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Last Orders Please: Rod
Stewart, The Faces And The
Britain We Forgot

'There was this terrible
trough in the mid-70s:
England didn't qualify
forthe 1974 World Cup,
Miss Hall our English
teacher left school, and
the Faces split.' Billy
BraggDo you remember The
Faces? The group that was
born out of the ashes of
the legendary sixties
band the Small Faces,
but with the addition of
Ron Wood on guitar (later
to join the Stones) and
Rod Stewart on vocals.
Last Orders, Please is
the first biography of
the band who have
acquired legendary status
in the annals of rock 'n'
roll history. It's also a
book about Britain in a
forgotten era - the early
seventies. Not the
seventies of Glam Rock,
Sweet and Gary Glitter,
but the real seventies of
the three day week,
trade union strikes,
blackouts, the IRA,
steak, chips and warm
beer. In these difficult
times it was the Faces -
a soulful, goodtime band
who drank and played
hard, who didn't dress
to impress, but just got
on with the job - that
the working class adopted
as its own. In the days
before football was
fashionable the Faces
played soccer on stage on
TOTP. In 1974 this was a
near-political act that
confirmed The Faces as
truly a people's band,
and they are still loved,
and revered to this day.

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The Piano Shop On The Left
Bank

Ever since the piano was
invented, people have
longed to own one. By the
nineteenth century the
big, unwieldy
instruments were
everywhere: they shrank
in the heat of the
colonies, swayed on
steamships and sang in
the drawing room of every
genteel home. Some of
these old pianos have
become treasured family
heirlooms, some just
firewood. But others have
led a more itinerant
life, occasionally
finding their way to a
secret, glass-roofed
workshop in Paris where
they are lovingly
restored by a piano
repairer with a passion
for his job.When T. E.
Carhart came upon Luc and
his atelier, his life
changed. As he explored
the Eldorado of pianos in
Luc's back room,
absorbed Luc's wisdom on
life and music and
finally found the baby
grand of his dreams, he
rediscovered his deep
love for this most
magical of instruments.In
this wonderfully
atmospheric book, full
of Parisian life, the
story of a musical
friendship and a mutual
obsession is intertwined
with reflections on how
pianos work, their
glorious history and the
people who care for them,
from the most amateur
pianist to the tuners and
craftsmen who make the
mechanism sing.

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The Virgin Book Of Top 40
Charts

The charts are the
evening news of the music
industry. Collected here,
they show the rapid rise
or demise of each single
as it enters the charts,
either winning over a
large audience or just
making music for its own
smaller group of fans.
Top 40 Charts is
required reading for
every music buff, and
for anyone else who'd
like to know what song
was number one on their
birthday or any other
memorable
day.

With every
Top 40 singles chart from
1960 to the present day,
this is the definitive
chart book. Includes the
song title, act, record
label and total number of
weeks on chart for every
single, as well as a
detailed history of the
pre-1960s charts,

Published using
data from the Official
Charts
Company.

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Music: The Business: The
Essential Guide To The Law And
The Deals

This essential and highly
acclaimed guide, now
updated and revised in
its fifth edition,
explains the
possibilities and
pitfalls of the British
music industry, from the
developments in new
media, privacy,
sponsorship and sampling
to the expanding role of
the internet and the
dominance of digital
music.

Drawing on
her extensive experience
as a media lawyer, Ann
Harrison offers a unique,
expert opinion on the
deals, the contracts and
the business as a whole.
She examines in detail
the changing face of the
music business and
provides absorbing case
studies of huge stars
such as Robbie Williams,
Ms Dynamite and Elvis
Presley. Fascinating,
practical and
comprehensive, this is
the bible for the music
industry and
indispensable reading for
any musical
entrepreneur.

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The New Kobbe's Opera Book

KOBBE'S COMPLETE OPERA
BOOK has been the
opera-lover's bible from
its first appearance in
its seventy-fifth year,
it has been subjected to
the most thorough
revision in its history.
THE NEW KOBBE'S OPERA
BOOK has been redesigned
and extended, numerous
existing entries have
been completely
rewritten, and the book
now incorporates some 200
new operas. The total
number of works covered
is now nearly 500,
including important new
works like John Adams'
NIXON IN CHINA, Harrison
Birtwistle's GAWAIN and
Thomas Ades's POWDER HER
FACE, and a number of
half-forgotten works that
are now undergoing
revival. 46 new composers
are featured. Lord
Harewood's strongly
individual commentaries,
together with his
unparalleled knowledge of
and enthusiasm for opera,
are complemented by
substantial contributions
from his co-editor Antony
Peattie. The NEW KOBBE is
a guide in volume to
virtually every opera the
reader is likely to come
across.

