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Hal Leonard Corporation Fleetwood Mac FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Iconic Rock Survivors
Offering a fresh perspective on one of the most prolific and well-loved catalogs of songs in the rock 'n' roll canon ÊFleetwood Mac FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Iconic Rock SurvivorsÊ digs deeper than your average music compendium and sidesteps the tediousness of most generalized band histories.ÞProfessional yet playful the book's most unique feature is its structure: a hybrid of historical breakdowns Q&As music criticism and best of lists chronicling the band's influence and legacy. No Fleetwood Mac book would be complete without addressing the sensationalism of ÊRumoursÊ or the mythic psychological breakdown of Peter Green. But ÊFleetwood Mac FAQÊ casts a wide net ä avoiding monotony for longtime fans by presenting new criticism and reporting and engaging with newcomers by addressing the most essential chapters in the band's story.ÞIncluded are interviews with former Fleetwood Mac members (guitarists Rick Vito and Billy Burnette) producers (Ken Caillat Richard Dashut John Shanks and Mike Vernon) studio crew members (Rich Feldman Ray Lindsey and Ken Perry) rock critics who've covered the group (Anthony DeCurtis) and others who've been privileged to join the band's inner circle. Sure the book touches on the band's notorious drug use romantic affairs and brutal in-fighting ä more importantly it also sheds fascinating new light on the band's innovative ever-evolving music.
£14.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Ringo: With a Little Help
ÊRingo: With a Little HelpÊ is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. ÊWith a Little HelpÊ traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career from his sickly childhood to his life as The World's Most Famous drummer to his triumphs addictions and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles as he comes to terms with his legacy.ÞBorn in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle one of Liverpool's most gritty rough-and-tumble neighborhoods he rose from a hardscrabble childhood ä marked by serious illnesses long hospital stays and little schooling ä to emerge against all odds as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse and ultimately his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesman.
£17.78
Hal Leonard Corporation Kickstart My Heart: A Motley Crew Day-by-Day
ÊKickstart My Heart: A Mêtley Crðe Day-by-DayÊ is an exciting chronology that celebrates in innovative form ä through the use of day-by-day entries and supporting band quotes mostly collected firsthand by the author as well as memorabilia shots and photography ä the crazy lives lived by Vince Mick Nikki and Tommy at the booze-drenched apex of the rock-'n'-roll food chain. Augmented with entries that help place the band in a wider rock context Popoff presents a swift-moving action-packed symphony of text and visuals that reprises his collaboration with Backbeat on similarly structured titles about Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne. With very few Mêtley Crðe-related books on the market ÊKickstart My HeartÊ will likely serve for years to come as the most complete ä and completely party-hardy ä celebration of this band now 35 years on and in the midst of completing its final tour ever.
£27.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Bud Powell Omnibook
£35.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Zappa's Gear: The Unique Guitars, Amplifiers, Effects Units, Keyboards, and Studio Equipment
Frank Zappa was an unremitting musical innovator and experimenter, always looking for ways to exploit the latest advances in technology. His working life coincided with the explosive development of music technology that ran from the 1960s through the following three decades. Without such inventions as the Marshall amplifier, the Gibson SG, the wah-wah pedal, and the Synclavier much of it modified to his requirements and used in ways for which they had never been designed Zappa s air sculptures, as his music has been described, would have had a significantly different shape and texture. Lavishly illustrated including over 180 unique photographs of Frank Zappa s guitars and equipment taken by the author at his UMRK studio in LA and featuring a foreword by Dweezil Zappa Zappa s Gear offers an unprecedented inside look at the machinery behind the legendary music. In addition to a detailed presentation of the equipment, Zappa s Gear also introduces some of the pioneering inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs without whom the instruments would not exist. Zappa s Gear is an official Frank Zappa book produced and written with the full cooperation and endorsement of Gail Zappa and the Zappa Family Trust.
