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Northside House Limited Taylor Swift The Anatomy of Fame
Book SynopsisUnlock the secrets behind the enigma that is Taylor Swift and discover why she reigns as the most influential cultural force in our era. In this captivating exploration, we delve into the very essence of Swift's significance, addressing the questions that echo in the minds of fans and sceptics alike.
£13.16
State University of New York Press Music at Worlds End
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£26.12
State University of New York Press The Tourists Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
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£20.90
Faber Piano Adventures Piano Adventures All-In-Two Primer Lesson/Theory:
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£13.05
Methuen Drama The Godot Diaries
Book SynopsisFrom seminal actor Lucian Msamati comes a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of working on the major 2024 production of one of the most iconic plays ever written - Samuel Beckett''s Waiting for Godot. From receiving the call offering him the role of Estragon to the opening night at London''s Theatre Royal Haymarket, Lucian Msamati''s rehearsal diary enables us to better understand Beckett''s play from the inside and, crucially, from an actor''s perspective. A welcome antidote to the extensive academic literature available on the play, this book gives us a behind-the-scenes perspective on this play from audition to script-reading to polished performance. With a cast made up of other seminal actors Ben Whishaw, Jonathan Slinger and Tom Edden, James Macdonald''s production of Waiting for Godot sheds light on so many of the play''s themes and preoccupations, while bringing a new lens in casting a Black actor in the role of Estragon.We join Lucian Msamati as he embarks on the journey from page to stage, never knowing what the next day will bring and sharing in revelation after revelation as he revisits this play as an actor 20 years after first reading it. We also are witness to how a West End production takes shape, from assembling its cast to the first night and beyond, including the rehearsal-room dynamics, dramaturgical light-bulb moments, and the day-to-day life of actors working with one another to bring words on a page to vivid life.
£18.00
White Lion Publishing Martin Scorsese
£23.80
Insight Editions Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy Journal
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£19.19
Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Starting Point 19791996
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, speeches, inteviews and reflections by the acclaimed filmaker Hayao Miyazaki.
£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Can I Say
Book SynopsisTravis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood.After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the multiplatinum punk band Blink-182, everything changed for Travis Barker. But the dark side of rock stardom took its toll: his marriage, chronicled for an MTV reality show, fell apart. Constant touring concealed a serious drug addiction. A reckoning did not truly come until he was forced to face mortality: His life nearly ended in a horrifying plane crash, and then his close friend, collaborator, and fellow crash survivor DJ AM died of an overdose.In this blunt, driving memoir, Barker ruminates on rock stardom, fatherhood, death, loss, and redemption, sharing stories shaped by decTrade Review"(A) riveting, brutally honest memoir." -- Billboard "Written with ROLLING STONE contributor Gavin Edwards, Can I Say is a fascinating look into the life of a talented, hard-partying musician who has beaten the odds several times." -- Rolling Stone
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers The Theory of Everything Else
Book SynopsisThis is not a book of facts; it?s a book of ?facts?. Should you finish it believing we became the planet?s dominant species because predators found us too smelly to eat; or that the living bloodline of Christ is a family of Japanese garlic farmers ? well, that?s on you. Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Did life on Earth begin after a badly tidied-up picnic? Was it just an iceberg that sank the Titanic? Are authors stealing their plotlines from the future? Will we ever talk to animals? And why, when you?re in the shower, does the shower curtain always billow in towards you? We don?t know the answers to any of these questions. But don?t worry, no matter what questions you have, you can bet on the fact that there is someone (or something) out there, investigating it on your behalf. From the sports stars who use cosmic energy to office plants investigating murders, The Theory of Everything Else will act as a handbook for those who want to think differently.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wiederhorn J Louder Than Hell
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Whether you're the sort of man who knows everything from who first threw the Devil Horns to the correct pronunciation of Yngwie Malmsteen, there is something fascinating to learn from Louder Than Hell ... Shed[s] new light on the making of Satan's Music." -- Esquire "Presents the collective memory of heavy metal through the ages and eras in the voices of the men who lived it ... It's an aficionado's delight." -- New York Daily News "Louder than Hell is a love letter to the misunderstood genre of heavy metal music, written by trusted companions who had a front row seat on the devil's rollercoaster. The definitive chronological testimony by the people who were there, including some who are no longer with us." -- Mark McGrath, Sugar Ray and co-host Extra "A great read and an instant classic." -- The Onion's A.V. Club "This is the best oral history I've read since Please Kill Me. Louder than Hell is the first book that really delivers the brutal truth from the mouths of the artists and key players themselves! I couldn't put it down." -- Matt Pinfield "Two devil horns up!" -- USA Today A compelling, first-person account of a seemingly unstoppable force ...the book reads like an extended, uncensored, shockingly satisfying episode of VH1's Behind the Music. -- Washington Post "An amazingly comprehensive book on all eras and genres of hard rock and heavy metal. The stories and attention to detail make it an instant must for anyone who ever was or is a fan." -- Eddie Trunk, DJ and host of That Metal Show on VH1 Classic Often hilarious, occasionally, 'God, I wish I hadn't read that!', sometimes profound, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes infuriating ... no one holds back on any subject... you come away from this book with a crystal-clear vision of this world -- The Huffington Post "The authors inclusiveness give this examination a weight that is just as heavy as the music." -- Publishers Weekly "A who's who of heavy music ... What makes Louder Than Hell un-put-down-able are the stories ... Essential." -- Revolver (4 stars) "No one's gone quite as deep into the genre's recesses as this 746-page oral history, which covers everything from the birth of Black Sabbath to Dave Mustaine's departure from Metallica to the disaster that was Woodstock '99." -- Rolling Stone, four stars "Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman know metal. Louder Than Hell is an amazing gathering of different breeds of heavy metal rockers telling the tales metal fans want to hear." -- Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine "If you love metal, great stories, and music history told by the people who made it, then Louder than Hell is a must-read. This is the book every metal fan should own. -- Alice Cooper "Louder Than Hell comes straight from the twisted minds of rock icons and flows seamlessly through various eras of heavy metal...I really dig this book." -- Riki Rachtman "I've said thousands of times that reading 'totally sucks.' But this book does indeed not suck. Books on the history of even something as cool as metal can be a bit antiseptic and boring-not this one." -- Brendon Small, Dethklok "Who likes rock n roll here?? Well if you do, this is the book for you! ... This is the definitive chronicle of all that is heavy metal and I've read them all!" -- Chris Jericho, Fozzy "As definitive as it gets, bonding historical anecdotes to pieces of debauched mythology from the scene's platinum superstars and fringe icons ... as indispensable as a skull-adorned leather jacket." -- Entertainment Weekly, A-
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Titan Books Ltd Star Wars - The Smuggler's Guide
Book SynopsisThe lengths to which the underworld will go for a legendary prize is unparalleled. What started as a simple logbook with a piece of valuable information was soon stolen, traded, and smuggled around the outer rim and shady ports. With each pirate, thief, gambler, and criminal who took possession of the book, new insight and details were added, creating the Smuggler's Guide - a coveted collection of hidden treasure locations, advice, and hard-earned data. Recovered from a strong box on the Millenium Falcon, the Smuggler's Guide traces its own extraordinary journey through such notorious characters as Maz Kanata, Hondo Ohnaka, Drydon Vos, Lando Calrissian, and Han Solo. Explore previously unknown details about the underhanded dealings of the galaxy's underworld.
