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Taylor Swift needs no introduction. The global superstar is one of the greatest singer-songwriters of her generation with a fanbase that covers the globe. Now it's the fandom's time to shine with FOR THE SWIFTIES: A Puzzle Book Inspired by Taylor Swift (Unofficial Version).<BR><BR>Put your Tay-Tay knowledge to the test with puzzles ranging from things you know All Too Well to slightly more tricky ones that might confound you with a Blank Space. Taking in every album she's ever made, right up to The Tortured Poets Department, and packed full of Taylor-themed quizzes, wordsearches, crosswords and much more, this is the perfect activity to do with your friends en route to a concert or at home listening to your favourite album (Taylor's Version).<BR><BR>This is the perfect keepsake of The Eras Tour and an ideal gift for the Swiftie in your life. Are you ready for it?

#1 New York Times Bestseller<BR><BR>THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK-<BR>Published in celebration of BTS's 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS, including unreleased photos, QR codes of videos, and all album information.<BR><BR>After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official book. In doing so, BTS nurtures the power to build brighter days and they choose to take another step on a road that no one has gone before.<BR><BR>BTS shares personal, behind-the-scenes stories of their journey so far through interviews and more than three years of in-depth coverage by Myeongseok Kang, who has written about K-pop and other Korean pop culture in various media. Presented chronologically in seven chapters from before the debut of BTS to the present, their vivid voices and opinions harmonize to tell a sincere, lively, and deep story. In individual interviews that have been conducted without a camera or makeup, they illuminate their musical journey from multiple angles and discuss its significance.<BR><BR>In addition, portrait photos that show BTS as individuals and artists open the book, and throughout there are concept photos, tracklists of all previous albums, and over 330 QR codes. As digital artists, BTS has been communicating with the world through the internet and this book allows readers to immediately access trailers, music videos, and more online to have a rich understanding of all the key moments in BTS history. Complete with a timeline of all major milestones, BEYOND THE STORY is a remarkable archive-truly everything about BTS in one volume.

Do you know which country won the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956? And can you name the five members of Kalush Orchestra, the 2022 contest winners? How about which iconic song ABBA won with in 1974?<BR><BR>Celebrating the Eurovision Song Contest, this unofficial quiz book features more than 1,200 questions and will test your Eurovision pop history knowledge to the limit. With different levels of difficulty, there's something for everyone - let's just hope you don't score the dreaded nul points!<BR><BR>This book is the perfect companion to a Eurovision party night, and would make a great gift for any pop-obsessed friend or family member.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles and gaining fans and media attention wherever they performed. Before the year was out, they had played approximately thirty shows, put together an early, beloved repertoire, recorded a blistering demo that secured them a recording contract with EMI/Enigma, and lost two of their founding members to a rival band. Out in L.A. is an attempt at finding out exactly what happened during that first year and exploring what it is that makes the Red Hot Chili Peppers so compelling and fresh, even as they continue on their musical journey today.

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and New York Times bestselling author of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll's most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an essential part of the success story of Canadian progressive rock trio Rush. Here for the first time is his account of life inside and outside the band.Long before Rush accumulated more consecutive gold and platinum records than any rock band after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, before the seven Grammy nominations or the countless electrifying live performances across the globe, Geddy Lee was Gershon Eliezer Weinrib, after his grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust.As he recounts the transformation, Lee looks back on his family, in particular his loving parents and their horrific experiences as teenagers during World War II.He talks candidly about his childhood and the pursuit of music that led him to drop out of high school.He tracks the history of Rush which, after early struggles, exploded into one of the most beloved bands of all time.He shares intimate stories of his lifelong friendships with bandmates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart—deeply mourning Peart’s recent passing—and reveals his obsessions in music and beyond.This rich brew of honesty, humor, and loss makes for a uniquely poignant memoir.

