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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.
The first book to document the complete history of Genesis charts
the rise of this British art rock band to superstardom and
discusses its role in launching the successful solo careers of
Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. Original.
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.
'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
(FAQ). There are few modern animated television shows that could
survive over a decade and a half and remain as funny... or as
stupid... or as sick... or as depraved... today as when they
started. Even fewer can claim to cater to "mature" audiences, while
their critics complain that everything about the show is immature.
And fewer still where, for the first decade or so, one of the main
characters was killed off every week. Then returned, no worse for
wear, seven days later. That, however, is the world of South Park,
and this is a book about that world. A journey through the lives,
times, and catastrophes that have established the tiny mountain
town of South Park, Colorado, as America's favorite dysfunctional
community. A voyage into a universe where Barbra Streisand is
reborn as a Japanese monster movie; where Kentucky Fried Chicken is
a registered drug; where Canada is forever on a footing for war;
and where we discover that even feces love Christmas. From Zebulon
Pike to Chef, from Brian Boitano to Mel Gibson, from "Super Best
Friends" to South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, it's all
covered in South Park FAQ . Featuring A-Z coverage of the all the
characters readers have come to know and the stories behind the
episodes, it also includes an episode guide and an appendix of all
of the songs featured in South Park . Nothing is sacred and nobody
is safe. Even physical and emotional disabilities are just another
banana skin for someone to slip on, and the term "politically
correct" has been translated into "oh good, you're getting
annoyed." It is a place where ... you get the picture. This is not
Bambi
(FAQ). Doctor Who is indisputably the most successful and beloved
series on UK TV, and the most watched series in the history of BBC
America. Doctor Who FAQ tells the complete story of its American
success, from its first airings on PBS in the 1970s, through to the
massive Doctor Who fan conventions that are a staple of the
modern-day science fiction circuit. Combining a wealth of
information and numerous illustrations, Doctor Who FAQ also
includes a comprehensive episode guide. From the Doctor's most
impressive alien foes and the companions who have fought alongside
him to unimagined planets and unexpected points in history, from
some of the greatest minds ever to have walked the Earth, to the
most evil beings ever to haunt the universe, it's all covered here,
including the Tardis, the none-too-reliable "bigger on the inside
than the out" blue box in which the Doctor travels.
(Book). Hearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of
age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars.
James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and Cat Stevens could never have been
considered your typical late-sixties songwriters self-absorbed and
self-composed, all three eschewed the traditional means of
delivering their songs, instead turning its process inward. The
result was a body of work that stands among the most profoundly
personal art ever to translate into an international language, and
a sequence of songs from "Sweet Baby James" and "Carolina in My
Mind," to "Jamaica Say You Will" and "These Days," to "Peace Train"
and "Wild World" that remain archetypes not only of what the
critics called the singer-songwriter movement, but of the human
condition itself. Author Dave Thompson, himself a legend among rock
biographers, takes on his subjects with his usual brio and candor,
leaving no stone unturned in his quest to shine a light on the dark
side of this profoundly earnest era in popular music. Penetrating,
pointed, and laced with vivid insight and detail, Hearts of
Darkness is the story of rock when it no longer felt the need to
roll.
(Book). Bad Reputation is the unexpurgated story of Joan Jett, the
single most exciting rocker of the American 1980s, one of the
biggest-selling acts of the age, and one of punk rock's most valued
elder statespeeps. Through its pages, a welter of exclusive
interviews and observations paint what might well be the last great
tale of rock hedonism, but one that comes with a twist in its tail.
The rockers are women, the groupies are guys. It could have been
the plot line for a movie or even a sitcom, but the Runaways,
Jett's first band, made it happen, and Jett made it last. The first
serious female rocker of the 1980s, Jett became the template for
everyone that followed. But unlike so many of her peers and
counterparts, she never lost her credibility, never sold out, and
never gave up. And she has backed her reputation up with genuine
star power, following the chart-topping "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" one
of the most played '80s anthems of all time with "Crimson and
Clover," "Do You Wanna Touch Me," and "I Hate Myself for Loving
You" before the decade ended. And, while the 1990s saw Jett
purposefully step away from the spotlight, she remained, and
remains, America's number one Queen of Noise.
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.
"Don't live life worrying about it, just T. Rex the shit 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
Here is a fascinating, all-encompassing journey through the life
and career of one of America s most influential, and literate,
songwriters. Beginning with Simon s earliest days as an aspiring
teenage idol and Tin Pan Alley songsmith, Paul Simon FAQ takes
readers through Simon s sometimes tempestuous relationship with
singing partner Art Garfunkel, with whom he established the most
popular musical duo in rock history. The book goes behind the
scenes of Simon s groundbreaking work at the forefront of world
music and follows him to his emotional 2018 final concert before
his retirement-from performing live. In addition, Paul Simon FAQ
features chapters dedicated not only to Simon s music but also his
stage, screen, and television work, his devotion to charity, and
more. Influences such as Bob Dylan, the Everly Brothers, and the
Child Ballads are examined, while his songwriting is documented not
only through his own recordings but also those of the myriad other
artists who have covered his compositions. Fact-filled sidebars
serve up a wealth of statistics and lists. In short, Paul Simon FAQ
is the ultimate guide to the consummate performer.
"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.
?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?
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