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St Martin's Press Nirvana the Chosen Rejects
£14.40
St Martins Press Group Making Of Kind Of Blue
£12.99
St Martin's Press Soul Picnic
Book SynopsisLaura Nyro was a pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s whose songs were covered by the Fifth Dimension, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Three Dog Night. This biography uncovers details of her life including her romance with Jackson Browne and her relationship with painter Maria Desiderio.
£17.82
St. Martins Press-3PL Nothing Feels Good Punk Rock Teenagers and Emo
£16.14
St. Martins Press-3PL Metallica This Monster Lives The Inside Story of Some Kind of Monster
£20.64
St Martin's Press Modest Mouse A Pretty Good Read
£13.29
St Martin's Press BMF
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ABC-CLIO Dis Here
Book SynopsisChris Sheridan presents a major discographical study of an American jazz giant, Cannonball Adderley, whose career had a significant impact on jazz's development.Table of ContentsPreface Know What I Mean? Bohemia After Dark Milestones Spontaneous Combustion Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Who Bent the Rainbow? Epilogue Appendices: Cannon's Grooves, Sharpshooters, Work Song, Book-Ends Indexes: General Index, Cannon's Groovers, Chordnations
£64.00
Little, Brown & Company The Beatles Lyrics The Stories Behind the Music
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Little, Brown & Company Waylon
Book SynopsisIn a signed copy of his autobiography, Waylon Jennings penned a personal note to his son, Terry Jennings, ending it with the words, I did my best. Now it''s your turn. It is with this spirit in mind that Terry has finished telling the true story of his father''s remarkable, unvarnished life.Born when Waylon was a mere nineteen years old, Terry had an intimate view of his father''s antics, as the two shared an incredibly close relationship. More like brothers than a father and son, by the time Terry was thirteen he was a regular on the road, smoking marijuana with his dad and observing the wild ways that laid the foundation of the infamous country-music sensation, The Outlaws. When it came to The Outlaws, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson were active players in the debauchery, as Waylon led a reckless lifestyle centered around his music, hard drugs, and women. Critical acclaim, sold-out tours and mob-like pandemonium were unfortunately overshadowed by darker personal
£14.99
Hachette Books Heavier Than Heaven A Biography of Kurt Cobain
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Pan Macmillan Stand and Deliver
Book SynopsisAdam was born in north London and became in integral part of the capital's punk scene before creating his own brand of music. He had 13 hits in the top twenty (3 of them number ones), as well as bestselling albums. His music continues to be influential today.
£16.14
Pan Macmillan W. Axl Rose
Book SynopsisMick Wall is one of Britain's best known music journalists. Formerly editor in chief of Classic Rock magazine, he still writes for Mojo. His previous books include the bestselling biography John Peel, the authorized biograpy of Iron Maiden, Run to the Hills, and the official biography of Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman.
£13.99
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Complete Lyricks 20002021
£28.88
Random House USA Inc Jelly Roll
Book SynopsisIn this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of
£16.20
Random House USA Inc Skeleton Key
Book SynopsisFor fifty years and more than two thousand shows, the Grateful Dead have been earning the deadication of more than a million fans. Along the way, Deadheads have built an original and authentic American subculture, with vivid jargon and rich love, and its own legends, myths, and spirituality.Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads is the first map of what Jerry Garcia calls the Grateful Dead outback, as seen through the eyes of the faithful, friends, and family, including Bill Walton, Elvis Costello, Tipper Gore, Al Franken, Bob Bralove, Dick Latvala, Blair Jackson, David Gans, Bruce Hornsby, Rob Wasserman, and Robert Hunter. Skeleton Key puts you on the Merry Pranksters'' bus behind the real Cowboy Neal, uncovers the origins of Cherry Garcia, follows the dancing bear on its trip from psychedelic artifact to trademarked icon, and unlocks the Dead''s own tape vault.Informative reading for the new fan or the most grizzled tourhead, Skeleton Key
£16.14
Random House USA Inc Tonight in Jungleland
£19.80
Taylor & Francis David Braham
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£106.07
Taylor & Francis Ltd Ray Davies Not Like Everybody Else