£31.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music
£36.00
Hal Leonard Corporation 108 Rock Star Guitars
£96.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Some Fun Tonight!: The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America: The Historic Tours of 1964-1966, 1964
The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964 after finally achieving a number-one hit in America the Fab Four came to the country with high hopes performing on the wildly popular ÊEd Sullivan ShowÊ in both New York City and Miami and playing concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Coliseum. In just fifteen short days the Beatles conquered America. The Beatles made music-entertainment history with their North American tours from 1964 to 1966.ÞÊSome Fun Tonight! The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America: The Historic Tours of 1964-1966Ê is a comprehensive two-volume set which gives you a city-by-city synopsis of the group's activities as they traveled the United States and Canada for their groundbreaking series of concerts. From San Francisco's Cow Palace show on August 19 1964 through their last-ever live performances at that city's famed Candlestick Park on August 29 1966 these books cover the music and the madness that characterized the Beatles' three North American tours. With hundreds of photographs and images of rare memorabilia it is truly the definitive reference for what is arguably the most important period in the Beatles' long and winding career. You'll read about the behind-the-scenes negotiations the mayhem at the airports and hotels and the cheeky quotes delivered at the press conferences. You'll also read about the opening acts the concerts and the stories behind the shows through the eyes of the Beatles their entourage the promoters the emcees and the fans. Never before have the Beatles' North American concerts been covered in such depth.ÞIf you witnessed the mania firsthand you'll relive the excitement in the pages of these books. If you were born too late to be a part of those halcyon days you'll learn what it was like to be swept up and carried away by the phenomenon of the greatest musical act of all time. When all is said and done ÊSome Fun TonightÊ is a tribute to the fans ä the first generation and beyond. Look carefully at the faces of the fans in this book; they may be your friends parents grandparents ä or even you! ä but together they made Beatlemania happen. Fasten your seat belt and enjoy this comprehensive history!
£27.00
Hal Leonard Corporation The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History
This magnificent companion to ÊThe Art of HorrorÊ from the same creative team behind that award-winning illustrated volume looks at the entire history of the horror film from the silent era right up to the latest releases and trends.ÞThrough a series of informative chapters and fascinating sidebars chronologically charting the evolution of horror movies for more than a century profusely illustrated throughout with over 600 rare and unique images including posters lobby cards advertising promotional items tie-in books and magazines and original artwork inspired by classic movies this handsomely designed hardcover traces the development of the horror film from its inception and celebrates the actors filmmakers and artists who were responsible for scaring the pants off successive generations of moviegoers!ÞEdited by multiple award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones and boasting a foreword by director and screenwriter John Landis (ÊAn American Werewolf in LondonÊ) this volume brings together fascinating and incisive commentary from some of the genre's most highly respected experts. With eye-popping images from all over the world ÊThe Art of Horror MoviesÊ is the definitive guide for anyone who loves horror films and movie fans of all ages.
£27.00
Hal Leonard Corporation How to Play Boogie Woogie Piano
£17.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It)
Under Their Thumb:How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell About It) tells the story of Bill German's unlikely friendship with the Rolling Stones. He first met them on the streets of New York when he was a seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist. After handing them a copy of his amateur fanzine, they took the author under their wing and hired him as their official historian. They turned his little rag into their official newsletter and advertised it in one of their albums.Soon after, he began traveling the world with them and staying at their homes. German went from being a teenage fan who wanted to know everything about his favorite band to suddenly knowing too much! He was privy to their private jams and recording sessions as well as to their parties, peccadilloes, and in-fights. Yet, through it all, he maintained his identity as that nice boy from Brooklyn. Despite Keith's observation—or edict?—that "people only leave the Stones in a casket or handcuffs," he was one of the few to leave their orbit on his own terms.This updated edition of Under Their Thumb includes new stories about German's relationship to the Stones and twenty never-before-seen images.
£22.50
Hal Leonard Corporation PedalCulture: An Exploration into the Cultural Significance and Design Semiotics of the Contemporary Guitar Effects Pedal
PedalCulture is a themed exploration of guitar effects pedals as cultural artifacts, derived from a 2017 design exhibition at San Francisco State University curated by the writer. This colorful and artfully designed volume contains curatorial text describing eight different object displays along with photographs of each of the sixty-three individual pedals, richly illustrated in approximately one hundred original photographs. The anthropological quest into understanding how effects stompboxes allow for quasi-supernatural power transference from on high to working guitarists is just one of the many themes explored in this volume. Other exhibits explore symbolic associations in the branding of sonic effects with notable cultural touchstones from popular arts and culture: As material manifestations of noir literature, retro-futuristic cinema, and Japanese anime; as explicit graphic metaphors for female pudenda; in explicit reference to gruesome tabloid tales of murder and mayhem; in alluring ads for small-batch, handmade artisanal creations; and in all too obvious associations to guacamole and chips. This is PedalCulture—where we also find a heartfelt dialog among church musicians for whom effects pedals bring heaven to earth, yet risk interjecting the world of crass materialism into sanctified settings. Designers and musicians will find the catalog of value for its topical content, and arts educators will appreciate an exemplary case study of students collaborating with artists and curators from the community at large. Unlike other books about the expansive (and expensive) world of guitar gear, the curatorial tone of PedalCulture employs an irreverent sensibility expressed in a whimsical and ironic attitude toward its subject. The PedalCulture catalog is intended as a hip, personally expressive design project fusing form, content, and aesthetics into a volume oozing both art style and curatorial substance.