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Faber & Faber The Animators Survival Kit
Book SynopsisAnimation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today .
£44.00
Velocity Press Dance Or Die
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Running Press Ghostbusters P.K.E. Meter
Book Synopsis This officially-licensed kit includes a mini replica of the Psychokinetic Energy (P.K.E. Meter) from the 1984 classic film, Ghostbusters! SPECIFICATIONS: 4” mini P.K.E. meter with sensor wings that spring open at the push of a button LIGHTS UP: 2 light modes consisting of multi colored LEDs + light illuminating along wings SOUND EFFECT: Features authentic detecting sound BOOK INCLUDED: Mini book contains 8 full-color stickers PERFECT GIFT: A unique gift for fans of the Ghostbusters films OFFICIALLY LICENSED: Authentic collectible ™ & © 2019 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Harmonica For Dummies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting Started with Harmonica 7 Chapter 1: What Is This Thing Called Harp? 9 Considering the Harmonica’s Coolness 9 Becoming the Next Harmonica Idol: What It Takes to Play 11 A harmonica 11 A little music know-how 11 Your body 12 Regular practice — and unstructured fun! 12 Taking Your Talent to the Next Level 13 Hanging Out in the Harmonica Village 14 Sharing your music with others locally 14 Visiting the repair shop and the accessory store 14 Chapter 2: Becoming a Harmonica Owner 17 Shopping for Your First Harmonica 18 Understanding the construction of the ten-hole diatonic 18 Tuning in to the key of the harp 19 Starting out with a harp in the key of C 19 Pricing a harmonica 20 Determining where to buy a harp 20 Safe and Sound: Caring for Your Harp 21 Collecting Additional Diatonic Harps 23 Purchasing popular keys 24 Expanding your range with harps in high and low keys 24 Adding Variety to Your Harmonica Kit 25 Chromatic harps 25 Tremolo and octave harmonicas 27 Making Your Harps Portable with Carrying Cases 28 Getting to Know You: Discovering How a Harmonica Works 29 Making a five-layer tin sandwich 29 Taking a closer look at the reeds that make the sound 30 Locating different notes 31 Chapter 3: Making Your First Harmonica Sounds 33 Preparing to Play the Harmonica 33 Picking up the harp 34 Putting the harp in your mouth 34 Breathing through the harp 35 Moving through the holes 35 Getting Acquainted with Some Musical Concepts 36 Zeroing in on harmonica tab 36 Counting with musical time 36 Locking in with the beat 37 Using beats as building blocks 39 Developing Your Sound 44 Expanding and sustaining your breathing 44 Cupping the harp in your hands 47 Nestling the harmonica in your mouth 50 Playing some cool rhythms 50 Chapter 4: Relating to Notes, Scales, and Chords 55 Getting in Tune with the Singable Notes 56 Understanding the curious phenomenon of octaves 56 Naming the notes and creating a scale 57 Using octaves to name all the notes 57 Altering pitches with sharps and flats 58 Measuring small distances with semitones and whole tones 59 Sizing Up Intervals 60 Counting out the size of an interval 60 Determining the quality of an interval 61 Finding the Key of a Song 62 Stepping Through Scales 63 Diatonic and chromatic scales 63 Major and minor scales 64 Modal scales 66 Altering a scale with sharps and flats 66 The Building Blocks of Chords 67 Four basic types of chords 68 Adding notes to basic triads 68 Chord progressions 69 Writing Notes Down 70 Placing notes on a staff 70 Writing sharps and flats on the staff 72 Unlocking key signatures 72 Finding harmonica notes on the staff 73 Part 2: Starting to Make Some Music 75 Chapter 5: I Hear a Melody: Playing Single Notes 77 Shaping Your Mouth to Single Out a Note 78 Forming the pucker embouchure 78 Producing a tongue-block embouchure 80 The Elements of Motion: Moving from One Note to the Next 81 Exploring breath changes 82 Finding your way with hole changes 83 Alternating breath changes and hole changes 85 Coordinating simultaneous hole changes and breath changes 86 Exploring the Three Registers of the Harmonica 87 Playing Familiar Tunes in the Middle Register 88 “Good Night, Ladies” 89 “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” 89 “Mary Had a Little Lamb” 90 “Amazing Grace” 91 Making Your First Multi-Hole Leaps 92 “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” 92 “Frère Jacques” 92 “On Top of Old Smokey” 94 Shifting up from the Middle 95 “Bunessan” (“Morning Has Broken”) 95 “Joy to the World” 96 Floating in the High Register 97 “Aura Lea” (“Love Me Tender”) 98 “She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain” 99 “Silent Night” 100 Chapter 6: Shaping Your Sound 103 Enlarging Your Sound with Projection 104 Using your air column 104 Enriching your sound with the smooth swimming exercise 104 Increasing airflow through the reeds 106 Varying your volume with dynamics 109 Projecting with your hands 110 Starting and Ending Notes with Articulation 112 Starting notes with your tongue 113 Using your throat to articulate notes 115 Initiating a note with your diaphragm 116 Shaping the Tone Color of Your Notes 118 Changing vowel sounds with your tongue 118 Brightening and darkening your sound using your hands 119 Slowly changing the sound 119 Combining hand and tongue vowels 120 Pulsating Your Notes with Vibrato 120 Diaphragm vibrato 121 Throat vibrato 122 Tongue vibrato 123 Hand vibrato 123 Synchronizing and layering pulsation 124 Chapter 7: Enhancing Your Sound with Your Tongue on the Harp 127 Using Your Tongue to Combine Chords and Melodies 128 Knowing the chords on your harp 128 Accompanying melodies with chords 129 Chasing the beat with a chord 131 Reinforcing Melody Notes with Your Tongue 132 Applying the tongue slap 133 Popping chords with pull-offs 133 Creating Chord Textures with Your Tongue 135 Alternating tongue placements to produce the chord rake 136 Lifting and replacing your tongue to play a chord hammer 137 Rapidly alternating widely spaced notes with the shimmer 138 Combining Widely Spaced Notes with Splits 139 Sticking with a locked split 139 Inching along with variable splits 140 Playing Quick and Wide Leaps with Corner Switching 145 Chapter 8: Bending Notes 149 Knowing the What and the Why of Bending 150 What is bending? 150 Why bend notes? 151 Getting Started with Bending Notes Down 151 Exploring the roof of your mouth 152 Making some helpful noises 153 Creating your bend activator with the K-spot 154 Playing your first bend 156 If at first you don’t succeed: Practicing persistence 158 Deepening Your Skills at Bending Notes Down 159 Surveying the bendable notes 159 Working through the four stages of bending control 162 Bending draw notes down in the middle register 163 Bending draw notes down in the heart of the harp — the low register 165 Bending blow notes down in the high register 170 Bending on Different Types of Harmonicas 174 Chromatic harps 174 Double reed harps 175 Chapter 9: Positions: Playing One Harp in Many Keys 177 Understanding How Positions Help Your Playing 177 Figuring Out a Position 179 Relating Positions, Modes, and Avoid Notes 181 Rocking with Six Popular Positions 182 First position (C on a C-harp) 183 Second position (G on a C-harp) 185 Third position (D on a C-harp) 188 Fourth position (A on a C-harp) 190 Fifth position (E on a C-harp) 193 Twelfth position (F on a C-harp) 195 Part 3: Growing Beyond the Basics 199 Chapter 10: Fancy Playing: Developing Flair and Speed 201 Mastering Melody from the Ground Up 202 Seeing the scale 203 Recognizing scale patterns 204 Anchoring melodies on chord notes 209 Simplifying the scale to five notes 211 Adding Ornaments to the Melody 214 Shakes 214 Rips, boings, and fall-offs 215 Grace notes 215 Developing Your Speed 216 Start slow and know each individual move 216 Learn in small chunks 217 Speed it up — slowly 217 Think and play in larger units 217 Chapter 11: Mastering New Songs 219 Understanding How Songs Work 219 The container: Structuring time 219 The shifting backdrop: Chord changes 221 The foreground: Melody 221 Choosing the Right Harp 222 What are the notes in the scale? 