Book SynopsisRay Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies' work from the Kinks' first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his films to his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies' work to date. Kitts situates Davies' work in the context of the British Invasion and the growth of rock in the ''60s and ''70s, and in the larger context of English cultural history. For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, this book is a must have. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century.Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English and Chair of the Division of English/Speech at St. John's University, NY, is the coTrade Review"Thomas Kitts has done a great job...[his] book is highly recommended for Kinks and Ray Davies Fans, and everybody else!" --New York WasteTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One – Not Like Everybody Else: The Shaping of Ray Davies, Part I Chapter Two – Something Better Beginning: The Shaping of Ray Davies, Part II Chapter Three – You Really Got Me: Finding a Sound and a Theme Chapter Four – A Well Respected Man: Satirist, Ironist, and Social Commentator Chapter Five – Waterloo Sunset: The Romantic Imagination of Ray Davies Chapter Six – The Village Green Preservation Society: Time, Place, Identity Chapter Seven – Arthur: World Wars and Class Culture Chapter Eight – A Long War from Home: Competing Identities Chapter Nine – Here Comes Flash: The Rock Musicals Chapter Ten – Juke Box Music: Alienation and Love Chapter Eleven – Think Visual: TV, CD, and Stage Chapter Twelve – 20th Century Man: The 1990s and Beyond Conclusion Appendix A – My Top Ten Favorite Twenty Kinks/Davies Songs Appendix B – My Top Ten Favorite Kinks Albums Notes Bibliography Index
£170.60
Taylor & Francis Ltd Teenage Nervous Breakdown Music and Politics in
Book SynopsisTeenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post-Elvis Era combines music and cultural history and criticism to examine how rock and the rock lifestyle have been merchandised first to a teenage audience and eventually to a worldwide consumer society. Well-known, iconoclastic writer/ critic David Walley examines the entire rock culture and how it has infused all aspects of American (and world) life, from entertainment to politics to academic education. In a series of what he describes as word-jazz rock and roll improvisations and variations, Walley examines how adult culture has been adolescent-ized and what the ramifications are on our society.Walley is not an uninvolved observer-his personal story and opinions are right up front, where they belong. Famous for being the first writer to recognize the commercial genius of Frank Zappa (in the landmark book, No Commercial Potential, first published in 1972 and still in print today), Walley iTable of ContentsPreface to the first Edition, Preface to the Second Edition 1 This, Here, Soon 2 Who Stole the Bomp (from the Bomp Sha Bomp)? 3 BIame It on the Sixties 4 Boxers or Briefs? Music Politics in the Post-EIvis Aqe 5 Play School: You Can Dress for 11, but You Can't Escape It 6 The Twinkie Defense 7 Breakdown Bad Day at Internet 8 ASRin~ Alice: Fightin~ for the Right to Party 9 Don't Touch Me There: Whatever Happened to Foreplay? 10 White Punks on Dope: Why CamilIe PagIia 15 Academe's Answer to Betty Page
£97.17
Little, Brown & Company Waylon Autobiography
Book SynopsisCountry music's Waylon Jennings shares this story of his life. He tells of his rise from poor beginnings to fame as Buddy Holly's protege, and his own near-destruction from drug abuse and financial ruin. He discusses his three failed marriages, and his joy at finding his soulmate, Jessi Colter.
£23.20
Little, Brown & Company Somebody to Love A RockAndRoll Memoir
Book SynopsisA candid autobiography of the great rock diva of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, revealing her wild life at the forefront of the Sixties and Seventies counterculture.She has been called rock and roll''s original female outlaw, as famous for her bad behavior as for her haunting singing voice. In her 25-year career as a musician, Grace Slick charted dozens of hits and sold millions of albums. From White Rabbit and Somebody to Love to Sarah and Miracles, the songs she performed became the anthems of a generation.Whether describing her antics at the White House with Abbie Hoffman or the unforgettable experience that was Woodstock, Slick''s recollections have the same rich imagery found in her lyrics. In this provocative narrative, readers will discover the many sides of Grace Slick: as artistic pioneer; she records songs with Jerry Garcia and David Crosby; as practitioner of freedom and rebellion; she sleeps with Jim Morrison and gets arrested for DUI on three separate occasions
£24.87
Penguin Young Readers Group Who Was Bob Marley
Book SynopsisBob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Who Was Bob Marley? tells the story of how a man with humble roots became an international icon.
£7.51
Basic Books Hydra and the Bananas of Leonard Cohen A Search for Serenity in the Sun
Book SynopsisEnglish poet Roger Green left the safety of God, country, and whiskey to immerse himself in an austere and sober life on the Greek Island of Hydra. But when Green discovered that his terrace overlooked the garden of sixties balladeer Leonard Cohen, he became obsessed with Cohen''s songs, wives, and banana tree. Hydra starts with a poem the author wrote and recited for his fifty-seventh birthday (borrowing the meter of Cohen''s Suzanne, and ripe with references to the song), with Cohen''s ex-partner Suzanne, who may or may not be the subject of Cohen''s song, in the audience. By turns playful and philosophic, Green''s unconventional memoir tells the story of his journey down the rabbit hole of obsession, as he confronts the meaning of poetry, history, and his own life. Beginning as a poetic meditation upon Leonard Cohen''s bananas, Green''s bardic pilgrimage takes the reader on various twists and turns until, at last, the poet accepts the joy of accepting his fate.
