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Hal Leonard Corporation Bruce Springsteen FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Boss
Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock era Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid with a dream and a guitar. By the time he was 16 he was playing ShopRite openings and school dances around his hometown of Freehold.ÞFor many high school is where the garage-band dreams die but time spent fronting a band called Steel Mill in the heyday of Asbury Park's Upstage scene gave him the courage to sidestep college and put his name out in front soon enough making him The Boss to his band. After five more years spent working diligently on that dream Springsteen had landed the dueling ÊTimeÊ and ÊNewsweekÊ covers that made him an instant household name on the strength of his album ÊBorn to RunÊ.ÞÊBruce Springsteen FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the BossÊ investigates Springsteen's superstar ÊBorn in the U.S.A.Ê album and tour the dissolution and reunion of the E Street Band the legal wrangling that held up 1978's ÊDarkness on the Edge of TownÊ the group's postmillennium resurgence the untimely passing of core band members Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons and more.ÞThis indispensible read packed with countless images of rare memorabilia is a volume Springsteen fans will treasure.
£19.18
Hal Leonard Corporation The Smiths FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Important British Band of the 1980s
Revered and massively influential the Smiths have been called the most important band of the fertile U.K. 1980s music scene. While the group was only active for five years (1982 to 1987) the cult of the Manchester-reared foursome has ballooned in the three decades since its dissolution.ÞDespite a $75 million offer to reunite for a two month tour in 2007 Morrissey and Johnny Marr the group's principals refused opting to leave their legend untainted. The Smiths have since influenced a who's who of alternative music including Death Cab for Cutie Radiohead the Killers Jeff Buckley Pete Yorn the Decemberists and Oasis.ÞFeaturing a foreword by guitarist and Fifth Smith who played with the band in 1986 ÊThe Smiths FAQÊ traces the band's history with clarity and detail illuminating such questions as Who were the Nosebleeds? Why did Morrissey shun the Ramones? Who were the Paris Valentinos? What was Cult guitarist Billy Duffy's connection to the band? How was Morrissey injured during the group's U.S. debut performance? What Smiths single paid homage to T. Rex?. John D. Luerssen (author of FAQ series titles about U2 Bruce Springsteen and Nirvana) gathers the indispensable early facts the legendary stories and inimitable anecdotes that make this a must-own tome for all fans.
£19.56
