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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954706814Author David WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 234g

Unison (with optional second part) voices with piano or orchestra The beautiful melody, popular words, and flowing accompaniment combine here to memorable effect. Vintage Rutter, and essential repertoire for any upper-voice choir. There is also a...

This title is one of a series of books which focus on epic albums of our time. Here, Andrew Hultkrans looks at Love's album "Forever Changes".About the AuthorAndrew Hultkrans is editor-in-chief of Bookforum magazine. Over the years, his writing has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916232723Author Simon WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Damaged Goods BooksPublisher Damaged Goods BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385316835Author Eric WybengaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 439g

Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century.Never one to...

Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. Thus, while...

'He's got me spot on' Elton John'Anyone who can read will admire the intelligence, the detail and the robust good sense of this biography. It captures the flavour of the times every bit as distinctively as it captures the personality of Elton John'...

Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones' eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four consecutive records that comprised their creative peak, it is considered by many to be their best. After a period of turmoil...

ERolling Stones GearE is the first book to historically document all of the Rolling Stones' musical equipment. It's also the story of the Rolling Stones but with a new twist: their history as told through the instruments they used. This book covers not...

A groundbreaking study of the trailblazing music of Chicago's AACM, a leader in the world of jazz and experimental music. Founded on Chicago's South Side in 1965 and still thriving today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background for a civil war that lasted for thirty years. At its centre the city's vice lord fought...

The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For...

In a way that no prior rock act had done the Band assimilated remade and contagiously celebrated the rich deep tributaries of American vernacular music. Blues country jazz folk gospel soul rock'n' roll a the members soaked it all up distilling...

If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556528163Author Paul EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Drawing on the collections of the V&A, Glam Rock narrates the story of glam and explores its impact on fashion, theatre and film. In the early 1970s, glam rock changed the face of popular culture in Britain and, against a backdrop of a nation racked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912733231Author David ArnoffFormat HardbackImprint Red Planet Publishing LtdPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

The life and good times of one of the world's favourite songwriters. If you've ever hummed a popular film or stage song from the mid-1950s on, the chances are you've been humming one of Leslie's. The man behind songs such as Talk to the Animals,...

Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this...

Birds of Fire brings overdue critical attention to fusion, a musical idiom that emerged as young musicians blended elements of jazz, rock, and funk in the late 1960s and 1970s. At the time, fusion was disparaged by jazz writers and ignored by rock...

One of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2015 From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a...

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith got hooked on fishing as a child growing up in East London, plundering ponds and bomb craters on the Hackney Marshes for newts and sticklebacks, and catching perch from the Grand Union Canal while on outings with his...

A Danish musician here presents the most accurate, comprehensive work on a major figure in American jazz: Lester Willis Young (1909-1959), better known as `Pres' or `Prez,' from the nickname `President' given to him by Billie Holiday. Based on interviews...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977894550Author Joe EspositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint TCB JOE PublishingPublisher TCB JOE PublishingWeight(grams) 193g

Complete with full-colour, heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case (and, when necessary, ukulele notation), Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be in the 21st century. Beautifully...

Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers,...

The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307957726Author Stephen SondheimFormat HardbackImprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 3257gDimensions(mm) 290mm * 221mm * 60mm

'Brilliant' OK! 'Engagingly warm' Heat 'Sensational' The Mirror'Ronan Keating demolishes his 'Mr Perfect of Pop image in a new warts-and-all book of his amazing ride to stardom.' The MirrorRonan Keating is a very real idol. In a life-story that...

Pink Floyd's sound and light shows in the 1960s defined psychedelia, but their later recordings combined rock, orchestral music, literature, and philosophy. Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall ignored pop music's usual strictures to focus on themes of...

A book of more than 700 great music locations throughout the UK and Ireland and the stories behind them. Featuring landmark album cover locations, gravestones, plaques, recording locations, statues, and sites of famous and infamous gigs. Rock Atlas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471992Author Michael AzerradFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night...

The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomised by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279972Author Hisham AidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"Tusk", the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs, was the Fleetwood Mac's critically acclaimed, commercially disappointing 1979 double album. This book is an in-depth and 'official' look at one of the most...

By nearly any metric, Genesis is one of the most successful, influential, and enduring rock bands of all time. Naturally, the band’s fifty plus year career has also given rise to all kinds of related literature: some critical, some biographical, and some...

Now in its second edition, A Handbook of Diction for Singers is a complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French, the three major languages of the classical vocal repertory. Written for English-speaking singers...

Bob Spitz takes his place... among the most able chroniclers of the many myths, poses and postures of the middle-class Jewish boy from Minnesota and his dogged and at times ruthless pursuit of superstardom.-Boston Herald "The great strength of this...