick rubin
The Def Jam label gave America hip hop. But who gave America Def Jam? Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin did.The Men Behind Def Jam examines the most unlikely history of the legendary label that started life in a student dorm and went on to introduce the world to LL Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Public E...
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Dexys midnight runners: young soul rebels
Dexys Midnight Runners were one of the most misunderstood and overlooked groups of the 1980s. At the centre of it all, their front man and originator, Kevin Rowland, had a reputation for maintaining control and domination over Dexys at all costs.In the first comprehensive history of the band, aut...
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Annie lennox: the biography
The definitive biography of one of pop music's most private stars. Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics has always been an enigma, ill at ease with the trappings of fame, and giving away little about herself, but now the writers have given her the biography she deserves: compelling, sympathetic, unflin...
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Boyzone in their own words
Featuring over 70 black and white photos, take a peek into the minds of men from Boyzone. In Their Own Words is a fascinating collection of quotes on subjects as wide-ranging as religion ('I don't go to mass as much as I'd like. I haven't had the chance. I pray to god...I love going to church' – ...
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The dave grohl story
Teenage punk, self-taught musician, bandleader, session man, smoker, drinker, multi-millionaire, David Grohl has achieved a rare feat, a rock ‘n’ roll double crown having been a member of two hugely successful and influential bands – Nirvana and The Foo Fighters.Loaded with candid interviews and ...
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The josephine baker story
This is the story of no ordinary life...Josephine Baker emerged from sordid poverty and racial intolorance in early 20th-century St Louis to delight audiences across the world becoming a genuine star of the stage.
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Pixie lott
This book tells the singer's amazing story so far and is packed with full-colour pictures of Pixie at work and at play.Here's the story, the look and the gossip buzzing around the multi-platinum-selling Pixie who's already racked up a string of hit singles, featured in movie soundtracks and compu...
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The illustrated lives of the great composers: ravel
Ir has been said that no music amplifies the french ideals of precision and good taste better than the work of Maurice Ravel, yet his background could scarecly have been more cosmopolitan. The son of a Swiss father and a Basque mother, he was born near St. Jean de Luz in 1875; he died in Paris at...
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Captain beefheart: the biography
“Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” – The TimesThrough new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the sta...
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Gimme danger: the story of iggy pop
In a career that begun in the late Sixties Iggy Pop always set out to shock. But his attention-grabbing tactics including self-mutilation always disguised a musician and artist more complex than the image suggested.In this solid biography Joe Ambrose does full justice to the original spirit of Ig...
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Who's laughing now? the story of jessie j
Reveals how Jessie broke away from her background – a tough area of Essex where stabbings and violent crime were rife – to become the antithesis of the typical Essex girl.Tells of her performance background, taking ballet classes from the age of four and appearing in a string of musicals, includi...
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The who: concert file
In this concert file, Joe McMichael and 'Irish' Jack Lyons assemble an amazingly thorough chronicle of live performances played by the hardest working rock 'n' roll band of all time.This book includes:Over 1500 gigs, including set-lists, eye-witness accounts and background notes.Updated coverage ...
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Machine head: inside the machine
Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal awards from Metal Hammer and other magazines. The story is a classic rise, fall and rise again scenario -- they exploded onto the metal scene in 1994, enjoyed a s...
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Eminem: in my skin
A new Graphic Novel from the creative team behind the best-selling Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic. This is a story about the world's one and only true crossover rap superstar, one that is as profound and profane as the man himself.From Government housing slums in Detroit to the bling-bling pen...
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Smile: the story of lily allen
With her urban prom-queen style and West London punk attitude, Lily Allen is recognised worldwide as much for her quirky image and party-girl reputation as her music. Lily's meteoric rise to fame has been peppered with extreme highs and lows – no lower than when she tragically suffered a miscarri...
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Rock 'n' roll sweepstakes: the authorised biography of ian hunter (volume 1)
Rock 'n' Roll Sweepstakes is a frank and comprehensive biography of a remarkable man, an amazing life and an incredible musical legacy. It covers Ian Hunter's youth and formative rock 'n' roll years in the Sixties, Mott the Hoople's formation, David Bowie's intervention as 'a fan' of the band and...