222 What are the notes in the chords? 223 Making It Up versus Playing It Straight 225 Learning melodies 225 Jamming on a tune 226 Trial and Error: Playing Along with Random Music 227 Chapter 12: Behind the Hidden Treasure: Bending Notes Up 229 Considering the Coolness of Overbends 230 Playing more licks, riffs, and scales 230 Playing in more keys 231 Exploring the Things to Know Before You Start 232 How to choose a suitable harmonica 232 Determining which notes overblow and overdraw 232 Preparing your mind, body, and ears 235 Getting Your First Overblows 236 The push-through approach 236 The springboard approach 238 Achieving More Overblows 239 Getting Your First Overdraws 239 Raising the Pitch of an Overbend 241 Playing overbends in tune 241 Bending overbends up241 Blending Overbends into Your Playing 242 Strengthening your overbend approaches 242 Smoothing your follow-ons 244 Part 4: Developing Your Style 245 Chapter 13: Rockin’ and Bluesin’ 247 Getting Hip to the Blues/Rock Approach 248 The Three Basic Chords of Rock-and-Roll, Blues, and Nearly Everything 249 The Three Popular Harmonica Positions 249 Relating positions to chords and scales 250 Second position and the three basic chords 250 First position 251 Third position 251 Playing Sweet Melodies in First Position 252 “Kickin’ Along” 252 “Youngish Minor” 253 “Morning Boots” 254 The 12 Bars of Blues 255 Making a statement: Tell it, brother! 255 Fitting the notes to the chords 256 Exploring 12-Bar Blues with Second Position 257 “Ridin’ the Changes” 257 Driving the rhythm with “Lucky Chuck” 258 “Buster’s Boogie” 259 Adding Minor Chords to a Progression: “Smoldering Embers” 261 Adding the Flat III and Flat VII Chords: “John and John” 263 Burning in Third Position: “Tom Tom” 264 Chapter 14: Expressing Yourself with Some Folk and Gospel Melodies 267 Sampling Some First-Position Songs 268 “Buffalo Gals” 268 “Wildwood Flower” 269 “La Cucaracha” 270 Getting Acquainted with a Few Second-Position Songs 271 “Since I Laid My Burden Down” 272 “Cluck Old Hen” 273 “Aura Lea” in second position 273 “This Train (Is Bound for Glory)” 274 Inhaling Some Third-Position Melodies 276 “Little Brown Island in the Sea” 277 “She’s Like the Swallow” 278 Exploring Folk Songs in Twelfth, Fourth, and Fifth Positions 279 “À la claire fontaine” in twelfth position 279 “The Huron Carol” in fourth position 280 “Poor Wayfaring Stranger” in fifth position 281 Chapter 15: Fiddlin’ the Night Away with Traditional Dance Tunes 283 Choosing Harps for Playing Folk and Celtic Music 284 The tremolo harmonica 284 The chromatic harmonica 285 Playing Fast Fiddle Tunes 285 Trying Out Some First-Position Tunes 286 “Jerry the Rigger” 286 “Soldier’s Joy” 287 “The Stool of Repentance” 289 Energizing Some Tunes in Second Position 290 “Over the Waterfall” 290 “Angeline the Baker” 292 “Bat Wing Leather” 294 Feeling the Excitement of Third-Position Tunes 295 “Dorian Jig” 295 “The Dire Clog” 295 Part 5: Taking It to the World 299 Chapter 16: Putting It All Together — Your Tunes, Your Band, Your Listeners 301 Putting Your Tunes Together 302 Selecting tunes for the harmonica 302 Making it your own: Arranging a tune 304 Adding vocals to your tunes 306 Making Music with Others 306 Setting some ground rules when you play with others 306 Knowing when to lay out 308 Playing in a duo 308 Jamming with a band 309 Strutting Your Stuff Onstage 310 Looking good, feeling good 310 Preparing for an onstage performance 310 Overcoming stage fright 311 Recovering from mistakes 312 Taking center stage: Soloing 312 Chapter 17: Amplifying Your Sound 313 Getting Acquainted with Amplification Basics 314 Playing through a Microphone for the First Time 314 Playing into a microphone on a stand 315 Playing with a microphone cupped in your hands 316 Hearing yourself through the chaos 317 Avoiding the dreaded howl of feedback 318 Taking Amplification to the Next Level: Clean and Distorted Amplified Sound 319 Getting better acquainted with microphones 319 Altering a harp’s sound with effects 321 Cranking it up with amplifiers, preamps, and speakers 322 Connecting Mics, Amplifiers, and Effects Units 324 Chapter 18: Improving Your Harmonica with Repairs and Upgrades 327 Gathering the Tools You Need 328 Following Good Repair Practices 329 Making Three Simple Improvements 330 Disassembling and reassembling a harp 330 Flexing the reeds 331 Smoothing sharp edges and corners 332 Diagnosing and Fixing Problems 332 Taking a harp apart and putting it back together 334 Clearing obstructions from your harp 336 Fixing reeds that are misaligned 337 Narrowing reed slots 337 Setting reed action 338 Tuning your harmonica 342 Part 6: The Part of Tens 347 Chapter 19: Ten (Or More) Ways to Connect in the Harmonica World 349 Take Lessons from a Pro 349 Enjoy Harmonica Performances 350 Seek Out Musical Events That Don’t Focus on Harmonica 350 Let Loose at Jam Sessions and Open Mic Nights 350 Contribute to Harmonica Discussion Groups Online 351 Surf Informational Websites 352 Use Paid Content Learning Sites 353 Join a Harmonica Club 354 Share Your Enthusiasm at Harmonica Festivals 354 Sign Up for a Harmonica Seminar 355 Advertise 356 Chapter 20: Way More Than Ten Harmonica Albums You Should Hear 357 Blues 358 Rock 359 Bluegrass/Old-Timey 360 Celtic 360 Country 361 Gospel 362 Jazz 362 Part 7: Appendixes 365 Appendix A: Tuning Layouts for All Keys 367 Appendix B: Audio Tracks and Video Clips 373 The Audio Tracks 373 The Video Clips 380 Customer Care 381 Index 383
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Star Wars Encyclopedia
Book SynopsisContaining more than 2,200 entries from the most current Star Wars film and TV series, discover the vital facts about iconic characters, creatures, locations, vehicles, and technology from a galaxy far, far away.- This in-depth title reveals comprehensive histories of 1,200 characters, from icons like Lando Calrissian and Leia Organa to lesser-known individuals like Max Rebo and Therm Scissorpunch.- From terrifying rancors to adorable porgs, learn about more than 100 fascinating creatures.- Chart your way through the galaxy with more than 275 entries on locations, including Darth Vader's castle on Mustafar and the mystical world between worlds.- Pick your method of transport from more than 275 vehicles, from the legendary Millennium Falcon to the stylish Naboo N-1 starfighter.- Get up to speed with the latest technology, including the Mandalorian's beskar armor, Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, and more than 275 other pieces of equipment.Produced in close collaboration with Lucasfilm, this official title is the most comprehensive reference book of the Star Wars galaxy on the market. Meticulously researched, expertly written, and stunningly illustrated, the Star Wars Encyclopedia is an indispensable guide to that devoted fans and newcomers alike will return to time and again.First published as Ultimate Star Wars (2015) and Ultimate Star Wars New Edition (2019). & TM 2024 LUCASFILM LTD.