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Handel's Bestiary

When Donna Leon, the
acclaimed author of the
best-selling Commissario
Guido Brunetti series,
is not conjuring up tales
of crime and corruption
in Venice, she is
listening to opera. Over
the years, Leon has
noticed that her
favourite composer,
George Frideric Handel,
filled his operas with
arias that make reference
to animals; rich in
symbolism, the perceived
virtues and vices of the
lion, bee, nightingale,
snake, elephant, and
tiger, among others,
resonate in his
works.

In
Handel

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Stoned

'People say I made the
Stones. I didn't. They
were there already. They
only wanted exploiting.
They were all bad boys
when I found them. I just
brought out the worst in
them'Andrew Loog Oldham
was nineteen years old
when he discovered and
became the manager and
producer of an unknown
band called The Rolling
Stones. His radical
vision transformed them
from a starving south
London blues combo to the
Greatest Rock 'n' Roll
Band That Ever Drew
Breath, while the
revolutionary strategies
he used to get them there
provoked both adulation
and revulsion throughout
British society and
beyond. An ultra-hip mod,
flash, brash and
schooled in style by Mary
Quant, he was a hustler
of genius, addicted to
scandal, notoriety and
innovation. Brian Epstein
had hired him to break
The Beatles, but it was
his thrilling work with
the Stones that turned
him into a legend and
introduced sex and hype
to an austere,
conservative industry. A
ferociously brilliant,
near-mythical
svengali-figure to many,
a manipulative
upper-class thug to
others, he quickly
established himself as
the most mercurial and
anarchic impresario of
the decade.Stoned is
Andrew Loog Oldham's
astonishing story told in
his own words, with
contributions from Mary
Quant, Pete Townshend,
Vidal Sassoon, Nik Cohn,
Lionel Bart and many
other friends,
colleagues and
associates.

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Changeling: The Autobiography
Of Mike Oldfield

Born without social
instincts many people
take for granted,
brought up in a troubled
environment and possessed
with an extraordinary
musical talent, Mike
Oldfield was thrust into
the spotlight at the
tender age of nineteen.
His first album
Tubular Bells went
on to sell fifteen
million copies worldwide
and catapulted him into a
stardom he was
ill-equipped to cope
with.

From growing
up with an alcoholic
mother, to his feelings
of alienation and
struggles with
depression, this book
takes Mike from his early
years, through his
staggering fame, his
broken marriages, years
as a recluse, his
rebirth experience at a
controversial Exegesis
seminar and beyond. Mike
Oldfield has been on a
journey few of us could
ever imagine, and offers
a message of hope to
anybody who feels they
live on the edge of
society.

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The Beatles At No. 1

1.-Love Me Do2.-From Me
to You3.-She Loves
You4.-I Want to Hold Your
Hand5.-Can't Buy Me
Love6.-A Hard Day's
Night7.-I Feel
Fine8.-Eight Days a
Week9.-Ticket to
Ride10.-Help!11.-Yesterday12.-Day
Tripper13.-We Can Work It
Out14.-Paperback
Writer15.-Yellow
Submarine16.-Eleanor
Rigby17.-Penny
Lane18.-All You Need Is
Love19.-Hello,
Goodbye20.-Lady Madonna
21.-Hey Jude22.-Get
Back23.-The Ballad of
John and
Yoko24.-Something25.-Come
Together26.-Let It
Be27.-The Long and
Winding Road

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Liverpool - Wondrous Place:
From The Cavern To The Capital
Of Culture

No other city in the
world is as well known or
loved for its vibrant and
definitive musical
history as Liverpool. In
2002, Guinness World
Records: British Hit
Singles voted
Liverpool 'World Capital
of Pop', recognising
that Liverpool's
homegrown talent has
produced more number one
hit singles per capita
than anywhere else in the
world. In 2008,
Liverpool will celebrate
its crown as European
Capital of Culture.

