Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Otago University Press Grace Joel: An Impressionist Portrait
Book SynopsisDunedin-born artist Grace Joel (1865--1924) exhibited to acclaim in London and Paris, yet she and her art are relatively unknown today. Joel excelled at portraiture and mother and child studies and was skilled in portraying the nude. She received her artistic training in Melbourne and lived for the mature years of her career in London, where her work appeared at the prestigious Royal Academy, as well as the Paris Salon and the Royal Scottish Academy. One possible reason why Joel''s work has not remained visible is that few details of her personal life survive; only three letters have been found, and they reveal little of the person who wrote them. Undaunted, author Joel Schiff has pulled together from the words of her contemporaries, various newspaper accounts, scraps in other historical archives, and close study of her extant paintings a portrayal of this talented woman that is as intimate and engaging as her work.
£23.96
Granville Island Publishing Song on My Lips: Jazz Greats Were My Mentors
Book SynopsisStephen Botek apprenticed at the side of some of the greats of the jazz era, learning not only about music, but about life. Growing up in small-town Pennsylvania in the shadow of the Dorseys, Botek decides to follow his muse to a future in jazz. He gets mentored by clarinet great Buddy DeFranco and saxophone legend Joe Allard, meets up with greats such as Artie Shaw and Dizzy Gillespie along the way, and follows in Glenn Miller''s footsteps with the Army Air Force Band. A primer on the jazz era, as well as an account of the benefits of apprenticeship, SONG ON MY LIPS not only recounts stories of the greats but takes us backstage, to their studios, and to many of the unique venues of the time. Jazz aficionados and new musicians alike will learn much about the music from this unique life story.
£17.99
Granville Island Publishing Song on My Lips: Jazz Greats Were My Mentors
Book SynopsisStephen Botek apprenticed at the side of some of the greats of the jazz era, learning not only about music, but about life. Growing up in small-town Pennsylvania in the shadow of the Dorseys, Botek decides to follow his muse to a future in jazz. He gets mentored by clarinet great Buddy DeFranco and saxophone legend Joe Allard, meets up with greats such as Artie Shaw and Dizzy Gillespie along the way, and follows in Glenn Miller''s footsteps with the Army Air Force Band. A primer on the jazz era, as well as an account of the benefits of apprenticeship, SONG ON MY LIPS not only recounts stories of the greats but takes us backstage, to their studios, and to many of the unique venues of the time. Jazz aficionados and new musicians alike will learn much about the music from this unique life story.
£22.94
Folklore Publishing Pioneer Canadian Actors: The Stories Behind
Book SynopsisIt seems that so many of today''s Hollywood stars come from Canada, but at one time only a few could claim to have conquered Tinseltown. Here are the biographies of those Canadians who crossed the border and beat down the studio doors of Hollywood to leave an outstanding legacy that inspired later generations of talent: Mary Pickford, a Canadian dubbed America''s Sweetheart, was instrumental in creating the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and in helping to form United Artists Lorne Greene, famed patriarch of Bonanza''s Cartwright clan, was a generous father figure to a younger generation of Canadian actors Fay Wray, a young girl from southern Alberta, became famous as Hollywood''s Queen of Scream and is forever remembered for her role in King Kong Raymond Burr, the actor who seemed indistinguishable from his two renowned television roles as Perry Mason and Robert Ironside Christopher Plummer, who came to motion picture fame opposite Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, has enjoyed a long and diverse career in film and on stage Norma Shearer, considered the very definition of glamour during her glory days in Hollywood, had a trophy case filled with five Oscars by 1936 William Shatner, forever an icon of film and television as Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, has more recently found fame again with his unique brand of self-deprecating humour Leslie Nielsen, possibly one of the most original talents to come out of Canada, earned his fame through comedic roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun series and more...
£7.99
Collector's Guide Publishing Beatlemania Forever: The Beatles Encyclopedia
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£17.09
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd The Luckiest Girl in the World: A Memoir
Book SynopsisVerity Sweeny Purdy at the age of eleven was sent to England to live with an aunt and train as a classical dancer. This memoir tells of her experience crossing Canada by train, the Atlantic Ocean by ship, and her arrival in England. Her story continues as she tells about her Aunt Doffrie and her bohemian way of life. We learn about her schooling and dance training. She writes about her mothers'' Scottish cousins, their mansions and castles, and their life style that was so different from Verity''s. For five years of her young life, Verity was the Luckiest Girl in the World.
