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The essential book on post-punk music, a must for any serious pop music fan.

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A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews.

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Rocketman: Inside the World of the Film contains a wealth of amazing photographs from throughout the development and shooting of the movie as well as quotes and interviews from the cast and crew. The book provides a fascinating insight into how the film was made, including locations, choreography, costumes and - of course - the music.

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In Rockin' the Free World, international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside Bob Dylans America and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread globally.

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Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff showcases author Matt Lee's huge collection of Rolling Stones memorabilia, spanning all decades, and tells the story of the Stones in a unique way.

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The most iconic concert hall in the world celebrates 150 years with a stunning review of history's finest performances and performers.

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A mosaic biography featuring snapshots, stories, episodes, interviews and insights that will lift the curtain on the real Kate Bush.

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English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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Drawing on hundreds of interviews Echols renders Joplin in all her complexity, revealing how this sweet-voiced girl from Texas recreated herself, first as a gravely-voiced bluesy folksinger, and then as rock n' roll's first female superstar. Echols examines the roots of her musicianship and her efforts to probe the outer limits of life.

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In Schubert's Winter Journey, Ian Bostridge brings to life Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise, one of the most powerful compositions in classical music.

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A groundbreaking account of Schumann, a major composer whose music is becoming increasingly popular over the years.

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After the success of the Penderyn Music Book Prize-shortlisted Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids, Nige Tassell dons his detective deerstalker once again to track down members past and present of one of the sharpest, most unlikely, most beloved musical gangs of all time, Dexys Midnight Runners.

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Throughout his life, which spanned the greater part of the twentieth century (1905-1998), Sir Michael Tippett was a prolific letter-writer. He wrote to a vast number of people over the years, including family, friends and lovers, colleagues in the music world, journalists, poets, dramatists and political activists.

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A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore's growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they "sell out" and find mainstream fame, or break beneath the weight of it all

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Professional voice lessons in book form-from the world's foremost vocal coach.

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"Music and sexuality seem to have been linked together since someone first beat out a rhythm on a drum. Making Sex Sound explores the intersection in the mid-20th century onward"--

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the 'a-side' of the book is dedicated to the Beatles and the music of Sgt. Pepper, the 'b-side' covers global events in popular culture and politics at the time.

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"A Library of America Special Publication."

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Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now.

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Future classic pop cultural history of the 80s, told through the ten defining singles - one from each year - of the decade

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The first complete epic history of Glam Rock from '68-'76 by the finest music writer of his generation, Simon Reynolds.

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"The essential biography of America's godmother of rock 'n' roll whose exuberant singing and guitar playing captivated audiences and inspired generations of musicians from the 40s to today"--