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Music of initiative: julian joseph on jazz
Music of Initiative: Julian Joseph on Jazz is for any musician interested in jazz, no matter what your instrument or level of experience.In Music of Initiative Julian Joseph shares his insight into the philosophy and practice of jazz performance. With incisive text, stunning imagery, and download...
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Everybody dance
Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by former Black Panther activist Nile Rodgers and down-home family man Bernard Edwards, are one of the most underrated and ...
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Rip it up
Launched by legendary music industry executive Art Rupe in the mid-1940s, the Los Angeles-based Specialty Records emerged as one of the most important independent labels for African-American music in the twentieth century. Recognizing that competing with major record companies was a losing battle...
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The clash: 'talking'
Of all the straight talking bands thrown up in the Seventies punk explosion, none talked straighter than The Clash. Fiercely proud of their rebel status, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon rarely wavered in their commitment to spreading a message of social justice through th...
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Patti smith: a biography
Patti Smith is one of pop culture’s true troubadours. Emerging from the New York punk scene of the mid-seventies whilst mixing poetry, underground theatre, jazz and rock, she has left a rebellious and individual legacy like no other.Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Shepard and Bruce Sprin...
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Beatlemania! the real story of the beatles uk tours 1963-1965
Between 1963 and 1965 The Beatles undertook six amazing UK tours and met many fans along the way, whose memories of these encounters tell the real story of what actually happened when the Fab Four hit the road. It was loud, chaotic and as exciting as anything Britain had ever seen. It was Beatlem...
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Let's get it started: the rise & rise of the black eyed peas
The first in-depth biography of The Black Eyed Peas explored their rise from back-street gangsta rap to globally famous group.Tells the full story from the backstreets of Los Angeles in the mid 1980s to the formation of the Black Eyed Peas and a record deal in the mid 1990s.
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Reluctant heroes: the story of elbow
When Elbow won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their fourth studio album - The Seldom Seen Kid - the accolade followed an organic 17 year long career marked by four classic albums and a cult following that cast them in the role of Manchester's best kept music secret. Elbow started out at a time whe...
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For the sake of heaviness
The story of Metal Blade Records is the story of Brian Slagel-a metal-obsessed Southern California kid who launched a fanzine and landed a record store job before cobbling together what he assumed would be a one-off compilation of fledgling bands from the L.A. scene. Released in 1982, the Metal M...
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Keith richards: a life in pictures
From the early days of The Rolling Stones, with a relatively baby-faced 'Keef' sporting a hounds-tooth jacket, to his heroic piratical look of the present day, rock's indestructible hero has been photographed by many people over half a century. Featuring more than 300 photographs in colour and bl...
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Arcade fire: behind the black mirror
The story of a world-beating multi-instrumental band with a unique creative dynamic.Their story is compelling – a complex musical collaboration in an eight-piece band that has coalesced around Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. They have triumphed worldwide at festivals and stadiums whilst racking ...
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World domination
Founded in the late 1980s by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, Seattle-based Sub Pop Records released early recordings by then-upstart regional bands such as Green River, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Tad, Nirvana, Flaming Lips, Afghan Whigs, and Screaming Trees. When the world went grunge crazy in the...
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Listening to the future
In the early seventies, King Crimson, Yes, Jethro Tull, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and many others brought forth a series of adventurous and visionary works, often of epic length. Responding both to the new possibilities in rock music opened up by "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", as we...
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The string player's guide to chamber music
With this revised and enlarged edition of The String Player's Guide to Chamber Music, music lovers learn to play well-known works by Mozart, and Beethoven, among others. The book evaluates each piece, identifying problems performers may face and letting them know the amount of work involved in le...
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Hey! ho! let's go!
"A fascinating insight into the boredom, ambition, conflicts and genius behind one of the best bands ever." — Total Guitar MagazineThe Ramones, pioneers of punk rockThe Ramones cut an unforgettable swathe through decades of popular music. With politically charged anger, raw sounds and ferocious 2...
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Phil spector: out of his head
Classic biography of one of the great figures of modern popular music, the inventor of the 'Wall Of Sound', legendary sixties record producer Phil Spector. First published in 1972, this book has been revised and updated to include details of Spector's life over the last 30 years, including the sh...