£17.99
G2 Entertainment Ltd Pavarotti
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£12.02
Empire Publications Ltd Pieces of Morrissey: Adventures with the Mozarmy
Book SynopsisMorrissey is a figure cult. But what drives his fans devotion? What makes them trek halfway round the world to catch his shows in the US or South America when he is playing in their city a few months later? Why do they fight over pieces of his shirt, thrown each night into the crowd? Is this healthy? Should they seek help? Is Moz messainic or does he calculatedly whip the mob into a frenzy to maintain his status? And what of Morrisseys own adolescence and his obssessions with 50s rock n rollers and stars such as Bowie and Patty Smith. And what about the places of pilgrimage, venues such as Salford Lads Club or Southern Cemetry''s gates. Why do these places give fans a special connection with their hero? Morrissey devotee (and proud owner of an intact Moz shirt) Matt Jacobson examines his own obssession and that of his fellow fans to discover the lengths some will go to, from risking physical injury to ending long friendships, to get closer to their hero.
£9.45
Empire Publications Ltd Backstage Pass: The Grit and the Glamour
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£12.30
Empire Publications Ltd 45 The Original Soundtrack: A Life Through a
Book SynopsisIn a city that has produced more than its fair share of musical heroes, Ian Moss remains a steadfast figure in the Manchester musical underground. As one of the handful of people who were actually at the first Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester in June 1976, and the co-creator of the legendary band Hamsters, that John Peel described as being too dark and dangerous to appear on his Radio 1 show, Ian has often found himself at the cusp of key events in the evolution of music in the city. 45 THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK traces the development of his musical taste during his teenage years as a self-confessed ''misfit''. The records selected here provided him with ''an escape from humdrum routine'' before teenage emotional crises made them take on even more importance as the ''oxygen'' keeping him alive, later admitting that ''without music I was nothing''. This first volume covers Ian''s growth from callow teenager to young adult during the golden years of popular music.
£13.25
Danann Media Publishing Limited Bowie: Starchild
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£10.39
Omnibus Press Music is the Drug: The Authorised Biography of
Book SynopsisCanadian siblings Margo, Michael and Peter Timmins and Michael's childhood friend, Alan Anton, first started making music together over thirty years ago. Sixteen studio albums and five live albums later, Cowboy Junkies are still touring the world. Based on interviews with the group themselves, Music is the Drug is the official biography of one of the best-loved folk-rock bands around.
£18.00
MACK Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare's
Book SynopsisQuitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare's Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934-2019). Although Hare received a significant, if fleeting, degree of professional success, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1977, an Aperture monograph, and three Guggenheim fellowships, his work has not received the critical attention it deserves and his extraordinary life story remains obscure. This lack of recognition has much to do with Hare's fanatical aversion to the commercial realms of the art world even at the height of his professional success. Perhaps his most overt declaration of aesthetic disavowal was his ultimate decision to renounce his identity as an artist in 1985 and pursue a career as a clinical therapist specializing in "work abuse" (which is also the title of a book he co-authored on the subject in 1997). Hare would subsequently donate his entire archive to the Bancroft Library at the University of California-notably not the Berkeley Museum of Art-with the provision that the original prints cannot be exhibited and that any reproduction of his work must include a caption that states that the photograph was created "to protest and warn against the growing domination of working people by multinational corporations and their elite owners and managers." Quitting Your Day Job considers the vexed relation between art and politics that defined Hare's career, drawing upon largely unexamined archival materials, new interviews and analyzing Hare's brilliant and moving photographs alongside the prolix and oftentimes bathetic prefaces he wrote for the three collections of his photographs. The book presents a wide-ranging critical account of Hare's life and art, suggesting the ways in which his work continues to resonate with contemporary concerns about the reach of corporations into everyday life, documentary photography's longstanding complicity with the politics of liberal guilt, and art's vexed relation to elite channels of power.
