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This is the definitive, fully illustrated account of the Beatles' concerts and controversies, and of how the United States dominated their lives in so many ways. Written by one of the acknowledged experts on the Fab Four, Liverpool's own Spencer Leigh, this volume includes interviews with fellow musicians, promoters, and audience members, together with rare photographs and memorabilia. Early in 1964, with Beatlemania raging in the UK, the Beatles topped the US charts with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and became a sensation on American TV with The Ed Sullivan Show--on which they appeared no fewer than three occasions, on consecutive Sundays in February 1964. In April 1964, they held all Top Five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 and were playing such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and Shea Stadium. As Epstein predicted, they had become bigger than Elvis--after their first appearances of 1964 (at Carnegie Hall and in Washington, DC), the band went on to do a full North American tour in 1964, a shorter tour in 1965, and a final, 13-date tour in 1966 (each of which is covered in detail), transforming them into global superstars--but when John Lennon commented that the band was "bigger than Jesus," things turned sour, and there were public burnings of their records. The final chapter and epilogue of the book take the story of "the Beatles in America" up to the band's breakup and beyond, including John and Yoko's June 1, 1969, "Bed-In" in Montreal and the release of the couple's single "Give Peace a Chance."

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.

This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people around him.' - Hermione Farthingale<BR><BR>'Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world of David Bowie's career and life in general... His new biography Rainbowman is a thorough and honest account of the great man.' - Tony Visconti<BR><BR>'Jérôme is a guy who is still aware that popular music is an art form and not a money suppository. He writes from the heart and is one of the last exemplars of a dying breed. The critic, armed with intelligence and brute compulsive honesty, as dangerous as a river.' - Iggy Pop<BR><BR>'Not long ago, Jérôme told me something that I find very true: "David played saxophone, guitar, a bit of keyboards, but above all, he played... musicians!" I think he was right on the money.' - Mike Garson<BR><BR>In David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music.<BR><BR>This uniquely exhaustive work on Bowie's 1967-1980 albums draws on over 150 interviews with the musicians, producers and friends who knew Bowie best, including Robert Fripp, Hermione Farthingale, Lou Reed, George Underwood, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Trevor Bolder, Mike Garson, Woody Woodmansey and many, many others. With an essay by Soligny on each album followed by oral histories from the most trusted and influential figures in Bowie's musical life, David Bowie Rainbowman is the definitive guide to a singular and mercurial genius - the Rainbowman himself.<BR><BR>With a foreword by Tony Visconti, an introduction by Mike Garson, cover photo by Mick Rock and iconic cover design by Barnbrook.

Turn it Up! is part-memoir of my time as a musician and journalist, and part-pop history, examining some of the unsung or more interesting bands which I have connected with in some way since I began listening to the radio as a kid.It begins with my first concert experience as a thirteen-year-old watching Ike and Tina Turner. I then revisit the records that impacted on me as a young teenager and the music that spurred me on to play myself when I was older. I weave in and out of my chequered progress in music, while pausing now and then to shine a light on the way rock music evolved in the eighties and nineties. The mood is studious and knowledgeable but also light and comedic as I revisit some of my more eventful interviews I conducted with acts such as Bjork, Nirvana and Pulp. Throughout the book I detail the way my own bands became successful, but not quite successful enough, and detail the various catastrophes which may have contributed to that. I introduce the reader to some of the more eccentric characters I have met through music, from Lenny the Launceston punk, who burned down his own shop accidentally, to Kevin Shields from the band My Bloody Valentine who took 55 minutes to answer one question I'd put to him. The book is not dissimilar to Giles Smith's Lost In Music, but that book is very much of the UK in the '80s, and doesn't examine the strange dynamic between the interviewer and the interviewee, which can veer between both parties wishing they were doing something else, to a more edgy encounter where the possibility of a 'scoop' gets the blood rushing. The book ends with some reflections on why music can be the most constant and loved companion in our lives. Turn It Up! is 55 000 words long.

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.

