Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence and his gradual emergence as a uniquely talented singer-songwriter. With interviews from friends, family, and associates, and material drawn from an unfinished autobiography, Shipton probes beneath the enigma to discover the real...
Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure i...
Alyn Shipton is on the editorial board of the new Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, to be released in late 2006, and this new edition of -A New History of Jazz- will be referenced throughout to tracks in this new multi-CD collection of essential jazz recordings.
Brand New Edition Featuring Over 20% Entirely New Material
Praise for the first edition of A New History of Jazz: -The most outstanding single-volume history of jazz around.---Don Rose, Jazz Institute of Chicago
-No jazz writer, scholar, teacher,...
Alyn Shipton is on the editorial board of the new Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, to be released in late 2006, and this new edition of -A N...
When Billy J. Kramer's record of Lennon and McCartney's "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" topped the New Musical Express charts in 1963, he became the first singer in the world to have a number one hit with a Beatles song, apart from the Fab Four themselves. This success propelled the teenage Kramer into the fast lane, and he followed it with another five top twenty singles within the space of two years. In this autobiography Billy J. Kramer (born William Ashton) tells his rags to riches story, from his working class childhood in Liverpool, via a British Rail engineering apprenticeship in...
When Billy J. Kramer's record of Lennon and McCartney's "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" topped the New Musical Express charts in 1963, he became the f...