£20.00
Empire Publications Ltd A Part of No Tribe: My Life Through One Thousand
Book SynopsisIan Moss''s second volume of singles reviews, following The Original Soundtrack that covered 1970-79, covers a decade of extreme political upheaval. From the threat of nuclear war and the miner''s strike to acid house and the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was plenty to get worked up about in the eighties, but great societal panics often bring with them fantastic music. As a part of no tribe Ian runs his eye over the profusion of musical genres produced by the decade from the dying embers of post-punk to early house and garage, the rise of hip-hop, the burst of colour brought by new romantics and synth-pop which sat besides the likes of George Michael, Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna at the top of the pop charts. Yet even these stars were soon stopped in their tracks by advances in technology that allowed hits to be composed in bedrooms by innovative and talented artists who would never have got through the door at a major label in previous eras yet became the basis for whole new musical genres. Ian Moss takes the reader on a journey through arguably the most influential decade in music history.
£13.46
Reach plc Liam Payne
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£8.23
Aboriginal Studies Press Steady Steady: The Life and music of Seaman Dan
Book SynopsisBook & CD. Born on Thursday Island in 1929, Seaman Dan didn''t release his debut album, Follow the Sun'', until his 70th birthday. In the next ten years he released five albums, showcasing traditional music from the Torres Strait, as well as those revealing his love of jazz and blues. Steady, Steady: The life and music of Seaman Dan is replete with Uncle Seaman''s stories of his active and sometimes dangerous life in the islands in the heyday of pearl diving and other jobs, and his later development as a professional singer/musician. The book includes many evocative and previously unknown images sourced from family and friends and will include a CD of tracks reflecting important periods in the life of this national treasure.
£24.29
Melbourne Books The Seekers: The 50 Year Recorded History of Australia's First Supergroup
Book SynopsisThis is the world's first Enseeklopedia' - a treasure trove of stories, music analysis and rare memorabilia. Moreover, it is a long overdue salute to Australia's Fab Four and their enduring recording catalogue. In tracing contemporary Australian music, history will recall the four young Melbourne musicians who started the ball rolling internationally for every big name Australian artist who would follow in their footsteps. Folk and gospel group The Seekers - featuring the golden voice of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley - set sail for the UK in 1964 on a working holiday, totally unaware of the global fame and fortune that lay ahead. Chart-topping hits, gold and platinum record awards, soldout tours and record-breaking crowds in the 60s, and again in the reunion years since 1993. In this publishing first, renowned Australian authors Christopher Patrick (ABBA: Let The Music Speak) and Graham Simpson (The Judith Durham Story Colours Of My Life) have joined forces to produce the first-ever Seekers coffee table book an in-depth and highly informative look at the recording history of Australia's first supergroup. Their forensic analysis of every song The Seekers recorded in the 50 years between 1963 and 2013 sits comfortably with peeks behind the scenes, never-before-revealed facts, fascinating trivia, and a kaleidoscope of photos and memorabilia much of it never seen before. With a good tour guide, you see so much more when you know what it is you're looking at; Chris has approached The Seekers' song list from a musician's perspective, undressing every song the group ever recorded to reveal the vocal and instrumental craft at play. Graham has brought to the coffee table his penchant for fascinating Seekers minutiae, and an archive of memorabilia gathered from all over the world over five decades. The Seekers were the very first group to put Australia on the international music map, and they will be forever known for knocking The Kinks, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones off the top of the UK charts, and The Monkees from the Number One spot on the American charts with their global phenomenon, the Academy Award-nominated song "Georgy Girl." They were clean-cut, clean-living Aussie youths when the rollercoaster began; their music was wholesome and free of gimmicks. The Seekers came, sang and conquered in the Sixties, yet the footprint they left on the international music map is as indelible today as it was half a century ago. If you have a favourite Seekers musical memory, it's in this book. If you want to know who played what; or how they got that sound'; or who Pierrot and Columbine were this is the book for you. If you like the photography and artwork of the Sixties, then you'll love the images captured by some of the top pop photographers of the era, and the many obscure record covers from every corner of the globe. Why were there two different versions of several songs; how did a sad song called "Downhearted Blues" turn into the chart-topper "A World Of Our Own"?; and who sneezes at the end of the 1967 recording of "Myra"? It's in here.