With riots, prison sentences and equipment stolen, 1980 and the earlier part of 1981 was an incredibly turbulent time for The Stranglers. Their misfortune provided the press with excellent stories but rarely was their music written about. Understandably, with its paranoid exploration of extraterrestrial themes, The Gospel According To The Meninblack hadn't really caught on. With everything to play for when it came to making the next album, La Folie - and indeed the hit single, 'Golden Brown' - it would see The Stranglers back at the top of their game. In this book, Laura Shenton MA LLCM DipRSL offers an in-depth perspective on La Folie from a range of angles including how the album came to be, how it was presented and received at the time (live as well as on record), and what it means in terms of The Stranglers' legacy today.

Ein Märchen über die Schönheit der Musik und die besondere Stimmung der Weihnachtszeit.Die kleine Mariah Carey lebt zusammen mit ihrer Mutter und einem vorlauten Papagei in einem alten und etwas schäbigen kleinen Haus. Sie besitzen nicht viel doch die kleine Mariah Carey liebt es, zu singen. Und es gibt etwas, auf das sie sich besonders freut: Weihnachten! Eine friedliche Zeit voller Musik, funkelnder Sterne und gemütlicher Wärme. Aber warum ist sie trotzdem so traurig? Die reichen Nachbarskinder grenzen sie aus und sind gemein zu ihr. Wollen ihr die schönste Jahreszeit vermiesen. Wie durch Zauberei fängt es an zu schneien. Mariah glaubt, kleine Feen in den hinabrieselnden Schneeflocken zu entdecken. Freudig tanzt und singt sie zusammen mit den funkelnden und freundlichen Eiskristallen. Dabei gerät sie  immer tiefer in den verschneiten Winterwald. Aber sie muss keine Angst haben. Denn ihre wunderschöne Stimme und ihr Gesang, den sie anstimmt, haben eine magische und versöhnende Kraft. Ihr Weihnachtslied verzaubert die Herzen aller. Die ganz persönliche Weihnachtsgeschichte des Weltstars Mariah Carey. Und die Geschichte eines Liedes, das jedes Jahr an Weihnachten um die Welt geht. All I want for christmas is you!

'Ich bin besessen davon, ein Beobachter zu sein' sagte Bernd Begemann einmal über sich selbst, und so sind seine Texte präzise Beobachtungen des bundesdeutschen Alltags. Begemann schafft es in den wenigen für einen Liedtext zur Verfügung stehenden Zeilen ein ebenso präzises wie mitfühlendes, erklärendes und vor allem unterhaltsames Bild der Gesellschaft zu erschaffen.Seine Songs könnten und sollten Hits und/oder Volkslieder sein, sie sind es aber nicht. 'Meine Aufgabe ist es Literatur zu schaffen, nicht meine Kundschaft zu maximieren' so Begemann einmal gegenüber dem Spiegel. Höchste Zeit also für vorliegende Textsammlung und eine eventuelle Maximierung der Kundschaft. Zusätzlich zu den Songtexten enthält das Buch Anmerkungen und Erläuterungen des Autors zu jedem Liedtext und eine Einführung.

Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: those who offer a new way of thinking about the vast spectrum of women in music.<BR><BR>This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music is edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson and features an array of talented contributors, including: Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper, Ottessa Moshfegh, Simone White, Yiyun Li, and Zakia Sewell.<BR><BR>In this radical departure from the historic narrative of music and music writing being written by men, for men, This Woman’s Work challenges the male dominance and sexism that have been hard-coded in the canons of music, literature, and film and has forced women to fight pigeon-holing or being side-lined by carving out their own space. Women have to speak up, to shout louder to tell their story—like the auteurs and ground-breakers featured in this collection, including: Anne Enright on Laurie Anderson; Megan Jasper on her ground-breaking work with Sub Pop; Margo Jefferson on Bud Powell and Ella Fitzgerald; and Fatima Bhutto on music and dictatorship.<BR><BR>This Woman’s Work also features writing on the experimentalists, women who blended music and activism, the genre-breakers, the vocal auteurs; stories of lost homelands and friends; of propaganda and dictatorships, the women of folk and country, the racialized tropes of jazz, the music of Trap and Carriacou; of mixtapes and violin lessons.<BR> 

