In The Eyeline of Furtherance, charts John Howard's rise from 70's pop idol to a career in A & R and marketing. The '90s opened up new vistas, ever bigger and better opportunities, working with Elkie Brooks, Madness, Barry Manilow and rock 'n' roll heroes Lonnie Donegan and The Crickets. As John puts it, "I was propelled onwards and upwards, not this time by my own ambition, but by the plans of others who had clearly decided that I was going places in a direction I would never have imagined twenty years earlier." John Howard's first book, Incidents Crowded With Life, followed the ambitions of a young gay singer-songwriter in London in the '70s which were realised after being signed by CBS Records and recording his debut LP at Abbey Road studios. En route, he wrote the theme song for a Peter Fonda movie and was heralded as The Next Big Thing. And all the while navigating a series of disastrous personal events, not least when he broke his back in 1976.

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.

The most incandescent example of Bombshells is Marilyn Monroe. Her strange combination of ghostly pale skin, childlike face and innate erotic cunning render her hard to date. Unlike modern actresses we can't sense the stylist in her clothes, the heavy hand of a makeup artist or a photographer's over bearing concept. Clearly and hauntingly, her image belongs to her and it is equal parts spectral nymph, mid century beach bunny, haughty heiress and child star. With an hourglass body and a face like Shirley Temple the oddity of Monroe is her wholesomeness. She could sell diamonds or milk. She looked naked in a white cotton dress and perfectly dignified in the nude. She her clothes. Some say she sawed off one stiletto shoe heel a fraction lower to deepen the sway of her hips. Clearly she wasn't happy, and this just serves to deepen the myth and her lure. Her own words, "Being a sex symbol is heavy load" could speak for all of the women who traded infamy for scandal and some scrap of security. Bettie Page, the underground queen of silk stockings, light bondage and leopard skin bikinis claimed very practical reasons for being a pin-up model, preferring the work to "pounding a typewriter eight hours a day." They were a breed that we have not seen the like of again. Bombshells. Marilyn Monroe Brigitte Bardot Raquel Welch Sophia Loren Bettie Page Ursula Andress Mata Hari Elizabeth Taylor Jane Russell Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "STYLE ICONS" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Authors Introduction Anna Johnson Publisher & Editor Paul G Roberts Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Tarne Sheed Video Link Editing Alice Hoffman Ross Project Management Pip Dalton

To be a star you need to rouse the senses, but to be a siren you must touch the heart. Their vulnerability, their daring and their sheer courage match the intensity of human beauty concentrated in the most famous female sex symbols of the twentieth century. To say they had real social power would be an injustice. Mata Hari, wrongly accused of espionage, wound up decapitated after her execution, with her head embalmed and kept in the museum of anatomy in Paris. It's hardly a state funeral or a fitting homage to a woman who wriggled public consciousness out the Victorian era dressed as Hindu priestess. Hollywood royalty such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor seemed to exercise more choice; having come from cultivated backgrounds and targeted their ambitions on the "costumed" work of big screen acting and the social mobility of ambitious marriages. Here we present the lives and legends of the Sirens. STYLE ICONS Vol 4 Sirens Grace Kelly Jane Fonda Gina Lollobrigida Madonna Rita Hayworth Ava Gardner Marlene Dietrich Betty Grable Lauren Bacall Jayne Mansfield Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "STYLE ICONS" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

It is said that music gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Before Rock there was Rock and Roll... Elvis Presley came out of nowhere, hip snaking onto an almost empty stage, with Little Richard, black and gay, lurking in the wings. He singlehandedly took he underbelly of America... dirt-poor greaser, glorifying it. Elvis was all four Jungian archetypes rolled into one - the child- the wise man, the fool or trickster and lastly, the sexual being, desirable, yet unobtainable. In his wake spawning countless scores of look and sound alikes. In this edition we feature the man himself as well as the mighty Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, Foo Fighters, Guns n Roses and the indefatigable Iggy Pop. Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Author Ian Hartley Credits Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Samantha Mayfair Video Link Editing Alice Hoffman Ross Project Management Pip Dalton

Deep Purple and Aerosmith along with the Rolling Stones, filled Sports arenas all around the world, in an orgy of excess. The Who smashed their amplifiers as they exploded into an attention-seeking heap, not unlike naughty schoolboys, while Iggy Pop buried his Jewishness in an avalanche of broken glass. Good old boy country Rockers such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, sang about grapevines and gumbo. The sublimely angelic Jimi Hendrix cut down a mountain with the palm of his hand. For every androgynous David Bowie, there was an equally insensitive Alice Cooper... David Bowie fell to Earth, Bruce Springsteen CAME from the Earth. If Bob Dylan was riding freight cars, then Springsteen was in a speeding, souped up, forties Hudson careening down a Lonesome Highway. Ginger Baker, the drummer from super group Cream was once accused that his band gave birth to heavy Metal, he replying that if he did, then he surely should have aborted it. If anyone did conceive that genre, then the blame must fall squarely on the shoulders of Led Zeppelin, the fathers of Air Guitar, who dragged the sixties beat blues, kicking and screaming into the Seventies, and who even now forty something years later still hold sway and a kind of mythical worship like the Gods of ancient times. Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin Nirvana Oasis Pink Floyd Queen The Ramones Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