£28.00
Orion Publishing Co The RomCommers
Book Synopsis''A big hit of dopamine'' EMILY GIFFIN*The instant New York Times bestseller!*****She''s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?Emma has big dreams, though she hasn''t let herself think about them in years. Until her big break comes along: she''s offered the chance to write a screenplay with none other than her hero, Charlie-freaking-Yates! And it''s a rom-com! It''s the dream... Until reality sets in.Charlie is a bonafide Hollywood movie-writing legend. He''s also, as it turns out, kind of a jerk. He''s only writing this movie to get a Mafia movie that he actually cares about made. And that''s not even the worst of it: Charlie doesn''t like rom-coms because he doesn''t believe in love. But Emma''s not going down without a fight. She''s determined to finally make her dreams come true by helping Charlie write a kick-ass screenplay. But first she has to m
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Bonnier Books Ltd Rave New World
Book Synopsis*NEW EXTENDED MIX EDITION FEATURING EXTRA CHAPTERS*Nominated for Audiobook of the Year at the 2024 ARIAS Awards'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM 'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...if you can get it through customs!' - JUDGE JULES'Some great stories from those early rave days. Really made me giggle.' - CARL COXAs a humble barman at the M25 Orbital raves, Kirk Field witnessed the moment acid house exploded. Inspired by media lies to start writing the truth about what he saw unfolding, Kirk became a 'raving' reporter for the clubbers' bible Mixmag, covering the historic parties from the inside and sending sweat-soaked dispatches from distant dancefloors as the scene expanded across Europe and beyond.With a cas
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Orion Publishing Co Come My Fanatics
Book SynopsisIn 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born: Electric Wizard. Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, the band inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties, black magic rituals and titanic doses of psychedelics.Come My Fanatics is the story of the rise and fall and triumphant return of the band, of their revolutionary andmind-expanding output, their legendary and calamitous tours, and of their legacy. It is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the subculture the band has absorbed and, in turn, created. From seventies exploitation cinema, through the writers of Weird Tales magazine and a panoply of the marginal and downright sinister, to the band''s own live ceremonial happenings - this is Electric Wizard''s world. We''re just dying in it.
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Faber & Faber Kubrick
Book SynopsisNobody could make a film like Stanley Kubrick.' Steven SpielbergKubrick's interest in observing human folly produced some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.Based on Kubrick's archive, as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with him, Kubrick: An Odyssey offers comprehensive, in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, public and working life.This long-awaited, new biography dispels the myths surrounding the allegedly reclusive director, who spent his career determined to transcend traditional film-making.Kolker and Abrams have unearthed some superb new facts about the director.' The Times, Book of the Week'An authoritative portrait of the director. Filled with striking behind-the-scenes stories and elevated by a keen understanding of Kubrick's style, this is a biography as monumental as its subject.' Publishers WeeklyMyths are debunked, and everyone from the Kubrick obsessive to the casual fan will be beguiled.' Guardian
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Palazzo Editions Ltd Joy Division + New Order: Decades
Book SynopsisThere’s no template for making it as a globally successful pop group. Some of the ingredients remain constant and beyond the music, there’s a mix’n’match selection of premature death, drugs, drink, destroyed friendships, lukewarm solo projects and bungled finances. The saga of Joy Division and New Order has all those clichés, yet both groups defined their times and overturned their musical landscape. First, there was Joy Division. Their music reflected both the barren urban landscape of their native Manchester in the late 1970s and singer Ian Curtis’s heart of darkness. They remain forever set in aspic, not merely – if “merely” is the right word – by the suicide of their extraordinary and extraordinarily volatile singer, but by two albums as close to perfection as music can come. From the ashes of Joy Division rose New Order, who recruited a keyboardist because of – rather than in spite of – the fact she couldn’t play. On the cusp of the British dance music boom, with what seemed like remarkable prescience, they invested in The Haçienda, a club in their native Manchester. In its pomp, the queues were around the block, but its debts would sink their heroically hopeless record label, Factory. If Joy Division were sublime musical darkness, New Order were bathed in sunlight and their globally popular music bridged the chasm between indie and dance and inspired a generation. Having conquered the world while maintaining their credibility, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and imploded in a tsunami of recrimination, while still making fabulous music to this day. You couldn’t make it up: there’s no need to.
£22.50
Welbeck Publishing Group We Love K-Pop: All the hottest K-Pop groups!
Book SynopsisWe Love K-Pop is a true celebration of Korean Wave music. Packed with vibrant photos, readers will journey through the songs, styles and stories behind all their favourite K-Pop groups and solo artists. Discover more about the process of transforming from trainee to idol, rate the best music videos, and compare key stats. Whether you''re a Blink, a Carat, or part of the Army, there''s something for every K-Pop fan!
