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Elvis and the Memphis Mafia
ISBN: 9781845131289 / Angielski / Miękka / 806 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King the man and the phenomenon in his full complexity. Through revealing interviews with three of Elvis s closest friends, who were also his protectors and rescuers, Nash achieves the first true mapping of Elvis s psyche. A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the... |
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75,26 |
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The Go-Betweens
ISBN: 9781891241161 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as ""the ultimate cult band"" and the lasting esteem of their peers, from R.E.M. to Sleater-Kinney. In 2000 they returned to making records--and received the best reviews of their career. David Nichols relates their story with wit and verve, and since the Go-Betweens had personalities as well as talent, their biography is compelling reading, not just for committed fans but for anyone interested in the current music scene. ""I loved this book," raved Jonathan Lethem. "How elegant that the...
The Go-Betweens recorded six albums that are among the finest work of the 1980s, earning them a reputation as ""the ultimate cult band"" and the lasti...
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94,84 |
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Making of the Beatles Sgt Pepper
ISBN: 9781896522289 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reveals anecdotes about the songs, the album cover art, and the recording of arguably the greatest pop album ever recorded, told by engineers, friends, and The Beatles themselves.
Reveals anecdotes about the songs, the album cover art, and the recording of arguably the greatest pop album ever recorded, told by engineers, friends...
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33,75 |
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Making of U2s the Joshua Tree
ISBN: 9781896522302 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed track-by-track breakdown is the foundation of this in depth examination of U2's epochal fifth album.
A detailed track-by-track breakdown is the foundation of this in depth examination of U2's epochal fifth album.
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33,75 |
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We're Going to See the Beatles!: An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans Who Were There
ISBN: 9781595800329 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""We're Going to See the Beatles "" presents the story of Beatlemania in America as experienced by their most devoted fans.
""We're Going to See the Beatles "" includes anecdotes from those who cheered the group as they arrived at Kennedy Airport in 1964, who kept vigil for them outside the Plaza Hotel, and who sat in the studio audience of "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the band's landmark first live TV broadcast. Other fans detail what it was like to see the Beatles in one of their rare concerts at such famous venues as Shea Stadium and Candlestick Park. From the earliest whispers about... ""We're Going to See the Beatles "" presents the story of Beatlemania in America as experienced by their most devoted fans.
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98,64 |
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Celebrate Elvis - Volume 2
ISBN: 9780977894550 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrate Elvis is a series that will leave no stone unturned. ...From rumor busters to private personal memories and experiences to emotionally gripping fan interviews. Celebrate Elvis is an ongoing collaboration with fans from around the world that are interested in preserving and broadening the Elvis Presley legacy. Get ready to sit back and relax as Joe Esposito and the fans share experiences, insights and memories that have never before been published...until now. I want to thank you from the depths of my heart for giving me the "Elvis Fan" insight and truths to the man with the soulful...
Celebrate Elvis is a series that will leave no stone unturned. ...From rumor busters to private personal memories and experiences to emotionally gripp...
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112,68 |
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Lennon: The Albums
ISBN: 9780952954064 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Omnibus Press). This is a comprehensive analysis of every album recorded by John Lennon during his solo years from the end of the Sixties to his death in 1980, as well as the posthumous work that followed. A lively and provocative commentary of every song is interspersed with comments from Lennon on his final decade. Features a song by song analysis, a song index for easy reference, details of compilations and live albums and details of posthumous releases. From his early experimental work with Yoko Ono, through the startling sound of the Plastic Ono Band, the chart-topping Imagine, the...
(Omnibus Press). This is a comprehensive analysis of every album recorded by John Lennon during his solo years from the end of the Sixties to his deat...
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87,23 |
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Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison
ISBN: 9780826429766 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Hymns to the Silence' is a detailed investigative study of Van Morrison as singer, performer, lyricist, musician and writer with particular attention paid throughout to the contradictions and tensions that are central to any understanding to his work as a whole.
'Hymns to the Silence' is a detailed investigative study of Van Morrison as singer, performer, lyricist, musician and writer with particular attention...
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139,97 |
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The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley: Extended Forms in Popular Music
ISBN: 9780810860193 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In September 1969, the Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, using a variety of progressive musical ideas that expressed the group's approach to multi-track recording and offering songs that constituted a highpoint in the Beatles' musical corpus. Of particular interest is the concluding sequence of songs (tracks 8-17): seemingly unrelated fragments woven together into a musical form that has thus far defied attempts at categorization. The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley: Extended Forms in Popular Music offers an analysis of these fragments, commonly known as the Abbey Road...
In September 1969, the Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, using a variety of progressive musical ideas that expressed the group's...
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265,53 |
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Alternative Rock: The Best Musicians & Recordings
ISBN: 9780879306076 / Angielski / Miękka / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Book). This book looks inside the artists and music that transformed the American and British soundscape of the 1980s and '90s. Scene-setting essays some with interviews of key figures explore alternative rock's primary influences, from Captain Beefheart to Brian Eno, and its many subgenres, from punk to grunge and Brit pop to trip hop. Reviews and profiles cover over 2,000 recordings and more than 500 musicians, such as The Beastie Boys, The Cure, R.E.M., Marilyn Manson, XTC and hundreds more. This comprehensive guide also examines the cultural scenes, technologies and people behind the...