£33.14
Monash University Publishing Double-Act: The Remarkable Lives and Careers of
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£24.29
Monash University Publishing John Darling: An Australian Filmmaker in Bali
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£24.29
Melbourne Books God and the Angel: Vivien Leigh and Laurence
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£39.94
Monash University Publishing Vinyl Dreams: How the 1970s Changed Music
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£24.29
Melbourne Books Techno Shuffle: Rave Culture & the Melbourne Underground
Book SynopsisDuring the 90s, Melbournes warehouse party scene was at its peak. Every weekend in Techno City, thousands of ravers expressed their freedom through music, ecstasy and dancing the Melbourne shuffle. Techno Shuffle traces raves evolution from tiny underground clubs to vast waterfront wonderlands sparkling with creativity. We meet the personalities and places that shaped a subculture and we learn how bitter rivalries, the internet and a city on the move ultimately tore the scene apart. Techno Shuffle unfolds against a backdrop of post-war migration, gay and lesbian rights, the AIDS crisis, Australian drinking culture, the Melbourne gangland killings and the global ascendancy of dance music. During these anxious times in our post-truth age, 90s rave teaches us the value of freedom, community and respect. Let the party begin.
£27.89
Monash University Publishing Seven Big Australians: Adventures with Comic
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£17.99
Caitlin Press Chautauqua Serenade: Violinist Ruth Bowers on
Book SynopsisRuth Bowers had a dream of becoming a professional violinist. In 1910, when traditional careers for women included nursing or teaching, Ruth joined the chautauqua and lyceum tour circuit and hit the road. In the first part of the twentieth century, these popular tours brought music, education and entertainment to millions of people in rural North America. But chautauquas and lyceums also provided employment and fame for many female lecturers and performers. At a time when women did not even have the right to vote, musicians like Ruth Bowers were travelling, becoming financially independent and expanding ideas of what women could do-they were part of the first wave of the women''s liberation of the twentieth century. A remarkably talented violinist from Erie, Pennsylvania, Ruth Bowers performed at venues across North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and from Texas to British Columbia. Ruth shared the bill with famous people like orator William Jennings Bryan, illusionist Eugene Laurant and impersonator Elma B. Smith. While on tour, Bowers collected photographs, postcards and memorabilia and sent letters home. Using this material from his family archives, along with newspaper articles from the 1900s and research files from the chautauqua collection at the University of Iowa, author-historian Jay Sherwood pieces together the unique life of his grandmother. With over 125 previously unpublished photographs and images, CHAUTAUQUA SERENADE offers readers a backstage pass to the iconic chautauqua tour through the eyes of a young woman with a big dream.
£14.39
Simon & Schuster Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier
Book SynopsisAn illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion.Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream of becoming a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore unrevealed detail the story of her late college years and her early adulthood as a working woman. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” posing compelling questions to members of the public on the streets of DC and snapping their photos with her unwieldy Graflex camera. She then fashioned the results into a daily column, of which six hundred were published. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian and leading expert on First Ladies, draws on these columns and previously unseen archives of Jackie’s writings from this time, along with insights gleaned from interviews he conducted with the former First Lady’s friends, colleagues, and family members. Camera Girl offers a fresh perspective on the woman later known as Jacqueline Kennedy and Jackie O, introducing us to the headstrong, self-assured young woman who went on to be one of the world’s most famous people. It’s a glamorous and surprisingly hard-charging story of a person determined to define herself, told with admiration, empathy, and journalistic rigor.Trade Review“In Camera Girl, Carl Anthony slows down the story of Jacqueline Bouvier so that her complexity and wide range of interests can be grasped during the period of her life before marriage, political obligation, and tragedy—when she is forming a distinct sense of what role she hopes to someday play in the larger world. From designing her red ‘Bouvier cape,’ to her descriptive letters of new cultures and shrewd assessments of individuals, to her cartooning skills, to translating and analyzing French diplomatic and military texts about Indochina, we see Jackie in her fullness. For anyone of any age, the Jackie in Camera Girl offers an example of intentional living.” —Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Happened “Carl Anthony has found a wholly refreshing way to look at one of the most gazed upon women in American history, while also revealing how essential Jackie Bouvier was to Jack Kennedy's intellectual and political development. Camera Girl is as delightful as it is insightful.” —David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author of Barack Obama: The Story “In this charming portrait, Carl Anthony traces the genesis of Jacqueline Kennedy's mesmerizing personality. Behind her privileged upbringing, Jackie coped with a dysfunctional family and cultivated an independent spirit as well as a questing intellect. In Anthony's telling, her determination to make her way on her own terms foreshadowed her groundbreaking role as First Lady.” —Sally