Being John Lennon by Ray Connolly
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Category: Composers
John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history. Chronicling a ...Show more
Ricochet: David Bowie 1983 - An Intimate Portrait by Denis O'Regan; Anon
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Category: Composers
A breathtaking, never-before-seen glimpse into life on tour with David Bowie, by the late singer's official tour photographer In 1983 David Bowie set out on the Serious Moonlight Tour, his biggest ever. On the road with him was his official photographer, Denis O'Regan. Few artists and photographers have ...Show more
Why AC/DC Matters by Anthony Bozza
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Category: Composers | Reading Level: very good
go on record as saying the²re the greatest rock & roll band of all time. They didnt write emotional lyrics. They didnt play emotional songs. The emotion is all in that groove. And that groove is timeless." <p> -- legendary record producer Rick Rubin <p> Even though AC/DC has sold more th ...Show more
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 by David Hepworth
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Category: Composers
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. T ...Show more
Sinatra: The Photographs by Andrew Howick
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Category: Composers
Few male stars in any medium have had an impact on our visual culture like Frank Sinatra, whose centennial falls on December 12, 2015. Of his generation, only John F. Kennedy comes to mind. Like many of the greatest singers, he possessed an aura of sexuality, vulnerability, intensity and charm, and all ...Show more
So This is Permanence - Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis; Jon Savage (Editor); Deborah Curtis (Introduction by)
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Category: Composers
So This Is Permanence presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The fact of the band's relatively few releases belies the power and enduring fascination its music holds, e ...Show more
Music In The Castle Of Heaven: A Portrait Of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner, John Eliot Gardiner
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Category: Composers | Reading Level: near fine
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as ...Show more
Ed Sheeran by Sean Smith
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Category: Composers | Reading Level: 3
Ed Sheeran is a true inspiration. His moving and uplifting songs forge a lasting connection with the millions of people around the world who love him and his music. He was the thirteen-year-old guitarist in a school rock band when he decided to become a singer-songwriter, even though he could barely hol ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Translator)
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Category: Composers
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
All These Years: Volume 1: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn
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Category: Composers | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements cannot be surpassed. But who really were the Beatles, and how did they and everything else in the 1960s fuse so explosively? Mark Lewisohn's three-pa ...Show more
Bob Dylan: Stories Behind the Songs 1962-1969 by Andy Gill
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Category: Composers
In this book, Andy Gill assess the circumstances behind Dylan's most famous songs, tracing the artist's progress from young tyro folkie to acclaimed protest singer, and through the subsequent changes which saw him invent folk-rock and transform rock'n'roll with symbolist poetry, before retreating into c ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
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Category: Composers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more