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As the creative force behind Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown Records in
the mid-Sixties, a writing credit from Holland Dozier Holland was
virtually a guarantee of chart success. From Stop! In The Name Of
Love to How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You, they were the
songwriting and production dream team responsible for some of the
greatest songs of the twentieth century. In this compelling
autobiography, brothers Eddie and Brian Holland share their story
for the first time, starting with growing up in Detroit raised by a
single mother and their grandmother, before shining a light on
their early musical careers. A gifted lyricist, Eddie started out
as a solo singer with Berry Gordy as his manager before partnering
up with his brother Brian and Lamont Dozier, both talented
arrangers and producers. When Holland Dozier Holland came together,
they helped transform Motown Records from a local soul label into a
worldwide hit factory, home to international superstars such as
Marvin Gaye, Martha & The Vandellas, The Supremes, Smokey
Robinson, The Miracles, The Four Tops and The Isley Brothers. After
an awe-inspiring tenure they left Motown in 1968, continuing their
successes at new labels and with new collaborators for years to
come. Featuring honest and open first-hand accounts, Come and Get
These Memories is more than just a behind-the-scenes look at Motown
Records at its peak: Eddie and Brian set the record straight on
both their personal and professional lives and offer a revealing
slice of pop-music history.
'Don't live life worrying about it, just T. Rex the s*** out of
it.' - Sylvain Sylvain The New York Dolls were called many things;
glam, proto-punk, hard rock, but are probably best understood as a
'dirty rock & roll' band. Combining an aggressively androgynous
style with street smart New York attitude and campy humour, the New
York Dolls ushered in the era of CBGBs, heroin chic, loud guitars
and referential lyrics which gave rise to Patti Smith, The Ramones,
Television and many more. Fans of the band range from Guns N' Roses
to Morrissey, who organised the reformation of the band when he
curated Meltdown festival in 2004. Sylvain Sylvain was there from
the start, and this is his story. Taking in his early life in New
York, the rise, fall and rise again of the New York Dolls, and all
his misadventures between, There's No Bones in Ice Cream is the
true story of one of rock's greatest, told in his own authentic
voice. 'In any great band it's often The Quiet One who has the best
stories. There's No Bones in Ice Cream would be a superb book even
if Sylvain worked in a bank. As it is it's one of the best rock
biographies ever. Ten out of ten.' - Classic Rock
Have you ever noticed how pirates use a spyglass to focus in on
other ships or land in the distance? While they focus in on small
things in the distance, they miss seeing other things around them.
Sometimes they miss having fun. Sometimes they miss the beautiful
treasure they already have Just like a pirate using a spyglass,
kids may focus in on one thing that they want, and not notice all
the good things they already have. If you're a kid who thinks "it's
not fair," this book is for you What to Do When It's Not Fair
guides children and their parents through the difficult emotions of
envy and jealousy using strategies and techniques based on
cognitive behavioral principles. This interactive self-help book is
the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering
children to cope with envy so they can sail the high seas with
pleasure This book is part of the Magination Press What-to-Do
Guides for Kidsr series
There have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the
Heartbreakers, but only by people who weren't there. Walter Lure
was-from the band's chaotic beginnings on New York's Lower East
Side, through a now-legendary UK tour with the Sex Pistols and the
Clash, and on to a yearlong stay in London-eyewitness and midwife
to the birth of UK punk. Now, he tells his story in To Hell and
Back, a thrilling ride through the clubs and dives of two
continents, in the company of one of the most notorious junkies in
rock 'n' roll history. Drawing from his own contemporary journals,
Lure paints a vivid portrait of life in both cities, during perhaps
the most crucial musical uprising of the past forty years...the
music, the characters, the clothes, the fights, the drugs, the
orgies, the lot. Lure lays bare his own battle with drugs, and
reflects upon his life after the band's split-rising to become a
Wall Street fixture yet still finding time to make music.
