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Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues by Joel Selvin
2014 | ISBN: 1619023024 | English | 320 pages | EPUB + MOBI | 3 MB

Here Comes the Night is both a definitive account of the golden age of rhythm and blues of the early ’60s and the harrowing, ultimately tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, Berns was not expected to live to see 21. Although his name is little remembered today, Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era—Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil Spector, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, anyone who was anyone in New York rhythm and blues. In seven quick years, he went from nobody to the top of the pops—producer of monumental r&b classics, songwriter of “Twist and Shout,” “My Girl Sloopy,” “Piece of My Heart,” and others.

His fury to succeed led Berns to use his Mafia associations to muscle Atlantic Records out of their partnership and intimidate new talents like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison, whom he had signed to his record label. Berns died at age 38 from a long-expected heart attack, just when he was seeing his grandest plans and life’s ambitions frustrated and foiled.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/83858041F8E2377


Joel Williamson, "Elvis Presley: A Southern Life"
ISBN: 0199863172 | 2014 | EPUB | 392 pages | 666 KB

In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century.

Author of The Crucible of Race and William Faulkner and Southern History, Joel Williamson is a renowned historian known for his inimitable and compelling narrative style. In this tour de force biography, he captures the drama of Presley's career set against the popular culture of the post-World War II South. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley was a contradiction, flamboyant in pegged black pants with pink stripes, yet soft-spoken, respectfully courting a decent girl from church. Then he wandered into Sun Records, and everything changed. "I was scared stiff," Elvis recalled about his first time performing on stage. "Everyone was hollering and I didn't know what they were hollering at." Girls did the hollering--at his snarl and swagger. Williamson calls it "the revolution of the Elvis girls." His fans lived in an intense moment, this generation raised by their mothers while their fathers were away at war, whose lives were transformed by an exodus from the countryside to Southern cities, a postwar culture of consumption, and a striving for upward mobility. They came of age in the era of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, which turned high schools into battlegrounds of race. Explosively, white girls went wild for a white man inspired by and singing black music while "wiggling" erotically. Elvis, Williamson argues, gave his female fans an opportunity to break free from straitlaced Southern society and express themselves sexually, if only for a few hours at a time.

Rather than focusing on Elvis's music and the music industry, Elvis Presley: A Southern Life illuminates the zenith of his career, his period of deepest creativity, which captured a legion of fans and kept them fervently loyal for decades. Williamson shows how Elvis himself changed--and didn't. In the latter part of his career, when he performed regular gigs in Las Vegas and toured second-tier cities, he moved beyond the South to a national audience who had bought his albums and watched his movies. Yet the makeup of his fan base did not substantially change, nor did Elvis himself ever move up the Southern class ladder despite his wealth. Even as he aged and his life was cut short, he maintained his iconic status, becoming arguably larger in death than in life as droves of fans continue to pay homage to him at Graceland.

Appreciative and unsparing, culturally attuned and socially revealing, Williamson's Elvis Presley will deepen our understanding of the man and his times.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/D379C8413398FE4


Neil Slaven, "Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa"
ISBN: 0711994366, 0711959838 | 2003 | EPUB | 300 pages | 630 KB

Here is the definitive last word on the musical phenomenon that was Frank Zappa. His death in 1993 after a long battle with cancer left behind a huge body of work: the work of a true musical genius. Writer, record producer, and music historian Neil Slaven, a devoted follower o Zappa since first hearing The Mothers of Invention in 1966, has produced a comprehensive chronicle of Zappa's extraordinary life and career.

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The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa & Peter Occhiofrosso
Fireside Books | ISBN: 9780671705725 / 5699042091 | 1990 / 2003 | PDF | 352 pages | 7,2 Mb

The brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa. Here is the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock 'n' roll road stories, confrontations with bureaucratic idiocy, and more. Black-and-white photographs and line drawings throughout. An autobiography of mostly hilarious stories...fireside war tales from the big bad days of the rockin' sixties...primer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few myths about the man.