Grab a microphone and turn up the volume.Moving from Hawai'i to Fresno in seventh grade changed Adrienne Robillard's view of the world, herself, and her future. Being a new kid in a new school meant hours of time alone spent listening to cassette tapes and college radio, learning to play the guitar, and writing stories and lyrics. Joining a garage band in high school gave her a sense of belonging she'd never realized possible as she wrote songs with strangers who became treasured friends-one of whom she ended up marrying. Maps and Tapes follows Robillard from San Francisco to the UK, criss-crossing the US and Europe, feeling at home in a van on both sides of the road.In Fresno, "I went from having friends and blending in to being a loner who kept getting asked, 'What are you?' because I was one of a few half-Asian students at Ahwahnee Middle School," she recalls. "With my headphones on, I could ignore uncomfortable questions." Later, music became her primary creative outlet and a way for her not to hide, but to connect.In Maps and Tapes, Robillard interweaves lyrics written for her indie-rock bands between stories of first guitar lessons, young love, adventures in studying abroad, and gigging and touring with her bands. Her poignant prose paints a vivid portrait of the ways in which music soundtracked and shaped her teen and young adult years. Her callouts of favorite bands, albums, and songs will make readers want to cue up their own nostalgic playlists-good and loud, to be felt in the bones, the way the best music and memories should.The Hali'a Aloha Series publishes personal essays, memoir, poetry and prose. The series celebrates moments big and small, harnessing the power of short forms to preserve the lived experiences of the storytellers.

Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's distinguished artistic career. The present book interprets the songs recorded for Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams by a single singer/dreamer. These dreams overlap and intermingle, but three primary levels of meaning emerge. On one level, the singer/dreamer envisions himself as a killer awaiting execution for killing his lover. On another level, the song-cycle functions as religious allegory, dramatizing the protagonist's relentless struggles with his lover as a battle between spirit and flesh, earth and heaven, salvation and damnation. On still another level, Time Out of Mind is a meditation on American slavery and racism, Dylan's most personal encounter with the subject, but one tangled up in associations with the minstrelsy tradition and debates surrounding cultural appropriation. Time Out of Mind marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning point toward his late renaissance in terms of both subject matter and intertextual approach.

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.

Celebrated photographer Elliott Landy presents an intimate look at the legendary female singer-songwriter, Janis Joplin.<BR>Landy's iconic images of Janis, both on the road and in concert, capture and preserve her pure essence as well as her onstage magnificence. Photographs of Janis Joplin: On the Road & On Stage features beautifully reproduced large format images, many never before published.<BR>Janis's own words, taken from recorded interviews by David Dalton, are used as extended captions and paired with photographs to provide insight into the woman behind the legend.

A 60 anni di distanza dal loro primo concerto a Londra nel luglio del 1962, i Rolling Stones sono, oggi più che mai, "la più grande band di rock and roll del mondo". La loro storia è una fantastica saga, una delle più entusiasmanti, controverse e incredibili dell'intera epopea rock. Dalle prime esperienze nella scena londinese del rock blues al debutto discografico, dal travolgente successo di Satisfaction al dualismo con i Beatles, dalla tragica morte di Brian Jones alla tragedia di Altamont, dall'esilio dorato sulla Costa Azzurra all'avvento di Ronnie Wood, dalle avventure soliste al "grande circo del rock and roll" portato sui più grandi palchi del pianeta. Questo volume racconta 60 anni di storia dei Rolling Stones in modo completo e puntuale, con uno stile accattivante e divulgativo, arricchendo il tutto con una grande mole di aneddoti e curiosità raccolte dagli autori in oltre mezzo secolo di incessante passione. Non solo: il libro affronta il mito inossidabile della band nel nuovo Millennio e racconta con minuzia di particolari il rapporto degli Stones con il nostro Paese. Infine, la storia del gruppo non può prescindere da quella artistica e personale dei suoi membri, icone uniche e inimitabili, qui raccontate con il piglio e la competenza degli "insider". Perché... it's only rock and roll, but we like it!. 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.

