Music

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346391Author Alan LightFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 2g

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the...

Rock City, Narita, Fire Down Under, Restless Breed, Born in America... These are the pioneering, superlative heavy metal records that represent the classic first decade of Brooklyn's Riot's, before the band would break up, eventually storming back with...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470615178Author The BeatlesPage Count 376Imprint Alfred Publishing Company IncPublisher Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593295960Author Nabil AyersFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In 1983, French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was murdered in Paris at the age of thirty-four. Based on unrestricted access to Vivier's personal archives, this book is the first to tell his story. Claude Vivier's haunting and expressive music has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493276819Author Janet HorvathFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm)...

EProg Rock FAQE traces the controversial but much misunderstood musical genre through its five-decade history highlighting the rise eventual decline and recent resurgence of one of the most inventive and storied popular musical forms of the latter...

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 9780345432711Author Hilary du PreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892217243Author Lily IsaacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint New Leaf PressPublisher New Leaf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Peter Horton paints a detailed picture of the life and career of this remarkable man whose output includes such favourites as 'Blessed be the God and Father' and 'The wilderness'. Born into one of England's best-known families, Samuel Sebastian Wesley...

Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen. One of the most frequently performed operas for over a century, Carmen explores concepts such as the femme fatale and murderous jealousy with vivacity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944082987Author Heidi CudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Over the Edge BooksPublisher Over the Edge BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills, in his adulthood he wrote some of the finest...

Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota on election night 2008. In between are moments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976773528Author Jake BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Amber Communications Group, Inc.Publisher Amber Communications Group, Inc.Weight(grams)...

The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous force of nature we know today as Tina Turner. This is creative alchemy...

Alma Ros (c)'s tragic story from her birth and youth in the exalted musical circles of Vienna (her father was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic her uncle was Gustav Mahler) to her death at Auschwitz first came to public attention through the 1980 film...

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...

To many, Tommy Bolin was the legitimate heir to Jimi Hendrix's rock guitar throne. Stints with the James Gang and Deep Purple - as well as solo albums and a groundbreaking release with jazz-rocker Billy Cobham - certainly proved that the adulation was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578306056Author John W BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Barry BooksPublisher Barry BooksWeight(grams) 472g

During America's Swing Era, no musician was more successful or controversial than Artie Shaw: the charismatic and opinionated clarinetist-bandleader whose dozens of hits became anthems for "the greatest generation." But some of his most beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959770824Author Gary LindbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Calumet EditionsPublisher Calumet EditionsWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931373Author Leon FleisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...

From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-'80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832536Author Aaron NevilleFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 161mm *...

Wilson Pickett was arguably the greatest male soul screamer of the 1960s and '70s. Well known for his unprecedented string of Soul hits, including "In the Midnight Hour," "Land of 1,000 Dances," and "Mustang Sally," Pickett has sold millions of albums,...

Col. Bruce Hampton (the stage name of Gustav Valentine Berglund III) was a cult musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing. Part musician, conjuror, confidence man, preacher, soul...

With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader...

"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." --Questlove JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric...

2011 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for Best History By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant biography illuminates the many...

Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of...

Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a classic so influential as to be almost synonymous with the ongoing vinyl revival. But...

Told in a series of interviews with Sir David Willcocks and rounded out with reflections from a roll-call of eminent composers, musicians, and friends, this book presents a portrait of a highly gifted musician whose leadership, decency, and humanity have...

He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett respectively) and wrote such musicals as ESweet CharityE EI Love My WifeE EOn the Twentieth CenturyE and EThe Will Rogers FolliesE...

Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's publication in 1983 - even since its revision in 2000, understanding of Bach and his music's historical and...