Bedell Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House “A lively depiction of a young woman who relished every opportunity to regard the world from her own perspective.” —The New Yorker, Best Books of 2023 "Whether she’s avoiding a traffic ticket after speeding in her car named Zelda, or translating books for Kennedy’s report on the history of France in Indochina, this portrait of young Jackie Bouvier shines with wit and intelligence." —Library Journal, starred review “Camera Girl offers one of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date." —The Washington Post “A convincing and colorful reconsideration of a first lady known more for her style than her substance . . . [Anthony] sheds intriguing light on Jackie’s stint as a columnist for the Washington Times-Herald, the engagement she called off prior to marrying JFK, and her volatile and occasionally violent relationship with her mother.” —Publishers Weekly “The Jacqueline Bouvier whom Carl Anthony brings to life in these deeply researched pages is a revelation. She is defiant, curious, independent—and a rule-breaker determined to chart a course that would make history take notice.” —Karen Tumulty, author of The Triumph of Nancy Reagan “Anthony uncovers the root of Jackie’s distinctive blend of rebelliousness and vulnerability, independence and insecurity that would attract and confound supporters and critics alike. By drawing on extensive interviews with Jackie’s contemporaries and family, oral histories, and presidential archives, Anthony delivers a well-rounded depiction of this eternally fascinating, covertly complicated, and perennially misunderstood historical and cultural icon.” —Booklist “What shaped Jackie Kennedy Onassis to become one of the most influential women of the 20th century? In this lively, dishy account, author Carl Anthony traces four formative years when she was Jacqueline Bouvier, negotiating her way into adulthood with a determination and an independence that belied the reserved mien she showed to the world. ‘Become distinct,’ she told herself. And so she did.” —Susan Page, New York Times bestselling author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty "Prior to her marriage to John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was an ambitious journalist and photographer, a remarkable period of her life captured in this engaging coming-of-age biography . . . Drawing on Bouvier’s letters and interviews, Anthony pulls together a compelling portrait of a young woman facing both the problems of her time and timeless issues. Should she focus on her career or getting married? How can she be respectful to her problematic parents while still declaring her own adult independence? A well-crafted biography that could easily spawn both a delightful TV drama or a historical look at female journalists." —Kirkus, starred review
£20.00
Simon & Schuster Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours
Book SynopsisThis intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra—from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life—features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about some of the most famous people of the past fifty years, including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. “If you are a Frank fan, buy this book” (Jimmy Kimmel).More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him—a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra’s closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol that offers “new information on almost every page” (The Wall Street Journal). Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse—about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they’d led, the lives they wished they’d led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world’s biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer’s hand when he drew his last breath. “Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer’s inner circle” (Parade magazine)—Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain on a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong.Trade Review“There’s new information on almost every page…Frank fans will find plenty to cheer…A believable portrait of a towering 20th-century figure in the defiant December of his years.” —Wall Street Journal“There are many books about Sinatra but few, if any, written by someone who spent as much time with him as the legend Tony O. If you are a Frank fan, buy this book.” —Jimmy Kimmel“Frank Sinatra fans, pull up a chair and let longtime confidante and road manager Tony Oppedisano regale you with tales from the entertainer’s inner circle in Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours. Enjoy intimate accounts of late-night drinking sessions, Las Vegas reveling, Rat Pack glory days, mob-tie truths and those infamous relationships with Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, Marilyn Monroe and more.” —Parade magazine“Tony Oppedisano enjoyed unrivaled access to the man many consider America’s greatest 20th-century entertainer [and] shares the tales with punch and panache….Late-in-life wisdom seeps through as Sinatra recounts regrets about leaving his first marriage, takes stock of who his true friends are and tries to keep his music career flourishing...Perhaps the most surprisingly interesting portion of the book may be Oppedisano sharing his own life story and details of first entering Sinatra’s orbit….Sinatra and Me may not set the record straight about every misconception of its title subject but not for lack of Oppedisano trying. That the results of such a quest prove so readable, human and sympathetic testifies to the writer’s powerful memory and singular life experiences.