Between 1972 and their first break-up in 1976 (and then again
following their 1979 reunion), Roxy Music were arguably the most
exciting, ambitious and vivacious bans in the land - a core four
piece of vocalist Bryan Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, horn
player Andy Mackay and drummer Phil Thompson (but also featuring,
at different times, Brian Eno and Eddie Jobson) who emerged during
1972's long, hot summer of glam rock, but who could never be
readily pigeonholed. The greatest records they made became, in
turn, some of the greatest records of the age. 'Virginia Plain,'
'Pyjamarama,' 'Street Life,' 'All I Want Is You,' 'Love is the
Drug,' 'Trash' and 'Dance Away' were the hits, but even the deepest
cuts on the band's first five albums became anthems for a
generation. Roxy were no ordinary band in other ways, too, as
Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay and Eno all embarked upon solo careers -
which, between them, were responsible for a complex catalogue of
songs that stretches from the ballads of the 1930s to the
electronica of the distant future, from Wagner's Valkyries to David
Bowie's Low. This book encompasses all of that, documenting the
histories of both band and band members, while analysing and
detailing every album and single released by the Roxy family
throughout the decade.
When it comes to earthshaking songs-the ones that signal a tectonic
shift in the current musical landscape-there is "Johnny B. Goode" .
. . there is "Good Vibrations" . . . and there is "I Feel Love." A
disco touchstone recorded by Donna Summer in 1976 and released on
her fifth studio album, I Remember Yesterday, in 1977, "I Feel
Love" is one of the most important records in music history, and
one of the most influential. "I Feel Love" topped charts the world
over-including in the UK, Australia, France, Italy, and the
Netherlands-and was in the Top 10 everywhere else. This record,
Brian Eno told David Bowie as they worked together in the recording
studio, "is going to change the sound of club music for the next
fifteen years." Which, said Bowie, "was more or less right." Except
fifteen years was an under-estimation. Even now, more than forty
years after its release, "I Feel Love" is routinely featured toward
the top of manifold "greatest song" Top 100s-and remains a favorite
by music fans and artists alike, with dozens of cover versions
paying homage. That is the tale this book tells-not only the story
of the song but also the story of its all-pervading impact upon the
world of popular music. Firsthand experiences and original
interviews with a host of musicians, disc jockeys, and dancers
loudly illustrate the record's initial impact and its continuing
influence. "I Feel Love" still sounds like the future.
EThe Twilight ZoneE is among the most beloved shows in American
television history a pioneering fantasy behemoth that bridged the
cultural gap between the 1950s and 1960s with thought-provoking
mystery mind-boggling theorems and occasionally outright
horror.THEThe Twilight Zone FAQE takes the reader back to that
halcyon era looking back on the show and its impact as a force for
societal change via reflections on the manifold topics and
controversies that the show took on a from the space race to the
Red Menace from paranoia to madness and beyond. Dave Thompson
traces the history of the show a from its earliest flowering in the
mind of then-unknown Rod Serling through its slow birth shaky
beginning and breathless five-season run a and he shows how it
became the blueprint for so much of the fantasy television that has
followed.THChapters deal with the comic books novels and many other
spin-offs including the movie the TV revamps and even the amusement
park ride. In addition this FAQ offers a full guide to every
episode providing details on the cast and music and pinpointing
both the best and the worst of the series all adding up to a
brightly opinionated time machine that catapults the reader back to
the true golden age of American television.
Cheerfully unpretentious and brash with all the trimmings one would
expect of a traditional seaside resort, Blackpool remains the
iconic resort town, but there is more to its richly coloured
history than you might think. This absorbing collection of images
reveals the changing face of the town during the past century. Over
200 old postcards and photographs - many never previously published
- help highlight Blackpool's remarkable transformation from a
fledgling resort. Aspects of everyday life in the town are featured
here, including social occasions, the pleasure steamers that once
plied their trade from the piers, seaside entertainment and old
cherished street scenes of bygone Blackpool. This book is a
valuable pictorial history, which will waken nostalgic memories for
some readers, whilst offering a unique glimpse at the past for
others.
"London's Burning "is the story of punk rock as it happened,
stripped of hindsight and future legend, and laid bare. Here are
the Damned and the Adverts on tour, the Sex Pistols swearing
through their prime-time television debut, the Tom Robinson Band
conducting a club full of skinheads through the anthem "Glad to Be
Gay," rioting Rastas running through the carnage that closed the
Notting Hill Carnival, Sid Vicious arguing about which was David
Bowie's best song. At the same time, it is a personal story of a
confused but dedicated sixteen-year-old looking not just for kicks
and great music, but for a cultural revolution--and finding one in
his back yard.