Un libro di un artista combattivo, che scopre di essere al suo meglio quando impara ad arrendersi. Episodico e irriverente, introspettivo e illuminante, "Surrender" è la storia della vita di Bono, strutturata ¿ senza troppo rigore ¿ intorno a quaranta canzoni degli U2. Bono è nato nel Northside di Dublino da padre cattolico e madre protestante in un periodo di crescente violenza settaria in Irlanda. La perdita della madre a quattordici anni ha aperto in lui un vuoto che lo avrebbe portato a cercarsi una famiglia. Da piccolo si sentiva mediocre, ma la sua vita avrebbe dimostrato che nessuno è davvero mediocre. Ha una creatività caotica ma onnipresente... in studio di registrazione, sul palco, durante una manifestazione, nei corridoi del Congresso degli Stati Uniti o nell¿angolo di un bar. Scopriamo le sue difficoltà a gestire la rabbia, un sentimento che traspare dalle sue canzoni sull¿amore e sulla nonviolenza, e lo sentiamo ammettere di avere un ego ¿ben più grande della mia autostimä. In quarant¿anni di carriera gli U2 si trasformano da ambiziosi teenager al più grande gruppo del mondo, e Bono da attivista part-time a forza motrice a tempo pieno della lotta per cancellare il debito dei paesi poveri e convincere i governi, in particolare quello degli Stati Uniti, ad affrontare l¿emergenza globale dell¿AIDS. Assistiamo con lui alla nascita del PEPFAR, il President¿s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, all¿epoca il più grande intervento contro una singola malattia nella storia della medicina. Bono definisce ¿fattivisti¿ i membri di ONE, la ONG di cui è stato cofondatore, e descrive l¿organizzazione gemella (RED) come ¿droga di passaggio¿ per l¿attivismo. I fan degli U2 scopriranno l¿opinione di Bono sulla longevità della band a fronte di decenni di difficoltà personali e profonde divergenze creative, e troveranno le chiavi per interpretare le canzoni più famose e importanti del gruppo. Si aprono le porte sulla vita interiore di Bono. Un tema ricorrente è lo spreco del potenziale umano, un altro è la fede, definita come capacità di percepire il segnale nel rumore, una ¿piccola voce quietä che l¿artista sente soprattutto nel suo matrimonio, nella sua musica e nella lotta contro la povertà estrema. Ma più di ogni altra cosa "Surrender" è una storia d¿amore dedicata alla moglie Ali, che Bono invitò a uscire per la prima volta la stessa settimana in cui gli U2 avevano suonato insieme per la prima volta. Alison Stewart è la regista delle scene fondamentali di quest¿opera, compreso il terzo atto in cui la coppia sta entrando oggi, alle prese con tante domande e poche risposte su quando vale la pena di combattere e quando è il caso di arrendersi.

Il biografo musicale Stephen Davis tratteggia la storia dei Duran Duran, una delle band più amate e osannate degli anni Ottanta e oltre. Con interviste esclusive ai vari membri del gruppo, ad amici, collaboratori e foto inedite tratte dagli archivi personali, "Please Please Tell Me Now" offre un resoconto definitivo di una saga mai raccontata nella storia del rock and roll: una delizia per i fan irriducibili, per i nuovi ammiratori e per gli amanti della musica di ogni età. Finalmente in Italia la biografia definitiva dei Duran Duran. Con inserto in bianco e nero. 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.

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> 

Alla fine degli anni Settanta, David Howell Evans divenne per tutti The Edge. Fu Bono ad affibbiargli quel soprannome: una parola, poche lettere e molti significati capaci di sintetizzare alla perfezione le mille sfaccettature del chitarrista degli U2. The Edge, «lo spigolo», perché il suo mento ha una forma particolarmente appuntita; ma altrettanto spigoloso e affilato è il suono della sua chitarra (soprattutto nei primi album della band irlandese, ancora imbevuti di post-punk e new wave). The Edge come «acume», «perspicacia», perché queste sono le qualità che da sempre orientano la sua ricerca musicale. The Edge come «bordo», «limite», «crinale»: confini fisici e mentali da spostare un po' più in là e superare, verso orizzonti sempre nuovi ai quali volgere lo sguardo. Tutto ciò, unito a una creatività fuori dal comune e a un'innata propensione alla sperimentazione, ha fatto di Edge una delle figure più importanti della scena rock internazionale degli ultimi quarant'anni. In questo libro, la vita del grande chitarrista viene raccontata per la prima volta, dall'infanzia fino alle ultimissime esperienze musicali, passando attraverso quattro decenni di rock ai livelli più alti. Lo vedremo durante gli anni della Mount Temple School di Dublino e all'incontro con Bono, Larry e Adam. Lo seguiremo durante i primi concerti in piccoli club, ma anche in un albergo dello Sri Lanka proprio mentre sta per scoppiare la guerra civile. Coglieremo la sua sagoma nel deserto americano, dove le strade non hanno nome, a caccia di nuove suggestioni, di un'altra frontiera da varcare. Oppure a passeggio tra le vie di Berlino nei giorni della caduta del Muro, o tra quelle di Sarajevo poco dopo la fine del conflitto. E in mille luoghi diversi, fino a ripercorrere gli snodi più importanti di un percorso artistico di straordinaria intensità.