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An oral history of the Rolling Stones career in the 1960s, told in the words of over 600 fans

A history of the band Queen as told through more than 400 eyewitness accounts of seeing them live in concert

An oral history of the folk-rock band Fairport Convention as told through the memories of over 200 fans, friends and musical collaborators

An oral history of the Rolling Stones 1972 North American tour as told through 300 first hand fan accounts

Discover how Taylor's music and style have evolved from her self-titled country-infused debut, through the pop hits of 1989, to the stripped back indie of folklore. See how her relationships and personal life have influenced her songwriting and performances, and how the young star is using her influence to support causes close to her heart.

"In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism focuses on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions, overcoming the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts"--

From anxiety-pitched fever dreams, to late night Reddit reading, conspiratorial fed fear and existential angst. THEY ARE COMING collates the material produced over the course of a decade from both first and second-hand sources by Alice Rosati. The collected screenshots of 'anxiety triggers' introduce a reoccurring slime-like substance while doppelgangers layer and build momentum towards ominous cinematic landscapes, geological studies, meteor craters and observatories. Situated between fiction and speculation, internal and external dialogues narrate the reader towards extraterrestrial abduction. The publication is printed twice: first in full colour CMYK and a blue shade of metallic. The sheets were passed back through the printing press once more for a second layer of metallic-overprinting the book with slime and Rosati's doppelgängers.

The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution narrates and analyzes the largest judicial battle in culture and industrial property in nineteenth century Europe, the echoes of which still ring today.

This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianità) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.

Out of print for a decade, David Katz's classic history is reborn in the White Rabbit Deep Cuts series.

From 1974 to 1984, Trouser Press - once billed as "America's Only British Rock Magazine" but later called by some "the bible of alternative rock" - provided enthusiastic coverage of independently made and released music as well as artists from many genres: glam, punk, new wave, reggae, techno-pop, many of them early in their now-legendary careers.This anthology, edited and newly annotated by one of the magazine's co-founders, is an immersion in rock journalism of a form that is no longer widely practiced: features that go deep into artists' history and interviews that ask the impertinent questions, all written with wit, intelligence and a willful expression of opinions and values.In 446 pages, this large-format paperback collects more than 90 of the best articles - profiles, interviews and histories - that appeared in the magazine. Artists featured include Adam Ant, Syd Barrett, Black Flag, Ritchie Blackmore, Blondie, Kate Bush, Cheap Trick, Clash, Elvis Costello, the Cure, Devo, Brian Eno, Eurythmics, Bryan Ferry, Robert Fripp, Gang of Four, Genesis, the Go-Go's, Human League, Joan Jett, Joy Division, Kinks, Kiss, Nick Lowe, Malcolm McLaren, New York Dolls, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Public Image Ltd., Ramones, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Residents, Todd Rundgren, Sex Pistols, Small Faces, Sparks, Television, Peter Tosh, T. Rex, U2, the Who, X, X-Ray Spex and Frank Zappa.

The Definitive Account of U2's Most Interesting EraWhen U2 released Pop in 1997, the Irish quartet had been on a decade-long run of hits that included The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. The band's Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold out venues the world over. But Pop turned out to be U2's worst-selling album, and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled stadiums and earned the nickname "Flop Mart" in the press. The Pop era was left behind, but many U2 fans never forgot what Bono once called the "best thing we've ever done."40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart takes readers into the studio and onto the stage during U2's most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of Pop, where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents, striving to create a masterpiece. Instead, with tour dates already booked, U2 handed in an unfinished album.40-Foot Lemon follows U2 around the globe on PopMart, the biggest tour in rock history, and featuring the world's largest TV screen, a 10-story golden arch, a sofa-sized olive on a 100-foot martini stick, and a giant lemon disco ball that did all sorts of tricks. When it was working. PopMart struggled to fill seats in the U.S., but it shattered records in Europe and South America, playing to packed stadiums and making history from Sarajevo to Santiago. 40-Foot Lemon is the definitive account of U2 at their most interesting.

