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Hal Leonard Corporation If You Like the Beatles...: Here Are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records and Other Oddities That You Will Love
The Beatles came up in the rock and-and-roll era when Chuck Berry Little Richard and Elvis Presley defined cool. Their early shows were big beat bacchanals the Brit interpretation of that crazy American sound. But it wasn't long before they were absorbing and creating more and more music ä from folk to experimental to psychedelia and hard rock quite literally changing music forever and influencing hundreds of great bands in the process.ÞThis is the first book for music lovers that begins with the simple premise If you like the Beatles . . . and takes off from there digging into their influences and everything that came after them opening up new doors for listeners looking for no-risk discs to expand their collection.ÞBeginning with the Beatles' lesser-known roots in rockabilly and Tin Pan Alley and working through American R&B the British Invasion California folk and the Summer of Love and to the great pop and rock bands of the '80s '90s and the 21st century this is a must-have for anyone who likes the Beatles which is...everyone.
£12.61
Hal Leonard Corporation Bob Dylan FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man
In October 2016 the Swedish Academy finally conceded to a quarter-century's worth of clamorous petitions and sustained lobbying enacted by a chorus of poets novelists songwriters and academics. At long last Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature his vast corpus spread out like Highway 61 behind him. How is a Dylan debutante to make sense of the song and dance man's six decade career? How might a diehard Dylan fanatic stumble upon something they didn't know they didn't know? Why with award-winning journalist Bruce Pollock's ÊBob Dylan FAQÊ of course!ÞÊBob Dylan FAQÊ the latest installment in Backbeat's FAQ series condenses the life and times of America's premier songster into an addictively vivacious 400-page brick jam-packed with critical analysis minutiae photographs ephemera and period history. Every aspect of Dylan's life and career from his ever-expanding discography touring history fallow periods literary and visual artistic efforts peers influences and legacy to his devoted fanbase is explored. Best of all the book's structure invites perusing at any random point as each chapter serves as a freestanding article on its subject. Dive into Dylanana with ÊBob Dylan FAQÊ!
£16.53
Hal Leonard Corporation A Friend in the Music Business: The ASCAP Story
£30.00
