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The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more.
More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and...
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"Established in 1976 at the fore of London's punk rock insurgence, The Clash would outlast their peers while creating some of the most influential albums in rock 'n' roll history. Author Martin Popoff dissects each of the Clash's ninety-one studio tracks, examining the circumstances that led to their creation, the recording processes, the historical contexts, and more. In addition, introductory essays set the scene for the band's six studio releases...
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Robert Soubeyran war Professor für Musikwissenschaft am regionalen Nationalkonservatorium für Musik in Montpellier, Organist, Pädagoge und Komponist. Ihm ist die Unterstützung durch große Lehrer wie Olivier Messiaen zugutegekommen.
Allerdings war es die Begegnung mit Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, durch die er die Fragen beantwortet bekam, die sich seiner Musiker-Seele stellten, so dass er den lichtvollen Pfad fand, nach dem er sich sehnte.
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Das Buch "Thema Saxofon - Fachlisches, Praktisches und Unterhaltsames" ist - soviel sei vorweg genommen - kein Saxofon-Lehrbuch. Vielmehr ist es ein Buch für Saxofon-Liebhaber und solche, die es werden wollen.
Dieses Buch befasst sich, wie der Untertitel verdeutlicht, mit "Fachlichem, Praktischem und Unterhaltsamem" zu diesem Thema. Welches Image hat dieses Instrument? ist die Frage gleich zweiter Artikel dieses Buchs. Der Leser erfährt einiges...
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"Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by former Black Panther activist Nile Rodgers and down-home family man Bernard Edwards, are one of the most underrated and pivotal acts in African-American musical history. As artists, they created a discrete R&B sound that just happened to coincide with the disco movement. At...
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White Knuckles chronicles the personal and professional journey of one of rock's most influential musicians: Gary Moore. Born in Belfast and rising to conquer some of the world's biggest stages, the guitarist-singer-songwriter enjoyed spells with the likes of rock giants Thin Lizzy before becoming a successful solo artist in his own right.
Moore's solo career spanned three decades and millions of album sales until his untimely passing in 2011. Balancing...
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I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger.
As the enigmatic frontman of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the youthful and joyous sound of the post-punk 2 Tone movement. As well as his illustrious career with The Beat and its subsequent iterations, this absorbing book explores Roger's upbringing as a child of the Windrush generation, touring America and his outstanding...
9) Salad Daze
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Best known as the divisive but iconic frontman of The Mission and a poster boy for the-then fledgling gothic scene of the 80s, Wayne Hussey has been making music since he was inspired to pick up a guitar by his childhood hero, Marc Bolan.
As he began making his name in music with The Invisible Girls, Dead Or Alive and The Sisters Of Mercy, Wayne was at first seduced and then ultimately corrupted, swapping the repression of his religious upbringing...
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Anita Pallenberg, instantly recognisable as a member of The Rolling Stones' rock 'n' roll circus in the Sixties and Seventies, was no docile groupie. Fluent in four languages, she partied with the jet set in Rome, met Warhol, Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti in New York, was at home with London's leading lights of popular culture and went on to star in over a dozen films, perhaps most notably in Performance.
A German-Italian rebel and social phenomenon,...
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Ian Hunter's fifty-year-long career and extensive repertoire of percipient, creative songs have earned him a reputation as a true rock phenomenon. This first part of a two-volume, authorised biography charts Ian's unique musical journey from his formative rock 'n' roll years to his commercial success as the face and voice of legendary Seventies British band, Mott the Hoople.
Featuring insider accounts of the group's roller coaster ride and international...
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"During the 1980s and 90s, The The released several of the most engaging, challenging, and enduring albums of the period. From the catchy urban poetry of Soul Mining through the intense visual feast of Infected, the prescient politics of Mind Bomb and emotional Dusk and on to the introspection of Naked Self, The The released a series of classic albums. At the centre of it all was Matt Johnson. Founder, only constant member, band leader, songwriter,...
14) The innocents
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"The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the building, Minnie Ward has her hands full. Her complicated relationship with detective Albert Easterbrook doesn't even bear thinking about. But when a new string of murders tears through London,...
15) La escala dórica
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La escala dórica es uno de los siete modos griegos. Recibe esta denominación por el antiguo pueblo griego de los dorios. Es una escala diatónica que se forma a partir de las teclas blancas del piano de RE a RE; tiene un patrón de intervalos simétricos de tonos y semitonos aplicada de manera ascendente y descendente. También Podemos mencionar que esta escala inicia en el segundo grado de la escala diatónica mayor natural.Al igual que las escalas...
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Music is probably one of the most popular things in the world. I don't think I know anybody who doesn't like music. I know people who don't like sports or politics, but so many people like music. There are genres I like a lot more than others, but I'm willing to listen to almost any type. I know a lot of people who will hear a popular song but can't think of the artists. Or we know of certain people in music who are "one-hit wonders." I thought it...
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Look Wot I Dun is the story of Slade told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell whose life was shattered when, in 1973 at the height of the group's fame, he was involved in a horrific car crash. Unflinching in his honesty, Powell deals frankly with the aftermath of the accident that took the life of his girlfriend and left him with injuries that affect him to this day. Leader of the glam rock movement, Slade was the UK's biggest singles band from...
18) I, Vivaldi
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In this dynamic picture-book biography, told as if by Vivaldi himself, the famous musician's energetic personality and steadfast dedication to music come alive.
Despite his mother's vow for him to become a priest, young Vivaldi is only interested in music. He soon grows from a feisty boy who wants to play the violin into a stubborn young man who puts his musical training ahead of his studies for priesthood.
Beautiful, ornate artwork portrays the...
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As the influential drummer from iconic rock 'n' roll band The Hollies, Bobby Elliott has six decades worth of musical anecdotes. Continually touring since 1963, his adventures have seen him beating Keith Moon in a drumming audition for Shane Fenton and the Fentones, being serenaded by Joni Mitchell while she was in bed with Graham Nash and being offered a job by Paul McCartney to work with Wings.
Covering all such stories as well as exploring Bobby's...
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How DO you avoid the 'nightmare scenario' of having two open tubs of margarine in your fridge? Throw one tub away, or give it to a friend or neighbour? If the remedy were that simple no one would have bothered to write a book about it, would they? John Shuttleworth would... and he has!
'Sheffield's funniest man' (The Times) and 'The 42nd best reason to love Britain' (The Telegraph) has made simple remedies to everyday domestic dilemmas, well......
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