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Fitzcarraldo Editions Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Book SynopsisMelodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982). Written quickly under a self-imposed deadline in the spirit of Fassbinder himself, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as a pivotal figure in the late 1970s moment between late modernism and the advent of postmodernism and the digital revolution. Compelling, beautifully written and genuinely moving, echoing the fragmentary and reflective works of writers like Barthes and Cioran, this is a story that has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city, cinema and revolution.Trade Review‘[Fassbinder] Thousands of Mirrors is not a sorrowful kill-your-heroes recanting. It’s much more interesting than that – a freewheeling, hopscotching study of the Fassbinder allure and an investigation of Penman’s younger self…It’s a book about a film-maker but also, hauntingly, about the way our tastes and passions change over time.’ — Anthony Quinn, Observer‘Do Penman’s flurries of quickfire erudition add up to a dazzling kaleidoscope overall, or a labyrinth of aborted pathways? The answer is “both”. He’s boldly querying his subject’s genius from every vantage point – angry and young; older and (maybe) wiser.’ — Tim Robey, Telegraph‘Ian Penman is an ideal critic, one who invites you in, takes your coat, and hands you a drink as he sidles up to his topic. He has a modest mien, a feathery way with a sentence, a century’s worth of adroit cultural connections at the ready, and a great well of genuine passion, which quickly raises the temperature.’ — Lucy Sante, author of The Other Paris‘This is a wonderful book, and a surprisingly encouraging one too. Acute in its glancing survey of Fassbinder’s films, it also engages the early Seventies as a moment of ideological dishevelment that refuses to pass. If Penman lingers over those years in his own taut and revealing way, that is partly because they produced a kind of critical thought that, having not yet been squared up to fit the academic conveyor belt, could be rarified, speculative and experimental while also remaining closely engaged with political reality. Fassbinder is a great model for anyone puzzling over how we might remember as well as think and act in this chaotic time.’ — Patrick Wright, author of The Sea View Has Me Again‘Ian Penman – critic, essayist, mystical hack and charmer of sentences like they’re snakes – is the writer I have hardly gone a week without reading, reciting, summoning to mind. The writer without whom, etc.’ — Brian Dillon, author of Affinities‘Approached from all angles, Fassbinder is by turns a figure of intense corporeality, glistening with sweat, and an overblown mass of meaning.’ — Georgie Carr, Times Literary Supplement‘The book is many things, but above all it is a reckoning with the idea that art might enter the commodity world and awaken its inhabitants.... [T]he late 1970s/early 1980s, in which Penman was a shadowy but vital presence – post-punk, new pop, new romanticism – is remembered similarly as a moment where a sudden societal switch led to an efflorescence of radical popular culture. Writing his book in 2022, Penman was remembering Penman in 1982 remembering the just-dead Fassbinder marking one historical moment of transition by making reference to another that took place decades earlier. To read Penman doing this in what feels like another moment of passage into something unknown and frightening is rather eerie.’ — Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books‘This is a jittery, clammy book, sweat beading on every page… In its exuberant phrase making, obsessive listing, emotional explosions and crashes, bursting seams – the book has three appendices – and its linguistic pyrotechnics, it ultimately comes down on the side of willing delirium.’ — John Douglas Miller, Frieze‘[A] slender love letter.’ — Stuart Jeffries, Spectator‘[T]his is the efficient, gregarious guidebook that neophytes have been missing’ —Chris Molner, Los Angeles Review of Books ‘Drifting through personal back alleys and intellectual boulevards à la the wanderings of Walter Benjamin and Geoff Dyer. A maze of epigrams, aphorisms (“Aren’t all masks death masks?”), anecdotes, and numbered fragments. An exquisitely companionable guidebook-inventory of a vast, intimate mental space Penman dubs the Fassbundesrepublik…A Thousand Mirrors doesn’t try to solve the contradictions of its subject but lays them out like a suit and inhabits them.’ —Howard Hampton, Artforum‘Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands Of Mirrors isn’t a biography of the epic and controversial master filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder – it’s much more. It’s chock-a-block with quotes and confessions, famous writers, artists, politics, history, social commentary and a bit of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, among – of course – film talk. Like me, you’ll have to re-read this, not least because it’s a who’s who of post-WWII culture world.’ — Rhonda Lee Reali, Buzz Magazine‘And so, as if making a pact with his young review-churning self, Penman opted for a different strategy: to write quickly, finishing in a matter of months a critical portrait of Fassbinder in the style of Fassbinder — fast, made-to-deadline, bristling with ideas yet economical.The book rushes by in a flurry of numbered one-or-so-paragraph notes. The notes drift, venture lightly and suggestively down quick-flash exploratory tunnels, turn Fassbinder and his films over and peer at them from various heights.’ — William Harris, Jacobin‘Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, by the British critic Ian Penman, offers… an erotics—of cinema, of memory, of the gradual wreck of history. The sensuality of Penman’s book is inseparable from the music of his prose.’ — Jeremy Lybarger, The Baffler‘Ian Penman – legendary writer, critic and master of lucid, joyous prose – instead offers up a patchwork portrait of RWF, one assembled of 450 observations, reflections, bits of research and more. Through those fragments you get a proper sense of how one can really wallow in both Fassbinder’s massive body of work and his personal mythology – but Mirrors also reeks of adoration and joy, a delightful, emotive and appropriately flashy ode.’ — Ed Cunningham,Timeout Books of the Year 2023
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White Lion Publishing Planet Drag
Book SynopsisTravel to Planet Drag and explore the styles, influences, artists, and events that have made the art of drag so outrageously popular in 15 countries around the world.Exquisitely styled by top drag artists, and with a foreword by Canada’s Drag Race judge Brooke Lynn Hytes, this is the ultimate guide to drag—a glittering, feathered foray into the past and present of this much-loved art form.Gloriously embellished with historical photos along with stylish contemporary shots of some of the world''s biggest drag stars, this is a deep dive into drag’s meteoric rise to the mainstream.The carnival court of drag has exploded and it now holds a fierce place in popular culture. And while Rupaul''s Drag Race does highlight some nuanced differences between national drag styles, there’s a lot more to the story that you don’t know…In this extravagant exploration
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Little, Brown Book Group Jon Bon Jovi The Biography Tom Thorne Novels
Book SynopsisThis fascinating biography provides a detailed portrait of the high-energy, charismatic international superstar and frontman of the ever-popular band, Bon Jovi. The book charts Jon''s relationship with the other band members who have their fair share of rock and roll stories - sex, booze, burnouts, health and women problems. Although rock music is Jon Bon Jovi''s first love, he has more recently developed an interest in acting - starring in various hit TV shows such as Ally McBeal and Sex and the City and attracting critical acclaim for his role in World War II hit film, U-571. He has also scored film music, with his score for Young Guns earning him an Oscar nomination. Bestselling writer Laura Jackson explores the personality, character, drive and the determination that have taken him from playing New Jersey clubs through all the groupie excess and glamorous indulgence to where the band is today. Two new chapters in this updated edition detail his recent work for char
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Penguin Books Ltd Bass Culture
Book SynopsisThe first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica, from colonial island to troubled independence, and Jamaicans, from Kingston to London.Table of ContentsPart One First session: boogie in my bones; music is my occupation; we are rolling; message from the king; train to Skaville; strange country; what a world. Part Two Simmer down: soul style; dance crasher; mix it up; you can get it if you really want. Part Three Studio kinda cloudy: pressure drop; wake the town, tell the people; dubwise situation; dreadlocks in moonlight; ah fi we dis; trench town rock; warrior charge; sipple out deh. Part Four Fist to fist days gone: ring the alarm; kid's play; Johnny dollar; healing of a nation.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Strydom C Sugar Man
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen ''Sugar'' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It would have a profound effect. Who was this folk singer who resonated with South Africa''s youth? No one could say. All that anyone knew was his name - Rodriguez - and the fact that he had killed himself on stage after reading his own epitaph.After many years of searching in a pre-internet age, Strydom with support from Segerman found the musician not dead but alive and living in seclusion in Detroit. Even more remarkable was the fact that Rodriguez, no longer working as a musician and struggling to eke out a blue-collar existence, had no idea that he had been famous for over 25 years in a remote part of the world...