Pop is an abbreviation of the word popular, it doesn't mean good or tasteful, it just means popular. Pop Music is a reflection of it's time... if contemporary society deems to crown a suburban mime artist as reigning Queen of Pop then so be it. Pop has come a long way since it's early bleating's, from the anthemic teen angst of the early sixties, to the languid internalization of Coldplay and the airbrushed soul of Beyonce. Pop is now blurred into red carpet supermarket magazines, slotted between weight loss and divorces. It's hard work staying there, staying on top, as Michael Jackson was to find, from his troubled child stardom with the Jackson 5, to his emperor's new clothes period, culminating in his eventual death by media. That he managed to survive for over 30 years on top is an accomplishment in anyone's eyes. One could ask the question: Will Justin Bieber exist after, or even before, I finish writing this introduction? Whatever the answer will be to that question you can be sure that everyone will still be talking about Pop music. Michael Jackson Kylie Minogue JLo Adele Ke$ha Katy Perry Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Author Ian Hartley Foreward Paul G Roberts & Samantha Mayfair Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Samantha Mayfair Video Link Editing Astrid Lynn Ingram Project Management Pip Dalton

Pop music is such an interesting musical genre in that it has gone through so many transformations and includes so many subgenres. There are elements of rhythm and blues, doo wop, folk, girl groups, funk, surf, soul, psychedelic, bubble gum, hard rock, acoustic, jazz and everything in between - all blended together in a musical smorgasbord. Elvis Presley brought with him his roots in gospel and blended that with rockabilly and rock'n'roll. Jerry Lee Lewis brought the piano to the forefront. The Everly Brothers brought harmonies and Buddy Holly a rockabilly mixture. It began as a melting pot of musical genres and remains that way to this day. There have been some defining moments in pop music history. From the first time a electric guitar was utilized to the first pop single to use a drum machine or synthesizer, it seems that the genre is always re-inventing itself. We had the great R&B groups of the fifties, girl groups of the sixties and vocal harmonies of the Platters, and of Simon and Garfunkel. The folk music scene was very influential., especially Peter Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, and so were the surf melodies of the Beach Boys, the instrumentation of the Ventures and the legendary vocals and pop songs of the Supremes - all add to this broad musical landscape. A horn section a la Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears, the string section of Electric Light Orchestra and the George Martin-led strings of the Beatles all helped to transform the genre. Amy Winehouse Jamiroquai Justin Timberlake Massive Attack Bruno Mars LMFAO Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

Intrigue and mystery swirling underfoot while the legends mingle tarry dally and make music with each other like demi-gods pulling such idiosyncratic stuff out of disparate musical universes. Some like Nick Cave reached in and pulled out a biblical pestilence. Others like Neil Young found sad lonesome worlds to drift through that had not yet been charted by any musician much before this. Thing is at the time these legends do their thing its quite revolutionary though it may seem part of the wallpaper now. The Legends are first and foremost Originals i.e. they are prime movers and they seem to arrive with a look, a philosophy, a sound, a unique voice strangely already intact. And sometimes their genius is even more amazing with all those Achilles heels amongst them. Just because you're a legend doesn't mean you don't sometimes get into some weird trouble and just because you're a legend doesn't make you automatically happy either. ABBA Blondie Bee Gees Jim Morrison Johnny Cash Nick Cave George Harrison Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]"

They come, they spawn a thousand imitations and they become legends. Part of rocknrolls ongoing myth. Larger than life and sold twice as many records in half as much time than whoever else you can mention. It would truly be hard to imagine a world without Bob Dylan or James Brown or Abba. Their songs enter the mainstream and become the soundtrack to everyones lives. Their clothes spark fads that last forever. Their romantic antics have us searching through the flotsam of our times. Somewhere the songs become a fabric of our lives we quote them to each other. And we sing them in showers and bus stops and walking along when things aren't going too well.....and garage bands in garageland are grinding them out beneath the blue suburban sky. Oh those hair cuts . oh those shoes.... oh those double albums full of all the hits Back in that golden age when all the legends still strode those trembling stages as they thundered out the true rock of ages The originals and the untouchables ...shall we see their like again...? Madonna Crowded House Marc Bolan Bob Dylan Eagles Michael Hutchence Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

Into the vacuum left by Elvis and the many American music makers that followed stepped the British Beatles, this time they split the Jungian archetype into four unbeatable single units, along with a darker, more sinister Rolling Stones, setting the blueprint for what was yet to come. The law could not touch these New Gods; Keith Richards became the patron saint of Junkies, while the Velvet Underground. the defining forefathers of art rock, made Heroin a fashion accessory, way before Black Sabbath's Ozzie Osborne made Bipolar - Bipopular. Bowie brought Japanese Kabuki theatrics to rock venues, and ACDC made a massive global juggernaut out of just 3 power chords. AC/DC Aerosmith Beatles Black Sabbath Bon Jovi David Bowie The Masters of Music series could well be the most extensive and complete publishing initiative ever released on this subject.This series has been created as hard cover 280mm x 216mm colour books $45.00, as ebooks for $9.99, and ground breaking video rich App versions just $3..99 per edition for mobile devices, which each feature over 1,000 original music videos, concert performances, interviews, behind the scenes shoots and much more. Available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores, and a TV documentary series is also in development. Also embedded in the App version are direct buy links to Feature length movies and Albums to the Apple iTunes Store.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