Книга? Какая еще книга? Одна из причин всей этой затеи - распространение на нескольких языках идиотских книг про гениального музыканта XX века Френка Винсента Заппу (1940 - 1993). "Я подумал,- писал он,- что где-нибудь должна появиться хотя бы одна книга, в которой будет что-то настоящее. Только учтите, пожалуйста: данная книга не претендует на то, чтобы стать какой-нибудь "полной" изустной историей. Ее надлежит потреблять только в качестве легкого чтива".
"Эта книга должна быть в каждом доме",- убеждена газета "Нью-Йорк пост".
Поздравляем - теперь она есть и у вас.

http://filepost.com/files/b95163e1/The_Words_and_Music_of_Frank_Zappa.pdf/

This is the first book to move beyond the details of Zappa's biography toward a focused treatment of his songs. Zappa worked in a musical realm unfamiliar to many radio listeners. Today, his music can be appreciated as a whole, emerging as a coherent, thoughtful, innovative—if somewhat daunting—body of work. Lowe has left no aspect of that work unexamined, from Zappa's role as a satirist of the highest order, to his place in the genre of progressive rock, and his importance as one of the foremost critics of American culture and society. Zappa's messages—musical and lyrical—may not always be clear, but they are well worth considering.
The volume begins with a discussion of Zappa's role as a satirist and a discussion of his musical style, and then proceeds to a prolonged examination of his albums. Through this extended engagement with Zappa's music, a surprisingly clear perspective on his personal views is also provided, shedding light on his treatment of such topics as the falsified notion of love in popular culture, the compromising influence of money on popular music, and the concept of freedom in a systematized society, among other things. The book also features an official discography and a bibliographic essay that discusses the current state of Zappa scholarship.

2Slappna Av:

>Neil Slaven, "Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive
>Story Of Frank Zappa"
>ISBN: 0711994366, 0711959838 | 2003 | EPUB |
>300 pages | 630 KB

Книжка понравилась! Имеется в домашней библиотеке.

Вот еще стопочка по этому линку:
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взято с сайта exystence.net, где (не так давно) было штук 100 или типа того. Как я понял, время от времени их закрывают, но они снова выкладывают.

2илюха:

>Как я понял, время от времени их закрывают

Спасибо.
Тема рассчитана в том числе и на то, что можно восстановить утраченное, когда книжка вдруг понадобиться, а ссылка мертва.

Rockers and Rollers: A Full-Throttle Memoir by Brian Johnson
2011 | ISBN: 0061990833, 0061990841 | English | 208 pages | EPUB | 122 MB

From PinkCadillac to Low Rider to Little Red Corvette, rock music hasalways had a racy love affair with cars. And AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson isnot only a rock legend, second-to-none at infusing razor-sharp lyrics with thescreaming metal energy of a true rock and roller, but also a dyed-in-the-woolcar fanatic. Books like AC/DC: Maximum Rock and Roll and Why AC/DC Matters revealed the secretsof the the world’s greatest rock band—now, in Rockers and Rollers, fans will get arare, riveting window into Brian Johnson’s other driving passion, his love forautomobiles. From teenage memories in the backs of beat-up coups to a sidecareer as a racecar driver, Johnson shares his tantalizing life story—a memoirtold through his lifelong love affair with cars.

https://www.nitroflare.com/view/BDFB0B90AA6F103/0061990833.epub

Chapter and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me by Bernard Sumner
2014 | ISBN: 0593073177, 0593073185 | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Divided Joy (handcover title)

Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence. Until now… An integral part of the Manchester music scene since the late 1970s, his is the definitive version of the events that created two of the most influential bands of all time.

Chapter and Verse includes a vivid and illuminating account of Bernard’s Salford childhood, the early days of Joy Division, the band’s enormous critical and popular success, and the subsequent tragic death of Ian Curtis. Bernard describes the formation of New Order, takes us behind the scenes at the birth of classics such as 'Blue Monday' and gives his first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the Haçienda days.

Sometimes moving, often hilarious and occasionally completely out of control, this is a tale populated by some of the most colourful and creative characters in music history, such as Ian Curtis, Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton and Martin Hannett. Others have told parts of the story, in film and book form. Now, for the first time, Bernard Sumner gives you chapter and verse.

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/CD3193D5A340C15/0593073177.epub