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Faber & Faber How Soon is Now
Book SynopsisIf you look at all the people involved Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' Daniel Miller, Mute RecordsOne of the most tangible aftershocks of punk was its prompt to individuals: do it yourself. A generation was inspired, and often with no planning or business sense, in bedrooms, record-shop back offices and sheds, labels such as Factory, Rough Trade, Mute, Beggars Banquet, 4AD, Creation, Warp and Domino began. From humble beginnings, some of the most influential artists were allowed to thrive: Orange Juice, New Order, Depeche Mode, Happy Mondays, The Smiths, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, Aphex Twin, Teenage Fanclub, The Arctic Monkeys. How Soon Is Now? is a landmark survey of the artists, the labels, and the mavericks behind them who had the vision and bloody-mindedness to turn the music world on its head.
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Bonnier Books Ltd Let The Good Times Roll: My Life in Small Faces,
Book Synopsis'WHICH IS THE BEST BAND I'VE BEEN IN? THE SMALL FACES WERE THE MOST CREATIVE, THE FACES WERE THE MOST FUN,THE WHO WERE THE MOST EXCITING. THESE WERE ELECTRIFYING DAYS IN MUSIC. WE WERE ALL UNTRIED, UNTESTED. WHAT WAS STOPPING US? NOTHING.'As drummer with the Small Faces, Faces and later The Who, Kenney Jones' unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time.Beginning in London's post-war East End, Kenney's story takes us through the birth of the Mod revolution, the mind-bending days of the late-1960s and the raucous excesses of the '70s and '80s. In a career spanning six decades, Kenney was at the epicentre of many of the most exciting moments in music history and has experienced everything the industry has to offer. He jointly created some of the world's most-loved records, hung out with the Stones, Beatles, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Rod Stewart, and suffered the loss of close friends to rock 'n' roll excess and success. The legacy created by Kenney and his band mates has influenced acts as diverse as Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols and Oasis. Now, for the very first time, Kenney tells the full story of how a young Cockney Herbert played his part in the biggest social transformation in living memory - the people, the parties, the friendships, the fall-outs, the laughter, the sadness, the sex, drugs, and a lot of rock 'n' roll, while also opening up about his own deeply personal battles and passions, too. This is a vivid and breath-taking immersion into the most exciting era of music history and beyond.
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Hearst Home Books Taylor Swift
Book SynopsisYour wildest dreams have come true. Get an insider's look at Taylor Swift's life and achievements in this pocket-sized collectible book for Swifties of all ages. Are you ready for it?Over 100 stunning photos and clued-in commentary explore the power of Taylor's music and influence - and why she'll never go out of style.
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Bonnier Books Ltd Official ABBA Photobook
Book SynopsisThe only Official ABBA book: now with a brand new chapter featuring never-seen-before pictures from ABBA VoyageABBA THE OFFICIAL PHOTO BOOK is the only authorised and official book about one of the greatest pop groups of the 20th century. Covering their entire career, with a foreword and captions from Björn, Benny, Frida and Agnetha, the book features never-seen-before pictures spanning the band's entire career.With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and first-hand accounts, this is the perfect gift for ABBA fans everywhere.
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Headline Publishing Group The Harder I Fight The More I Love You A Memoir
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life-one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in 'slummy, one-horse towns'; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her on a singular journey to become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist.
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Orion Publishing Co Never Understood
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Headline Publishing Group The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens
Book Synopsis''Diverting... pleasurable... entertaining'' New York Times''Relevant and fresh... [Good Omens] still has a lot to say about the world'' Empire''Even if you''re very familiar with the original novel, this is a different experience... so damned charming and quirky that it feels like a must'' StarburstNeil Gaiman''s glorious reinvention of the iconic bestseller Good Omens, adapted from the internationally beloved novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, launched on Amazon Prime Video this year to great acclaim. Soon to be shown on the BBC, the series is written and show-run by Neil himself and stars David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm and Miranda Richardson, to name but a few.Before he died, Terry Pratchett asked Neil Gaiman to make a television series of the internationally beloved novel they wrote together about the end of Trade ReviewEven if you're very familiar with the original novel, this is a different experience. . . so damned charming and quirky that it feels like a must * Starburst *His voice rings through on every page, and no Gaiman fan should be without it. Great fun, and highly recommended. * SF Concatenation *
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HarperCollins Publishers And Finally
Book SynopsisAnd Finally is the injection of cheer we all need in these rather depressing times. This heart-warming book takes a look at the very best and finally' segments of the news those funny, silly and often eccentric stories the newsreaders save until the end of the programme, to leave on a high note.A marvellous little feel-good book that makes a charming gift Platinum MagazineAuthor and journalist Ryan Herman has selected the finest moments of serendipity, the astounding acts of kindness and generosity, the outrageous ideas come to life and the downright silly happenings and brought them together in this book.The tales range from the drunken mice causing havoc but ultimately endearing themselves to the workers at a sherry distillery in Spain; the bride-to-be and huge Swiftie who invited Taylor Swift to her wedding and got the surprise of her lifetime when Taylor flew to Ohio to attend her bridal shower; the owner of a riding school for disabled children who raised tens of thousands of pounds after Lucian Freud popped into one of her amateur horse-sketching classes and left his drawing behind, and Stephanie, the child refugee who founded a female-run software company in 1960s Britain, who was routinely faced with sexism when selling her products. When she posed as Steve' when writing to software companies her business suddenly took off and when she later sold her business, she made 70 of her employees millionaires.This is a feel-good book for dark times packed with uplifting human interest stories, people (and a few animals) doing extraordinary things, idiosyncratic slices of life and simple fun tales. There is a quote in the book from filmmaker Ali Catterall that sums it up best of all. He says, I think we need stories that shake us out of our complacency [] You can find magic in a dustbin. It depends where and how you look.