£22.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush—capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived—and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house. Charlie Watts, the anti-rock star—an urbane jazz fan with a dry wit and little taste for the limelight—was witness to the most savage years in rock history, and emerged a hero, a warrior poet. With his easy swing and often loping, uneven fills, he found nuance in a music that often had little room for it, and along with his greatest ally, Keith Richards, he gave the Stones their swaggering beat. While others battled their drums, Charlie played his modest kit with finesse and humility, and yet his relentless grooves on the nastiest hard-rock numbers of the era ("Gimme Shelter," "Street Fighting Man," "Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," etc.) delivered a dangerous authenticity to a band that on their best nights should have been put in jail. Author Mike Edison, himself a notorious raconteur and accomplished drummer, tells a tale of respect and satisfaction that goes far beyond drums, drumming, and the Rolling Stones, ripping apart the history of rock'n'roll, and celebrating sixty years of cultural upheaval. He tears the sheets off of the myths of music making, shredding the phonies and the frauds, and unifies the frayed edges of disco, punk, blues, country, soul, jazz, and R&B—the soundtrack of our lives.Highly opinionated, fearless, and often hilarious, Sympathy is as an unexpected treat for music fans and pop culture mavens, as edgy and ribald as the Rolling Stones at their finest, never losing sight of the sex and magic that puts the roll in the rock —the beat, that crazy beat!—and the man who drove the band, their true engine, the utterly irreplaceable Charlie Watts.
£12.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Leonard, Marianne, and Me: Magical Summers on Hydra
In 1973, Judy Scott was intent on traveling to Istanbul, but serendipitously she stumbled onto the incomparable Greek island of Hydra and the people who would continue, over many subsequent visits, to enhance and influence her life ever after.This memoir, based on notebooks and journals Scott kept during various times and visits to her favorite place on earth, recounts in very intimate detail her interactions and developing relationships with singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen and his beautiful muse and “love of his life” Marianne Ihlen. As Leonard himself observed of this book when Scott sent the manuscript to him for his approval: “I particularly admire the detail and honesty of the piece.” One of the more unique features in this recounting is the emerging acknowledgment the author confronts of her own sexuality, as she recounts: “It did not take long for Leonard to recognize that I was more attracted to Marianne than I was to him, though I came to love him too in the end.” And indeed it was Marianne herself, who sought out and fostered Scott’s interest and affection. After a shocking interlude at Marianne’s 38th birthday party, Scott writes: “After that, my life on Hydra was all about Marianne.” But it was Leonard’s interest, his kindness and generosity that signified her lifelong love and respect for the real private person who was Leonard Cohen. Robert Kory, Leonard’s executor, told Scott when they met to discuss several edits the Cohen family had requested: “Your story details a side of Leonard and a phase in his life that no other biography or coverage of the public person he was captures. And it lovingly depicts and lets me see the person he was at 38, long before I made his acquaintance and got to experience the musical and literary genius, and whose legacy I’m now dedicated to preserving.”The book also goes into a detailed description of Hydra in the early 1970s. A unique place filled with astonishing physical beauty and an incomparable atmosphere of serenity and peaceful energy. Hydra is the only inhabited Greek island with no cars (they are forbidden), no automotive transportation at all. All the roads on the three large hills that circle the small deep-water yacht port contain stairs or steps that make traversing by wheeled vehicles impossible. This absence of gas-powered vehicles and motors was also the reason Hydra attracted so many artists; it was the light, the unfiltered magical “Greek light” absent noxious fumes that presented some of the purist images on earth. The island also contained a small foreign community of like-minded creative souls, artists, musicians, writers and their supporters and admirers. As Scott explains: “Hydra in the late ’60s early ’70s was at its creative zenith. Like Paris in the ’30s, Harlem in the ’40s, Greenwich Village in the ’50s, San Francisco in the ’60s—Hydra in the ’70s was the place to be.”The memoir, though it centers on her most important, most impactful interactions with Leonard and Marianne, also contains several portraits of other Hydra habitués, all members of the same small ex-pat community, all close friends (and occasional lovers) of Leonard and Marianne, all uniquely interesting in their own right. From George Lialios, the wealthy Greek man the book is dedicated to (whom Scott met first on the island and who introduced her to all the others contained in these pages) to Alexis Bolens, the Swiss/Greek handsome lothario, who’d worked as a mercenary in Rhodesia and a plantation manager in South Africa, from Lindsey Callicoatt, the writer, artisan and most beloved of all the foreign community, to George Slater, irascible poet, sea captain and brilliant curry maker—there are many characters who all contributed to the “Hydra family” that Scott lovingly recalls. This book is both a story of a special time, place and cast of characters—a travelogue of an enchanted island as it was back then and still is to this day, backlit by the glow of Leonard Cohen and his muse, Marianne.