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Подборка книг о рок-музыке (166 книг)
Истоки рок-музыки лежат в блюзе, из которого и вышли первые рок-жанры — рок-н-ролл и рокабилли. Первые поджанры рок-музыки возникали в тесной связи с народной и эстрадной музыкой того времени — в первую очередь это фолк, кантри, скиффл, мюзик-холл. За время своего существования были попытки соединить рок-музыку практически со всеми возможными видами музыки — с академической музыкой (арт-рок, появляется в конце 60-х), джазом (джаз-рок, появляется в конце 60-х — начале 70-х), латинской музыкой (латино-рок, появляется в конце 60-х), индийской музыкой (рага-рок, появляется в середине 60-х). В 60-70-х годах появились практически все крупнейшие поджанры рок-музыки, наиболее важными из которых, помимо перечисленных, являются хард-рок, панк-рок, рок-авангард. В конце 70-х-начале 80-х появились такие жанры рок-музыки, как пост-панк, новая волна, альтернативный рок (хотя уже в конце 60-х годов появляются ранние представители этого направления), хардкор (крупный поджанр панк-рока), а также брутальные поджанры металла — дэт-металл, блэк-металл. В 90-х годах получили широкое развитие жанры гранж (появился в середине 80-х), брит-поп (появляется в середине 60-х), альтернативный металл (появляется в конце 80-х).
Основные центры возникновения и развития рок-музыки — США и западная Европа (особенно Великобритания). Большинство текстов песен — на английском языке. Однако, хотя, как правило, и с некоторым запозданием, национальная рок-музыка появилась практически во всех странах. Русскоязычная рок-музыка (т. н. русский рок) появилась в СССР уже в 1960—1970-х гг. и достигла пика развития в 1980-х гг., продолжив развиваться в 1990-х и далее.


Beatles:
The Beatles. Антология.fb2
Багир-заде Алексей - _Битлз_ - навсегда!.fb2
Бенсон Росс - Пол Маккартни. Личность и миф.fb2
Буркин Юлий, Фадеев Константин - Осколки неба, или Подлинная история _Битлз_.fb2
Винер Джон - Вместе! Джон Леннон и его время.fb2
Гамбуччини Пол - Пол Маккартни в его собственных словах.fb2
Голдман Альберт - Джон Леннон (ЖЗЛ 1101).fb2
Интервью Джона Леннона и Йоко Оно журналу Плейбой.TXT
Кривцов Никита - О прозе Леннона.TXT
Леннон Джон - Интервью, данное журналу 'Плейбой' Джоном Ленноном и Йоко Оно.fb2
Леннон Джон - Необьятновенное происшествие с мисс Энн Даффилд.fb2
Леннон Джон - Пишу, как пишется.fb2
Леннон Джон - Рассказы.fb2
Максимов Анатолий - McCartney. День за днем.fb2
Паттерсон Р. Гэри - Пол Маккартни история жертвоприношения.fb2
Робертсон Джон - Полный путеводитель по музыке 'The Beatles'.fb2
Соло для Ринго.fb2
Хантер Дэвис - The Beatles.fb2
Хроники BEATLES.pdf
Шоттон Пит - Джон Леннон в моей жизни.fb2

Doors:
Голдман Альберт - The END. Загадка смерти Джима Моррисона.fb2
Кригер Робби - Неизвестный Солдат.fb2
Робби Кригер о группе Doors.fb2
Хопкинс Джерри, Шугермэн Дэнни - Никто не выйдет отсюда живым.fb2
Хоуген Питер - Полный путеводитель по музыке The Doors.fb2

Queen:
Ахундова М. - История Фредди Меркьюри.fb2
Брукс Грег - Фредди Меркьюри. Жизнь его словами.fb2
Новгородцев Всеволод - Рок-посевы QUEEN.fb2
Скай Рик - Фредди Меркьюри.fb2
Хоуген Питер - Полный путеводитель по музыке Queen.fb2

Аквариум:
Аквариум-история.txt
Аквариум-история1.txt
Аквариум-история2.txt
Аквариум-история3.txt
Аквариум-история4.txt
Аквариум-история5.txt
БГ-интервью.txt
Гаккель Всеволод - Аквариум как способ ухода за теннисным кортом.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - В объятиях Джинсни.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Дело мастера Бо.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Иван и Данило.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Интеpвью с БГ.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Интервью и статьи о БГ и 'Аквариуме'.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Лес.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Роман, который так и не окончен.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Сказки о Германии.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Статья о БГ из 'Роллинг Стоунз'.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Тексты песен 'Аквариум'.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Тексты песен БГ с аккоpдами.fb2
Гребенщиков Борис, 'Аквариум' - Тексты песен БГ.fb2
Романов Андрей - История Аквариума. Книга флейтиста.fb2
Старцев Александр - Краткая история 'Аквариума' (1971-1986).fb2
Троицкий А - Вылитый аквариум.fb2

Кино:
Виктор Цой. Стихи. Документы. Воспоминания.fb2
Рыбин Алексей - _Кино_ с самого начала и до самого конца.fb2
Цой Виктор, 'Кино' - Песни 'Кино'.fb2
Цой Марианна - Точка отсчёта.fb2