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Kiss my arse: the story of the pogues
The story of The Pogues has been as riotous as their most rabble-rousing songs. From the streets of 80s London the Celtic Punks unleashed their hellraising 20-year career and in the process became legends; mythic troubadours whose popularity endures.This Omnibus Enhanced edition of Kiss My Arse h...
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Hey ho let's go: the story of the ramones
The Ramones cut an unforgettable swathe through decades of popular music. With politically charged anger, raw sounds and ferocious 20 minute sets they undercut the glamour of the mainstream music industry and gave the punk movement an authentic voice – A voice which can still be heard echoing th...
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The life of ian curtis: torn apart
Joy Division's vocalist Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980, leaving behind just two haunting albums and a depleted band that would famously evolve into New Order.Over twenty-five years later, the cult surrounding Curtis shows no signs of fading. Fans make regular pilgrimages to his h...
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Born in a small town: john mellencamp, the story
Featuring interviews with everyone from childhood friends to band members, producers and engineers, this is a portrait of the real man, who grew up in Indiana and still lives there today – a passionate musician and a tireless campaigner for the lifestyle and values of the American family farmer.T...
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Who are you? the life & death of keith moon
The Kindle version has been optimised for all screen sizes. Simply double tap on a panel to enlarge the text.The Who drummer Keith Moon was a totally incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up and who changed the lives of all who knew him, a phenomenal character and an extravagant h...
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Pressure drop
Pressure Drop chronicles reggae’s most tumultuous and influential decade. Beginning in 1970 and unfolding across the world, reggae flourished against a backdrop of political upheaval, gang warfare, Black Nationalism, racial and class discrimination and grinding poverty. The music that developed a...
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The beatles diary volume 1: the beatles years
With greatly expanded text, this is the most revealing and frank personal 30-year chronicle of the group ever written. Insider Barry Miles covers the Beatles story from childhood to the break-up of the group.
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25 albums that rocked the world
From Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions to Radiohead's OK Computer, here is the very best of rock and pop music of the Twentieth Century. A consumer's critical guide to the music, enabling the reader to select the very best of an artist's repertoire before making a buying decision.
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From a whisper to a scream: the complete guide to the music of led zeppelin
The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Led Zeppelin.An album by album, track by track, run-down of every song released by Led Zeppelin, from their classic first album to their best selling albums of the seventies and beyond. Also includes details of their remastered recordings, compil...
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White knuckles
'Whatever I did, at least I meant it . . .' Gary MooreWhite Knuckles chronicles the personal and professional journey of one of rock's most influential musicians: Gary Moore.Born in Belfast and rising to conquer some of the world's biggest stages, the guitarist-singer-songwriter enjoyed spells wi...
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Pop music legends
Pop Music Legends fondly reviews all eras and aspects of the music industry.
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Sh-boom!
There was a small sliver of time between Be-Bop and Hip-Hop, when a new generation of teenagers created rock 'n' roll. Clay Cole was one of those teenagers he was the host of his own Saturday night, pop music television show. Clay Cole's SH-BOOM! is the pop culture chronicle of that exciting time...
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The encyclopedia of popular music
The Encyclopedia Of Popular Music is universally recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work on popular music.This expanded 5th edition is an essential reference book for anyone who has a query about any aspect of 20th Century popular music, including rock, dance, rap an...
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Billie holiday: her life and times
The life and times of American singer Billie Holiday.
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Come together: lennon and mccartney in the seventies
Although it wasn't made official until an announcement from Paul McCartney in 1970, The Beatles--the most influential rock band of the 20th century--spent most of the late 1960s breaking up. The split was marked my animosity and acrimony, with pointed conflict, in particular, between the groups t...
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Keith richards: the unauthorised biography
Victor Bockris’s much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication, now with an additional 12,000 words for a new edition of the Omnibus Press paperback that brings the story up to the present day.First published in eight countries in 1992, at tha...
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Avant rock
Critiquing avant-garde rock bands from the 1960s to the present, Bill Martin examines how social upheaval gave rise to this new form of musical expression. He covers early experimentation by artists such as James Brown; initiation into the mainstream and the resulting adaptations by the Beatles a...
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Wagner: illustrated lives of the great composers
Howard Gray. A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life.
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