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Rolling Stones forman un grupo único y ejemplar en el mundo de la música pop. Único porque desde su aparición en 1963 ha propuesto, e incluso impuesto, un conjunto de actitudes musicales y extramusicales que iban contra el savoir-faire profesional que se exigia entonces al cantante pop. Ejemplar porque los numerosos prestamos tomados de la musica negra norteamericana (blues, rhythm and blues) le han llevado progresivamente a revelar una cultura encerrada en si misma y a crear un estilo que se ajusta a la realidad de su propia vida.

Like Moses delivering forth the Ten Commandments Henry Owings is bringing music fans The Rock Biblean insider''s guide to living the rock ''n'' roll dream. This hilarious rulebook is full of dos and don''ts for musicians wannabe musicians and rock fans of all ages. Here''s what The Rock Bible has to say about Singers: "When you feel like stage-diving make sure the people in the front row like your music enough to catch you." Backstage antics: "Couches at rock clubs have never been cleaned. Think of the crazy things that have been done on these couches and then proceed at great personal risk." Lifestyle: "If you want to die while in a famous rock band there are four options. 1. Suicide. 2. Car or plane crash. 3. Drug overdose. 4. Murdered by a crazy relative. Just pick one and stick with it." Complete with faux-biblical illustrations and parables and essays from comedian Patton Oswalt drummer Brian Teasley and professional smartass Andrew Earles The Rock Bible is a rude and raunchy look at the best and worst of rock ''n'' roll.

En 1973 Bowie declaraba:"Ya he dejado de crear personajes. No trato de adaptarme a ellos. Basta. Se han terminado los personajes". Nada más lejos de la realidad: desde 1964, Bowie ya había sido David Jones, el joven mod; el comandante Tom, un astronauta que ante la belleza e inmensidad del cosmos, decide permanecer en las altura y morir contemplando aquel admirable espectáculo; el hombre -maqueado como Lauren Bacall- que vendió al mundo con un traje largo de mujer; el alienígena Ziggy Stardust que llegó al planeta Tierra para salvarlo; el ambiguo Aladino; el Perro de Diamante; el camaleónico rey del Glam (con permiso de Marc Bolan); el Duque Blanco; el simpatizante del Nazismo; el ingeniero acomodado en Berlín; el Gigoló; el hombre elefante; el vampiro eterno; el o..icial inglés; el travesti Blue Jean; resumiendo, el hombre de las mil y una caras que iba creando muchos Bowies que luego, después de haberse servido bien de ellos, los iba devorando uno por uno. ¿Todos? ¡No!, hubo uno del que no consiguió desprenderse: Ziggy Stardust, un extraterrestre que dejó una obra digna de estudio para todo amante de la música que se precie: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. Te invitamos a que pases y lo descubras muy atentamente, pero, eso sí, no olvides hacerte con una copia y escucharlo a todo volumen.

Offers an interpretation of an ancient sacred manuscript, the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", from a psychedelic perspective. This book describes the authors'' discoveries in broadening spiritual consciousness through a combination of Tibetan mediation techniques and psychotropic substances.Nos ofrece una interpretacion de un antiguo manuscrito sagrado, "Tibetan Book of the Dead", desde una perspectiva psicodelica. Esta obra describe los descubrimientos del autor para ensanchar la conciencia espiritual a traves de una combinacion de tecnicas de meditacion tibetanas y sustancias psicotropicas.

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One - and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan's unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work's transcendence.In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Seventh edition. Contains features on the 100 recordings the authors believe are essential for every collection.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD is now firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful - often wittily trenchant - criticism. For this expanded sixth edition, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have reassessed each artist's entry and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional CDs. The result is an endlessly browsable companion that will prove required reading for aficionados and jazz novices alike.

A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the Sixties. A female Almost Famous. In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices Rolling Stone Magazine. She had just moved to Berkley, California, a city that promised "Good Vibes All-a Time." Those days, job applications asked just one question, "What are your sun, moon and rising signs?" Green thought she was interviewing for clerical job like the other girls in the office, a "real job." Instead, Green was hired as a journalist. A brutally honest, intimate memoir of the first girl on the masthead of Rolling Stone magazine, The Only Girl chronicles the beginnings of Robin Green's career. In this voice-driven humorous careening adventure, Green spills stories of stalking the Grateful Dead with Annie Liebowitz, sparring with Dennis Hopper on a film set in the desert, scandalizing fans of David Cassidy and spending a legendary evening on a water bed in the dorm room of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In the seventies, Green was there as Hunter S. Thompson crafted Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Now, she presents that tumultuous time in America, written with a distinctly gonzo female voice.