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Comprehensive visual history of the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" as told through the recording of their monumental catalog, including 29 studio and 24 compilation albums, and more than a hundred singles.
Since 1963, The Rolling Stones have been recording and touring, selling more than 200 million records worldwide. While much is known about this iconic group, few books provide a comprehensive history of their time in the studio. In The Rolling...
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"John Prine One Song at a Time" is one fan's tribute to the music of John Prine. In chronological order, the book discusses each song on each album, beginning with John Prine's debut record and ending with his final single. Synthesizing reviews, anecdotes, interviews, live shows, lyrics, and John Prine's own reflections from 1970 to 2020, Bruce Rits Gilbert offers a unique celebration of the work that this beloved musician left behind. Album by album....
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Este libro cuenta la historia de la transformación de la cumbia colombiana, desde su llegada al Perú en los años cincuenta hasta su consagración con la denominada chicha dos décadas después. Músicos, disqueras y público consumidor se encargaron de llevar adelante este dinámico desarrollo musical. La nueva sonoridad se caracterizó por un modo particular de emplear la guitarra eléctrica, que dio a la cumbia peruana su toque original. El autor...
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Rarely is a book about the theatre as entertaining and informative as Stephen Citron's new guidebook to the creation of the musical. Filled with anecdotes, practical advice, and sparkling comments from the biggest Broadway insiders, The Musical from the Inside Out examines this major theatrical form from the creator's point of view. Mr. Citron takes the reader through basic training and onto finding and securing material, writing the libretto, adding...
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Techniques, tricks, and pro tips to make your sound the very best it can be! Do you want to make better music? How about achieving a professional sound? Or even being able to work in professional studios? If you're serious about improving your music production, songwriting, and audio engineering skills to a professional level, then keep on reading.... Most musicians dream of making professional sounding music. But in order to create great music, they...
14) Necromancers, Lighthouse Keepers and Forsaken Gardens: An Introduction to Peter Hammill and Van Der
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Despite his long and rich career, Peter Hammill is one of the most important "best kept secrets" of English rock. In 1967 he formed the group Van Der Graaf Generator while studying at the University of Manchester, a group that he led as a guitarist, keyboardist, singer and composer until 1978. Van Der Graaf Generator was the darkest and most chaotic traveling companion of other British progressive bands of the early seventies such as King Crimson...
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The Way I Walk: The Music of Jack Scott tells how the Canadian born son of an Italian immigrant rose to rockabilly fame, but got lost in the shuffle as the music continued to evolve. Scott scored hit after hit as deejays flipped his records over and turned both sides into hit songs. In 1958, all six sides of his three records scored in the top 100 with two of them being top ten and a third side hitting #11. Canada claims Scott as its "Greatest rock...
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For years, saying that you want to make music professionally was seen in a negative way by society; everyone said that if you did not resign yourself to this being a hobby, you were doomed and that you would very definitely die of hunger since there is no fieldwork for musicians and becoming a superstar was practically impossible because you have to be in the right place and times. Fortunately, today the story is completely different, and the future...
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This Kinks eBook covers their earliest British Invasion years up to 1970 and their transgender classic Lola.
"Any kid who can pick up a guitar in a garage has undoubtedly played that opening guitar riff to You Really Got Me," one of the most seminal and most-copied 1960s rock guitar riffs ever put to vinyl. It is easy to play and gets your head shaking and the hair up on the back of your neck instantaneously.
Brothers Ray and Dave Davies are legendary...
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In partnership with Abrams, Rolling Stone has created an oversized companion book to celebrate the all-new 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, telling the stories behind every album through incredible Rolling Stone photography, original album art, Rolling Stone's unique critical commentary, breakout pieces on the making of key albums, and archival interviews.
This brand-new anthology is based on Rolling Stone's 2020 reboot of the original...
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The Big British Bands": The British may not have originated rock n' roll, but they certainly exploited it much better than the American artists who started the ball rolling in 1956. In England, they had their own stars who did their own versions of folk, pop and rock n' roll music and the kids went wild. This book focuses on WHO influenced The Beatles to write their amazing catalog; The Rolling Stones' British Invasion years and their ANTI-BEATLES...
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The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North. Includes two full-color photo inserts, with unearthed photos of the band.
Martin Popoff takes us through three decades of "life at the top" for Rush's Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Though this era begins with the brisk-selling Roll the Bones and sees throngs of fans sell out international tours, there is also unimaginable tragedy, with Peart losing his daughter...