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “An unblinking yet affectionate portrait of the singer in the October, November, and December of his years, and should appeal to diehards and rubberneckers alike.” —Airmail“An invaluable record…Sinatra and Me may leave readers longing for a friend like Frank; they'd be equally lucky to have one like Oppedisano. This tribute by Sinatra's much-younger best friend is like an Ol' Blue Eyes tune: sparkling, warm and emotionally true.” —Shelf Awareness“Oppedisano debuts with a remarkable look at the final years of one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century….This fascinating and intimate account stands out among the dozens of books written about the celebrated legend.” —Publishers Weekly“A fond remembrance of a deep friendship…Reveals a vulnerability in the Chairman of the Board that is often quite moving.” —Booklist“Revealing…A must-read for Sinatra fans, this lovingly written, sweetly devoted account may even solve some pop-culture mysteries.” —Kirkus Reviews"Utterly clear-eyed yet truly loving...A matchless portrait of a flawed, brilliant man—and of a great friendship. A gem of a book.” —James Kaplan, bestselling author of Frank: The Voice and The Chairman“What a great book! Tony O. does here what many have tried to do without quite succeeding: he’s made Frank Sinatra accessible….Certainly, this is one of the very best of the Sinatra books and, I daresay, maybe the only one the man himself would actually read!” —J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author of Sinatra: Behind the Legend“Tony O. was Frank Sinatra’s go-to guy, and in this affectionate and intimate memoir, he writes about the wee small hours with the love and even awe that the great singer evoked. ….Even veteran Frankophiles will enjoy the twice-told tales, the striking new ones, and the natural eloquence of heartfelt eulogy in Sinatra and Me.” —David Lehman, author of Sinatra’s Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World"I knew and loved and dated and worshipped Frank Sinatra—he was like no one else—and I consider myself a very contented survivor. This book was one of the best trips I’ve ever had. Tony captures the real Frank. I think I’ll be reading Sinatra and Me over and over.” —Angie Dickinson, star of more than 50 Hollywood films“The legend that is Frank Sinatra remains a fascinating topic. Tony O. had a deep and abiding friendship with Ol' Blue Eyes and an all-access pass to his life. We all are fortunate that he chose to share these intimate recollections with us.” —Michael Bublé, four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist"Having a friendship like the one between Frank Sinatra and Tony O. was a true gift. Believe me, Tony was there in the 'wee small hours of the morning.' Sinatra and Me is a wonderful book." —Robert Wagner, star of It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart“Literally, my entire life has been intimately intertwined with America’s beloved ‘Rat Pack’—with my Uncle Frank as Chairman of the Board; my Dad, the King of Cool; and the amazing man I call Uncle Sammy….This book is definitely 'Dal Cuore'—from the heart. Tony captures not just Frank but Frank’s entire world….You’re in for an authentic treat.” —Deana Martin, actress and Billboard Top 40 recording artist“Frank Sinatra, never anything less than a riveting presence, was a man I was lucky enough to be around and get to know—but Tony O. knew him as few men know each other….This is a deeply intimate book, and well worth the read.” —Tony Danza, star of Taxi and Who’s the Boss?"If you knew Frank Sinatra you knew Tony Oppedisano. The love, loyalty, respect, and friendship Tony showed Frank was infinite, and perhaps most important, wasn't just directed to the artist and legend but to the human being." —Lorna Luft, actress, singer, and New York Times bestselling author of Me and My Shadows"I loved Tony’s book. It's fun and paints such a vivid picture of the times that I felt I'd actually just spent a weekend in Palm Springs with Frank…and still have a hangover." —George Schlatter, former producer of the Grammy Awards and of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
£12.34
Otago University Press Hudson & Halls: The food of love
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£23.39
Otago University Press West Island: Five twentieth-century New
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£18.90
Otago University Press Robert Lord Diaries
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£18.90
Massey University Press Ans Westra
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£31.19
Danann Media Publishing Limited Once in a Blue Moon: The Unforgettable Frank
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£11.69
Danann Media Publishing Limited Led Zeppelin: You Shook Me
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£10.39
Danann Media Publishing Limited Bruce Springsteen: Glory Days - 50 Years of
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£10.39
Jake Island Ltd Terry Abraham: Life on the Mountains
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£18.90
Edition Olms Western Portraits of Great Character Actors: The
Book SynopsisThe American West, as we know it, is defined by the movies, and the Western is the oldest film genre. When the movies were born, it was not that long after Promontory Point and the Civil War, so those memories were still there in the minds of the very first movie audiences as they watched The Great Train Robbery. And the myth-making is as important as the brutal truths of history. As the reporter tells Jimmy Stewart in Fords The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Rendered in rare, evocative tones reminiscent of Edward Sheriff Curtiss immortal photographs, Western Portraits of Great Character Actors provides readers with a collection of stylised portraits that capture the allure and mystique of the Old West, complete with authentic costuming, weaponry and settings. From the epic feature film to the TV series and serial, this coffee table book will put the story of character actors and the significance of their memorable roles into an entertaining perspective. The subjects include such popular, recognizable actors as Karl Malden, David Carradine, Denver Pyle, R G Armstrong, L Q Jones, Horst Buchholz, Henry Silva, Ruta Lee, Morgan Woodward, Bo Hopkins, Clu Gulager and 72 others.
