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Hoggin' the Page
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Hoggin' the Page
The story of the Groundhogs spans the most exciting years British rock will ever enjoy. Springing from the same early roots as the Animals, Pretty Things and Rolling Stones, they soon garnered a reputation as a blues band backing the likes of John Lee Hooker and many other giants of the genre. From this solid base, they graduated to writing some of the most challenging progressive rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, yet the next generation of musicians like Captain Sensible and others were fans. Led by visionary guitarist, singer and songwriter Tony McPhee (who sadly passed away in 2023, age 79), abetted by the powerhouse rhythm section of Ken Pustelnik and Pete Cruickshank. DJ John Peel was ...
Hang on to a Dream
Story of Keith Emerson's progressive rock pioneers who were fronted by soul singer PP Arnold!
Playing the Band
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The Story of the Nice
The Nice were Keith Emerson's band prior to superstardom in Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Formed as a backing band for soul singer PP Arnold, The Nice laid the foundations for what would become progressive rock. Their debut album mixed rock with jazz and classical music, and their hard rock reinvention of Leonard Bernstein's 'America' propelled them into the US and UK charts, influencing their biggest fan, Jimi Hendrix, to reinterpret 'The Star Spangled Banner'. 'The Story of The Nice: Hang on to a Dream', first published in 2002 and now fully revised and updated, chronicles the history of the band. Drawing on interviews with band members and their associates, together with archive sources, it is a fascinating tale of musical ambition, engagingly told with a keen eye for period detail. Foruli Classics - classic music and popular culture books reborn.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
with Martin Hanson and Frank Askew The first ever biography of the ultimate 70s supergroup who, with members drawn from King Crimson, The Nice and Atomic Rooster, epitomised the ambition of the progressive rock movement. Drawing on interviews with band members and associates, the authors have produced a gripping and fascinating document of one of the great bands of the seventies that also paints a picture of an era of unparalleled showmanship, egomania and excess. Unmissable. Illustrated.
Martin Hanson
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer
In the early 1970s, an era of grand gestures in rock, no band could match the scale of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Boasting an impressive pedigree in previous bands, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer were huge from the off, the ultimate progressive rock group. Their eponymous 1970 debut album mixed new band compositions with reinterpretations of classical pieces, an approach that reached its apogee with the 1973 concept album 'Brain Salad Surgery'. The band live were a spectacle like no other, with their giant quadrophonic PA and a shirtless Emerson hurling knives into his Hammond organ - but when punk happened ELP abruptly fell out of fashion, splitting in 1978. Subsequent reformations culminated in a final gig at London's High Voltage festival in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary. 'The Show That Never Ends ... Encore', first published in 2000 and now fully revised and updated, chronicles the epic ELP saga. Drawing on interviews with band members and associates, and a host of archive sources, it is a gripping account of ego, band politics, period detail and sweeping musical ambition. Foruli Classics - classic music and popular culture books reborn.
Martin Hanson
Martin Hanson fut un enfant abandonné et adopté. Son histoire recoupe celle de la narratrice, Aimée Marin, à travers les péripéties qui les conduisent de leur incertaine naissance à leur vie d’adulte, entre la Normandie et la forêt canadienne, Londres, Paris et d’autres lieux. Rencontres, amours, hasards, secrets jalousement gardés à travers les générations, c’est dans l’enchaînement des circonstances de la vie que le lecteur verra se tisser une mystérieuse tapisserie de destins personnels. « Qui sommes-nous, d’où venons-nous, où allons-nous ? » Telle est l’interrogation majeure de ce livre. Racontée avec une chaleur profonde, cette histoire dramatique est un « suspense » qui a pour sujet la vie même. Une vie vraie, parmi des êtres vrais qui vivent aujourd’hui.
The Music Documentary
The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times – particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously. In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights in their production and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.
