|
Books > Music
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.
Contains 17 songs for the Christmas season. Most of the songs are
for unaccompanied congregational singing, several have been
arranged for choirs, and may serve as anthems or introits. Full
music and notes by the author are provided for each song.
Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards,
this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's
most revered and celebrated drummer. Mid-1962. The newly formed
Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their
sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz musician already well-known
within London's rhythm and blues clubs. Fortunately for future
Stones fans the world over, they persuade him to take on the job.
Once installed at the drum seat, Charlie would not miss a beat for
the rest of his life. He was there throughout the swinging sixties
as the Stones reached superstardom and for the well-documented
debauchery of the 1970s, typified by the iconic album Exile on Main
St. Battling his own demons by the eighties, Charlie emerged
unscathed, cementing his reputation as the thoughtful, cultured but
no less compelling counterpoint to his more raucous bandmates. For
almost 60 years - through all the band bust-ups, bereavements and
changes in personnel both on stage and off - Charlie remained the
rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he was
the antithesis of the rock-star archetype, an intensely private man
who valued his family above all else. Drawing on new interviews
with his family, friends and former bandmates - including Mick
Jagger and Keith Richards - Charlie's Good Tonight is the
remarkable life story of Charlie Watts: official, authorised and as
it's never been told before.
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.
The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills helps students develop skills
in ear-training and sight-singing through a repertoire of real
music that students listen to and perform. Designed to link aural
skills with what students do in the theory classroom, The
Musician's Guide to Aural Skills is closely coordinated with The
Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis.
Jonathan G. Laniyan is privileged to study music up to Higher
National Diploma level (H.N.D.) at the Polytechnic Ibadan Nigeria.
He also holds Royal Schools of Music Grade 5 in Jazz Piano, Theory
and Grades 7 and 8 in Practical Musicianship. He is a composer and
arranger of works in Western and African Idiom, hoping to go for
further studies to complete a Master's Degree (in music) in the
near future.
A new, updated edition of Christopher Sandford's classic biography
of the band, The Rolling Stones is a gripping account of the band's
remarkable 60 years at the top of the rock industry. In 1962 Mick
Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the
civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and
to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been
effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations
and playing blues guitar), the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and
drummer Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious. During the
1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in
Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity
and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same
reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30, the band is now
celebrating 60 years together with a European tour, Sixty, to mark
the occasion. Of the original line-up, only Jagger and Richards
remain, along with 'new boy' Ronnie Wood, who joined the band in
1975. In The Rolling Stones, Christopher Sandford tells the human
drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has
carried out interviews with those close to the Stones, family
members (including Mick's parents), the group's fans and
contemporaries - even examined their previously unreleased FBI
files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stones makes sense of
the rich brew of clever invention and opportunism, of talent, good
fortune, insecurity, self-destructiveness, and of drugs, sex and
other excess, that made the Stones who they are.
A biography of a legendary singer and song-writer, written with his
co-operation, this is the life behind the award-winning and
bestselling albums of Steve Earle, rebel, rocker and Nashville
legend. Steve Earle is the musicians' idol - "my hero" to Emmylou
Harris - who has said of his life "If I'd known I was going to live
this long I'd have taken better care of myself". He was taking
heroin at 13, and by the age of 40 was mired in a seemingly
permanent "vacation in the ghetto" as he described his life then.
In and out of jail for a variety of offences, Earle seemed
determined to make good on his boast that when the end of the world
came (and it seemed pretty close at times) only he, Keith Richards
and the cockroaches would be left standing. He has been married six
times, twice to the same woman, and amazingly forgiven by almost
all of the ex-wives. In moments of consciousness he has, through
sheer musical ability, shared a stage with, among others, Bruce
Springsteen, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, the Pogues and Bob Dylan.
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.
Brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn enjoyed a rare bond:
they were intimate companions and theirs was one of the most
significant musical relationships of the 19th century. They shared
and commented on each other's compositions, each highly
appreciative of the other but also offering frank, critical advice.