Paul Du
Noyer

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The New Pocket Kobbe's Opera
Book

The New Pocket Kobbe's
Complete Opera Book
is the world's leading
reference work on

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Nul Points

Fifty years after Jetty
Paerl took to the Lugano
stage and burst into 'The
Birds of Holland', the
Eurovision Song Contest
is still luring 450
million of us to the sofa
on that special Saturday
night in May. But where
once we settled down to
admire the 'top-quality
original songwriting'
that the contest was
inaugurated to showcase,
throughout the long
post-ABBA decades
Eurovision has come to
entertain us for all the
wrong reasons: we chortle
at its magnificent
foolishness, its
stubborn reinforcement of
the crudest national
stereotypes, at a
scoreboard shamelessly
corrupted by cross-border
friendship and hatred.

And as
post-modern connoisseurs
of showbiz meltdown, our
focus has shifted from
the blandly competent
winners to the spangled,
hapless, table-propping
losers, those left to
wander the lonely,
windswept summit of Mount
Fiasco. The gold standard
of farcical failure, the
benchmark of badness, to
score nul points is to
suffer international
ignominy and find
sympathetic understanding
replaced by brutal
guffaws.

Remorseful
of his own longstanding
contributions to the
latter chorus, yet
darkly fascinated with
those lives shadowed by
the entertainment world's
most grandiose
humiliation, Tim Moore
sets off to track down
the thirteen
Eurominstrels who have
come and gone without
troubling the scorers
since Norway's Jahn
Teigen twanged his silver
braces and leapt
splay-legged off the
Palais des Congres stage
in 1978.

From
Lisbon to Lithuania,
from the Black Sea to the
Baltic, Moore travels
the continent to hear
their extraordinary
stories - 'poignant,
ludicrous and
heartwarming in almost
equal measure' -
recounting as he does so
the no less improbable
history of Eurovision
itself, a towering
cathedral of cheese that
can nonetheless claim
responsibility for
keeping Norway out of the
EU and catalysing the
overthrow of a Portuguese
dictatorship.

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Slipknot: Inside The Sickness,
Behind The Masks With An Intro
By Ozzy Osbourne And Afterword
By Gene Simmons

'The only plan right now
is to kill everybody'
Joey Jordison,
drummerIgnoring every
rule in the book and more
besides, Slipknot are a
notoriously controversial
band who combine a talent
for outrage with their
music. Reminiscent of the
outlandishness of punk,
'nu metal' has become the
fastest growing area in
rock, with Slipknot
selling over 2 million
copies of their debut
album. And yet Slipknot
spit, swear and risk
injury night after night
in their extraordinary
live performances.
Incredibly, their
apparel of masks and
boiler suits, which they
refuse to remove, means
that their fans still do
not know what they look
like. Jason Arnopp, the
first British journalist
to interview Slipknot
face to mask, describes
the transformation of the
Des Moines crew into
unorthodox mega stars.
Featuring an introduction
by the legendary Gene
Simmons of Kiss, this
biography will be the
first published on the
band either in the UK or
America and will include
exclusive interviews and
in-depth information on
the mysterious nine
masked men.

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The Official Ultimate 80s Pop
Quiz

From Spandau Ballet and
Kajagoogoo to Half Man
Half Biscuit and Guns and
Roses, the 1980s music
scene is here in all its
glory. The
Official Ultimate
80s Pop Quiz will
spark arguments at dinner
tables and pub quizzes up
and down the country.
Questions include:

1) Who had a
top five hit in October
1982 with
'Starmaker'?
a)
Bananarama
b)
The Kids from Fame
c)
Modern
Romance

2)
What was U2's debut
number one single, a
1988 chart-topper?
a)
The Fly
b) With
or Without You
c)
Desire

3) Who
had a No. 1 hit in 1980
with 'Working My Way Back
to
You

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Louis Walsh's Fast Track To
Fame

X-Factor judge, Louis
Walsh, has managed acts
such as Westlife, Girls
Aloud, Shayne Ward and
G4. He formerly steered
Boyzone to chart topping
success and also
propelled Ronan Keating
to solo stardom. Now he
plans to guide other
budding pop stars to
superstar success with
his Fast Track to
Fame.

Louis
has succeeded in notching
up a staggering 28 number
one singles through his
stable of artists and has
starred alongside Simon
Cowell and Sharon
Osbourne on X-Factor for
three years. Now he is
sharing his expertise
with a new generation of
pop
wannabees.

Fast
Track to Fame takes
us through the A-Z of the
music business (or from A
is for Agents to X is for
X-Factor) with the honest
truth of how the pop
industry really works.
The book is peppered
throughout with
contributions and
anecdotes from many of
Louis's stars, stories
of their own successes
and setbacks, and
lavishly illustrated with
exclusive colour
photographs. Essential
reading for anyone, of
any age, dreaming of
becoming a
star.