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Oxford University Press Carols for Choirs 2
Book SynopsisA second collection of 50 carols, mostly for SATB, some unaccompanied, and some having accompaniments for piano, organ, orchestra, or brass ensemble. Many of the carols are from traditional sources, rearranged, as well as carols written especially for this volume by composers including William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Richard Rodney Bennett, and William Mathias.Instrumental material for most of the accompanied items is available on hire. Eight Carols for Brass for 5 and 8 part brass (to accompany carols from Carols for Choirs 1 and Carols for Choirs 2) are also on sale.Table of ContentsA babe is born I wys ; A child is born in Bethlehem ; Adam lay ybounden ; All my heart this night rejoices ; All this time ; The angels and the shepherds ; The cherry tree carol ; Come leave your sheep ; Come, thou Redeemer of the earth ; Deck the hall ; Ding dong! merrily on high ; Down in yon forest ; Gabriel's message ; Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary ; Hark! the herald angels sing ; He is born the divine Christ child ; Here we come a-wassailing ; The holly and the ivy ; How far is it to Bethlehem? ; I saw a maiden ; I sing of a maiden ; Il est ne le divin enfant ; The Infant King ; It came upon the midnight clear ; The Lord at first did Adam make ; Masters in this hall ; Matin responsory ; Myn lyking ; Nativity carol ; A New Year carol ; Noel nouvelet ; Nowell, sing nowell ; O come, all ye faithful ; O come, O come, Emmanuel ; Of the father's heart begotten ; Once in royal David's city ; Out of your sleep ; Past three a clock ; Patapan ; Personent hodie ; Quelle est cette odeur agreable? ; Quem pastores laudavere ; Quittez, pasteurs ; Resonemus laudibus ; Sans day carol ; The shepherds' cradle song ; Shepherds left their flocks a-straying ; Shepherd's pipe carol ; Silent night ; Sir Christemas ; There is no rose ; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day ; The truth from above ; The twelve days of Christmas ; While shepherds watched their flocks ; Zion hears the watchmen's voices
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Penguin Books Ltd Telling Stories
Book SynopsisTelling Stories by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade''s most revealing rock books ''Clear, honest. An unusually frank and well-written rock memoir'' The TimesThe Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it''s like to be in a rock band, as told by front man and survivor, Tim Burgess. ''Like the best bits of every cautionary rock star tale . . . there is armed robbery and smuggling. There''s serious fraud. There are near and actual death experiences, divorce, industrial cocaine consumption and magnificent cameos from Madonna, Alan McGee, Ronnie Wood, Joe Strummer, LA drug dealer Harry The Dog, and Joaquin Phoenix. A minor classic'' QFor readers who enjoyed Life by Keith Richards and Bit of a Blur by Alex James, Telling Stories is one of the finest music books of recent times. It''s a story of achievement and survival, from London to LA. ''A vivid read'' Independent on Sunday''The Charlatans'' frontman recalls the heyday of Britpop and Madchester with endearing exuberance. He''s unflinchingly honest about the bad times but also peppers his story with anecdotal nuggets about the pitfalls of rock ''n'' roll excess'' Metro''Burgess keeps a level head, a sharp eye and a nice turn of phrase'' Independent''Written with the stylish flow of a novel - light and dark, hilarious and melancholic'' Emma Forrest''For a man whose behaviour borders on the suicidal, Timothy Burgess, the people''s friend, is what you call a life enthusiast. He is also mad. It''s a much-abused word, mad . . . but he really is proper coo-ee clouds pan-dimensional mad mad'' Syliva Patteerson, SkyTim Burgess was born in Salford but grew up in a village near Northwich, Cheshire. Leaving school at 16 to work at ICI, his real love was music and soon afterwards he was invited to join new band The Charlatans. For twelve years Burgess lived in Los Angeles but he has recently returned to the UK.
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Penguin Books Ltd Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
Book Synopsis''Fantastic'' Nick Hornby''Beautifully written'' Sunday Times''Truly remarkable'' Rolling StoneUnfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll''s most iconic stars.Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and had taken the popular music world by storm before he was twenty-four.Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of the day. His performances have taken him from a cardboard guitar in his front room to fronting a rock and roll band on your television screen and performing in the world''s greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. Unfaithful Music describes how Costello''s career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom.This memoir, written with the same inimitable touch as his lyrics, and including dozens of images from his personal archive, offers his unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with diversions through the previously undocumented emotional foundations of some of his best known songs and the hits of tomorrow. The book contains many stories and observations about his renowned co-writers and co-conspirators, though Costello also pauses along the way for considerations on the less appealing side of infamy.Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic, idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man.Trade ReviewThe book is fantastic - maybe the best about music by a musician that I've read....The stuff about the collaborations alone - McCartney, Burt Bacharach, Allen Toussaint, the Roots, the Brodsky Quartet - is riveting * Nick Hornby *Better written than your average rock memoir ... Costello is one the greatest writers of the 20th Century. It's funny, observant and clear of purpose * Times *By turns lachrymose, self-flagellating and impassioned. Unsurprisingly, it is beautifully written. It is also often extraordinarily moving. -- Dan Cairns * Sunday Times *Streaked with some of the best writing - funny, strange, spiteful, anguished - we've ever had from an important musician ... dark gems twinkle here in abundance. * New York Times *[Unfaithful Music] is truly remarkable in the way it presents a riveting, honest portrait of the author and the many A-listers he's tread the boards with, while ricocheting through the years at an almost breathless pace ... even the most ardent Costello fan will come away having learned more about the man than any of us ever dared hope to discover -- Jeff Slate * Rolling Stone *Long one of music's wittiest, smartest, and most perceptive lyricists, Costello has done his legacy proud with his new book, which, thankfully, goes far beyond his angry-young-man days, most movingly in its frequent reminiscences about the relationship between the singer and his musician father * New York Magazine *In a world littered with uneven (and largely ghosted) celebrity memoirs, "Disappearing Ink" is a beautifully written revelation ... The book is not just for fans. "Unfaithful Music" is a lyrical tale that stretches across generations, geography and a century of popular song." * Washington Post *Costello ultimately emerges as a clever, compassionate, self-aware man, brave enough to acknowledge his faults and fortunate enough to have overcome the worst of them * Sunday Telegraph *Written elliptically, episodically beautiful ... this man's knowledge is breath-taking * Observer *Every page exudes his deep love and knowledge of modern music * Guardian *Remarkable for its breadth and candour about everything: childhood, family, marriages, musical collaborations, love life, heroes, villains, screw-ups (even the most painful) and his songs...there are treasurable moments in profusion for admirers panning for gold...or diving for pearls * MOJO *His witty, word-playing voice transmits loud and clear....there are smart snapshots of vanished worlds...all his sins and virtues are displayed in this stylish, astute book -- Victoria Segal * Sunday Times *A truly weighty rock memoir ... There's plenty of insight into his art here, a smattering of gossip, a wealth of pop-cultural knowledge, and just enough self-flagellation to keep things interesting * NME *A series of wryly comic tales that