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iUniverse Celebrities Are Groupies Too UNCUTT WITHOUT A CHASER
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iUniverse New York Nights Performing Producing and Writing in Gotham
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iUniverse The Presidents Pianist My Term with Truman and My Life in Music
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iUniverse The Presidents Pianist My Term with Truman and My Life in Music
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iUniverse Journeyman Actor A Memoir
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iUniverse Journeyman Actor
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iUniverse It Looked So Good in the Window By Sid Cooper published October 2008
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iUniverse Tinman A Life Explored
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iUniverse To Space and Back A Memoir
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iUniverse Animatrixa Female Animator How Laughter Saved My Life
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iUniverse Anais Nin The Voyage Within
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iUniverse False Memories Adventures of the Living Dalithe Surreal Biography of Anton Brzezinski
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iUniverse Thomas Hastings An Introduction to His Life and Music
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iUniverse Gloria Jean A Little Bit of Heaven
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iUniverse The Noble Legacy The Story of Gilbert Clifford Noble Cofounder of the Barnes Noble and Noble Noble Book Companies
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iUniverse The Lawyer and the Little Prince
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iUniverse New York Nights Performing Producing and Writing in Gotham
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iUniverse Letters From the Prophets A Theatre Teachers Memoir
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Author Solutions Inc Cursum Perficio Marilyn Monroes Brentwood Hacienda The Story of Her Final Months
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iUniverse Band Boys Teenage Music Makers of the Sixties
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Langhorne Creative Group Call Me Tennessee
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Unseen Unbroken
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Free Mind Publications This is not Leonardo da Vinci The untold history of Leonardo and the Renaissance
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Last Day of School Sounds Like An Ending
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On a Positive Note
Book SynopsisThe Grammy Award-winning gospel singer shares a message of hope, love, and inspiration in a memoir that describes her life, her marriage, her rise to success, her friendship with Whitney Houston, and her faith in God.Trade ReviewEssence A praise song to God's glory.Publisher's Weekly Winans' simple, heartwarming telling of her story so far has the feel of two friends conversing over tea about their lives.
£14.30
Jc Publications Ronnie James Dio
£20.50
Soul of the Voice, Ltd. From Hobo Flats to The 5th Dimension A Life Fulfilled in Baseball Photography and Music
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BookBaby This Is It The Secret Lives of Dr Conrad Murray
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Lucky Valley Press The Little Bach Book
£18.00
Omnibus Press The Music Of Lutoslawski
£22.95
Omnibus Press Phil Lynott The Rocker
Book SynopsisThe classic bestseller re-issed in a paperback edition.This eye-opening biography traces Lynott''s life from 1950s Dublin through to Thin Lizzy and his tragic death. Using dozens of frank interviews with family friends and band members, this is a touching and shocking account of the life of the Irish legend.Mark Putterford''s eye opening biography traces Lynott''s visionary ambitions to fuse dance music and heavy rock as well as influences on the early careers of future stars like Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Huey Lewis and Mark Knopfler.Using dozens of frank interviews with family, friends and band members, Putterford gives us a touching and sometimes shocking account of the life of the one and only black Irish rock legend.Includes full discography. Trade Review'Mark Putterford has faithfully reconstructed the life of an illegitimate black child who rose from a childhood of petty taunts because of the colour of his skin to become a hero worldwide, but more importantly, an Irish icon, a person that the whole nation adored...This book is an incisive but easy read; it is not a weighty tome that scrutinises every aspect of Phil Lynott's life in lengthy, drawn out passages...This is a brilliant book about one of rock's true superstars.'
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Omnibus Press Electric Don Quixote The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa
Book SynopsisMusic historian Neil Slaven has chronicled the complex strands of Zappa's life and work in a book that should please not just Zappa fans but anyone interested in the history of rock music.Trade Review'...delivers the dope as far as the music is concerned...Zappa fans will freak out.' Q '...a clear and straightforward resume of Zappa's career, skilfully knitted together.' MOJO
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Duckworth Books Young Michelangelo The Path To The Sistine
Book SynopsisA reinterpretation of the early life and career of Michelangelo, arguably the greatest artist in history. It explores Michelangelo's involvement in the most troubling controversies of his age, and recreates Florence and Rome with sketches of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Leonardo, Julius II and Machiavelli.Trade Review'Spike crystallizes historical detail into vivid , memorable imagery... Alternating between accounts of the turbulent political atmosphere and details of Michelangelo's most private moments in the sculpture studio, Spike creates a rich narrative that promises more intrigue than the best adventure novel' Publishers Weekly'Michelangelo is a difficult man to like, but impossible to resist. Spike captures his magnetism, his drive and the sheer scale of his ambition' Sarah Bakewell, Sunday Times'No art historian has got closer to Michelangelo than John T. Spike' Sunday Telegraph 'Tense and agile as an early sculpture, Young Michelangelo is a compelling portrait of the artist as a young man in a dangerous time' Peter Robb, author of M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio'A crisply thorough biography' Christopher Bray, Daily Express
