Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
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Category: Music
The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club and British pop music in the 1980s. NEW EXPANDED EDITION | WITH A FOREWORD BY NEIL TENNANT | FEAUTURING A BONUS CHAPTER ON DURAN DURAN AND A NEW AFTERWORD.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3) by William L. Weir
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the first electronic music they had ever heard. Samp ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
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Category: Music
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
The Islander - My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell; Paul Morley
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Category: Music
In the vein of Sound Man and The Soundtrack of My Life, a lyrical memoir from the founder of one of the greatest music labels of all time, Island Records, about his astonishing life and career helping to bring reggae music to the world stage and working with Bob Marley, U2, Grace Jones, Cat Stevens, and ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World by Leah Broad
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Category: Music
The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer. The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.'Fabulous.' Sunday Times 'A rare gift.' Financial Times ' ...Show more
Song: A History in 12 Parts by John Potter
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Category: Music
From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Björk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs as anyone else. My choices are based on decade ...Show more
Chain's Toward the Blues 33 1/3 by Peter Beilharz; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways ...Show more
Adventures in Modern Recording by Trevor Horn
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Category: Music
A Telegraph Book of the Year As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. His production work since the glory days of ZTT represents a veritable 'who's who' of intelligent modern pop, including the likes of ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCar ...Show more
Detours by Tim Rogers
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Category: Music
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more
The Creation Records Story - My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize by David Cavanagh; John Harris (Foreword by)
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Category: Music
Out of print for many years and regarded as one of the greatest music books ever written, My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story is the definitive account of the iconic British record label, republished for the label’s 40th anniversary. Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creati ...Show more
The Who and Quadrophenia by Martin Popoff
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Category: Music
Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever on the 50th anniversary of its release with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written edition.Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves no stone unturned in taking apart The Who's generation-spanning masterpiece, Quadrophenia, while ex ...Show more
Freaks Out! - Righteous Rock N Roll and the Rise and Fall of the Freaks by Luke Haines
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Category: Music
Luke Haines - the outsider artist par excellence - turns his caustic eye to the rise and fall of alternative rock 'n' roll heroes.