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The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballads and political protest, computerised music and controversy. The glamour of costume, greasepaint and...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-01-06
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The glorious sixties were a decade for the young and rebellious, of cultural freedom and of sexual liberation.The British music scene had never been so adventurous, taking even the American charts by storm.Every Chart-Topper Tells a Story:The Sixties takes a look at the...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2012-01-06
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A marvellously funny and sharply observed account of a journey to Russia by one of Britain's most talented young writers. Moscow - a labyrinth where the humans try to keep one step ahead of the roaches. Everyone on the move, some in search of the quick buck, and others...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-12-31
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Nana Mouskouri, the Greek singer and one of the world's most popular entertainers, tells her life story for the first time.For more than 40 yearsNana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties Greece to her...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-15
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What did Time magazine consider the twentieth-century's greatest album? Which anthem by Prince was an attempt to emulate Bob Seger? And what links Count Basie and Batman?If you thought you knew your music, then think again. 1001Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, is...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2011-12-05
Collection :
1001
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The New Pocket Kobbe's Complete Opera Book is the world's leading reference work on opera, and (in the words of Bernard Levin) 'no single-volume operatic guide can possibly compare with it'. Kobbe is the only book which summaries the libretti of the world's opera,...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
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In 1967, Luciano Pavarotti was an up-and-coming young tenor with a voice far more impressive than his stage technique or presence. So Decca, his record company, told him, 'Luciano, you're a real nice guy. So you need a real bastard to do your publicity.' Enter Herbert...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-11-18
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Explosive autobiography of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bass guitarist Duff McKaganDuff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N' Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in what was at the time the biggest band on earth. As well as pulling together the classic line-up...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2011-11-01
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When George Klein was thirteen, he couldn't have known how important the new kid in class - the one with the guitar, the boy named Elvis - would become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-10-31
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'Brilliant' OK! 'Engagingly warm' Heat 'Sensational' The Mirror'Ronan Keating demolishes his 'Mr Perfect of Pop image in a new warts-and-all book of his amazing ride to stardom.' The MirrorRonan Keating is a very real idol. In a life-story that received extensive...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-10-31
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Michael Bublé is currently the biggest male solo artist in the world. His albums have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. And his live shows fill the world's biggest stadiums to capacity wherever he plays. Now for the first time he has granted his millions of...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-10-13
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No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-06
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John Denver was America's biggest-selling solo star of the '70s. In commercial terms he was on a par with Sinatra in the '40s, Elvis in the '50s and the Beatles in the '60s. He experimented with a variety of styles and won fans from such diverse worlds as folk, pop and...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-09-30
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Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the inspiration for some...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2011-09-30
ePub
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UPDATED FOR 2017 WITH A NEW CHAPTERThe definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason.Pink Floyd is one of the most creative, successful and enduring bands of all time. As the only member to have been part of the band...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-09-01
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The United Kingdom had never seen anything like it, as two rock'n'roll legends rampaged around the country on Britain's first-ever rock tour. Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran lived the rock'n'roll lifestyle to the full, bringing to an end the monochrome 1950s and ushering...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-08-19
ePub
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In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde das damalige System der Ausbildung von Musikern stark in Frage gestellt. Auch Richard Wagner beteiligte sich daran. Er erhoffte sich 1865 durch den Bau einer deutschen Musikschule in München eine deutliche Verbesserung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-08-16
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'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-07-14
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Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success in the late 1980s, it ran its own club, the legendary Haçienda, had a string of...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2011-07-11
ePub
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In Post Everything, Luke Haines demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider. The 'avant-garde Arthur Scargill' calls upon the nation's pop stars to down tools and go on strike. We learn the story of Haines'...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-07-07
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