£24.30
Penguin Publishing Group 3 Shades of Blue
Book SynopsisThe national bestseller!?A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.??Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists?Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans?who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of BlueThe myth of the ?60s depends on the 1950s being the ?before times? of conformity, segregation, straightness?The Lonely Crowd and The Organization Man. This all carries some truth, but it does nothing to explain how, in 1959, America?s great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity, thanks to a number of Black geniuses so legendary they go by one name?Monk, Mingus, Rollins, Coltrane, and, above all, Miles. Nineteen fifty-nine saw Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, and more come together to record what is widely considered the greatest jazz album of all time, and certainly the bestselling: Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is James Kaplan?s magnificent account of the paths of the three giants to the mountaintop of 1959 and beyond. It?s a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the towns that gave jazz its home, from New Orleans and New York to Kansas City, Philadelphia, Chicago, and LA. It?s an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. It?s a book about the great forebears of this golden age, particularly Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and the disrupters, like Ornette Coleman, who would take the music down truly new paths. And it?s about why the world of jazz most people know is a museum to this never-replicated period.But above all, 3 Shades of Blue is a book about three very different men?their struggles, their choices, their tragedies, their greatness. Bill Evans had a gruesome downward spiral; John Coltrane took the mystic?s path into a space far away from mainstream concerns. Miles had three or four sea changes in him before the end. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan?s hands, an American odyssey with no direction home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is as big as America.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Comfort from a Country Quilt
Book SynopsisThe New York Times Bestseller That Reads Like a Back-Porch Conversation with Reba!In a dazzling career, Reba McEntire has become a true country superstar--and a trailblazing businesswoman with her own multimedia entertainment corporation. Yet she is a rare celebrity who is also beloved by her millions of fans for the way she lives her life. For Reba has balanced the demands of career and family, succeeded in show business without sacrificing her values, and kept up with the times without abandoning her country roots.Here Reba writes about the roles a modern woman tries to fill, roles as many and varied as the fabric pieces of an heirloom quilt. Facing the challenges of being a wife, mother, stepmother, daughter, sister, performer, executive, community member, and Christian, Reba has found inspiration and comfort in the values of her past as an Oklahoma ranch girl. In this generous and wise book, she shows how you can keep traditional values fresh and vital in you
£15.19
Faber & Faber Fried Justified
Book SynopsisAN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR''A wild rock n' roll fairground ride of the damned.'' OBSERVER''Excellent.''NEW STATESMAN''Entertaining . . . recalls twenty heady years at the centre of the British music business.''FINANCIAL TIMESA candid frontline account of an illustrious gonzo career as an independent music publicistduring the post-punk heyday of the 80s and 90s, featuring an introduction by Bill Drummond and a new foreword by Julian Cope. Mick Houghton worked with some of the greatest, most influential and downright dysfunctional cult groups of the post-punk era and beyond Ramones, Talking Heads, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Undertones, Felt and Sonic Youth among them.But the three acts Mick is most closely identified with are Echo & the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, and the KLF. As confidant and co-conspirator, he navigated the minefield of rivalries and cTrade Review'An entertaining memoir recalls twenty heady years at the centre of the British music business.' - Financial Times'Excellent . . . Remind[s] us that the best pop culture often comes together thanks to accidental, passionate heroes, standing out against the crowd in the most brilliant way.' - Jude Rogers, New Statesman
£10.44
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp In the Belly of the Blues
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£21.60
Tdc Group Inc. 50 Laws of Music Production Engineering Get the most from your home recording and production 1
£11.70
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Uninvited
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Retrac Productions Ron Carters Comprehensive Bass Method
£58.53
Penguin Young Readers Group Mad Libs For the Fans Taylor Swift Edition
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£5.99
iUniverse The Oldies Music Aptitude Test Trivia Fun for Armchair Deejays
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iUniverse John Denver and Me
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iUniverse What is This Thing Called Jazz Insights and Opinions from the Players
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iUniverse Glam Musik British Glam Music 70 History
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iUniverse Jazz In Short Measures Jazz history in 10 lectures with selected CD recommendations
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iUniverse A Simple Kind Mirror The Lyrical Vision of Rush
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iUniverse Lyrics by Jimmy Lyons These are the songs that make up my mind
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iUniverse YesTales An Unauthorized Biography of Rocks Most Cosmic Band in Limerick Form
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iUniverse Johnnys Jukebox Trivia 1001 Fantastic Questions from the Golden Age of Rock and Roll
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iUniverse The Extraordinary World Of YES
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iUniverse The Psychology of Hip Hop
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iUniverse Along The Road To Heaven Songs and Poems about Polk County Florida
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iUniverse WCFL Chicago Top 40 Charts 19651976
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iUniverse ROCK N POLITICS A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
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