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Following the success of Complete Rock Family Trees, Pete Frame
documents the story of The Beatles. The trees unfold alongside
photographs and memorabilia to document the Liverpool scene. Other
froups featured are Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, and
The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Wolfgang Flur was a member of Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987,
contributing to albums such as Autobahn (1974), Radioaktivitat
(1975), Trans-Europa Express (1977), Die Mensch-Maschine (1978),
Computerwelt (1981) and Electric Cafe (1986). He continues to
record music with his solo album Eloquence being released in 2015.
Dana Gillespie, the award-winning first lady of the Blues has
enjoyed an incredible life and career. Now, she has chronicled her
exploits, and as anyone who knows Dana would expect, it is
intelligent, insightful, outrageous, and funny. Detailing high
points, low points and everything in-between, the book covers,
amongst many other things, liaisons with David Bowie, Bob Dylan,
Keith Moon, and the cream of 1960's rock royalty; Recording with
Jimmy Page and Elton John; Performing as Mary Magdalene in the
original London production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and as the
Acid Queen in Tommy; Acting in films directed by Nicholas Roeg, Ken
Russell and Mai Zetterling; Performing Shakespeare with Sir John
Gielgud and Arthur Lowe; Topping the pop charts across Europe;
Performing to an audience of one million people in India; And... oh
yes... Being British junior waterski champion for 4 years!
This is a true life story account of Len Garry's childhood memories
of his childhood days spent with John Lennon and Paul McCartney and
the forming of the band The Quarrymen. Also the day John Lennon met
Paul McCartney for the very first time at St. Peter's Church fete
on 6th July 1957, this book is a first hand account of what took
place on that day plus more stories.
This second updated edition of Notes from a Jazz Life includes
Digby Fairweather's career since the year 2000 as a jazz cornetist,
band leader, educator and broadcaster, working with George Melly
and leading his band the Half-Dozen. The book has much to offer to
people who are even marginally interested in jazz in all its wide
variety of forms as well as providing insights for regular jazz
readers. The author provides revealing reflections on the personal
life and career of a musician and, with a wealth of warm, hilarious
anecdotes, he writes honestly about all the challenges,
frustrations and rich rewards of being part of the jazz world.
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Washington, Dc, Jazz
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Regennia N Williams, Sandra Butler-truesdale; Foreword by Willard Jenkins
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Crazy Rich Asians meets Gossip Girl by way of Jenny Han in this
knock-out sequel, about a Korean American teen who is thrust into
the competitive, technicolor world of K-pop, from Jessica Jung,
K-pop legend and former lead singer of one of the most influential
K-pop girl groups of all time, Girls Generation. Couture gowns,
press parties, international travel. Rachel Kim is at the top of
her game. Girls Forever is now the number-one K-pop group in the
world, and her fame skyrockets after her viral airport styling
attracts the attention of fashion's biggest names. Her life's a
swirl of technicolour glamour and adoring fans. Rachel can't
imagine shining any brighter. The only thing that's missing is
love-but Rachel's determined to follow the rules. In her world,
falling in love can cost you everything. Enter Alex. When Rachel
literally falls head over designer heels into his lap on a crowded
metro, she's tempted to give up her anti-love vows. Alex is more
than just heart-stopping dimples and adorably quirky banter. He
believes in Rachel's future-both in music and in fashion. But the
higher you rise, the harder you fall. And when a shocking act of
betrayal shatters her world, Rachel must finally listen to her
heart.
This book is primarily concerned with the story of traditional jazz
in Edinburgh since the mid-nineteen forties; that is, traditional
jazz played in and around Edinburgh by local jazz musicians and
bands. It is not much concerned with jazz played in and around
Edinburgh by visiting bands, professional or otherwise, except in
passing and when such bands have had a marked effect on local jazz,
this being especially the case in the early years. Similarly, the
significant number of local jazz musicians who went on to become
distinguished or even famous professional players at a UK or
international level, will primarily be discussed in respect of
their careers when playing in Edinburgh in local bands, rather than
their contributions in a wider and better known context. In some
cases, the wider reputations will be covered more than adequately
in more resounding publications than this.
I Ain't Mad At Ya offers a rare insight into growing up in
Birmingham's black community in the 70s and 80s and shines a light
on the incredible amount of black music culture produced in the
vibrant suburb of Handsworth and the role its musicians and
entrepreneurs have played in shaping and influencing popular music
in the UK.
The colorful "Punk Professor", new-wave musician, and
critic/filmmaker spins a dazzling survey of women in punk, from the
genre's inception in 1970s London to the current voices making
waves around the globe. As an industry insider and pioneering
post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music
journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks,
she probes four themes-identity, money, love, and protest-to
explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With
her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her
personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers
in a book that reads like a vivid documentary of a genre defined by
dismantling boundaries. A discussion of the Patti Smith song "Free
Money," for example, opens with Goldman on a shopping spree with
Smith. Tamar-Kali, whose name pays homage to a Hindu goddess,
describes the influence of her Gullah ancestors on her music, while
the late Poly Styrene's daughter reflects on why her
Somali-Scots-Irish mother wrote the 1978 punk anthem "Identity,"
with the refrain "Identity is the crisis you can't see." Other
strands feature artists from farther afield (including in Colombia
and Indonesia) and genre-busting revolutionaries such as Grace
Jones, who wasn't exclusively punk but clearly influenced the
movement while absorbing its liberating audacity. From punk's Euro
origins to its international reach, this is an exhilarating world
tour.
