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Part field guide, part artistic coaching session, this rockin' book by a seasoned insider explains the ins and outs of the music industry in plain English. Bob Tulipan-who has worked with such bands as The Talking Heads and The Police-shares his expertise to help musicians protect both their art and their interests. Practical, accessible, and filled with engaging anecdotes, it addresses common hurdles that every band faces on the road to success.

In 1964, North America had a second revolution but this time we welcomed the British! That year, four mop-tops known as The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, ushering in a new era of British music, film, fashion, and art. This richly illustrated and informative volume celebrates the pivotal cultural moment when the United States took on a British accent. The huge influx of talent from across the pond included not only the The Beatles, but also The Dave Clark Five, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, Them (and Van Morrison), The Yardbirds, The Who, and, of course, The Rolling Stones. But the invasion wasn't only musical: Peter O'Toole, Julie Andrews, Sean Connery, and Michael Caine made a splash in Hollywood, while films like Goldfinger, Alfie, and What's New, Pussycat? topped box-office charts. The Avengers became cult TV, and Carnaby Street defined hip style, turning Mary Quant, Twiggy, and Jean Shrimpton into fashion icons. Filled with photographs that capture one of the most exciting artistic periods in recent history, this is an evocative, irresistible look back.

La fascinación de los artistas visuales por la música y de los músicos por las artes visuales ha sido uno de los focos creativos más importantes para la configuración del arte contemporáneo desde las primeras decadas del siglo XX. En este libro sobre dibujo y musica en los Festivales de Musica Española de Cadiz podemos ver una muestra de mas de cuarenta dibujos construidos en planos imaginarios de texturas ritmicas que prganizan y dan profundidad a las infinitas formas de la creacion artistica.

El viaje acústico es una obra literaria, gráfica y musical que narra el viaje de un músico desmemoriado a su país natal. Una versión de La Odisea de Homero en la que el protagonista recorre una geografía fantástica y mitológica. La narración alterna textos recitados y pasajes musicales con textos escritos, ilustraciones, y secuencias gráficas.

En ocasiones-quizá quepa decir siempre-, el personaje, su peripecia publica, ocultan o escamotean a la persona. Y ello, en sí, no es más que una parte más del juego social de la comunicación, porque es peligroso exponerse a la mirada pública sin filtros ni maquillaje. Javier Muguruza lo sabe.Él, como artista y creador, conoce a fondo las dificultades de mantener la propia vida interior protegida de los focos, de la mirada en ocasiones despiadada del público. Por eso ha buscado el lado más personal de sus interlocutores en largas charlas sin urgencias, plácidas y placenteras, en las que pudiera aflorar, precisamente, el alma. Los nueve artistas entrevistados por Muguruza por encargo del Grupo Noticias desarrollan su actividad en diversosámbitos, desde la música hasta el teatro, desde el cine a la literatura. Pero, además de su condición de artistas, les une una característica común: todos ellos son personas de larga trayectoria en el mundo artístico y descuellan por su peso profesional y humano, que los ha convertido en auténticos referentes, más allá incluso de la esfera artística. Luz Casal, Bernardo Atxaga, Jaume Sisa, Helena Taberna, Xabier Leete, Pablo Guerrero, Martirio, José Ramón Soroiz y Kiko Veneno dejan constancia en estas páginas, claro está, de sus reflexiones ligadas a sus respectivas carreras, pero nos permiten contemplarlos, al mismo tiempo, con la complicidad con que se mira a un amigo.

Bon Scott fue tal vez la escoria andante más entrañable que jamás haya deambulado entre sus paisanos. Clinton Walker traza una espléndida semblanza no solo del hombre aquí escrutado, sino también de cuanto se cuece en la gestacion de una banda de rock, proclamaba Who Weekly cuando se lanzo Camino del infierno en Australia. La semblanza que Walker ha compuesto con los esperpenticos desvarios de esa piltrafa refleja sin duda las luces diabolicas del personaje retratado, pero brilla tambien por meritos propios, tanto que ya se codea (inopinadamente) con los grandes clasicos de la rockologia. Podemos decir sin exagerar que estamos ante la obra definitiva sobre la ascension de AC/DC al estrellato y el descenso de Scott a los infiernos, sobre los años en que su carismatica presencia y la visceral declamacion de aquellas letras se hermano con la imparable fuerza que irrumpia desde las cuerdas atormentadas por los hermanos Young. Fue entonces cuando cristalizo un sonido inconfundible y una nueva manera de entender el rock. Con la inestimable colaboracion de quienes tuvieron el privilegio de soportar al biografiado y el ornamento de un material fotografico apenas conocido, Walker reconstruye la sonora epopeya de la banda siguiendo las peripecias vitales del cantante desde su (no demasiado) tierna niñez en la Escocia que tambien fue cuna de los discolos Young. El exodo proletario a los confines de un imperio extinguido nos regalaria, con el tiempo, el nacimiento de la dureza por antonomasia en una Australia aun mecida por las brisas melodicas del pop. A finales de los setenta, el vendaval de la canalla acabo con la calma y con el orden establecido. Pero Bon Scott no pudo saborear las mieles del triunfo porque en 1980 murio a manos de su antojo. Una pena y un nuevo mito.