(Book). This book looks inside the artists and music that transformed the American and British soundscape of the 1980s and '90s. Scene-setting essays ...
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96,51 |
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Rock Star Babylon: Outrageous Rumors, Legends, and Raucous True Tales of Rock and Roll Icons
ISBN: 9780452289413 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rockers Behaving Badly
From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock Star Babylonhas gathered together the most outrageous antics and diva-esque misbehavior in the annals of rock. Here in a single volume are the most wickedly entertaining stories of over-the-top parties, crazy divorces, hidden cameras, trashed hotel rooms, misapplied epileptic interventions, and innocent headless bats. Running the gamut from the rude to the ridiculous, these reports of rock-and-rollers at their worst come straight from the mouths of those who were there or those who... Rockers Behaving Badly
From Ozzy Osbourne to Chuck Berry, Courtney Love to Keith Moon, Rock Star Babylonhas gathered together the mo... |
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91,22 |
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Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
ISBN: 9780472115587 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion and opposition, its truth is much more complex.
In a bold reconsideration of the late sixties San Francisco counterculture movement, Counterculture Kaleidoscope takes a close look at the cultural and musical practices of that era. Addressing the conventional wisdom that the movement... Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular ...
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187,78 |
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Rock Band Name Origins: The Stories of 240 Groups and Performers
ISBN: 9780786438181 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book details the origins of the names of 240 musical acts, focusing on the most popular groups (and a few individual performers) from the 1960s through today. Even casual music fans will recognize almost all of the acts discussed. A few one-hit wonders are included simply because their name is so unusual (Mungo Jerry, for example) that they warrant a place in the study. Each entry focuses on the meaning and/or origin of the act's name, what it had been called previously, and any other names that were considered and rejected during the naming process. Also included are facts and figures...
This book details the origins of the names of 240 musical acts, focusing on the most popular groups (and a few individual performers) from the 1960s t...
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165,68 |
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Encyclopedia of Indie Rock
ISBN: 9780313341199 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative. For over 40 years, indie bands have prided themselves on the back-breaking efforts of self-promotion, self-produced albums, homemade album cover art, and even, for the stalwart artist, self-run record labels. "Encyclopedia of Indie Rock" chronicles the history and development indie rock, providing students, scholars, and music fans with an extensive overview of the musical and cultural... Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, ... |
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330,33 |
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Comfortably Numb
ISBN: 9780306817526 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett's chaotic life at the time of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band's painstaking and Byzantine...
Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and uni...
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83,58 |
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The Grateful Dead Trivia Quiz
ISBN: 9781934553060 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,69 |
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The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present
ISBN: 9781416562023 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FROM THE BRAIN TRUST BEHIND PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM -- THE WEBSITE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DECLARED "AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE IPO D GENERATION'S LEXICON, A MUST-READ" -- A FRESH GUIDE TO THE 500 BEST SONGS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS. Named the "best site for music criticism on the web" by The New York Times Magazine, Pitchforkmedia.com has become the leading independent resource for music journalism, the place people turn to find out what's happening in new music. Founded in 1995, Pitchfork has developed one of the web's most devoted followings, with more than 1.6 million readers...
FROM THE BRAIN TRUST BEHIND PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM -- THE WEBSITE THE LOS ANGELES TIMES DECLARED "AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE IPO D GENERATION'S LEXIC...
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60,82 |
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Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
ISBN: 9781556527890 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since rock's beginnings, there have been groupies. These chosen few women who bed, but not often wed, the musicians of their dreams are almost as much a part of music history as the musicians themselves. Pamela Des Barres, the world's foremost supergroupie, here offers an all-access backstage pass to the world of rock stars and the women who love them. Having had her own affairs with legends such as Keith Moon and Jimmy Page--as documented in her bestselling memoir I'm with the Band--Pamela now turns the spotlight onto other women who have found their way into the hearts and...
Since rock's beginnings, there have been groupies. These chosen few women who bed, but not often wed, the musicians of their dreams are almost as much...
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72,18 |
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Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers
ISBN: 9780252032905 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with R & B and hillbilly music through its peak in the 1950s and decline in the 1960s. John Broven combines narrative history with extensive oral history material from numerous recording pioneers including Joe Bihari of Modern Records; Marshall Chess of Chess Records; Jerry Wexler, Ahmet Ertegun, and Miriam Bienstock of Atlantic Records; Sam Phillips of Sun Records; Art Rupe of Specialty Records; and many more.
This volume is an engaging and exceptional history of the independent rock 'n' roll record industry from its raw regional beginnings in the 1940s with...
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502,10 |
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Rock 'n' Politics: A State of the Union Address
ISBN: 9780595467068 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,23 |