In this the third of our Music Series, and the first on Pop music we present our giant hard covered picture book on the careers of the biggest names in Pop. Pop is an abbreviation of the word popular, it doesn't mean good or tasteful, it just means popular. Pop Music is a reflection of it's time... if contemporary society deems to crown a suburban mime artist as reigning Queen of Pop then so be it. Pop has come a long way since it's early bleating's, from the anthemic teen angst of the early sixties, to the languid internalization of Coldplay and the airbrushed soul of Beyonce . Pop is now blurred into red carpet supermarket magazines, slotted betweenweight loss and divorces. It's hard work staying there, staying on top, as Michael Jackson was to find, from his troubled child stardom with the Jackson Five, to his emperor's new clothes period, culminating in his eventual death by media. That he managed to survive for over thirty years on top is an accomplishment in anyone's eyes. One could ask the question, will Justin Bieber exist, after, or even before I finish writing this introduction? Although Britney Spears, ex Disney child star, for a brief moment, tween, then teen poppet, sexed herself into prehab as well as rehab and our ever-eager wallets. Even Britney's old alumni Justin Timberlake, the everyman next door, now reinvented into a GQ supplement, is still known to exist, although, sadly the sartorial elegance of the talented Andre 3000 front man of the band Outkast, burst onto the scene then promptly burst out. Jennifer Lopez career jellied her name out of a contract, flirting with the silver screen, whilst conducting a well-publicized supermarket affair with Sean "Puffy" Holmes. There were crossovers - Shakira and Ricky Martin, humanitariansboth, credibly reworked Latin, ex Hawaiian Bruno Mars made reggae fusion accessible to the masses, Rihanna moved from Barbados at the age of 16 to the U.S. becoming one of the best selling artists of all time at the tender age of 24. Since we can remember people have been talking about Pop music. FEATURED ARTISTS Michael Jackson Kylie Minogue Jennifer Lopez Adele Ke$ha Katy Perry Jamiroquai Justin Timberlake Massive Attack Bruno Mars Amy Winehouse LMFAO Fashion Industry Broadcast's Masters of Music is a Series: Masters of Music - Rock Vol 1 Masters of Music - Rock Vol 2 Masters of Music - Pop Vol 1 Masters of Music - Pop Vol 2 Masters of Music - Legends Vol 1 Masters of Music - Legends Vol 2 Masters of Music - R&B Vol 1 Masters of Music - Jazz Vol 1 Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading publisher of lifestyle titles, made and distributed globally as books, e-books and Apps. Fashion Industry Broadcast supports a number of important charities that provide funding for critical medical research, medicines, animal and human rights. A percentage of every book, e-book and App sold goes towards supporting these vital causes. The Masters of Music series could well be the most extensive and complete publishing initiative ever released on this subject. This multi edition set has been created as hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99, and groundbreaking video rich App versions featuring thousands of original music videos, and rare concert performances for just $6.99 per edition for all Apple mobile devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch), and is available through the iTunes App store. Contact [email protected] Authors Ian Hartley Samantha Mayfair Paul G Roberts Paula Garrod Astrid Ingram-Lynn Ole Renberg

Musical director to some of the biggest names in showbusiness, Johnny Harris is also a distinguished composer and arranger in his own right. Flamboyant and energetic as a conductor, he has earned countless accolades for his dynamic stage performances with Sir Tom Jones, Dame Shirley Bassey, Englebert Humperdinck, Lulu, Liza Minelli and Lynda Carter to name but a few. This biography, written by his daughter Julie Pearce-Martin, takes you on a journey from his student days at London's Guildhall and the Swinging Sixties to the present day and the star-studded Palm Springs Follies in the USA.

Mick Miller is often referred to as "The bald guy with the long hair" and is well known for his famous "Noddy" routine. This book tells the story of the journey from his childhood in Liverpool to his acclaimed performance at "The Royal Variety Show" in front of The Princess Royal. It takes us through his days as a goalkeeper at Port Vale where the legendary Stanley Matthews signed him. We learn of his days as a Pontin's Blue Coat and how he became a comedian in his own right. We find out how that Noddy routine came about and how he found himself on "New Faces" and "The Comedians." Mick Miller is not an "Old School" comedian stuck in a 1980s time warp. He works hard to keep his act fresh and up to date and, because of that, he is still very relevant today and is equally at home in comedy clubs, cruise ships and theatres. He still has the drive and ambition that he had when he started out and relishes new challenges. This is the story of his life so far.