Машина времени:
Макаревич Андрей - Евино яблоко (сборник).fb2
Макаревич Андрей - Занимательная наркология.fb2
Макаревич Андрей - Сам овца.fb2
Макаревич Андрей, 'Машина времени' - Всё очень просто.fb2
Макаревич Андрей, 'Машина времени' - Сборник песен.fb2
Марголис Михаил - Затяжной поворот- история группы _Машина времени_.fb2
Подгородецкий Петр - Машина с евреями.fb2
Сборник песен.fb2

Наутилус Помпилиус:
Дискография Наутилус Помпилиус.fb2
Кормильцев Илья - Великое рок-н-ролльное надувательство-2.fb2
Кормильцев Илья - Достоверное описание жизни и превращений NAUTILUSa из POMPILIUSa.fb2
Кормильцев Илья - Стихи.fb2
Кушнир Александр, Порохня Леонид - Nautilus Pompilius.fb2

Агата Кристи - дискография.fb2
Ария - альбом 'Герой асфальта'.fb2
Барановская Нина - По дороге в Рай.fb2
Беспамятнов Андрей - Led Zeppelin.fb2
Боймер У - Нам нужна только твоя душа- Рок-сцена и оккультизм.fb2
Бочаров Олег - Панк-энциклопедия.fb2
Броутон Фрэнк - История диджеев.fb2
Верморел Фред - Sex Pistols - История изнутри.fb2
Верморел Фред - Sex Pistols подлинная история.fb2
Гайдн Райнхардт - HIM.fb2
Галин Александр - Менестрели рок-н-ролла. История группы Jethro Tull..fb2
Гноевой Роман - Сектор Газа глазами близких.fb2
Головин Евгений - Сентиментальное бешенство рок-н-ролла.fb2
Горохов Андрей - Музпросвет.fb2
Горцев Сергей - Тектоника. Лучшее. 94-98.fb2
Горцев Сергей - ЦЕНТР После... (1991-2001). Книга вторая.fb2
Грязь. Motley crue. Признание наиболее печально известной мировой рок-группы.fb2
Гурьев Сергей - История группы Звуки Му.fb2
Дэвис Майлс - Автобиография.fb2
Дэвис Стивен - Молот богов. Led Zeppelin без прикрас.fb2
Жуков Сергей, Петренчук Максим - Звездопад. Похороны шоу-бизнеса.fb2
Задерий Святослав - Дети равновесия.fb2
Заппа Фрэнк - Великий Вазу.fb2
Заппа Фрэнк - Настоящая книжка Фрэнка Заппы.fb2
Зверь Рома - Дожди-пистолеты.fb2
Иисус Христос - Суперзвезда.fb2
Капитановский Максим - Во всём виноваты Битлз.fb2
Карр Рой - Предисловие к 'Иллюстрированной книге записей Роллинг Стоунз'.fb2
Кейв Ник - И узре ослица Ангела Божия.fb2
Кейв Ник - Король Чернило. Том 1.fb2
Кейв Ник - Король Чернило. Том 2.fb2
Кейв Ник - Смерть Банни Манро.fb2
Кидис Энтони - Паутина из шрамов.fb2
Кинчев Константин - Алиса.fb2
Клинских Юрий, 'Сектор газа' - Дискография.fb2
Клэптон возвращается к прошлому.fb2
Кокарев Андрей - Панк-рок от А до Я.fb2
Кормильцев Илья - Взлёт и падение СвЕнцового дирижабля.fb2
Король и Шут. И живые споют про мертвецов.fb2
Король и Шут.pdf
Кортнев Алексей, 'Несчастный случай' - Песни.fb2
Кулеш Петр - Syd Barrett. Bведение в Барреттологию..fb2
Кушнир Александр - 100 магнитоальбомов советского рока.fb2
Кушнир Александр - Хедлайнеры.fb2
Летов Егор - Песни.fb2
Летов Егор - Стихи.fb2
Летов Егор - Я не верю в анархию (Сборник статей).fb2
Летов Егор, Дягилева Янка, Рябинов Константин - Русское поле экспериментов.fb2
Лобанов Юрий - Death forever!.fb2
Лобанов Юрий - Гражданская Оборона (Омск) (1982-1990).fb2
Ловец радуги-Blackmore.pdf
Маббет Энди - Полный путеводитель по музыке Pink Floyd.fb2
Макайвер Джоэл - ...Justice For Аll Вся правда о группе Metallica.fb2
Макайвер Джоэл - Black Sabbath-история группы.fb2
Макнил Дэвид - Рок-н-ролл.fb2
Марголис Михаил - АукцЫон Книга учёта жизни.fb2
Масино Сбюзан - Let There Be Rock. The Story of ACDC.fb2
Мейсон Ник - Inside Out личная история Pink Floyd.fb2
Мойнихэн Майкл, Седерлинд Дидрик - Князья Хаоса. Кровавый восход норвежского блэка.fb2
Моррелл Бред - Нирвана и саунд Сиэтла.fb2
Новгородцев Всеволод - Рок-посевы DEEP PURPLE.fb2
Новгородцев Всеволод - Рок-посевы Led Zeppelin.fb2
Новгородцев Всеволод - Рок-посевы PINK FLOYD.fb2
Паскаль Джереми - Иллюстрированная история рок-музыки.fb2
Погребижская Елена - Дневник артиста.fb2
Поликовский Алексей - Рок на Павелецкой.fb2
Порохня Леонид - ЧайфStory.fb2
Рекшан Владимир - Жизнь в искусстве.fb2
Рекшан Владимир - Идиоты, атлеты, Космический Прыгун и Баба Сингх.fb2
Рекшан Владимир - Кайф полный.fb2
Рекшан Владимир - Кайф.fb2
Рекшан Владимир - Ужас и страх.fb2
Рыбин Алексей - Майк Время рок-н-ролла.fb2
Рыбин Алексей - Ослепительные дрозды (Черные яйца).fb2
Рыбин Алексей - Право на рок.fb2
Севницкая Надежда - Я мыл руки в мутной воде. Роман-биография Элвиса.fb2
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Phil Sutcliffe, "Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock"
2011 | ISBN: 0760340102 | 289 pages | PDF | 122 MB

