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This book is about Senegalese Pop star Youssou Ndour, also known as the king of mbalax music. The word mbalax was the name given to a specific drumming beat. Today, it is used to name a musical genre played by Wolof and Serer percussionists to entertain people at almost...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-11-13
PDF, ePub
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A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A joy to read' Guardian'I loved this book' Irvine Welsh 'What a story! I adored it' Lauren LaverneAs a DJ and broadcaster on radio, tv and the live music scene, Annie has been an invigorating and necessarily disruptive force. She walked in...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2020-09-03
ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' DEBBIE HARRY'A great drummer who has written a great book' BILL MURRAY'A revealing inside account of the highs and lows of a band...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2020-07-21
ePub
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A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020“[Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”—Rolling StoneAn intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family,...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2020-06-09
ePub
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Essential reading for anyone who loved Baz Luhrmann's biopic Elvis, starring Austin Butler and Tom HanksLast Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received unprecedented accolades. This concluding volume recounts the second...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2020-04-30
ePub
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'I couldn't put this book down. Malcolm inspired us to make art out of our boredom and anger. He set us free' Bobby Gillespie, Primal ScreamIncluded in the Guardian 10 best music biographies'Excellent . . . With this book, Gorman convincingly moves away from the...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2020-04-09
ePub
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New Foreword by Irvine Welsh.In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's basement to the Top of the Pops studio.In their own...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2019-10-10
ePub
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From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, Disgraceland comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book inspired by true stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2019-10-01
ePub
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'When I came out of my mother's womb I screamed: "Girl Power!"' Ginger SpiceThe Spice Girls shaped the nineties. They taught us about girl power, union jack dresses, the power of leopard print clothes and how if we want to be our lover, you've got to get with our...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-05-16
ePub
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In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band's leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-04-04
ePub
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A SUNDAY TIMES POP BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY MAIL MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ('Of the many Led Zeppelin biographies marking the band's 50th anniversary, this is the most illuminating')OBSERVER BEST BOOKS OF...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2018-10-25
ePub
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'Wonderful - such a terrific read. Brilliantly captures the passion, commitment, searing self-knowledge and dizzy happiness that comes with loving music. An enchanting book' STEPHEN FRY***Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975,...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2018-09-20
ePub
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'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard autobiographical fashion but to create a kind of self-help book that includes my story. There are many things people don't know about me and maybe when they read about those things...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2017-10-05
ePub
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'An indispensable compendium for Steely Dan fans' The WireAt its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan are one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century, recording several of the cleverest and...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2017-09-28
ePub
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**MOJO MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR**The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you’ve never heard of.Recording one near-perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragically ahead of their time.With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker and his template for the...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2015-07-02
ePub
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"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-10-30
ePub
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What makes Noddy Holder tick? Godfather of glam, national treasure and thinking grandmother’s crumpet, Noddy has been at the epicentre of British pop culture since he stormed on to the music scene in the 1960s, and in The World According to Noddy he gives us a hilarious...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2014-09-18
ePub
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They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to run a record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own label from a shabby Glasgow flat...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2014-04-17
ePub
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Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-17
ePub
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As a boy in post-War England, legendary Kinks singer/songwriter Ray Davies fell in love with America – its movies and music, its culture of freedom fed his imagination. In Americana, Davies tries to make sense of his long love-hate relationship with the country that...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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