£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
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Xlibris Hawaiis Adopted World Class Actor
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Simon & Schuster Fortunes Fool
Book SynopsisIn 1999, when Napster made music available free online, the music industry found itself in a fight for its life. A decade later, the most important and misunderstood story—and the one with the greatest implications for both music lovers and media companies—is how the music industry has failed to remake itself. In Fortune’s Fool, Fred Goodman, the author of The Mansion on the Hill, shows how this happened by presenting the singular history of Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., the controversial heir to Seagram’s, who, after dismantling his family’s empire and fortune, made a high-stakes gamble to remake both the music industry and his own reputation. Napster had successfully blown the industry off its commercial foundations because all that the old school label heads knew how to do was record and market hits. So when Bronfman took over the Warner Music Group in 2004, his challenge was to create a new kind of record executive. Goodman finds the source of the crisis in the dissolution of the old Warner Music Group, the brilliant conglomerate of Atlantic, Elektra, and Warner Bros. Records. He shows how Doug Morris, the head of Atlantic Records, rose through the ranks and rode the CD bonanza of the 1990s to enormous corporate and personal profit before becoming embroiled in an ego-driven corporate turf war, and how all of Warner’s record executives were blindsided when AOL/Time-Warner announced in 2003 that it wanted nothing more to do with the record industry. When the music group was finally sold to Bronfman, it was a ghost of itself. Bronfman built an aggressive, streamlined team headed by Lyor Cohen, whose relentless ambition and discipline had helped build Def Jam Records. They instituted a series of daring initiatives intended to give customers legitimate online music choices and took market share from Warner’s competitors. But despite these efforts, illegal downloads still outnumber legitimate ones 19-1. Most of the talk of a new world of music and media has proven empty; despite the success of iTunes, even wildly popular sites like YouTube and MySpace have not found a way to make money with music. Instead, Warner and the other labels are diversifying and forcing young artists to give them a cut of their income from touring, publishing, and merchandising. Meanwhile, the average downloader isn’t even meeting forward-thinking musicians halfway. Each time a young band finds a following through music websites, it’s a unique story; no formula has emerged. If one does, Warner is probably in a better position than anyone to exploit it. But at the end of the day, If is the one-word verdict on Bronfman’s big bet.Trade Review"Goodman builds a fascinating narrative. Bronfman emerges as, if not a hero, arguably a mighty interesting anti-hero." --Steve Weinberg, USA Today"The book is a biography and a gimlet-eyed look at the music business, the dark side of the Internet, and the future of pop music. It succeeds on every level...Goodman's writing soars..." --Bruce Ward, Ottawa Citizen"Fortunes Fool reads like a Greek tragedy.... the boardroom intrigues are laid out clearly, making them easy to understand. What emerges is a fascinating tale of good intentions, bad luck, and the affirmation of the corporate maxim--eat or be eaten." --Blogcritics.org
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nico Songs They Never Play on the Radio
Book SynopsisRecords the never-ending antics of a picaresque circus of addicts, outsiders and misfits who travelled the world encountering an equally bizarre and extraordinary mixture of people. John Cale, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso are among those who appear in the ultimately tragic story of Nico, the last Bohemian. Originally published in 1992.
£18.57
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Smoking in Bed
Book SynopsisBruce Robinson is a cult writer and director of Withnail and I. Here, he reveals to the author the truth about his work and life in a series of interviews. He talks candidly about his career; his acting, writing and directing, and the many tussles he has faced with Hollywood moguls.Trade Review'It's alive with Robinson's voice ... he is fully engaged, driven by an endless compulsion to entertain: his conversation is a work of art' Guardian 'Intelligent, honest and pungently expressed, the recollections of Bruce Robinson are a treat' Independent
£14.99
AuthorHouse The Fabulous Maestro A Remembrance of Alfredo Salmaggi and His Legacy
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AuthorHouse The Fabulous Maestro A Remembrance of Alfredo Salmaggi and His Legacy
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AuthorHouse LIFE ON THE HOT SEAT HOW I MATCHED WITS WITH CHUCK ALEX DICK AND YESREGIS and still managed to laugh all the way to the bank The true story of one mans american game show odyssey
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Rlpg/Galleys Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Book SynopsisAt a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth on horses and women on two continents. None of the Vanderbilts gave as much fuel for gossip to the curious public as Alfred. By the time the extravagant playboy boarded the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, he was the subject of numerous scandals, including the suicide of four different women. But as the ship went down, he spent the last minutes of his life rescuing women and children and forgoing his own life. How is it that this wraith, this gluttonous, opulent youth, could undergo an entire change of character in his last few moments? Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt follows Alfred's journey from philanderer to hero in this incredible, never-before-told story of the hero of the Lusitania.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Eighteen Minutes Chapter 2: The Unlikely Heir Chapter 3: The Gift Chapter 4: An Equal Match Chapter 5: Working Man: Whips, Skirts, and Coattails Chapter 6: A Serpentine Curve: A Failure To Stop Chapter 7: Extramarital Horsing Around Chapter 8: A Whirling Abyss Chapter 9: Severing Ties Chapter 10: The Brighton Road Chapter 11: A Reputation to Defend Chapter 12: The Alibi Chapter 13: In the Dark Chapter 14: Indiscreet Romance Chapter 15: A Rising Tide Chapter 16: 1914 Chapter 17: Leaving Pier 54 Chapter 18: At Sea Chapter 19: Eighteen Minutes Chapter 20: Aftermath Afterword Bibliography Index
£39.00
Schiffer Publishing Street Corner Talking the Autobiography of Kim Simmonds
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