£33.96
Edition Axel Menges Erdmut Bramke, Werkverzeichnis: Bd.1 -- Gemalde
Book SynopsisText in German. Erdmut Bramke, who was born in 1940 in Kiel and died in 2002 in Stuttgart, is one of the few 20th-century artists whose work consistently expressed a purely painterly position. She worked only with colour and structures. The use of acrylic colours enabled her to create unique colour constellations. Her unusual palate of colours and novel shades of colour were a constant surprise. In her stylistic idiom she emphasised flowing lines, interspersed colour shadowing with linear structures and experimented with images produced by dip-ping the image body in colour and also by using different materials. Her works are represented in many public and private collections, including the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, the Ulmer Museum, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Bundeskunsthalle, also in Bonn, and the Kunsthalle Kiel. Erdmut Bramke studied painting from 1961 to 1967 at the academies in Berlin and Stuttgart. Her teachers were Heinz Trökes and K R H Sonderborg. Repeated study periods in France and Italy took her creative work into constantly new directions. Particularly important for her artistic development was the time she spent as a stipendiary fellow at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1979/80 and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1986. The present catalogue raisonné of the artists freelance work was commissioned by the Freunde der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, as prescribed by the terms of the bequest of Erdmut Bramke her artistic design of buildings will follow in a later volume. Volume one is devoted to the paintings. It is introduced by essays of six people in her circle who focus on Bramkes importance for painting in the latter half of the 20th century. Volume two presents the sizable uvre of her works on paper, which must be accorded equal weight in the artists work. Reprinted in both volumes are contemporary texts from catalogues, newspaper articles and talks by Reinhard Döhl, Eugen Gomringer, Karin von Maur and others that show how the artists work was received during her lifetime. Until her retirement, Ulrike Gauß was the head of the Graphische Sammlung of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Susanne Grötz is a freelance art historian and exhibition curator, Carolin Jörg teaches artistic design at the Hochschule Augsburg.
£109.65
DOM Publishers Stalin's Architect: The Rise and Fall of Boris
Book SynopsisBoris Iofan (1891 – 1976) was considered Josef Stalin’s ‘court architect’ due to his closeness to the dictator, whose design ideas he translated into reality. His name is associated with projects such as the House on the Embankment, the Soviet pavilion at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair and the Palace of the Soviets, which was never realised. In the period from 1932 to 1947, he was one of the most important, if not the most important architect of the Soviet Union. This biography, a detailed study of Iofan’s creative development, is based on previously unpublished documents. It also contains never-before-published visual material, including original drawings and sketches by the architect and his collaborators: most of this comes from Iofan’s archive, which is now in the collection of the Museum für Architekturzeichnung in Berlin.
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OM Books International The Bachchans: A Saga of Excellence
Book SynopsisGorgeously designed and beautifully produced, this is not just a collectorâs edition but also a visual history, like no other, of an important page of Indiaâs popular culture.