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley
on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', yet for The Eagles their
story was one where the dividing line between ultimate Hollywood
highs and subterranean LA lows was blurred beyond recognition,
blinded by white-powdered double-visions and buried beneath
greenback mountains. The band that embodied the American dream with
globe-straddling success, impossibly luxurious lives, almost
supernatural talent also descended into nightmare with bloodletting
betrayal, hate-filled hubris, the skeletons of perceived enemies,
brutally discarded lovers and former band mates left unburied in
the road behind them. The story of The Eagles is a truly gothic
American fable: one of ultimate power and rivers of money; of sex
and drugs at a time when both were the lingua-franca of
sophisticated So-Cal living; of a band who sang of peaceful easy
feelings in public while threatening to kill each other in private.
Now, for the first time, esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will
provide the definitive insight into America's best-selling band of
all time, a band who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and
the Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame,
and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American
music was taking over the world.
"Yungblud is like nothing you've seen before. That is, unless
you've seen a smiley punk/alt rocker from Doncaster, UK who wears
pink socks, black-lipstick, and a skirt, plays a mean guitar, has
an endless amount of energy, and an interesting aura of sex appeal.
Then, and only then, can you say you've seen someone like
Yungblud." - musicinminnesota.com YUNGBLUD. A striking new musical
voice has emerged for Gen-Z. Political, provocative and
impassioned, Yungblud has in the space of three years become one of
the UK's most recognisable artists through his unique blend of pop,
punk and emo music - gaining one of the most die-hard fanbases on
the planet in the process. From 21st Century Liability, where
nothing was sacred - gun violence, psychosis, sex, drugs and
suicide - to his sophomore album Weird!, an exploration of oddity
and self-acceptance, YUNGBLUD challenges our zeitgeist as much as
he channels it. This is the first fully authorised book, featuring
photographs by his friend and closest collaborator Tom Pallant.
Featuring an amazing selection of rare and unseen photographs, All
My Friends Have Deserted charts Yungblud's journey from late 2019
as he toured his debut album across the world, right through
releasing his second album during a global pandemic, scoring his
first UK #1, returning triumphantly to Reading and Leeds festival
mainstage and culminating in his biggest ever headline show, a
sold-out Alexandra Palace in London. All My Friends Have Deserted
shows YUNGBLUD as a man of multitudes: dominating the stage,
screaming into the mic, laughing behind-the-scenes, enjoying quiet
creative moments and pulling faces at the camera. The vicious
energy of his performances carries onto the page. The result is a
rollercoaster of a photo-essay that carries readers on a journey
through the highs and lows of Gen-Z's most essential new rock star.
"My generation is over being divided. Being divided is an old
concept that is rapidly becoming obsolete. We are opinionated. We
are full of contradictions. That's the beauty of it. Our intention
is to make this world equal. No matter what size you are, what
shape you are, what colour you are, what sexuality you are..."
Underpinning it all is the message of empathy. Those who his lyrics
resonate with are not alone. Authentic and electric, rebellious and
irreverent, yet still utterly human, YUNGBLUD is the new face of
punk. Here he presents himself through a series of exclusive and
unseen photographs, taken by his friend and closest collaborator,
photographer Tom Pallant.
Black Sabbath is currently on The End Tour," which they have
proclaimed as their final concert tour . Iron Man chronicles the
story of both pioneering guitarist Tony Iommi and legendary band
Black Sabbath, dubbed The Beatles of heavy metal" by Rolling Stone
. Iron Man reveals the man behind the icon yet still captures
Iommi's humour, intelligence, and warmth. He speaks honestly and
unflinchingly about his rough-and-tumble childhood, the accident
that almost ended his career, his failed marriages, personal
tragedies, battles with addiction, band mates, famous friends,
newfound daughter, and the ups and downs of his life as an artist.
Everything associated with hard rock happened to Black Sabbath
first: the drugs, the debauchery, the drinking, the dungeons, the
pressure, the pain, the conquests, the company men, the contracts,
the combustible drummer, the critics, the comebacks, the singers,
the Stonehenge set, the music, the money, the madness, the metal.
A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock 'n' roller
and his adventures in excess on the '80s hair-metal nostalgia tour
through Middle America--available again, and now revised and
updated.
Once upon a time at the start of the new century, the unheard-of
Unband got a chance to drink, fight, and play loud music with '80s
metal bands like Dio and Def Leppard. To the mix they brought
illegal pyrotechnics, a giant red inflatable hand with movable
digits, a roadie dubiously named Safety Bear, a high tolerance for
liver damage, and an infectious love of rock & roll and
everything it represents.
Unband bassist Michael Ruffino takes us on an epic joyride
across a surrealistic American landscape where we meet mute
Christian groupies, crack-smoking Girl Scouts, beer-drinking
chimps, and thousands of head-bangers who cannot accept that hair
metal is dead. Here, too, are uncensored portraits of Ronnie James
Dio, Anthrax, Sebastian Bach, Lemmy of Motorhead, and others.
Adios, Motherfucker is gonzo rock storytelling at its
finest--excessive, incendiary, intelligent, hilarious, and utterly
original.
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 - MOJO MAGAZINE & UNCUT MAGAZINE "In
early '77 I asked Grant if he'd form a band with me. `No,' was his
blunt reply." Grant McLennan didn't want to be in a band. He
couldn't play an instrument; Charlie Chaplin was his hero du jour.
And yet, when Robert Forster wrote Hemingway, Genet, Chandler and
Joyce into his lyrics, McLennan couldn't resist a second invitation
to become 80s indie sensation The Go Betweens. The friends would
collaborate for three decades, until Grant's premature death in
2006. Beautifully written - like lyrics, like prose - Grant & I
is a rock memoir akin to no other. Part `making of', part music
industry expose, part buddy-book, this is a delicate and perceptive
celebration of creative endeavour. With wit and candour, Robert
Forster pays tribute to a band who found huge success in the
margins, having friendship at its heart.
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