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With wit and humour Michael Bradley recounts his adventures as a teenage musician capturing the chaos excitement and mischief of life in The Undertones

If you re a passionate Swiftie who wants to know EVERYTHING about your favorite icon especially her music this luxuriously illustrated deep dive should take center stage Featuring fresh insights from all eleven studio albums from Taylor Swift to The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift Album by Album mines her life lyrics and music like nothing else before it This book also features several chapters on all the Taylor s Version albums released to date with panel discussions from noted Swift scholars accompanied by vibrant photography that captures Swift in each and every era from an aspiring country musician to the dominant global force she is today Swift s artistry awards and accolades are hard to encompass from the youngest artist with a No 1 song on the Hot Country chart to the first recipient of Billboard s Woman of the Decade award Swifties will find that and more inside including Fresh insight into her lyrics life and loves from her earliest days as a recording artist Tons of sidebars that explore her influences lyrical references musical knowledge and more Details on album personnel special guests awards and tours A special section on the Taylor s Version albums that explains how they came about and why they matter to Taylor and scores of

There are pop stars and then there is Prince In this kaleidoscopic freewheeling biography John McKie examines the remarkable life and career of one of the most mysterious figures in music through the prism of the record most widely considered his masterpiece 1987 s Sign o the Times Drawing on more than 200 interviews with friends ex girlfriends bandmates recording engineers bodyguards personal assistants wardrobe designers and hairdressers accomplished music writer John McKie examines the life of this musical polymath with the help of many of the people who knew him best Family members and friends discuss his childhood when he learned to master several instruments there is new information on how he made the soundtrack to Purple Rain the full story about why he decided to stop using his name the now legendary Super Bowl half time show and that guitar solo at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame which has been viewed on YouTube 100 million times McKie also dives into the personality of the man what made him laugh the way he hired and fired colleagues what he was like to live with how his relentless drive to make music led to him recording for hours without sleep how he changed his car stereo to road test his new hits and even booked his guitar and album

The long awaited memoir from Simple Minds founder members and lifelong collaborators Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill

The instant Sunday Times bestseller A straight talking yet frequently astonishing memoir The Times A book as idiosyncratic as it is nostalgic The Observer When Never Gonna Give You Up propelled Rick Astley into the pop stratosphere it irrevocably changed his life Nothing could have prepared the boy from Lancashire for what was in store for him At just nineteen years old Rick agreed to sign with legendary production team Stock Aitken Waterman giving him a peek into the mechanics of the music industry and eventually leading him to platinum selling albums and global tours To outsiders it would appear that the world was at Rick s feet Then suddenly at the height of his fame it wasn t Behind the hits and the glitz and glamour was a young man coming to terms with his new found fame the realities of a career in the pop music machine and the pressures of life on the road not to mention the fallout from a childhood spent torn between divorced parents in a volatile family dynamic Time away from the industry offered Rick room for much needed reflection and unknowingly helped set the stage for his triumphant return to music This is Rick s story in his own words

Explore the makings of a musical phenomenon in this definitive celebration of Coldplay Life in Technicolor is the ultimate tribute to Coldplay telling the complete story one of the most successful bands of the twenty first century Co authored by Debs Wild the A&R scout who discovered Coldplay this fully illustrated book reveals rare behind the scenes moments from the band s rise to global superstardom from their acclaimed debut album Parachutes to the record breaking Music of the Spheres World Tour Featuring individual profiles of Chris Martin Guy Berryman Will Champion and Jonny Buckland and packed with exclusive interviews and rare original memorabilia including setlists flyers tour passes and candid snapshots this is an essential companion for any Coldplay fan and the most complete celebration of the band to date

Pop legend Lulu looks back over her astonishing life with fresh eyes reflecting on all she has learnt From the tenements of Glasgow to the Royal Albert Hall and the glittering lights of Hollywood Lulu s journey to fame and fortune is like no other British pop star When she was 14 years old she was invited down to London to sing and the rest is history She stepped into a part she played for the next 40 years A part she played so well that she gradually lost who she was becoming the version of herself she thought others wanted to see The book charts the highs and the lows of one of the longest running shows in British rock and roll history It is the story of one woman s determination to stay real relevant and happy and one which ultimately reveals a woman who is far stronger and far braver than anyone knew This is a pop memoir like no other

The Number One Global Bestselling Memoir Stunningly candid Keough s portrait of her mother in her final months is especially indelible Washington Post In 2022 Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long conceived memoir A month later Lisa Marie was dead and the world would never know her story in her own words Riley knew she had to fulfil her mother s wish to reveal her complex incandescent and painful memories to the world And to finally make her mother known For the first time in this raw riveting one of a kind memoir Lisa Marie shares her untold story About being born to an American myth raised in the wilds of Graceland About the unconditional love she felt from her father Elvis About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran towards his body on the floor About living in Los Angeles with her mother Priscilla getting sent to school after school always kicked out always in trouble About her singular lifelong relationship with Danny Keough and about being married to Michael Jackson About motherhood About deep addiction About ever present grief Profoundly moving and deeply revealing From Here to the Great Unknown is a book like no other composed of both Lisa Marie s and Riley s voices

Este es un libro sobre freaks y para freaks pergeñado por un freak mayúsculo. En su última locura, Luke Haines traza una historia secreta y subterránea del rock a partir de sus más eminentes tarados. Con un humor desquiciante y acidisimo y una lucidez prodigiosa, el otrora lider de The Auteurs y Black Box Recorder entre otras muchas encarnaciones ha escrito un manifiesto para enmarcar y probablemente uno de los volumenes mas divertidos de la literatura musical. Por estas paginas reptan bichos raros de la talla de Gene Vincent, los Shadows, la Incredible String Band, Jim Morrison, T. Rex, Gary Glitter, Lou Reed, Morrissey, The Fall, los Go-Betweens, las chicas Manson y un hatajo de villanos de lucha libre ataviados con leotardos, amen de otras criaturas espeluznantes. "Freaks Out!" es una reivindicacion maravillosa de la otredad y la anomalia que sin duda alguna es lectura no apta para la gente normal.

Este libro es una síntesis clara y estructurada de las luchas por la apropiación ideológica de la música popular griega. A lo largo de sus capítulos va señalando los puntos clave del mapa político del nacionalismo musical: la ideologia del romiosyni, el trasfondo de las negociaciones sobre el concepto de rebetico, el relativo peso de la censura en las letras, el proceso de higienizacion estetica del sonido para expurgar los elementos orientales, la mitificacion de Esmirna o las enconadas luchas de los intelectuales por la imagen de la musica popular griega.