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Gopal Ghose a Jubilant Quest for the Chromatic
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Museum Tusculanum Press Icons of Danish Modernity: Georg Brandes & Asta
Book SynopsisThis book utilises the lives and friendship of the Danish literary critic George Brandes (1842-1927) and the silent film star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) to explore questions of culture and national identity in early twentieth-century Denmark. Danish culture and politics were influenced in this period by the country''s deeply ambivalent relationship with Germany. Brandes and Nielsen, both of whom lived and worked in Germany for significant periods of time, were seen as dangerously cosmopolitan by the Danish public, even while they served as international cultural ambassadors for the very society that rejected them during their lifetimes. Allen argues that they were the prototypical representatives of a socially liberal and culturally modern Danishness (Danskhed) that Denmark itself only gradually (and later) grew into. This lively study brings its central characters to life while offering an original, thought-provoking analysis of the origins and permutations of Danish modernism and Danish national identity issues that continue to be significant in today''s multiethnic Denmark. Icons of Danish Modernity is a book about the uneasy waves that arise when celebrities take on national symbolism and about the beginnings of this formula in the early twentieth century.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Johann Adolph Scheibe: A Catalogue of His Works
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New Era Publications International APS L. Ron Hubbard: Photographer: Writing with Light
Book SynopsisFrom shutter click to final print-L. Ron Hubbard mastered every element of the photographic process. Uncover the purpose behind his photos and find out the stable data he formulated for every photographer. This volume is used by some of the top photographers in seminars and personal training in photography.
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New Era Publications International APS L. Ron Hubbard: Music Maker
Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in the universal language of music. Track Ron's lifelong pursuit as a musical director, arranger, performer and composer; read his rare articles on the subject of music and see inside the cutting-edge L. Ron Hubbard Music Studio.
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Museum Tusculanum Press J P E Hartmann og hans kreds -- 3-Volume Set: En
Book SynopsisJ P E Hartmann (1805-1900) is one of the most renowned figures within Danish musical history. In the course of his lifetime he corresponded with many writers and artists of the Golden Age, including Hans Christian Andersen, Oehlenschläger, Heiberg and August Bournonville. He also had relations with foreign composers such as Liszt, Mendelssohn, Heinrich Marschner, Louis Spohr and Grieg. His son, Emil Hartmann, who was also a composer, is represented by a large number of letters which elucidate both his struggle for professional recognition and the Copenhagen musical scene of that time.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Circling Marilyn: Text Body Performance
Book SynopsisThis book approaches the famous star in a manner that recognizes the impossibility of ever locating the real Marilyn Monroe. It gets close to the actress by discussing the chameleonic performances of Marilyn as woman, star, and text. Like Elvis, Marilyn lives, because she has become a discourse articulating major issues in the cultures she inhabits, whether in the 1950s or in the 21st century. In circling Marilyn country, this book discusses Marilyn as text, since those who knew and did not know her -- husbands, lovers, fans, writers, directors, co-stars, critics -- have written about Marilyn differently, and endlessly. Circling Marilyn also scrutinizes Marilyn as Body, but it locates not just one body, but many -- including a disciplined and a communicative body. Other chapters consider the performing Marilyn and Marilyn performed. Marilyn takes on roles as herself, as a white and black woman, as a cowgirl on the Last Frontier, while others play Marilyn by snatching her famous body for their own purposes, at gay parades or in cyberspace. Circling Marilyn aims at readers engaged in American Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and Literature, as well as the general public, whose appetite for Marilyn Monroe keeps her alive, if eternally elusive.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Failed Masculinities: The Men in Satyajit Ray’s
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar
Book SynopsisAshok Kumar (19112001), fondly known as Dadamoni, is one of the great icons of Hindi cinema. This warm, intimate biography traces his remarkable journey, from reluctant actor to Bollywood's first superstar and, in his later years, a much-loved presence on national television. Born in Bhagalpur (then in the Bengal Presidency), Ashok Kumar was enthralled by the bioscope' as a child. In his twenties, he quit his law studies and came to Bombay to become a film director. But liferather, Himanshu Rai, the founder of Bombay Talkieshad different plans for him. Despite the director's reservations, he was cast in the lead role opposite Devika Rani in the 1936 film Jeevan Naiyya when the original hero went missing. The same year, Ashok Kumar was paired with Devika Rani again in Achhut Kanya, which was a blockbuster.
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Helen: The Making of a Bollywood H-Bomb
Book SynopsisEqually, the book is a gloriously witty and provocative examination of middle-class Indian morality; the politics of religion, gender and sexuality in popular culture; and the importance of the song, the item number and the wayward woman in Hindi cinema.
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