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  • Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen by Padgett, Ray
    Ray Padgett

    Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

    When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song "Hallelujah"--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground...
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  • Keith Ferguson - Texas Blues Bass by Schmidt, Detlef
    Detlef Schmidt

    Keith Ferguson - Texas Blues Bass

    (Reference). Ask any blues bass player to name their most influential blues bass player, and almost all will mention Willy Dixon for upright bass and Keith Ferguson from the Fabulous Thunderbirds for electric bass. In this extensively researched biography, author Detlef Schmidt starts with...
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  • Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters by Maher, Paul
    Paul Maher

    Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters

    Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: "the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth." Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the...
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  • Life of Chopin by Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    Life of Chopin

    He lived in the shadow of death, painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Frédéric Chopin attained immortality with his piano works, which endure as pinnacles of the instrument's repertoire. This biography by one of the nineteenth century's foremost pianists...
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  • The Beatles Book by Davies, Hunter
    Hunter Davies

    The Beatles Book

    Hunter Davies, the only ever authorized biographer of the group, brings together three eminent Beatles experts to compile an invaluable and essential guide. Divided into four sections--People, Songs, Places and Broadcast & Cinema--the book covers every element of the band's history. Illustrated with material...
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  • Judas Priest: Turbo 'til Now by Popoff, Martin
    Martin Popoff

    Judas Priest: Turbo 'til Now

    In the follow-up to his Judas Priest: Decade of Domination book, which looked at the band's career from inception through the Defenders of the Faith album of 1984, Martin Popoff now tackles the band's incendiary "hair metal" years through to the triumphant return to...
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  • Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery by Wallace, Robin
    Robin Wallace

    Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery

    Wallace demystifies the narratives of Beethoven's approach to his hearing loss and instead explores how Beethoven did not "conquer" his deafness; he adapted to life with it. We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his...
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  • Shades of Springsteen: Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity by Massaro, John
    John Massaro

    Shades of Springsteen: Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity

    One of the secrets to Bruce Springsteen's enduring popularity over the past fifty years is the way fans feel a deep personal connection to his work. Yet even as the connection often stays grounded in details from his New Jersey upbringing, Springsteen's music references...
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  • Revolver: How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll by Rodriguez, Robert
    Robert Rodriguez

    Revolver: How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll

    REVOLVER: HOW THE BEATLES REIMAGINED ROCK 'N' ROLLAuthor: Robert RodriguezISBN-10: 1617130095ISBN-13: 9781617130090Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2012Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
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  • Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 by Tudahl, Duane
    Duane Tudahl

    Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984

    Featuring groundbreaking, never-before-heard stories, Duane Tudahl pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince's rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet. His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the...
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  • Gustav Mahler by Walter, Bruno
    Bruno Walter

    Gustav Mahler

    Conductor, composer, and writer Bruno Walter (1876-1962) worked closely with Gustav Mahler as the composer's assistant and prot g . His revealing recollections of Mahler were written in 1936, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the composer's death. Walter first encountered Mahler more than 40...
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  • The Randy Rhoads That I Knew: Stories from Bandmates, Family and Friends by Stix, John
    John Stix

    The Randy Rhoads That I Knew: Stories from Bandmates, Family and Friends

    The Randy Rhoads That I Knew: Stories from Bandmates, Family and Friends is just that, a set of interviews from those who surrounded him in the studio, at home and on the stage. These interviews first appeared in The Randy Rhoads Guitar Chat, available...
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  • Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 by Fleming, Colin
    Colin Fleming

    Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

    Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual,...
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  • George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend by Allen, Bob
    Bob Allen

    George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend

    GEORGE JONES: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A HONKY TONK LEGENDAuthor: Bob AllenISBN-10: 1480355828ISBN-13: 9781480355828Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2014Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.95h x 6.18w x 0.93d
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  • The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison by Morrison, Jim
    Jim Morrison

    The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison

    The celebrated lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison is a legend of rock and roll. The American Night presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form. With their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of emotion, these works are the...
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  • The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide by Tommasini, Anthony
    Anthony Tommasini

    The Indispensable Composers: A Personal Guide

    An exploration of the question of greatness from the chief classical music critic of The New York Times Anthony Tommasini has devoted particular attention to living composers and overlooked repertory. But, as with all classical music lovers, the canon has remained central for him....
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  • Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition: How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers by Swindali, Tommy
    Tommy Swindali

    Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition: How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers

    Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place Not so long ago, studio quality recording, mixing and music production was only available to the rich and famous artists. However these days it's now possible to produce professional sounding music from your...
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  • Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries by Sonneck, Oscar
    Oscar Sonneck

    Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries

    The almost legendary disorder of Beethoven's house, his eating habits, his growing deafness and ill-health, his tendency to be suspicious of friends, his daily schedule of work, his famous contempt for etiquette, his daily walks in all weathers, his abilities as pianists, sight-ready, improviser,...
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  • Why Patti Smith Matters by Rose, Caryn
    Caryn Rose

    Why Patti Smith Matters

    Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found--what she fostered--was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a...
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  • Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton by Hamessley, Lydia R.
    Lydia R. Hamessley

    Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton

    Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become American standards with...
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  • Janet Jackson's the Velvet Rope by Dozier, Ayanna
    Ayanna Dozier

    Janet Jackson's the Velvet Rope

    The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson's career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control...
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  • Family Tradition: Three Generations of Hank Williams by Masino, Susan
    Susan Masino

    Family Tradition: Three Generations of Hank Williams

    FAMILY TRADITION: THREE GENERATIONS OF HANK WILLIAMSAuthor: Susan MasinoISBN-10: 1617130060ISBN-13: 9781617130069Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2011Pages: 286Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.27h x 6.38w x 1.01dReview Citation(s): Booklist 05/01/2011 pg. 60
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  • Lou Reed's Transformer by Furman, Ezra
    Ezra Furman

    Lou Reed's Transformer

    Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into any of these...
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  • John: A Biography by Lennon, Cynthia
    Cynthia Lennon

    John: A Biography

    Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling expos of the real John Lennon The time has come when I feel ready to tell the truth about John and me, our years together and the years since his death. There is so much that...
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  • Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Cohen, Jonathan D.
    Jonathan D. Cohen

    Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen

    Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to...
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  • My Dear Departed Past: Includes 20 Recordings of Frishberg Classics by Frishberg, Dave
    Dave Frishberg

    My Dear Departed Past: Includes 20 Recordings of Frishberg Classics

    If you attended public school in the United States between 1973 and today, odds are you've heard Dave Frishberg's songs - just see if any of these Schoolhouse Rock classics ring a bell: The Number Cruncher Seven Fifty Once a Week Dollars and Sense...
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  • The Rolling Stones Trivia Book by Raynes, Dale
    Dale Raynes

    The Rolling Stones Trivia Book

    Uncover The History! - Special List PriceAs soon as you hear their name, you know them. The raw sexuality in Mick Jagger's voice, the ramshackle immediacy of Keith Richards riffs, and the understated, but always perfect, rhythm section all create the inimitable signature sound...
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  • Elvis Presley's from Elvis in Memphis by Wolfson, Eric
    Eric Wolfson

    Elvis Presley's from Elvis in Memphis

    "I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock's first and greatest comeback in a television program, forever known as "The '68...
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  • Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of Xtc by Partridge, Andy
    Andy Partridge

    Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of Xtc

    "I like accidents. I like to put myself in the way of musical harm. I like being at the wheel of that musical car, and aiming it at the wall, just to see what shape the car's going to come out. It might come...
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  • The Roof: The Beatles' Final Concert by Mansfield, Ken
    Ken Mansfield

    The Roof: The Beatles' Final Concert

    As seen on The 700 Club HE WAS THERE Apple Records former US manager Ken Mansfield takes a touching and comprehensive look back on one of Rock'n'Roll's most significant events, while bringing an insider's perspective to the days leading up to those 42 fascinating...
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  • Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero by Ward, Ed
    Ed Ward

    Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero

    This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom eminent figures like Muddy Waters and B. B. King held in high esteem, and who created the prototype for Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and everyone who followed. Bloomfield was one of the first popular music...
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  • Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia by Lamb, Gordon
    Gordon Lamb

    Widespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia

    In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No one involved could have known that the predicted crowd of twenty thousand would prove to be nearly five times that size....
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  • Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings by Schumann, Robert
    Robert Schumann

    Schumann on Music: A Selection from the Writings

    Schumann's genius as a composer is well known; perhaps less well known is the fact that he was also a gifted music critic who wrote hundreds of perceptive essays, articles, and reviews for the Neue Zeitschrift fur M?ik, the influential music journal he founded...
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  • Collected Piano Works: Volume 2 by Noland, Gary Lloyd
    Gary Lloyd Noland

    Collected Piano Works: Volume 2

    Composer Gary Lloyd Noland's COLLECTED PIANO WORKS: Volume 2 includes his epic-length 39 VARIATIONS ON AN ORIGINAL THEME IN F MAJOR Op. 98, his super-virtuosic GRANDE RAG BRILLANTE Op. 15, his GOLDEN GATE RAG Op. 123, and several other heretofore unpublished works for piano.39...
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  • Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan's Voyage to Infidels by Gans, Terry
    Terry Gans

    Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan's Voyage to Infidels

    Bob Dylan's 1983 album Infidels was a departure from his previous works in so many ways - lyrics, music, production and spirit. It is unique amongst Dylan albums, and while songs like 'Jokerman' and 'I and I' are well known, the album is less...
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  • Music Production 2020: Everything You Need To Know About Producing Music, Studio Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Songwriting in 2020 (2 Book by Swindali, Tommy
    Tommy Swindali

    Music Production 2020: Everything You Need To Know About Producing Music, Studio Recording, Mixing, Mastering and Songwriting in 2020 (2 Book

    Everything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place Grab your chance to own this comprehensive guide by Tommy Swindali for Music Production in 2020.Including: Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition: How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music...
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  • Joan Baez: The Last Leaf by Thomson, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Thomson

    Joan Baez: The Last Leaf

    Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music.Within three years, she had recorded three best-selling albums and had embarked on a tour of southern US campuses, playing to integrated audiences in...
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  • John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) by Cage, John
    John Cage

    John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)

    "Over 16 years, beginning in 1965, John Cage compiled anecdotes, observations and koanlike tales, originally typing everything on an IBM Selectric and using chance methods to determine the formatting of texts that twist down each page. The Siglio edition preserves the graphic effects, but,...
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  • Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon by McQuillar, Tayannah Lee
    Tayannah Lee McQuillar

    Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon

    A passionate, critically incisive cultural biography of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur and an examination of the forces that shaped him. In 1996 Tupac Shakur, one of the most talented artists of his time, was murdered by an unknown gunman. Fred L. Johnson and Tayannah...
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  • Portishead's Dummy by Wheaton, Rj
    Rj Wheaton

    Portishead's Dummy

    An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. RJ Wheaton offers an impressionistic investigation of Dummy that imitates the cumulative structure...
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  • Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen by Blake, Mark
    Mark Blake

    Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen

    Queen's success in the 1970s was accompanied by a taste for musical and non-musical excess. Is This the Real Life? draws on eyewitness testimonies -- former producers and managers, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends -- to create a complete picture of one of the world's most...
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  • Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars by Young, Neil
    Neil Young

    Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars

    The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that "reads like a great Neil Young song plays." (The Buffalo News) In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author...
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  • The Stranglers 1977 by Shenton, Laura
    Laura Shenton

    The Stranglers 1977

    For The Stranglers, 1977 was a vital year. Not quite punk, certainly not pop and often at odds with live audiences and the music press alike, their approach was such that nothing could stop them. With hits like 'Peaches', 'No More Heroes' and 'Something...
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  • Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times by Kinderman, William
    William Kinderman

    Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times

    We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music explains its power and...
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  • Muse: Out of This World (Updated) by Beaumont, Mark
    Mark Beaumont

    Muse: Out of This World (Updated)

    From a Battle of the Bands contest in Teignmouth, to the first band ever to sell out the new Wembley Stadium, the story of Muse's stratospheric rise is one of UK rock's most fascinating and incendiary tales.As three unassuming kids from Devon plot a...
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  • Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music by Levine-Packer, Renee
    Renee Levine-Packer

    Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music

    A compelling portrait of composer-performer Julius Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music. Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music,...
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  • Me, Myself and I: The Little Guide to Beyoncé by Hippo! Orange
    Hippo! Orange

    Me, Myself and I: The Little Guide to Beyoncé

    The Little Book of Beyoncé is filled with quotations by one of the most important pop artists ever. A perfect companion for fans, this collection of bite-sized quips helps capture exactly what makes Beyoncé so popular with her followers - the Beyhive - worldwide....
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  • Do Stand So Close: My Improbable Adventure As Sting's Guitarist by Campbell, Jeffrey Lee
    Jeffrey Lee Campbell

    Do Stand So Close: My Improbable Adventure As Sting's Guitarist

    A small-town musician from North Carolina tries his luck on the biggest stage of all: New York City. And he hits the jackpot. Mere months into his NYC gambit, guitarist Jeffrey Lee Campbell is catapulted from selling candy in Broadway theaters to touring the...
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  • Björk's Homogenic by MacKay, Emily
    Emily MacKay

    Bjk's Homogenic

    In recent years, Bj rk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album, Vulnicura,...
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  • Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Kerst, Friedrich
    Friedrich Kerst

    Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

    This long-esteemed book offers the reader a highly interesting glimpse of Beethoven, the man. There are a number of biographical studies of Beethoven, but nowhere else will you find such a convenient classified collection of his utterances and opinions. Through his own words emerges...
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