What will we remember of 2012? The Olympic & Paralympic Games? The Queens Diamond Jubilee? The faltering of the Arab Spring & the unfolding tragedy of Syria? Occupy London? The Bankers (again)? Leveson? Whatever the news Guardian" writers were there every step of the way with their unique & incisive takes on the events of the year. The 61st annual " Bedside Guardian"

Includes:: some of their best articles from around the world. Witty quirky original passionate.. .the very quintessence of the " Guardian"."

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I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar & joined a b&. A year later I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls & played gigs & signed to an indie label & started releasing records. Then for eighteen years between 1982 & 2000 I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time we released nine albums & sold nine million records. We went on countless tours had hit singles & flop singles were reviewed & interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the charts out of them back in. I've seen myself described as an indie darling a middle-of-the-road nobody & a disco diva. I haven't always fitted in you see & that's made me face up to the realities of a pop career
- there are thrills & wonders to be experienced yes but also moments of doubt mistakes violent lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor & back again sometimes within minutes.
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This is a charmingly illustrated bedtime board book for babies & toddlers that is perfect for sharing or for children to enjoy by themselves. Talking about the familiar scenes encourages vocabulary building & speech development. It

Includes:: scenes such as teatime tidying away toys bathtime & storytime with labels to promote word recognition.

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Play peekaboo with your baby & hear them giggle in delight as hidden surprises are revealed! Find the sleepy toys hiding; the rabbit with the silky bow is under a blanket & a squashy-nosed pig is behind a clock until at the end of the story you will discover all four toys are fast asleep beneath a bedspread. This is the perfect way to get your baby interested in books & to spend special time together. Also enjoy hours of peekaboo fun! ...

Bedtime isnt bedtime without a bear but who knows where the Bedtime Bear spends his day? With flaps to lift wheels to turn & a pop-up on every spread follow one little bears adventures on his whacky way to bed! This is a fantastic new larger format paperback edition of the classic pop-up book with an eye-catching new foiled cover. ...

Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse
- at the age of three. She was a chronic bedwetter
- until she was old enough to

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Sarah Silvermans father taught her to curse
- at the age of three. She was a chronic bedwetter
- until she was old enough to

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Written by the internationally renowned beekeeper
- Ted Hooper this work features full-colour photography alongside practical &
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The definitive biography now updated to include the tragic death of Robin Gibb in May of this year. Most famous for having created the soundtrack to ' Saturday Night Fever' the ultimate disco movie Barry Robin & Maurice Gibb have also written countless hits both for themselves & others & this new edition contains a list of every song written & recorded by the brothers. This extensively researched biography covers four decades from their early days in Manchester & the lsle of Man before the family emigrated to Australia & returned to London find fame in 1967 with ' Massachusetts' the first of many hits. Over the years the Bee Gees' career has mixed triumph & tragedy in equal measure as well as celebrating their success this biography covers their doldrum years the divorces & the tragic death of Robin Maurice & Andy Gibb. Incorporates a complete listing of every song written or recorded by the Gibbs. ...

Between 1967 & 1972 the Bee Gees sold twenty-five million records. & during those five years the Bee Gees wrote & sang some of the most memorable iconic songs of their era songs that were everywhere in the air on the radio & in everyone's head one Top 5 single after another in America & in the United Kingdom: 1941 New York Mining Disaster" " To Love Somebody" " Massachusetts" " Holiday" " World" " Words" "I Gotta Get a Message To You" "I Started a Joke" & " Lonely Days". In 1969 they played the Royal Albert Hall with a seventy-piece orchestra & a one-hundred-piece marching b&. Of course they sold out the joint
- standing room only. The Bee Gees were the first band to play & sell out 100 000-seat sports arenas. (The Beatles sold only a measly 55 000 tickets at Shea Stadium). In 1971 the brothers wrote & sang one of the most beautiful & enduring pop songs of all time: " How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?" & in 1972 " Run To Me" became the final No. 1 of the first Bee Gees era. Pop charts are fickle; pop audiences more fickle still. Bands have always come & gone bands have always been forgotten. But no band has ever risen as high as the Bee Gees did in 1972 & then fallen as low as the Bee Gees had by 1974. " The Bee Gees" will chronicle the life & career one of the best known most enduring most recognizable & singular bands of the last fifty years. Their story is the story of pop music over the last forty years of music that was neither rock nor soul nor country but a singular sound that fit no genre & that no other artist could emulate. The Bee Gees' saga is the epic story of three men three brothers in a unique musical partnership. Unlike say the Jacksons the Bee Gees always needed one another. Each brought a unique gift to the mix & the others knew it. From that need grew the reality of having to put up with each other. For forty years... Even with Barry's mad ambition he could not succeed without his brothers. Each brother's personality warrants its story told & all three are caught in this compelling family dynamic. & as weird human tragic & compelling as the Bee Gees are as individual characters the tensions between them provide the core of their amazing drama. Through all their musical changes the core of the story remains: family. The Beatles could after all break up & go their separate ways. The Bee Gees never had that luxury. Over a four-decade career they were conjoined by blood & the demands of a sound none of them could make alone."
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