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Dave Grohl: Foo Fighters,
Nirvana & Other Misadventures

The Foo Fighters emerged
from the morass of
suicide and potent
musical legacy that was
Nirvana to establish
themselves - against all
odds - as one of the most
popular rock bands in the
world. Deflecting early
critical disdain, Dave
Grohl has single-handedly
reinvented himself and
cemented his place in the
rock pantheon. This is
his story, from his
pre-Nirvana days in
hardcore band Scream to
his current
festival-conquering
status as a
Grammy-winning,
platinum-selling grunge
legend
reborn.

Across the
seven Foo Fighters
albums, the whole sordid
yet legendary Nirvana
tale, the pre-history in
the nascent Seattle scene
and right up to date via
Grohl

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Westlife On Tour

When Shane, Kian, Mark,
Nicky and Bryan
celebrated the beginning
of 2001 in true Irish
style, they had no idea
of the adventures that
lay ahead. Eddie Rowley,
co-author of Ronan
Keating's bestselling
autobiography Life is A
Rollercoaster, followed
Westlife on their biggest
ever world tour. From
Dublin where they
attempted their first
dance routine ('look
lads, no stools') via
Wembley to the Far East,
it was a mad whirl of
hotels, screaming girls,
late night parties and
McDonald's hamburgers. It
was their most expensive
tour ever, and certainly
the most exhausting!
Along the way we witness
the ups and downs of the
boys' lives in the
sometimes dangerous,
sometimes lonely
goldfish-bowl world of
pop. And through it all
we get to see in
unprecedented detail the
true personalities that
make up the phenomenon
that is Westlife. A
rip-roaring read and the
most penetrating look yet
at the UK's most
successful boy band-
ever.

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Sondheim And Lloyd Webber

In this fascinating dual
biography the eminent
musicologist Stephen
Citron takes on our two
leading contemporary
contributors to the lyric
stage. His aim has not
been to compare or judge
one's merits over the
other but to trace,
through their works and
those of their
contemporaries, the path
of and changes to the
musical as an
artform.Citron offers a
unique insight into each
artist's working methods,
analysing their scores -
including their early
works and
works-in-progress. As
with Citron's other
critically-acclaimed
books - lives of Noel
Coward, Cole Porter and
Oscar Hammerstein -
significance is given to
the impact that their
yourthful training and
private lives have had
upon their amazing
creative output.
Beginning with Sondheim's
lyrics-only works, such
as West Side Story and
Gypsy through his scores
for Company, A Little
Night Music, Sweeney
Todd, Sunday in the Park
and Passion, all these
milestones of musical
theatre are explored.
Lloyd-Webber's musical
contribution, from his
early work The Likes of
Us to Jesus Christ
Superstar, Evita, Cats,
The Phantom of the
Opera, to Whistle Down
the Wind is also
thoroughly
analysed.Sondheim &
Lloyd-Webber is essential
reading for anyone
interested in the
contemporary theatre.

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Rat Salad: Black Sabbath: The
Classic Years 1969-1975

Black Sabbath are one of
the most outrageous yet
longest-lived bands in
the history of rock 'n'
roll. This informative,
idiosyncratic and
beguiling book paints a
vivid picture of their
colourful early history -
interwoven with all the
most crucial news stories
of the time: from Vietnam
to Bloody Sunday and the
space
programme.

Where
Rat Salad diverges
from routes taken by most
rock biographies,
however, is in its
detailed analysis of the
band's first six albums.
These chapters - think
Ian MacDonald's
Revolution in the
Head meets Spinal Tap
- occupy about half the
book and persuasively
explain the appeal of the
music, its compositional
artistry and its
frequently audacious
inventiveness.

Original
and passionate, Rat
Salad embraces a
remarkably diverse cast
of characters - from Ozzy
Osbourne himself and the
other members of the band
through to Edith Sitwell,
Breugel the Elder, John
Milton and Doris Day. The
author's hand looms large
in the piece. We see him
both as a boy and man -
from schoolboy ingenue to
inveterate devotee - as
he looks back at a life
populated with love,
sex, drugs and death
played out against a
backdrop of crucifixes
and power
chords.

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The Virgin Book Of British Hit
Albums

From Abracadabra
by the Steve Miller
Band to Zoom by
ELO, this indispensable,

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The Nineties: What The F**ck
Was That All About?

