Omnibus Press

Music Supervision, or matching music to TV, film, new media, video games, live events, brands, and a host of other media, is a fast-growing career path. This book guides you through real-world scenarios and legal landmines, profiles key players, explores mixing and sound design, and provides time-saving project form templates.

For those who want to break into the field of music supervision, this book tells you how to get the job. Artists, publishers and labels seeking more effective sync licensing for their catalogues will also benefit from the unique insights of Music Supervision.

“The definitive guide to music supervision.” - Brad Hatfield, Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music

New York, the early 1990s. In a city spiraling out of control, megaclub Hedonism attracts the abandoned and the abused, kids who flock to Manhattan to invent themselves anew. When DJ Skippy is shot in mysterious circumstances, his best friend Holy decides to solve the crime himself... Hedonism is a fast action trip through a hard core underworld of pounding dance music, S&M sex and mountains of illegal drugs. It's a world populated by glamorous models, body-pierced dancers and heartless villains, a world where no-one sleeps and everyone is a suspect.

A step-by-step guide to setting up a digital recording environment capable of computer-based MIDI sequencing, audio recording and editing, sound synthesis and effects processing.

The world of celebrity and entertainment thrives on scandal, intrigue and plain bad behaviour! Competition is fierce, and a headline-grabbing anecdote or snarling comment has the power to fill gossip columns and keep the savvy star at the forefront of all the attention. 

Rock Venom is a hilarious compendium of catty remarks passed between jealous rock stars over the years, usually in interviews with the ever hawkish music press.

Discover what your favourite pop singers really think about their rivals - or what they mutter under their breath when the award goes to the band they hate...perhaps after a second or third bottle of wine..!

• 'Oasis are the Spice Girls in drag!' Geri Halliwell, Spice Girls 1998
  
• 'I've still not learned how to master that Mariah Carey dog whistle.' Lisa Stansfield, 1993
  
• 'Pete Doherty? Well he needs a bleedin' good slap, that's what. He needs locking down in rehab for a couple of months.' Sharon Osbourne, 2005
  
• 'Prince looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair. Boy George, 1986
  
• 'Marc Bolan isn't camp - he's prissy and fey and engrossed in his own image.' David Bowie, 1972

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 Brown, Wee Willie Harris, Adam Faith, John Barry, Larry Page, Vince Eager, Johnny Gentle, Jim Dale, Duffy Power, Dickie Pride, Georgie Fame and Johnny Kidd were just a few of those hoping to see their name in lights.

From the widescreen perspective of one who watched the story unfold, Pete Frame traces the emergence of rock music in Britain, from the first stirrings of skiffle in suburban pubs and jazz clubs, through the primitive experimentation of teenage revolutionaries in the coffee bars of Soho, to the moulding and marketing of the first generation of television idols, and the eventual breakthrough of such global stars as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Castic and irreverent, but authoritative and honest, this is the definitive story.