This epic chronicles the story of the seminal British blues/rock band Free. Leaving no stone unturned, and with the help of more than 400 photos, authors David Clayton and Todd K. Smith have painstakingly detailed the rise and fall of the band from its early pub gig days in late-60s London through the massive chart success of All Right Now, to the varied fortunes of vocalist Paul Rodgers, drummer Simon Kirke, bassist Andy Fraser, and guitarist Paul Kossoff (VG, May 00).Obviously a labor of love, Clayton and Smith have transformed the magic of Frees music and the chemistry of the band into print through conversation with the surviving members and others, including Al Kooper, Chris Blackwell, Andy Johns, Ritchie Blackmore, and more. Given the perspective associated with the passage of time, the writers are able to give Free its place in rock history as a significant and important musical force.While never enjoying the huge commercial success of their contemporaries in Led Zeppelin, Frees early live performances were legendary and often shattered attendance records set by The Rolling Stones and The Who in their native U.K. Heavy Load reads like a comprehensive whos who of late-60s/early-70s rock bands, particularly those British.The story within is of the genius and tragedy of Paul Kossoff, whose early playing earned him legions of fans, including Eric Clapton. But sadly, the drug use present in his life since late childhood eventually destroyed his body and contributed to his untimely death in March of 76, at age 25.Of particular interest to guitar aficionados are the descriptions and superb photographs of Kossoffs instruments (most are late-50s Gibson Les Pauls) and amplifiers we now consider vintage and collectible.In a time of cookie-cutter approach to musical biographies on TV music channels, Heavy Load paints Kossoff, Kirke, Fraser, and Rodgers as vibrant-yet-human musicians, not Spinal Tap-ish caricatures. The quality of the writing and the drama of the story ensures it will appeal to fans and non-fans alike.

Que pagui Pujol! es un relato visceral y trepidante; con nombres y apellidos; y de alto contenido combativo. Una crónica llena de referencias musicales y localizada en espacios míticos de la capital catalana; muchos de ellos desaparecidos y borrados de la memoria oficial; de una ciudad en constante lucha pormantener prendida la llama de la resistencia. Un collage narrativo que combina la investigacion historica y autobiografica; con un minucioso esfuerzo por retratar la Barcelona de la decada de los 80 desde una optica punk; a partir de fotografias; carteles y octavillas; fanzines y recortes de prensa. El protagonista del libro es el propio autor: un Joni D. adolescente y punk que nos conduce desde la irreverente escena musical alternativa y las primeras okupaciones; hasta las movilizaciones autonomas en contra de la OTAN y el servicio militar. La historia de diez años que empieza con las primeras emisiones de las radios libres; y acaba con el nacimiento de diversos proyectos autogestionados vinculados a los movimientos sociales barceloneses. Un trabajo militantes y resistente que nos muestra el peso y la significacion de las contraculturas urbanas; al tiempo que cuestiona la estrategia de la amnesia orquestada durante la Transicion.

Def Leppard''s unstoppable, anthemic hard rock has earned it sales of more than 65 million albums worldwide and a legion of dedicated fans. This fully authorized visual history of the band follows them from the new wave of British heavy metal to their massive Pyromania and Hysteria albums to the sustained power of their records and tours today. Legendary rock photographer Ross Halfin has been shooting Def Leppard since 1978, and his candid and definitive pictures have helped capture and shape the image of the band. Def Leppard includes more than 250 classic and unseen photographs, along with text from Halfin and stories and commentary by the band members and others. The book''s publication coincides with the release of an all-new Def Leppard album in the spring and a worldwide tour in the summer.

The front man of one of the most influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical genius with a career spanning over four decades. Bestselling biographer Philip Norman offers an unparalleled account of the life of a living legend, Mick Jagger. From Home Counties schoolboy, to rebel without a cause to Sixties rock sensation and global idol, Norman unravels with astonishing intimacy the myth of the inimitable front man of The Rolling Stones. Norman charts his extraordinary journey through scandal-ridden conspiracy, infamous prison spell, hordes of female admirers and a knighthood while stripping away the colossal fame, wealth and idolatry to reveal a story of talent and promise unfulfilled.

Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Now, at last, this extraordinary icon tells us about it all--his poverty-ridden childhoodin Harlem and Jamaica; his meteoric rise to become one of the world's most popular singers, breaking down racial barriers that no one had broken before, achieving equal popularity with white and black audiences; his lifelong, passionate involvement at the heart of the civil rights movement and countless other political and social causes. Along the way he's befriended many beloved and important figures in both entertainment and politics--Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sidney Poitier, John F. Kennedy, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro--and writes about them with the same exceptional candor and insight with which he reveals himself on every page. As both an artist and an activist, Belafonte has touched the lives of countless men and women. With My Song, he has found yet another way to entertain and inspire us. It is an electrifying memoir from a remarkable man.

Justin Bieber: The Fever! : Justin Bieber is the world's hottest new pop star and every music fan's favorite heartthrob! After being discovered on YouTube, Justin's singles have taken the music world by storm! Since then his career has continued to heat up with an appearance as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live and features on the covers of People and Billboard. Fans around the world can't get enough of him, and this book will answer all of their burning questions about his life. With 16 pages of full-color photos, details of his wild 16th birthday party, his early dating experiences and crushes, and info on his hit singles, this biography is a must-have for every fan and the perfect gift! Get to know the real Justin Bieber, as never before!