Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637742990Author Mark RiveraFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Matt Holt BooksPublisher BenBella BooksWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm *...

Rossini's success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as "an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition". Stendhal was the first of his contemporaries to recognize...

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, and the legendary band that changed rock music. Van Halen's rise in the 1980s was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451647860Author Greg KotFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium-the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated...

Skip James (1902-1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt here paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755934Author Dennis BurmeisterFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617755507Author Jason CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385520508Author Liam ClancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues by Spencer Leigh is a fresh take on this famous yet elusive personality, a one-man hall of mirrors who continues to intrigue his followers worldwide. It is an in-depth account with new information and fascinating opinions, both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980056181Author Nick ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Guardian Express MediaPublisher Guardian Express MediaWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390981Author Alec WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414518Author Tom StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as 'the great little heap' - gave rise to one of the most fascinating and...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on...

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he...

This definitive study of the life and works of Joseph Haydn represents half a century of research. As a curator of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Dr. Geiringer was in charge of one of the world's leading Hayden collections. His scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037736Author Peter GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859652223Author Stephen DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

We've sort of flirted with greatness, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck admitted. But we've yet to make a record as good as Big Star's Third. Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little commercial success, the influence of their three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654067Author Anthony ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062293299Author Toni BraxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in...

From pop stardom through the depths of addiction to her punk-rock comeback, Marianne Faithfull's life captures rock 'n' roll at its most decadent and its most destructive. Faithfull's first hit, 1964's "As Tears Go By," opened doors to the hippest...

This is the first English language biography of Ottorino Respighi, the most performed Italian composer of the twentieth century. Best known for his so-called Roman trilogy, (Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals), this book documents...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060938376Author Richard ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1230gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061774188Author Peter DoggettFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501153273Author Carole Bayer SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Although La Monte Young is one of the most important composers of the late twentieth century, he is also one of the most elusive. Generally recognized as the patriarch of the minimalist movement--Brian Eno once called him "the daddy of us all"--he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478596Author Daniel LanoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953284808Author Davy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Book's MindPublisher Book's MindWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 21mm

This long-awaited treatise on Montrose and Gamma is first and foremost the story of the five Montrose and four Gamma records, their making and baking, the hirings and firings, the superlative delivery live. Within the detailed analysis, one of course...

In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview the star as they had met once before and enjoyed a good raport. In the years that followed, Paul Du Noyer continued to meet, interview and work for...

A new biography of the beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas,...

Why does Bruce Springsteen mean so much to so many people? Apart from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, no contemporary popular musician has had the cultural impact that Bruce Springsteen has on America. Since he was appointed in the late 1970s as "the...

Why does Bruce Springsteen mean so much to so many people? Apart from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, no contemporary popular musician has had the cultural impact that Bruce Springsteen has on America. Since he was appointed in the late 1970s as "the...

For those who love or have collected early Bob Dylan bootleg albums, an archive of never before published photographs of the young Dylan, when he first moved to New York City in the early 1960s. It was in late 1961, photographer Ted Russell recalls,...

Half a century after three teenage brothers decided to give a career in music a go, the Bee Gees are among the most successful and enduring names in popular music history.Trailblazing their way across pop music since the 1960s, Barry, Robin, and Maurice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467103091Author Steven ManheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...