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Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967-1976 by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
This is the story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.Hotel California is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth accoun ...Show more
Lowside of the Road - A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider ...Show more
Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
At 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 best-produced albums of the '70s - from the breathlessly catchy Can't Buy a Thrill to the sleekly ...Show more
Major Dudes - A Steely Dan Companion by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
The ultimate anthology of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling rock acts of the last half-century At its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan has sold over 45 million albums and recorded several of the cleverest and best-produced albums of the 1970s--fr ...Show more
Mick Rock the Rise of David Bowie. 1972-1973 by Barney Hoskyns; Michael Bracewell; Mick Rock (Photographer)
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Category: Music
A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing. In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie's Stardust alter ego: a glitter-c ...Show more
Never Enough: A Way Through Addiction by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Biography & Memoir
A few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroin. From that moment on, for the next 20 years, Hoskyns is hopelessly hooked. This is the searingly honest story of what br ...Show more
Present Tense A Radiohead Companion by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For over 25 years, Radiohead have been the most radical and fascinating rock band in the world. Fearless in their desire to change and shape-shift, the Oxfordshire quintet has - through the nine studio albums from 1993's PABLO HONEY to 2016's A MOON-SHAPED POOL - consistently stretched the boundaries of ...Show more
Present Tense - A Radiohead Compendium by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans will love it' Classic Rock A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced ...Show more
Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
Joni Mitchell has only visited the U.S. Top 40 singles chart four times in her long recording career - and the Top 20 just once. So much for "stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song", as she sang in her 1974 song 'Free Man in Paris'. What Joni has done, on the other hand, is record a han ...Show more
Small Town Talk - Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix Friends in Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Film Theatre
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Quite simply, Woodstock was already a key location in the ...Show more
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant, dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists, scheming dealers, and freaks dazed and confused by t ...Show more
Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Music
A unique look at the history, adventures, myths and realities of this most legendary and powerful of bands, it is a labour of love based on hours of first-hand and original interviews. What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into the close-knit ...Show more
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