The Swinging Sixties,
the trashy Seventies,
the money-grabbing
Eighties.... . there is a
neat bunch of cliches for
every era. But the
Nineties' What the f**k
was that all about? The
Nineties has been an
ongoing pop war -- a
battle between nostalgia
and experimentalism. It
has been a decade where
every shade of option has
been stretched to the
extreme. And all the time
pop has mirrored this
beautifully turbulent
decade. In this book,
John Robb will be running
with zeitgeist and
shooting from the hip.
Writing from the middle
of the maelstrom --
dropping E's in the
middle of the acid-house
explosion; observing the
epock-moulding Manchester
scene; sharing a hot,
humid night with Nirvana
as the first journalist
to interview the group
wjose influence would
dominate the decade. He
watches the return of the
rock festival and the
rise fo Oasis from mouldy
backroom rehearsals to
the stadium rock of Maine
Road. Riot Grrrls, Trip
Hop, Big Beat, Jungle,
Speed Garage, the
Glasgow Underground.
There is far too much to
include here! But Robb
also takes in the other
aspects of Nineties pop
culture, from the fall
of the Berlin Wall (he
was there) to the new
technology; from the
death of politics to Girl
Power; from TV talk show
(as a former star of the
Vanessa show.... . ) to
the incredible rise of
the combat trouse. Get
strapped in for a wild
ride.

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The Music Instinct: How Music
Works And Why We Can't Do
Without It

* All human cultures
seem to make music -
today and through
history. But why they
do

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The Music Instinct Brain Shot

All human cultures
seem to make music -
today and through
history. But why they
do so,

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The Stooges: A Journey Through
The Michigan Underworld

Containing primary
interviews with all the
band members and Iggy
himself, as well as
other key characters,
this biography provides a
collection of exclusive
and captivating
eye-witness accounts of
this most important of
rock bands.

The
influence of The Stooges
on the world of punk and
rock

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Blood And Fire

Born and raised in a
council house on
Birmingham's notorious
Balsall Heath under the
watchful eye of their
staunchly socialist,
folk singer father,
Robin and Ali Campbell
were to become members of
the most successful
reggae band in the world,
a career that has
spanned four
decades.

But this
is not the autobiography
of a pop band legend,
but rather the story of
two working class
brothers crashing and
burning and fighting back
against the odds. It is
the story of growing up
in the 1960s to the
sounds of Motown and ska,
folk music and skiffle
and radical politics and
- most importantly - the
new and infectious sound
reggae that was to
capture the ears of these
two teenage kids from the
Midlands.

Instilled
by their father from an
early age to always do
things their own way the
brothers - in between
dead end jobs and the
dole office - put
together a band that
would show Balsall Heath
what reggae was all
about. Mismanagement,
drink, drugs, divorce,
paranoia and jail terms
would dog the band and
threaten to destroy it
all - including the
brother's relationship
and yet they come to
amass record sales in
excess of 50 million,
with nearly 50 hit
singles to their credit -
from 'Red Red Wine' and
'Don't Break My Heart' to
'Homely Girl' and 'I Got
You
Babe'.

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Suburban 100

REVISED, UPDATED
AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD
BY PAUL
ABBOTT

This

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The Music Instinct: How Music
Works And Why We Can't Do
Without It

Why have all human
cultures - today and
throughout history - made
music?
Why does
music

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Music: Facts And Trivia

Music: Facts and Trivia
is the book you've been
looking for. A massive
compendium of intriguing,
unbelievable, absurd,
surprising and shocking
facts from the world of
music.
This fun and
infromative book is an
easy-to-read goldmine -
dipping into it will
delight music lovers,
fact-finders and anyone
excited by a passion for
miscellany.

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Glastonbury

This is the remarkable
story of how the
Glastonbury Festival,
that started as a party
in a Somerset field in
the 1970s, went on to
become one of the world's
most famous music
festivals.

The
tales are told in the
words of everyone
involved with the
festival, from Michael
and Emily Eavis and
Arabella Churchill to
Glastonbury village
residents and local
policemen. There is also
a wealth of celebrity
contributions: we hear
from David Bowie, Normal
Cook, Fran Healy, Chris
Martin, Billy Bragg and
John Peel, to name just
a few.

It adds up
to a fascinating slice of
popular history, telling
the full story of this
much loved
festival.

