Song for the Road by Kate Morgan
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Category: Music
Some people are lucky enough to make a living from making music, and an inevitable part of this means touring. Whether across a wide, brown land or to exotic overseas destinations, travel is a part of a working musician's life. Song for the Road contains tales from the road from some of our finest singe ...Show more
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World by Norman Lebrecht
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Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, heard in Hollywood films and on state occasions, his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal emotional wounds, others find intellectual fascination i ...Show more
All the Mad Men: Barrett, Bowie, Drake, The Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. "All the Mad Men" tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend, Ray ...Show more
How to Play Guitar - Step by Step by Dorling Kindersley
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Category: Music
Get the fast-track to guitar stardom with this inspirational, step-by-step visual guide From developing your skills as a performer to learning chord sequences and choosing the right kit, How To Play Guitar Step By Step is the ultimate self-improvement guide for all aspiring guitar heroes. Ever dreamt ...Show more
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of by Alan Light
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Category: Music
""A venerated creator. An adored, tragic interpreter. An uncomplicated, memorable melody. Ambiguous, evocative words. Faith and uncertainty. Pain and pleasure."" Today, "Hallelujah" is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows as diverse as " ...Show more
Voguing and the Ballroom Scene of New York 1989-92 by Chantal Regnault
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Category: Music
At the end of the 1980s, Voguing suddenly entered the mainstream when featured in Madonna's "Vogue" video, Malcolm McClaren's "Deep in Vogue" single and the 1990 documentary "Paris is Burning" won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Photographer Chantal Regnault spent many years capturin ...Show more
It's Another World Record: Album Cover Art 1958-1976 by Geoff Hocking
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Category: Music
A graduate of Bendigo Technical College in 1965, graphic designer and illustrator Hocking worked in the studio of World Record Club for two years from 1966 to 1967. Like many other young WRC designers it was his first job after art school and a great opportunity to be a part of the exciting milieu of ar ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
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Category: Music
This "New York Times" bestseller by the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a compelling story of the price of success and excess, dedication and debauchery, intrigue and integrity, and recklessness and redemption that could only come from the world of rock.
Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791 by Christoph Wolff
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Category: Music
"I now stand at the gateway to my fortune," Mozart wrote in a letter of 1790. He had entered into the service of Emperor Joseph II of Austria two years earlier as Imperial-Royal Chamber Composer a salaried appointment with a distinguished title and few obligations. His extraordinary subsequent output, b ...Show more
MORRISSEY THE PAGEANT OF HIS BLEEDING HE by HOPPS GAVIN
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Category: Music
This is the first full-length scholarly study of Morrissey's career - as a writer, performer, and troublemaker. Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantic ...Show more
Commando Autobiography of Johnny Ramone by Johnny Ramone
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Category: Music
Raised in Queens, where he worked as a plumber while honing his guitar skills, Johnny Ramone eventually became a founding member of The Ramones, one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Often called the first punk rock outfit, their status is now legendary. But despite becoming an internation ...Show more
My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance by Harry Belafonte
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Category: Music
Written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Schnayerson, My Song is an inspiring story of performance and protest, from a superstar singer and actor who was on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memory. Along the way, he befriended some of the most influ ...Show more