surely deserve the full Penguin Classic treatment randomly afford Morrisey * GQ *Without doubt, one of the greatest self-penned appraisals of a popular entertainer's life and work...What makes this book a classic (yes, you heard me) is the beauty of the writing, the seemingly effortless imagery of situations, saints and sinners (EC puts himself in the latter category, often), and the persuasive nature of the text that should make even the most casual reader clamour for more after 670 pages * The Quietus *One of the finest musical biographies I have ever read ... an engrossing and rewarding read -- Keith Bruce * The Herald *The greatest songwriter of our generation ... a tremendous read -- Jonathan RossIt really is stunning. Hugely illuminating, fiercely passionate, funny, moving and beautifully written. -- Mark BillinghamTypically sharp and funny on songwriting * Telegraph Books of the Year *The writing is as good as you would expect from such an accomplished lyricist. The tone is wise, warm and often rueful, befitting a 61-year-old elder statesman, and the story a compelling one * Mail on Sunday *For serious music fans? It has to be Elvis Costello's Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink (Viking). Utterly definitive and clearly, painstakingly penned by Costello himself, who doesn't want to miss a detail -- Kitty Empire * Guardian *Writers like Costello because he's always taken writing seriously. That's obvious to anyone who pays attention to his lyrics, and it's even more apparent to anyone who reads Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, his charming new autobiography. The book is refreshingly free of salacious gossip and needless name-dropping; it's an intelligent self-assessment from a musician who went from angry young man to elder statesman of pop ... a defiantly fun autobiography. -- Michael Schaub * NPR Books *This is a big book, literally, by one of the best rockers in the business. Given the singular, and eclectic, nature of his career, it is no surprise that Elvis Costello's anecdotal autobiography is an idiosyncratic journey through his music and the people and places that have inspired him ... A must for Costello fans everywhere. * Booklist (starred review) *Costello's prose cuts with the same spiky wit and observational power as his well-known lyrics ... packed with great lines, vivid anecdotes ... a treat for his many fans. * Kirkus Reviews *Plenty of tales to keep the pages turning. Readers will be fascinated by Costello's stories...his book feels like a discussion between friends over a pint. * Publishers Weekly *Often brilliant and wholly idiosyncratic -- David Ulin * Los Angeles Times *Revelatory, evocatively crafted, [and] highly entertaining -- David Fricke * Rolling Stone *A winningly droll and good-natured guide to his life and many works throughout -- Clark Collis * Entertainment Weekly *Punctuated with sardonic and self-aware truths * Pitchfork *Vivid ... It's not surprising that one of rock's most literate songwriters would pen such a deep, free-form memoir * Houston Chronicle *Elvis Costello delivers an impeccably detailed autobiography. He's often as brilliant at turning a phrase in prose as he is in his lyrics * Paste Magazine *Enthralling ... This is family history as musical encyclopedia, and to listen to Costello recount his life is to be buttonholed by an enthusiastic fan. Fandom for Costello is inseparable from the compulsion to write songs and, it seems, to understand his own life ... Fortunately for the fan of Costello's music the topic of discussion is often his own songs, and he is, unsurprisingly, a witty and eloquent guide -- Paul Grimstad * New Republic *[Costello] pens books with the same clever writing that he uses in song -- Kathy Flanigan * Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel *Costello['s] book is capacious, clever, and full of heart and soul -- Dan DeLuca * Philadelphia Inquirer *The story unfolds like a movie that jumps across time, more thematic than chronological, as boyhood anecdotes and obsessions intersect with mature songs and adult reckoning.... The book doubles as a selective mini-history of 20th century music, as told by a discerning guide. He addresses artists both towering (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash) and relatively unheralded (David Ackles, Robert Wyatt) with a fan's affection and music scholar's insight -- Greg Kot * Chicago Tribune *With an encyclopedic knowledge and appreciation for, and deep love of, music, and with an expressive power and heart, Costello's memoir will take its place in the highest echelons of the genre * Library Journal (starred review) *His book is almost essential as an idiosyncratic history of 20th-century pop music * Express *Studded with entertaining anecdotes -- Evening Standard Best Music Books of 2015
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Basic Books How to Listen to Jazz
Book SynopsisA 'radiantly accomplished' (Wall Street Journal) music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the jazz-rock fusion of Miles Davis, Gioia covers the music's history and reveals the building blocks of improvisation. A true love letter to jazz by a foremost expert, How to Listen to Jazz is a must-read for anyone who's ever wanted to understand and better appreciate America's greatest contribution to music.Trade ReviewMr Gioia could not have done a better job. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees. The Economist
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Faber Music The Piano Player Movie Soundtracks
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Little, Brown Book Group In The Pleasure Groove Love Death and Duran Duran
Book SynopsisWith Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest songs of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single ''Planet Earth'' right up to their latest number one album All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world onto its feet.It''s been a ride - and for John in particular, the ride has been wild, thrilling... and dangerous. Now, for the first time, he tells his incredible story - a tale of dreams fulfilled, lessons learned and demons conquered. A shy only child, Nigel John Taylor wasn''t an obvious candidate for pop stardom and frenzied girl panic. But when he ditched his first name and picked up a bass guitar, everything changed. John formed Duran Duran with his friend Nick Rhodes in the spring of 1978, and they were soon joined by Roger Taylor, then Andy Taylor and finally Simon Le Bon. Together they were an immediate, massive global success story, their pictures on millions of walls, every single a worldwide hit.
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AMSCO Music Library of Easy Piano Classics
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Kjos (Neil A.) Music Co ,U.S. Bastien Piano Basics Piano Level 1
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Novello & Co Ltd Requiem K626 Vocal Score
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Trinity College London Press Trinity College London Piano Exam Pieces Plus
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Wight Diamond Press Cutting In
Book SynopsisEighteen, a dangerous age, when you have to cut your way into life. Mirrors, a piano. Erotic reflections, practice, ritual. Not an ordinary career, ballet. And for Elaine, possessed by ambition, sees everything she craves in the exquisite Beverley Soames - success and more... Watching, imitating, borrowing. There's no threat in that, is there?Trade ReviewHard edged, striking and truthful, Novelist Julian Rathbone; Poignant and believable, Averil Ashfield, Transworld Books; A great gift for portraying the agonies and ecstasies of adolescence. A rare talent, Writer Frederick E Smith; Holds the tension like a perfect arabesque, Gill Kay Ingenu/e Magazine; I read it at a single sitting. Perceptive writing wonderfully spiked with bitchiness, Thriller writer Graham Hurley
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Bloomsbury Academic Trish Arnold
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Jane Gibson Introduction 1. TRISH ARNOLD A Pioneer of Movement Training for Actors 2. BODY TO BODY The Passing on of an Embodied Practice 3. THE MOVEMENTS A Collation of an Embodied Practice 4. INTERVIEWS AND WRITINGS The Movement Work Today Conclusion References Bibliography Index
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