Queen was renowned for electrifying performances, envied for rumors of rock excess, and beloved for music that melded an array of genres. Now available in a nicely priced paperback edition comes the first history befitting this larger-than-life rock band.

Packed with stunning performance and offstage photographs—dozens of them previously unpublished—as well as handbills, posters, backstage passes, tickets, T-shirts, LPs, and singles gathered from around the globe, this is the ultimate visual history for Queen fans everywhere. A history of the band spans the pre-Queen years to current work with Paul Rodgers. Complementing this thorough account are reviews of all studio and live albums; complete tour dates; an extensive discography; reflections on the band and their music from some of rock’s top performers past and present; and exclusive insights from their former crew.

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Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, "Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day"
English | ISBN: 0143113801 | 2009 | EPUB | 512 pages | 3 MB

An oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast Birthplace

Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.

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Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
2010 | ISBN: 1586488317 | English | 512 pages | EPUB | 1 MB

The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan’s show at the University of Minnesota—his very first appearance at his alma mater—on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: From Marcus’s liner notes for the 1967 Basement Tapes (pop music’s most famous bootlegged archives) to his exploration of Dylan’s reimagining of the American experience in the 1997 Time Out of Mind. And rejection; Marcus’s Rolling Stone piece on Dylan’s album Self Portrait—often called the most famous record review ever written—began with “What is this shit?” and led to his departure from the magazine for five years. Marcus follows not only recordings but performances, books, movies, and all manner of highways and byways in which Bob Dylan has made himself felt in our culture.

Together the dozens of pieces collected here comprise a portrait of how, throughout his career, Bob Dylan has drawn upon and reinvented the landscape of traditional American song, its myths and choruses, heroes and villains. They are the result of a more than forty-year engagement between an unparalleled singer and a uniquely acute listener.

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The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob by David Kinney
2014 | ISBN: 1451626924 | English | 256 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

FAN: “You don’t know who I am, but I know who you are.”

BOB DYLAN: “Let’s keep it that way.”

Bob Dylan is the most influential songwriter of our time and, after a half century, he remains a cultural touchstone, an enigma, and the subject of endless fascination. From the moment he arrived on the music scene, he attracted an intensely fanatical cult following, and in The Dylanologists, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Kinney ventures deep into this eccentric subculture to answer a question: What can Dylan’s grip on his most enthusiastic listeners tell us about his towering place in American culture?

