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The Words and Music of John Lennon (The Praeger Singer-Songwriter Collection) (Hardcover)
by Ben Urish (Author), Ken Bielen (Author)


Despite John Lennon's immense popularity, little attention has been paid to the overall efforts of his work apart from the Beatles. Yet his solo artistry not only illuminates what he gave to the Beatles (and what the Beatles experience gave to him), but also constitutes a significant contribution to popular music in general. Lennon was able to fuse experiments in technology, instrumentation, lyrics, and musical form into recordings that were both artistically and commercially successful. Whether expressing emotions, explaining philosophies, protesting social situations, or ruminating on the joys and pains of personal entanglements, few singer-songwriters have been his equal. In this long overdue investigation, authors Ben Urish and Ken Bielen give Lennon's artistry the opportunity to speak for itself. After a brief biographical introduction, chronologically arranged chapters discuss his incredible body of work album-by-album and single-by-single. A discography and annotated bibliography conclude the book. Although he is often lauded as a spokesperson for his generation, this praise, however intended, is far too limiting. Lennon was able to transform the intensely personal into the deeply universal (as well as the reverse), often with humor and pointed insight. At their core, his songs are simultaneously humanistic and transcendent. And as such, they-and he-continue to be relevant, and will certainly remain a valuable part of our cultural heritage for a long time to come.

About the Author
BEN URISH has taught courses in Popular Music at Temple University, and has made popular music a large component in classes on mass media and American cultural history at Michigan State University. KEN BIELEN has taught courses in Popular Music at Bowling Green State University and has researched and written extensively on the subject. He is the author of The Lyrics of Civility, (1999).

Product Details
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers (June 30, 2007)

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LA Times

Lost Beatles pix prove Paul wore glasses

Hey, wasn't John Lennon the 'smart' Beatle with glasses? Never-before-seen photos of the Beatles prove that Paul McCartney also wore glasses, something millions of his avid fans never knew. Seems McCartney, the 'cute Beatle,' was rarely photographed wearing his glasses because he felt they didn't fit with his image. But in a just-released series of rare photos taken of the Fab Four in the Abbey Road studios recording "With a Little Help From Your Friends," McCartney can be seen (above) wearing black horn rims. And he looks a bit like Elvis Costello or Damien Hirst.

The shots were taken by acclaimed photographer Frank Herrmann on March 30, 1967, exactly forty years ago. Later that day, the Liverpool lads posed for the cover of the legendary 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' album. According to an article in The Mail on Sunday's Live Night and Day magazine, cameramen were rarely given entry to recording sessions. Some of the negatives have been lost but thanks to digital technology, prints have been made from contact sheets Herrmann had stored in a box for 40 years.

A private viewing of the photos and contact sheets will be held on June 1, 2007, at the Saint Giles Street Gallery in Norwich, England. The gallery is owned by David Koppel, who was in West Hollywood this week checking out the local galleries and venue for future exhibitions. To see more never-before-seen candid Beatles photos- including more of Paul in glasses - all available in limited editions, check out the gallery's website.

Some of Herrmann's unseen photos will be included in a new book that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' groundbreaking album titled "Summer of Love: The Making of Sergeant Pepper," written by George Martin (with William Pearson), published by Genesis Publications. For more information, go to www.genesis-publications.com

Photo Credit: Copyright Frank Herrmann/St. Giles St. Gallery

Wonderful Today: The Autobiography of Pattie Boyd (Hardcover)
by Pattie Boyd (Author), Penny Junor (Author)

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Headline Review (23 Aug 2007)

Pattie Boyd was the Queen of the Sixties and beyond - a drop-dead gorgeous model, photographer, and the inspiration for the timeless songs "Something", "Layla" and "Wonderful Tonight". Her story is one of drama, struggle and, ultimately, affirmation, but her struggles (against addiction, tragedy, infertility) were lived with two of the twentieth century's greatest musical icons: her husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Now, after 40 years, she tells her extraordinary story. From growing up in Kenya in a privileged but broken home, becoming a sixties supermodel, working with David Bailey and Ozzie Clarke, and meeting the Beatles, to marriage to George and then Eric, to the accidents and brushes with tragedy - her own and Eric's - this is a mesmerising human story. Written with the acclaimed biographer and journalist Penny Junor, "Wonderful Today" is rich and raw, it is funny, heartbreaking and heartwarming. Written with the acclaimed biographer and journalist Penny Junor, "Wonderful Today" is rich and raw, it is funny, heartbreaking and heartwarming.

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Приехала тут пару недель назад. Как сказал товарищ Уайман finest single collection of Stones photos I've ever seen. Я не Уаймен, но штука действительно мощная.
Тем забавнее - вчера набрел на нее в Союзе. Никак не ожидал :)Помимо этого была Rolling With The Stones и какое-то загадочное издание - здоровенный кожаный талмуд с надписью по-русски "Билл Уаймен. Роллинг стоунз" ну или как-то так. Посмотреть (а также сравнить цены) не удалось. Как сказал охранник тетя, ведающая ключом от стеклянного шкафчика, где это все хранилось, вышла. Наверное, в туалет. Я прождал минут 20, посочувствовал тете, плюнул на это дело и уехал.
Кто-нибудь знает, что это за кожаный зверь? Пальцатое издание Rolling With The Stones?