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Crazy From The Heat

'I WAS THERE WITH THESE
TWO GIRLS ONCE; THEY WERE
STRIPPERS. THEY SAID
'DAVE, WE'D LIKE YOU TO
GO UPSTAIRS, THE TWO OF
US, WITH YOU. ' SO I
SAID, 'OKAY'. IT WAS
ANGUS, AND IT WAS HOT
AND SWEATY AND HUMID,
AND WE COMMENCED TO
DELIVER THE GROCERIES AT
138 BEATS PER MINUTE OR
MORE. ONE OF THE GIRLS
HAD $1500 IN SINGLES AND
FIVES AND TENS, HER
END-OF-THE-WEEK TIPS AND
PAY AND EVERYTHING IN HER
G-STRING. NOBODY NOTICED,
YOU KNOW, WHEN THE
G-STRING CAME UNDONE --
WELL, I NOTICED --
NOBODY NOTICED THE MONEY,
LIKE, FLOATING AROUND.
I WOKE UP AT SOME POINT
AROUND DAWN, THE TWO OF
THEM WERE ASLEEP, AND
ALL THREE OF US WERE
COVERED WITH MONEY,
EVERY SQUARE INCH OF SKIN
HAD A DOLLAR BILL PASTED
TO IT -- THERE WAS
NOTHING BUT. THE WHOLE
BED WAS COVERED WITH
BILLS. OUR BODIES WERE
COVERED WITH BILLS. THERE
WAS BILLS IN MY
UNDERWEAR. TAKE A LITTLE
PICTURE OF THAT. ' So
begins perhaps the
ultimate rock
autobiography. Throughout
the late-seventies and
eighties Van Halen were
the archetypal American
rock group. Whats more
they were also the
highest paid band in the
history of show business,
taking a cool $1 million
for a night's work at a
festival in 1983 and
making the Guiness Book
of Records.

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Inside Music 2005: The
Insiders Guide To The Industry

Stephen Colegrave and
Kevin Harris have turned
their years of experience
working in the music
industry into the
definitive guide to its
every aspect. From
creating your own white
label to negotiating a
multi-million pound
contract, from a
Saturday job at your
local HMV to becoming MD
of BMG, it's all here.
This will be the first
edition of an annual
series. With yearly
editorial and listing
updates, it will become
to the music industry
what The Writers and
Artists Yearbook is to
the publishing industry.
With interviews from key
people in the industry as
well as predictions for
the future and comment on
past trends, this will
be a unique and
indispensable yearbook.
Each section will be led
by an informative
editorial, followed by
tips on how to work in
the industry and accurate
up-to-date listings.

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Rat Salad: Black Sabbath: The
Classic Years 1969-1975

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You Send Me: The Life And
Times Of Sam Cooke

When Sam Cooke was shot
dead in a cheap motel in
Hollywood, he was one of
America's most successful
pop stars. He left a
world in which he had
been born poor and had
become very rich from the
success of such records
as 'You Send Me' and 'A
Wonderful World', yet
his body lay unrecognised
in a morgue for two days.
This biography follows
Cooke's life in a racist
America where his voice
was one of the first to
reach beyond the
segregated audiences and
command a white
following, Cooke himself
becoming a player in the
fledgling civil rights
movement. This
award-winning biography
is a full and sometimes
shocking story of a man
whose songbook is revered
by great performers such
as Otis Redding, Rod
Stewart and Aretha
Franklin.

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Do You Want To Know A Secret?:
A Fab Anthology Of Beatles
Facts

6 july 1957; St Peter's
parish church, Woolton;
a garden fete; an
unlikely venue for
rock'n'roll revolution,
but, at 4:15pm. a
performance by schoolboy
skiffle band the Quarry
Men (later rechristened
Johnny and the Moondogs,
then the Silver Beetles
and finally.. . well,
you know who) will alter
the course of musical
history.
Do You Want
to Know a Secret? takes a
trivia-tastic look at the
Beatles' life and legacy:
from strange-but-true
facts to urban myths
shattered; from legendary
readio and TV apperances
to what you can hear if
you listen really closely
to their recordings; from
improtant figures in the
Beatles' lives to rampant
surrealism in their
lyrics.
It's all here
- the drugs, the
madness, the MBE's.. .
but above all the music.
Packed with fascinating
and offbeat facts and
trivia, Do You Want to
Know a Secret? is an
accessible and original
guide to a 1960's popular
beat combo who just
happened to change the
world of music.. .
forever.
And a
splendid time is
guarenteed for
all.
This is an
unofficial guide and was
researched and written
without the direct
involvement of any of the
members of the Beatles or
their
estates.

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