Kinney introduces us to a vibrant underground: diggers searching for unheard tapes and lost manuscripts, researchers obsessing over the facts of Dylan’s life and career, writers working to decode unyieldingly mysterious songs, road warriors who meticulously record and dissect every concert. It’s an affectionate mania, but as far as Dylan is concerned, a mania nonetheless. Over the years, the intensely private and fiercely combative musician has been frightened, annoyed, and perplexed by fans who try to peel back his layers. He has made at least one thing crystal clear: He does not wish to be known.

The story of Dylan’s followers is also a revealing portrait of the artist himself. Here, reflected in the fans he inspired and the cultural movements he helped create, is every twist and turn in a career that has swerved from lefty activist to ultra-hip spokesman for a generation to woodsy recluse, from secular storyteller to fire-breathing Christian evangelist, from punch line to elder statesman. Dylan may refuse to explain himself to his followers, but their lives have become mirrors of his, so profoundly are their stories intertwined.

Told with tremendous insight, intelligence, and warmth, by turns funny and affecting, The Dylanologists is ultimately a book about our universal quest for meaning. It is populated by characters both legendary and obscure, from aging hippies to idealistic twentysomethings and everyone in between—a young woman who, stirred by Dylan, attends law school and becomes a public defender; a man who crams his New York City apartment with memorabilia, transforming it into a pilgrimage spot for Dylan fanatics; a woman inspired by her hero’s redemptive music to go clean after years of drug use. Here is a joyous, soulful, and poignant exploration of the origins and meaning of fandom, the healing power of art, and the importance of embracing what moves you, whatever that may be.

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Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush
Language: English | EPUB / MOBI | ISBN-10: 1780381468 | 2012 | 396 pages | 5 MB / 5 MB

The first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career, Under the Ivy features over 70 unique and revealing new interviews with those who have viewed from up close both the public artist and the private woman: old school friends, early band mates, long-term studio collaborators, former managers, producers, musicians, video directors, dance instructors and record company executives.

It undertakes a full analysis of Bush's art. Every crucial aspect of her music is discussed from her ground-breaking series of albums to her solo live tour, her pre-teen poetry and scores of unreleased songs.

Combining a wealth of new research with rigorous critical scrutiny, Under the Ivy offers a string of fresh insights and perspectives on her unusual upbringing in South London, the blossoming of her talent, her enduring influences and unique working methods, her rejection of live performance, her pioneering use of the studio, her key relationships and her gradual retreat into a semi-mythical privacy.

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Kurt Cobain: Alternative Rock Innovator by Chros McDougall
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1617834807 | 112 pages | PDF | 4 MB

This informative title highlights the life of Kurt Cobain. Readers will learn about Cobain's background and his role in the formation of the groundbreaking band Nirvana. Cobain's unstable childhood in Aberdeen Washington is detailed as well as his drug and alcohol use. Cobain's early musical work is discussed, as well as his formation of Nirvana and his collaboration with Dave Grohl and Chris Novoselic. Nirvana's albums Bleach, Nevermind, and In Utero are introduced, as is the band's breakout hit Smells Like Teen Spirit. Cobain's courtship with Courtney Love is included, as is their marriage and the birth of their daughter Frances. Cobain's descent into heroin addiction is included, leading to his death by self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 27. This book includes details of Cobain's life and covers the controversies surrounding his life and death. Lives Cut Short is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

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Michael Freedland, "Elvis Memories: The Real Presley - By Those Who Knew Him"
ISBN: 1849543585 | 2014 | EPUB | 320 pages | 2 MB

This is not just another Elvis Presley biography, although it gets closer to the real Elvis story than many of the hundreds that have dealt with the life of the man his contemporaries have called "The King." As the author Michael Freedland puts it in his introduction, "Everyone knows Elvis." But not the way his close friends, employees, and others who entered his life knew him. For this is their story.

Freedland interviews those who knew Elvis intimately, from the now elderly woman who was at school with him and whose parents foreclosed on the shack they rented, to Elvis's mother when his father was in jail, to the maid who prepared his peanut butter sandwiches and hamburgers and watched him line up the girls he wanted to take to his bed. In between, we meet the black man who remembered sneaking into a local cinema with Elvis in defiance of Deep South race laws and members of the so-called "Memphis Mafia," who went where he went, laughed when he laughed, and suffered when he suffered—and usually received a brand new Cadillac for their troubles. There's also his doctor who denies giving him fatal doses of the drugs he collected along with the hamburgers.

Writer and broadcaster Michael Freedland went all over the West Coast and South to talk to these people who shared Elvis's life, telling the complex Presley story in a way more true to the real man than the usual collection of dates, film, and song titles.