Their travels produced some great music - Felix's best loved works,
the Hebrides Overture and the Scottish Symphony, were inspired by
his 1829 visit to Scotland, whilst Fanny's innovative piano cycle
Das Jahr was a musical response to the tour of Italy she made in
1839-40. Combining letters and sketches with an accompanying
narrative describing their journeys, this is a wonderful
celebration of the two Mendelssohns and a portrait of Scotland and
Italy of the time as seen through the eyes of two of the Romantic
movement's most acclaimed composers.
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.
Ken Matthews was working at the CEGB's Marchwood Engineering
Laboratories near Southampton when, in 1977, a group of his
colleagues, who were keen brass band enthusiasts, started "having a
blow" during their lunchtime break. He went along and was soon
given an instrument and taught the rudiments of playing. It was not
long before this group decided to form a brass band and so
Marchwood Brass performed its first engagement later that year. A
sponsorship deal from Vodafone led to a name change in 1989 and the
band is now well established as the New Forest Brass Band. Ken has
been a playing member of this band ever since it started and, as he
has access to a substantial amount of archive information, he has
been able to write this account which traces the band's history
from its inception to the present day. Along the way, the band has
won many cups and performed in numerous concerts and other events.
Ken has remembered incidents, both humorous and more serious, which
have made his book a personal memoir rather than a chronological
historical treatise.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Piano syllabus
for 2021 & 2022, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B
and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an
attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that
provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer.
The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing
for exams, useful syllabus information.
Writing in Music demystifies music writing conventions and methods
by offering strategies for the types of writing that students most
often encounter in college courses on music. The book offers
guidance through the writing process and, for research assignments,
through the research process. Geared for an audience of music
majors and other students taking undergraduate music-major
courses--as well as for master's students in music desiring more
training in academic writing--Writing in Music covers the two
approaches common to academic coursework in virtually all
music-major programs: the study of music with a focus on its
cultural and historical contexts, and the exploration of works
using the tools of music analysis. Whether students want to apply a
specific approach or take a broader, interdisciplinary stance, this
guide prepares them to think and write about music.
|
Washington, Dc, Jazz
(Paperback)
Regennia N Williams, Sandra Butler-truesdale; Foreword by Willard Jenkins
|
R641
R528
Discovery Miles 5 280
Save R113 (18%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
‘Williams’s memoir is as flinty, earthy and plain-spoken
as her songs’  New York Times ‘The often hilarious,
occasionally harrowing Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I
Told You is a bracingly candid chronicle of a sui generis
character plotting a ramshackle but ultimately triumphant
trajectory’  Wall Street Journal ‘An engaging
read and beautifully written’ MOJO The beloved
and iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up
about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being
overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her
enduring songs. Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was
anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep
South, she moved from town to town each time her father—a poet, a
textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties—got a new job,
totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her
mother suffered from severe mental illness and was in and out of
hospitals. And when Williams was about a year old she had to have
an emergency tracheotomy—an inauspicious start for a singing
career. Â But she was also born a fighter, and she would
develop a voice that has captivated millions. Â Lucinda
Williams takes readers through the events that shaped her
music—from performing for family friends in her living room to
singing at local high schools and colleges, to recording her first
album and headlining a sold-out show at Radio City Music Hall. She
reveals the inspirations for her unforgettable lyrics, including
the doomed love affairs with ‘poets on motorcycles’, and the
gothic Southern landscapes of the many different towns of her
youth. Williams spent years working at health food stores and
record stores during the day so she could play her music at night,
and faced record companies who told her that her music was ‘too
unfinished’, ‘too country for rock and too rock for country’,
and criticism that she didn’t have the right voice for radio or
TV. But her fighting spirit persevered, leading to a hard-won
success that spans 17 Grammy nominations and a legacy as one of the
greatest and most influential songwriters of our time. Â Raw,
intimate and honest, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You is
an evocative reflection on an extraordinary woman’s life journey.
Â
|
Joni
- The Anthology
(Paperback)
Barney Hoskyns; Introduction by Barney Hoskyns; Barney Hoskyns
|
R448
R372
Discovery Miles 3 720
Save R76 (17%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
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.
|
You may like...
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz, David Ritz
Paperback
R463
R378
Discovery Miles 3 780
|