PS А книг там довольно много было. Off The Record Стоунз, Unofficial Biographie Ричардса, энциклопедия Харрисона, While My Guitar Gently Weeps и т.д. Союз в моих глазах приподнялся. Если бы еще сотрудницы животом не страдали - тогда вообще бы здорово было :)

Legends On Tour - The Pop Package Tours Of The 1960s - is to be launched by Tempus Publications of Stroud on July 1, 2007.
The book, by Martin Creasy, features some of the biggest names in the 1960s pop scene when they played at cinemas and town halls in the days before the big world tours.
Among the stars featured are Jimi Hendrix, The Small Faces, The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Engelbert Humperdinck and many more.
The book follows the tours up and down the country with a selection of 1960s pop stars recalling the highs and lows, dramas, pranks, camaraderie and general mayhem of those tough days on the road. There are more than 200 pictures, most of which have never been published before.
There is also a special section on The Beatles, with memories from Helen Shapiro who topped the bill on their very first UK tour.
Check Amazon sites for details, or log on to the Tempus website at www.tempus-publishing.com.
ISBN number: 978-0752442754

http://www.martincreasy.co.uk/

такую вот штуку приобрел. серьозное издание вроде

THE BEATLES Off The Record

2007 UK 496-page softback book by Keith Badman, the most comprehensive oral history of The Beatles ever published - an 'as it happened' story of the greatest pop group of them all, featurng a wealth of quotes from the 60's by John, Paul, George & Ringo themselves, and a host of others that were close to the group during the Beatlemania days and beyond, includes quotes from their families, fellow musicians, Brian Epstein, George Martin & dozens more, illustrated with photos, includes a foreword by Hunter Davies).

Release date: Friday 14 September 2007

The Act You've Known for All These Years: A Year in the Life of Sgt. Pepper and Friends (Hardcover)
by Clinton Heylin (Author)

“It was forty years ago today” that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles was released, an LP which changed the face of popular culture and continues to top public and critical polls of the greatest albums ever made. The Act You’ve Known for All These Years reconstructs the life and times of Sgt. Pepper, the cultural backstory of the band and rock's turbulent early adulthood. Weaving the activities of the Beatles in with those of their contemporaries and rivals — notably Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys and Pink Floyd — heralded music critic Clinton Heylin reveals the inspirations and explodes the myths behind this talismanic, iconic album — and "the summer of love" itself. In addition, the book surveys what happened next, telling the history of the LP’s "afterlife" from 1967 to the present day. Featuring interviews both with those who were there at the time and those who followed in the Beatles’ wake, The Act You’ve Known for All These Years is the definitive book on the defining LP of the pop era.

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Canongate U.S. (July 2, 2007)

The Beatles: One Night Stand in the Heartland (Hardcover)
by Bill Carlson (Author)

Book Description
The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland is a collection of original, previously unpublished photographs from August 21, 1965. As such it adds a new chapter to the Beatles' story. In it, Bill Carlson brings to Beatles fans, photography aficionados, and history buffs more than 160 never-before-published photographs that document one day in the life of the Beatles on tour.

The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland brings together strands from many remarkable stories. First, there is the story of the Beatles themselves as phenomenal artists who changed music and culture forever. Second, Bill Carlson tells his own impressive story of how he interacted with the Beatles on that one day. And third, the 25,000 or more screaming, shouting, cheering, swooning, clapping, crying, and singing Minnesotans who were transformed by what they experienced that day.

While a high school student, Carlson apprenticed with the prestigious photographer Merle Morris. When the press passes for the Beatles' day in Minneapolis came through, he grabbed one, picked up his Hasselblad and Nikon cameras, and headed out to Met Stadium, where the Minnesota Twins and Vikings performed and where the Mall of America now stands. He went not so much as a Beatles fan but as a photography-hungry youth determined to seize every opportunity to learn and perfect his art.

His images show the public faces of the Beatles at their press conference at the stadium as they expertly pose and trade quips with reporters. They show the fans, who look so young, hardly even teenagers, putting Minnesota youth on the same footing as those in London and New York. They also show the more familiar scenes of Beatlemania, and his long shots of the concert stage recall that security was so strict that even photographers were banned from the field.

There are other books by Beatles photographers, including The Beatles: A Private View (2003) by Robert Freeman, who photographed many album covers for the group, and Once There Was a Way (2003) by Harry Benson, who photographed them on tour from Paris to Miami. But there is no other book like this that documents one day, one concert, one place. It was a day that brought high fun and high art to the Twin Cities and changed many Beatles fans forever.

About the Author
Bill Carlson is an accomplished photographer, cinematographer, and scuba diver, combining his loves for photography and diving to explore and film the underwater cave systems of Mexico and Florida. He has been the director of photography on numerous commercials, films, and documentaries, his most recent film being the PBS documentary America's Lost Landscape: The Tall Grass Prairie, narrated by Annabeth Gish.

Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing (July 1, 2007)

Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Paperback)
by Ian MacDonald (Author)

Review
“A triumph—compelling, seductive, delightful.” —Nick Hornby, author, High Fidelity
“A brilliant electrical storm of a book.” —Newsweek
“The most astute piece of Fabs exegesis ever published—brilliant on the group’s triumphs, refreshingly scathing about its shortcomings . . . One of the twenty greatest rock & roll books.” —Blender

Book Description
This “Bible of the Beatles” captures the iconic band’s magical and mysterious journey from adorable teenagers to revered cultural emissaries. In this fully updated version, each of their 241 tracks is assessed chronologically from their first amateur recordings in 1957 to their final “reunion” recording in 1995. It also incorporates new information from the Anthology series and recent interviews with Paul McCartney. This comprehensive guide offers fascinating details about the Beatles’ lives, music, and era, never losing sight of what made the band so important, unique, and enjoyable.

Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press (September 1, 2007)

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