All that Jazz--and more! Backed with a rich history and
appreciation for the genre, and featuring nearly 50,000 vinyl
albums covering some 50 years of recorded music, Goldmine Jazz
Album Price Guide, 3rd Edition is the only identification and value
guide on the market dedicated solely to collecting Jazz vinyl
pressed in the United States. Record collectors and enthusiasts
will enjoy wide-ranging artist coverage, extensive discographies,
descriptions and vetted secondary market values in this new
edition. Jazz, of course, is a voyage of discovery, a journal into
musical unknowns and delights. As with any journey, a good
companion makes the trip that much more rewarding. Goldmine Jazz
Album Price Guide is such an asset. Inside you'll find: More albums
than ever before from all eras Alphabetical listings by artist
name, including record label, catalog number, title of album,
release year, values in Near Mint condition and recording notes An
extensive record label identifier The industry standard Goldmine
Grading Guide Hundreds of album cover photographs
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?The Bayou is a world of its own - a marshy, sometimes treacherous,
oft-times sinister land of creeping darkness and living shadows,
secret legends and vivid mythology. It is that darkness and those
shadows that permeate Bayou Underground, the first study of the
Louisiana music scene ever to leave behind the bright lights of big
city New Orleans, and plunge instead into the wilderness that not
only surrounds the Big Easy, but which stretches for hundreds of
miles on either side, from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama.
Bayou Underground explores the music of the region from the House
of the Rising Sun to gator hunting with Amos Moses (the one-armed
Cajun backwoodsman created by country songwriter Jerry Reed) to
artists like Bo Diddley, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, and Creedence
Clearwater Revival, who were influenced by unsung heroes of the
Bayou. In Bayou Underground, the people and the cultures that have
called the bayou home are unearthed through their words and lives,
but most of all through the music that has, over the last century,
either arisen from the swamplands themselves, or been drawn from
fellow visitors to the region, as they seek to set down for
posterity the emotions, dreams, and enchantments that the area
instilled in them. Part social history, part epic travelogue, and
partly a lament for a way of life that has now all but disappeared,
Bayou Underground is the gripping story of American music's
forgotten childhood, and the parentage it barely even knows about.
By comparison, the Big Easy had it easy.
Dave Thompson, author of best-selling biographies of Kurt Cobain,
John Travolta, David Bowie and many more, turns his attention now
to the longest life of them all, Doctor Who. Packed with crucial
revelation and candid insight, "Eclectic Gypsy" is the first book
ever to examine this remarkable life as it has unfolded through the
pages of the media, not only on Planet Earth, but across the
universe. Drawing upon historical documentation, newspaper and
magazine articles, hundreds of hours of interview tape and, of
course, a vast corpus of television, audio and written material,
Eclectic Gypsy traces the legendary Doctor from his birth on the
planet Gallifrey over 700 years ago, through ten regenerations and
countless adventures in time and space. From his epic encounters
with such alien races as the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Slitheen,
through the string of companions that have accompanied the Doctor
on his perilous journey, and onto the world of Gallifrey itself,
Eclectic Gypsy explores the life and times of the Doctor, as seen
through the eyes of the inter-galactic news corps. From the driest
academic journal to the most sensationalist tabloid, it reveals the
truth behind the being that fans across the cosmos know simply as
"the Doctor" -- and asks whether they really know him at all?
EThe WallE was Roger Waters's first album. So begins Dave
Thompson's Thompson's ERoger Waters: The Man Behind the WallE the
first full biography on this notoriously guarded personality that
has eluded probing queries and papertrail dissection for the
entirety of his career. As he prepares to release his first solo
album in twenty-five years buff up on your Waters know-how with the
paperback edition of Thompson's incisive profile first published in
2013.THBorn in 1943 amidst the bombs and shrapnel of the Second
World War Waters abandoned a career in architecture to pursue his
myriad demons through song. Over the years imbued with an utter
brilliant mind and a general tendency toward belligerence Waters
has regularly butted heads with his bandmates fellow musicians fans
acquaintances family political figures and entire nations a but
why? Leaning on original research conducted among Waters' inner
circle of friends and associates Thompson cautiously dismantles
every wall Waters has erected between himself and the public a
brick at a time in pursuit of an answer. As the mass of apparent
contradictions stack up and the saga of this publicly isolated man
unravels Thompson arrives at a portrait of an artist every bit as
nuanced and recalcitrant as his work would suggest.
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