Geniale, visionario, eccentrico, bugiardo, generoso, contraddittorio e determinato, Lucio Dalla uomo e artista è raccontato, album dopo album, dai musicisti, autori, produttori, discografici e soprattutto dagli amici tra i quali Pupi Avati, Fabrizio Zampa, Gian Franco Reverberi, Renzo Arbore, Maurizio De Angelis, Paola Pallottino, Antonio Bagnoli, Tony Esposito, Alessandro Colombini, Ricky Portera, Fiorella Mannoia, Francesco De Gregori, Gianni Morandi, Ambrogio Lo Giudice, Gaetano Curreri, Maurizio Biancani, Mauro Malavasi, Roberto Costa, Iskra Menarini, Beppe D'Onghia, Samuele Bersani, Silvana Casato, Luca Carboni... Prefazione di Ron. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

In March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died from incurable brain cancer. This story is his legacy, in his own words. A proud working-class lad from Bolton, he rose to chart-topping fame with The Wanted and even took America by storm. A loving father to Aurelia and Bodhi and a proud husband to Kelsey, his life after pop superstardom was all about family, friends and finding new purpose. After his diagnosis in 2020, he become a prominent campaigner for brain cancer research, appearing in the House of Commons as well as holding a massively successful concert in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in the Royal Albert Hall. Throughout it all, Tom had hope. This inspirational memoir shows how far hope and daring to dream can carry you, no matter what cards you're dealt.£20.00

The prequel to Bob Stanley''s universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let''s Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. <BR><BR>''An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock''n''roll. Fascinating. I can''t recommend it enough.''<BR>CAITLIN MORAN<BR><BR>''An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the Twentieth Century.''<BR>NEIL TENNANT<BR><BR>''A perfect guidebook, filled with smart thinking and the kind of communicable enthusiasm that sends you rushing to the nearest streaming service, eager to hear what all the fuss was about.''<BR>ALEXIS PETRIDIS, GUARDIAN<BR><BR>Pop music didn''t begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century . . .<BR><BR>Who were the earliest record stars, and were they in any meaningful way ''pop stars''? Who were the likes of George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after the Second World War?<BR><BR>The prequel to Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Taking in superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together.<BR><BR>Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life - from ragtime, blues and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning and beyond - Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers.<BR><BR>''Stanley has provided something invaluable to the growing numbers who get their music via streaming services: a guide to pop's back pages, where artists mostly remembered in sepia tones are brought into vivid colour by the author's enthusiastic sense of discovery.''<BR>BILLY BRAGG, NEW STATESMAN<BR><BR>''Inspired.'' THE TIMES<BR>''Remarkable.'' CLASSIC ROCK<BR>''Exhilarating.'' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER<BR>''Essential.'' DAILY TELEGRAPH<BR>''A joyous read.'' THE ECONOMIST<BR>''Wholly entertaining.'' MOJO<BR>''Enthralling.'' DAILY MAIL<BR>''Great fun.'' LITERARY REVIEW<BR>''Colossal.'' UNCUT<BR>''A joy.'' RECORD COLLECTOR<BR>''A triumph.'' LOUD & QUIET

Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases, from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find, from sticks and knives to the emerging digital technologies.<BR><BR>The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams, volcanoes, locusts, lightning, helicopters, Hiroshima, show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age ago - but so much remains the same.