£17.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Drum Programming Handbook: The Complete Guide to Creating Great Rhythm Tracks: With Online Resource
This book is a complete course in the art of drum programming and the concepts and technologies behind it. It takes the reader from the earliest steps in using a digital audio workstation through the development of an individual sound signature and on to the achievement of professional results. Designed to accommodate users of any major drum programming application it explores: the history of rhythm programming digital audio workstations and how to use them one-shot MIDI programming samplers romplers advanced timing for swing and beat-mapping loops and audio creating drum sounds by subtractive synthesis and production and FX. It culminates with detailed guidance on the creation of drum tracks for specific musical styles ranging from pop and rock to jazz reggae drum 'n' bass and glitch. The course unfolds through extensive use of workstation screenshots and audio examples. Along the way helpful tips and practical exercises keep students motivated and engaged.
£27.00
Hal Leonard Corporation The Jazz Guitar Handbook
JAZZ GUITAR HANDBOOK: A COMPLETE COURSE IN ALL STYLES OF JAZZ
£25.00
Hal Leonard Corporation In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
8-page color photo insert
£12.99
Hal Leonard Corporation 70s Classics
£15.60
Hal Leonard Corporation How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course
So you want to write songs and you want to write them on guitar. This is the book that shows you exactly how. Taking tips and tricks from classic songwriters from Bob Dylan to the Beatles to Tori Amos ÊHow to Write Songs on GuitarÊ takes you through the four main elements of a song ä rhythm melody lyrics and harmony ä and inspires you to combine them in exciting new ways. Now with updated songs and tips on writing trends it's packed with wisdom and practical advice culled from over 1 500 songs ÊHow to Write Songs on GuitarÊ 2nd edition will soon have you producing better more memorable songs.
£22.41
Hal Leonard Corporation Preparatory Exercises, Op. 16
£8.13
Hal Leonard Corporation Fingerpicking Beatles - Revised & Expanded Edition
£23.39
Hal Leonard Corporation Kreutzer - 42 Studies or Caprices
£9.08
Hal Leonard Corporation Flute Music by French Composers
£15.50
Hal Leonard Corporation The Real Book - Volume II - Second Edition: C Instruments
£44.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Encanto: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
£15.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Stranger Things: Music from the Netflix Original Series
£23.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Encanto for Cello: Instrumental Play-Along - from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
£15.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Encanto for Trumpet: Instrumental Play-Along - from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
£15.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Adele: The Complete Collection
£36.50
Hal Leonard Corporation The Queen's Gambit: Music from the Netflix Limited Series
£19.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Spiderman - No Way Home: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
£19.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Sing 2: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
£19.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Respect: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack
£19.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
£16.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Lake Street Dive Songbook
£19.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Favorite Disney Songs: Instrumental Play-Along - Oboe
£16.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Favorite Disney Songs: Instrumental Play-Along - Cello
£16.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Favorite Disney Songs: Instrumental Play-Along - Violin
£16.99
Hal Leonard Corporation The Battle at Garden’s Gate
£22.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Taylor Swift - Ukulele Collection: 27 Hits to Strum & Sing
£23.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Taylor Swift - Selections from Folklore & Evermore: Alto Sax Play-Along Book with Online Audio
£15.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Taylor Swift - Selections from Folklore & Evermore: Clarinet Play-Along Book with Online Audio
£15.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Shawn Mendes - Easy Piano Collection
£19.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Disney Heroines: Jennifer Lin Series - 10 Piano Arrangements in Progressive Order
£11.65
Hal Leonard Corporation Taylor Swift - Easy Guitar Anthology: 2nd Edition
£25.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Disney Songs for Fingerstyle Ukulele: 20 Solo Arrangements with Tab
£23.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Rush - The Complete Scores: Deluxe Hardcover Book with Protective Slip Case
£89.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Folk Songs for Mandolin
£16.99