The Definitive Account of U2's Most Interesting EraWhen U2 released Pop in 1997, the Irish quartet had been on a decade-long run of hits that included The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. The band's Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold out venues the world over. But Pop turned out to be U2's worst-selling album, and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled stadiums and earned the nickname "Flop Mart" in the press. The Pop era was left behind, but many U2 fans never forgot what Bono once called the "best thing we've ever done."40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart takes readers into the studio and onto the stage during U2's most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of Pop, where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents, striving to create a masterpiece. Instead, with tour dates already booked, U2 handed in an unfinished album.40-Foot Lemon follows U2 around the globe on PopMart, the biggest tour in rock history, and featuring the world's largest TV screen, a 10-story golden arch, a sofa-sized olive on a 100-foot martini stick, and a giant lemon disco ball that did all sorts of tricks. When it was working. PopMart struggled to fill seats in the U.S., but it shattered records in Europe and South America, playing to packed stadiums and making history from Sarajevo to Santiago. 40-Foot Lemon is the definitive account of U2 at their most interesting.

When the Spirit Says Sing! tells the fascinating story of spirituals and their relationship to enslaved people of the United States, the Bahamas, and Mexico. It begins with the voyage from Africa as it explores the earliest remnants of African song, surviving in America as the ring shout, native to South Carolina and Georgia.Most of the spirituals mentioned in the book, including ring shouts, are accompanied by printed lyrics and suggestions for listening on the web. Performers recommended for listening include Kathleen Battle, Mahalia Jackson, Paul Robeson, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Moses Hogan.The book covers a wide range of topics, including slave arrivals from Africa, the Underground Railroad, codes and symbols in spirituals, the development of different styles, and the relationship between religion and slavery in the South. The author also describes the roles of abolitionists, stationmasters, and conductors on the Underground Railroad. Each of the abovementioned is accompanied by the depiction of at least one, and usually several, relevant spirituals.When the Spirit Says Sing! celebrates spirituals as a compelling expression of art and culture. Those with little knowledge of this music will find themselves informed, and those well acquainted with it will find new material to explore. It delves deeply and comprehensively into the role of singing in the lives of enslaved people and is accessible to both novices and scholars.

These classic Easter hymns have been arranged for brass quintet: two B-flat trumpets, french horn, trombone, and tuba. Easy enough for early intermediate students to learn and for more advanced players to sight-read. Great for preludes, offertories, postludes, recitals, and lessons. Includes scores and parts. Alleluia! Alleluia! (Ode to Joy)At the CrossChrist Arose (Low in the Grave He Lay)Christ the Lord is Risen TodayCrown Him With Many CrownsI Stand Amazed in the Presence (How Marvelous)Jesus Paid It AllNear the CrossNothing but the BloodWere You There This is a single bound book. Photocopying is permitted for performance purposes only.

These classic Easter hymns have been arranged for string quartet: two violins, viola, and cello. Easy enough for early intermediate students to learn and for more advanced players to sight-read. Great for preludes, offertories, postludes, recitals, and lessons. Includes scores and parts. Alleluia! Alleluia! (Ode to Joy)At the CrossChrist Arose (Low in the Grave He Lay)Christ the Lord is Risen TodayCrown Him With Many CrownsI Stand Amazed in the Presence (How Marvelous)Jesus Paid It AllNear the CrossNothing but the BloodWere You There This is a single bound book. Photocopying is permitted for performance purposes only.

These classic Easter hymns have been arranged for string orchestra or quintet: two violins, viola, cello, and bass. Easy enough for early intermediate students to learn and for more advanced players to sight-read. Great for preludes, offertories, postludes, recitals, and lessons. Includes scores and parts. Alleluia! Alleluia! (Ode to Joy)At the CrossChrist Arose (Low in the Grave He Lay)Christ the Lord is Risen TodayCrown Him With Many CrownsI Stand Amazed in the Presence (How Marvelous)Jesus Paid It AllNear the CrossNothing but the BloodWere You There This is a single bound book. Photocopying is permitted for performance purposes only.

Music from East and Southeast Asia for modern 16 string lyre Harp.No knowledge of written music needed.Learn simple music theory with diagrams that explain everything needed to play these exciting harp tunes.Using both slash notation and tabs makes learning easier.In the book, you'll find a collection of 30 tunes from the following countriesCambodiaChinaPhilippinesIndonesiaJapanKoreaMalaysiaTaiwanVietnamThese songs have a playful nature and showcase the richness of different cultures. The Lyre Harp's sound is a perfect fit.The last page in the book has a link to download audio clips of the tunes to help with the timing of the tunes.

