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    The most authoritative,
    intelligent, diligently
    researched and
    unpretentious analysis of
    the British pop scene yet
    written' Sunday
    Telegraph

    Black
    Vinyl White Powder charts
    the amazing fifty year
    history of the British
    music business in
    unparalleled scale and
    detail. As a key player
    across the decades,
    Napier-Bell - who
    discovered Marc Bolan and
    managed amongst others
    The Yardbirds and Wham! -
    uses his wealth of
    contacts and
    extraordinary personal
    experiences to tell the
    story of an industry that
    is like no other. Where
    bad behaviour is not only
    tolerated but encouraged,
    where drugs are
    sometimes as important as
    talent, where artists
    are pushed to their
    physical and mental
    limits in the name of
    profit and ego.


    'The Greatest
    Ever Book Written about
    English
    Pop-Breathtakingly
    Brilliant' Julie
    Burchill

    'The cold
    print equivalent of a
    sparkling evening with a
    world-class raconteur.'
    Charles Shaar Murray,
    Independent

    Bitchy,
    glib, fun and shrewd'
    Daily
    Telegraph
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Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco
Saturday Night Forever: The
Story Of Disco
    If all disco means to you
    is records like 'I Will
    Survive' and 'YMCA',
    tacky fashions and
    glitter eyeshadow, this
    book will be a real
    revelation. For Alan
    Jones and Jussi Kantonen,
    disco was an essential
    soundtrack to their
    lives. They loved its
    total hedonistic excess,
    its drive, its punch and
    its sweet, catchy
    melodies. For every chart
    hit that pounded into the
    public's consciousness,
    countless other better
    tracks were causing
    hair-raising highs on
    dance floors where Alan
    and Jussi and thousands
    of aficionados like them
    were strutting their
    funky stuff.


    Disco started in obscure
    underground clubs as a
    glamour-filled reaction
    to the plodding,
    self-indulgent rock music
    of the late '60s and
    really took off in the
    excitement-parched early
    '70s. Created by people
    marginalised by their
    colour (black), race
    (Latino), sexuality
    (gay) or class (working),
    the music and its
    attendant lifestyle
    inevitably became watered
    down and distorted once
    it slipped from the
    control of small
    independent labels and
    became a worldwide craze.
    The massive popularity of
    films such as Saturday
    Night Fever     and the
    accompanying Bee Gees
    soundtrack led people to
    believe that this was
    disco. But the authors,
    by exploring such diverse
    strands as Eurodisco and
    roller disco, gay disco,
    and disco fashions,
    drugs and clubs, show
    this to be untrue, and
    instead uncover the
    magical, multi-layered
    genre in all its shining,
    strobe-lit glory. They
    believe in mirror
    balls.
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Soul Stylists: Six Decades Of Modernism
Soul Stylists: Six Decades Of
Modernism
    THE SOUL STYLISTS is
    about 40 years of
    Moderism. A world of
    clothes and music,
    highly influential but
    deliberately hidden away
    for years from the
    mainstream media. This
    book explores the
    enduring relationship
    that exists between
    American black music and
    British working-class
    style, tracing a Mod
    tradition that began in
    Soho just after the
    Second World War and
    continues to this day.
    From Mod to Casual, from
    Skinhead to Northern
    Souler, the soul
    stylists are an amazing
    family joined together by
    a tradition of secrecy,
    exclusively and absolute
    indifference towards the
    outside world. They pass
    unnoticed because soul
    stylists always shun the
    spotlight. To them,
    attention to detail is
    far more important than
    attention seeking. And
    here is this book, for
    the very first time, are
    some of their stories.
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Shang-A-Lang: The Curse of the Bay City Rollers
Shang-A-Lang: The Curse Of The
Bay City Rollers
    In 1973, at the age of
    18, Les McKeown became
    the lead singer of the
    Bay City Rollers, at
    that stage a
    one-hit-wonder pop group
    on the verge of giving
    up. His charismatic
    personality transformed
    the Rollers into an
    international super-group
    that reached No. 1 all
    over the world.


    McKeown was the catalyst
    for mass hysteria not
    witnessed since the days
    of Beatlemania. By 1975
    he was the most adored
    man on the planet. Four
    years later he was
    homeless and penniless
    after quitting the
    Rollers.
    Shang-A-Lang
    reveals the remarkable
    story of the boy from the
    back streets of Edinburgh
    whose dream came true and
    how that dream was
    shattered. It tells the
    truth about the
    scandalous behaviour of
    the boy band marketed as
    squeaky clean and the
    wrangles that led to Les
    leaving the band.


    A no-holds-barred
    account of Rollermania
    and beyond,
    Shang-A-Lang takes
    a revealing trip through
    the many ups and downs in
    the life of one of the
    music
    industry
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