wyszukanych pozycji: 19
The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism - A Rock's Back Pages Reader
ISBN: 9780747563136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the offices of Rock's Backpages and edited by famed rock writer, critic and author Barney Hoskyns, The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock presents the most iconic pieces of rock music writing from the past half century. Coming at rock and roll from a different angle - with various takes on its love, its loathing and its access and excess, pieces include Al Aroniwitz documenting the Beatles' arrival in America; Nick Hornby reappraising pop deities Abba; and Will Self taking on Morrissey, just a few of the many stories selected from the rich RBP online library.
From the offices of Rock's Backpages and edited by famed rock writer, critic and author Barney Hoskyns, The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Ro...
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109,20 zł |
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
ISBN: 9780571309764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant, and freaks dazed and confused by the search for spiritual truth. This is a study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the r...
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76,32 zł |
Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
ISBN: 9781472127549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A Rock's Backpages anthology, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns, of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century.
A Rock's Backpages anthology, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns, of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the la...
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55,97 zł |
Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780747561804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians. Defined by the music of Brian Wilson, The Doors, Niggaz With Attitude, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and fulled by drugs, alcohol, sun, sex and surf, LA has seen it all. Barney Hoskyns tells the definitive story of L.A.'s post-war music scene and spent nearly a decade researching this account of music which developed into a culture of its own.
No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians....
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109,20 zł |
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
ISBN: 9780767927093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat autobiographical, fans...
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically accla...
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103,32 zł |
Say It One Time for the Broken Hearted
ISBN: 9780747541370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul music of the 60s. Full of personal interviews, this book goes in search of the artists behind this blend of music.
In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul musi...
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81,85 zł |
Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780879309435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. British rock historian Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock & roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, The Doors, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and others populate the pages of this comprehensive and extensively illustrated book.
British rock historian Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock & roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, ...
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86,06 zł |
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and T
ISBN: 9780470127773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told.
--Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's house; the Eagles' backstage fistfights... Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitiv...
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94,67 zł |
Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band
ISBN: 9780470894323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The definitive oral history of the iconic, bestselling rock band Led Zeppelin
With Robert Plant on lead vocal and Jimmy Page on guitar, Led Zeppelin is one of the most iconic, legendary, and influential rock bands in musical history. Tales of their indulgence in sex, drugs, and excess have swirled for decades. In this definitive oral history of the band, Barney Hoskyns finally reveals the truth about Led Zeppelin, paring away the myths and describing what life was really like for four young men on top of the world, enjoying fame on a scale that not even the Beatles experienced as a... The definitive oral history of the iconic, bestselling rock band Led Zeppelin
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197,99 zł |
Across the Great Divide: The Band and America
ISBN: 9781423414421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a vivid and rollicking account of The Band's journey across three decades. Spanning the history of American rock and boasting a supporting cast that includes Dylan, Janis Joplin, and U2, the book brilliantly captures the raw magic and complex personalities of a group George Harrison called "the best band in the history of the universe." This revised U.S. edition includes a postscript, together with an obituary of Rick Danko and a brand-new interview with Robbie Robertson.
This is a vivid and rollicking account of The Band's journey across three decades. Spanning the history of American rock and boasting a supporting cas...
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187,11 zł |
Across The Great Divide
ISBN: 9780712605403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to arrive on the music scene in the late 1960s. The Band's members - Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm - fashioned something magically new out of musically traditional components: old-time country and gospel, Preservation Hall jazz, medicine-show vaudeville. They started as The Hawks, a teenage backup group for the rockabilly renegade Ronnie Hawkins, touring the endless highways through the heart of the South. Eventually they headed north, where they left Hawkins to become Bob Dylan's band...
The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to arrive on the music scene in the late 1960s. The Band's members - Robbie Robertson, ...
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103,69 zł |
Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium
ISBN: 9781472129420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.
A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns...
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55,97 zł |
Small Town Talk
ISBN: 9780306825347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock--the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident--was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the...
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Wood...
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94,67 zł |
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and T
ISBN: 9780471732730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told.
--Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell's house; the Eagles' backstage fistfights... Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitiv...
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154,94 zł |
Hotel California: Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967–1976
ISBN: 9780007177059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success...
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76,32 zł |
Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast
ISBN: 9780312171834 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can feel at home. Hector and Virgil think of their B&B as a refuge, a retreat, a haven, where folks may bring their own books or peruse the brothers' own substantial library. An antic blend of homespun and intellectual humor, Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast is a place readers will want to return to again and again. Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, originally... A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like... |
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77,45 zł |
Capitol Records
ISBN: 9783836583138 / Francuski / Twarda / 2021 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Hollywood's most distinctive landmarks and home to one of the world's most defining labels for the past 75+ years. To commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music, TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its founding year of 1942 to today. With a foreword by Beck, essays by cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as hundreds of images from Capitol's extensive archives, we follow the...
From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of Ho...
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344,40 zł |
Joni: The Anthology
ISBN: 9781250148636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,19 zł |
Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted: Country Soul in the American South
ISBN: 9781947026124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,06 zł |