There has never been a group as influential as The Beatles - that much is beyond dispute. What is rarely mentioned however, is how that influence continued with the four individual's post-Beatles careers. In 'REAL LOVE: 500 Beatles 'Solo' Cover Versions That You Must Hear!', music historian and author Peter Checksfield profiles cover versions of songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - famous and obscure, good and bad, new and old - as well as the artists behind them, along with nearly 50 exclusive interviews.

Famously signed to Decca instead of The Beatles, Brian Poole and The Tremeloes spent four years topping the charts, touring the world, and appearing in movies. Incredibly, when they split from their former lead vocalist, The Tremeloes went on to even greater success, with the 4 members - Alan, Dave, Rick & Chip - becoming one of those few bands (The Beatles & The Monkees among them) to be recognisable just by their first names. With exclusive interviews with band members and dozens of previously unseen photos, acclaimed music historian Peter Checksfield tells The Tremeloes' story - via their many record releases - in this remarkable book.

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a polarizing reaction? Australian writer Clinton Walker attempts to answer that question and finds that, among other things, a certain seemingly unlikely Australianness is part of the reason. Fever was a supernova for disco, for the Bee Gees, for the domineering Robert Stigwood, producer of the film and is its true auteur, and for the entire record business. This book traces all the interdependent convolutions that fed into the film and its music - not least the Australian roots that Stigwood and Gibb brothers shared, which gave them an Otherness and almost gormless, shape-shifting self-determination - and it finds that sometimes great art can be made by a committee ... that sometimes, five songs are enough to change the world.

Until the late 2000s, audio cassettes appeared to be on the brink of extinction. While growing sales numbers for cassette tapes in Western countries since the start of the 2010s have led mass media outlets to declare a general revival of the cassettes, they have been in continuous use in niche DIY music scenes associated with genres such as punk, noise and hip hop since their introduction in the 1960s. Contrary to the popular notion of the cassette tape being a mere addition to the nostalgia-driven 21st-century revival of vinyl records and analogue audio gear in general, the ongoing use of cassette tapes is based on a multitude of complex cultural, economic and material factors that shape it as a hybrid material artefact of current music practices. This book explores how the cassette tapes' significance as a material tool for expression and social connection perseveres in the 21st-century. Drawing on interviews with 85 experts in DIY music cultures as independent record shop operators, musicians, event promoters, fans and collectors across Japan, Australia and the United States, Cassette Tape explores ongoing phenomena that represent complex forms of cassette tapes' appropriation.

In the summer of 1952, a 16 year-old Jerry Lee Lewis traveled from Ferriday, Louisiana, to New Orleans, and cut a Demo record. In April 2022, a frail 86 year-old Jerry Lee Lewis, suffering from the debilitating effects of a stroke 3 years earlier, taped a Gospel album with his cousin Jimmy Lee Swaggart in Baton Rouge. It was his final recording. When he passed away a few months later, almost inevitably, the obituaries focused on his often controversial personal life. Peter Checksfield met Jerry Lee Lewis several times, and befriended family members and musicians associated with him. He draws on these experiences, as well as nearly half a century of collecting and concerts, to create the definitive guide to The Music. Encompassing Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Blues, Pop Standards, Gospel and just about everything in between, this book will leave you BREATHLESS!!!

Mick and Keith learned fast. Initially Rhythm 'n' Blues purists who believed that only ageing black Americans could write decent songs, they released their first original song 'Stoned' (a group-composed near-instrumental) as the UK B-side of their version of Lennon-McCartney's 'I Wanna Be Your Man' in November 1963; within 18 months they had written and recorded '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', and had become The Beatles' biggest musical rivals. Now that is fast! In the 60 years since they started, there have been thousands of Rolling Stones cover versions. Music historian Peter Checksfield listened to most of them (so you don't have to), and came up with the best 500, in a staggering variety of genres: Rock, Blues, Soul, Garage, Psych, Prog, Beat, Reggae, Ska, Pop, Funk, Disco, Country, Folk, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Glam, Metal, Punk, New Wave, Indie, Gothic, Grunge, Rock 'n' Roll, Bossa Nova, World, Gospel, Electronica, Boogie Woogie, Jazz, even Cabaret, Polka and Classical. Also included are a mammoth 130 exclusive interviews with many of the musicians involved. Which former Rolling Stone recorded 'Play With Fire' in the 90s? Who's favourite album is 'Jamming with Edward'? What legendary Punk group wanted to cover the entire 'Their Satanic Majesties Request' but ran out of time after 1 song? Read on...