"Non è un'opera, non è un film, non è un romanzo; somiglia più propriamente a un quadro o a un racconto breve. È un'annotazione, la fotografia di uno stato d'animo, un'urgenza descrittiva che ti pulsa dentro e non puoi fare a meno di liberare. È la forma canzone": Roberto Vecchioni parte da qui, dal "pezzo chiuso" che fin dai tempi antichi si chiama canzone e ha raccolto in sé le emozioni intime e i racconti corali dell'umanità. E poi allarga lo sguardo, percorre la lunga strada che la canzone ha compiuto nei secoli, fino ad arrivare al Novecento, al cabaret, al Club Tenco, alle "canzoni d'urgenza" scritte per altri, allo "sgattaiolare tra i sentimenti comuni" che tante canzonette portano dentro di sé ma anche al fuoco dell'ispirazione che è fatica, ossessione, amorosa dedizione. Questo libro racchiude la densissima riflessione di Roberto Vecchioni sulla canzone e sul suo inestricabile intrecciarsi con la vita, e al tempo stesso è una preziosa autoantologia dei testi più significativi di cinquant'anni di musica. Ad accompagnare la voce di Vecchioni ci sono Massimo Germini - suo storico chitarrista - e Paolo Jachia, docente di Semiotica a Pavia dove Vecchioni ha tenuto alcuni cicli di lezioni. Dentro i miti, gli inganni, gli amori di canzoni che abbiamo ascoltato con emozione impariamo a scorgere la poetica musicale e letteraria, il lavoro nell'ombra del poeta che anche quando il buio si fa fitto non rinuncia a trovare parole per cantare. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records which either epitomised their time, or ushered in a new cultural shift. So we move seamlessly from Rapper's Delight and the genre defining moment of hip hop into The Specials' spectral, Ghost Town; from ABC and the apotheosis of New Pop (The Look of Love) to Madonna's breakthrough moment with Like a Virgin, and so on. In the '80s each year brought a new twist as technology shifted and genres snowballed, MTV reigned supreme and the story of pop became globalised. It was a decade of excess in all areas, especially ambition, but it was in the transcendent moments of pop perfection that the '80s found its true art-form.<BR><BR> Subjective and idiosyncratic, SHINY AND NEW takes us from downtown New York to post-industrial Manchester, in the first widescreen attempt to weave together the stories, the songs and events that re-shaped music and society.

NEW UPDATED EDITIONBob Dylan is one of the most iconic figures in modern music, and for two decades, Howard Sounes' Down the Highway has been the definitive biography of an American icon. Based on years of research, documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's intimates-many exclusive-Down the Highway has gone beyond the scope of other accounts to become the most complete, authoritative biography of Bob Dylan now in print. It was praised by The Orlando Sentinel for the insights it offers to Dylan at work . . . from young upstart to grand old man of rock 'n' roll. . . . This book makes us realize now, while he's still with us, how valuable he has been to our culture these last forty years."Sounes's prodigious research has resulted in new insights on every aspect of Dylan's life. He has obtained exclusive information to provide the clearest picture yet of Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident and subsequent "lost years" in Woodstock, New York, and he uncovered the star's unknown second marriage. He gives inside accounts of the tours, the creation of every album and the most celebrated songs, Dylan's labyrinthine love life, his life-threatening heart illness in 1997, and more-directly from interviews with girlfriends, family, friends, producers, concert promoters, and fellow musicians.As Dylan approaches his eightieth year, Howard Sounes once again brings Down the Highway up to date, following the last decade of Dylan's life and career. Candid, refreshing, and written with a sincere appreciation of Dylan's music and influence, Down the Highway is an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan's music over the years.

Chi è Katy? È una ragazza dolce e un po' ribelle con tanti sogni e un grande amore per la musica. Il suo rifugio speciale sono le canzoni dei Pooh. Nei momenti difficili che la vita le riserva la aiutano a rimettersi in piedi e a ricominciare. Nei periodi felici, nei momenti bellissimi che l'amore e l'amicizia le regalano, quei testi e quella musica diventano i suoi compagni migliori, e le basta riascoltarli per provare l'intima gioia di quegli istanti. Appassionante e coinvolgente, la storia di Katy attraversa il nostro tempo, parla al nostro cuore toccando corde profonde e facendoci riflettere. In una trama di emozioni e realtà, ritroviamo la sensazione che ognuno di noi ha provato nella vita: «Quella canzone parla di me. In quel brano ci sono io. Quel testo mi ha fatto capire chi sono davvero». Perché la musica salva e la poesia aiuta a vivere.