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The Final Days of EMI
The Beatles. The Beach Boys. Blur, Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Kate Bush, and Coldplay. EMI was one of the big four record companies, with some of the biggest names in the history of recorded music on its roster. Dominating the music industry for over 100 years, by 2010 EMI Group had reported massive pre-tax losses. The group was divided up and sold in 2011. How could one of the greatest recording companies of the 20th century have ended like this? With interviews from insiders and music industry experts, Eamonn Forde pieces together the tragic end to a financial juggernaut and a cultural institution in forensic detail. The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig is the story of the British recording industry, laid bare in all its hubris and glory.
Queen As It Began
The original edition of this revered and authorised Queen biography explored every aspect of the legendary group's career from inception to 1992. Newly revised and updated with cooperation and insight from Brian May and Roger Taylor - and drawing on exclusive interviews with the bandmembers - this book completes the story of the Mercury era and the immediate years after his death.With numerous extra photographs and a new Foreword from Brian May, Queen - As It Began: Revised and Authorised is an informative and authoritative portrait of Queen's most fundamental period.
Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars
A member of seminal new-wave band Magazine, the original bassist in the legendary Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a Mercury-Prize-nominated solo artist, and pioneer of the imaginary soundtrack album--no matter where Barry Adamson's career has taken him, the result has been consistently impressive. Covering his early life up to the 1990s, 'The Barry Adamson Story' addresses Adamson's Mancunian and mixed-race roots, beginning in the late 1950s, through to the highs of his momentous musical achievements and the lows of psychiatric hospitals and drug rehabs. Using a 'noir' style of self examination, he also investigates the acute loss of his parents and sister in his early twenties, multiple failed relationships and arrives at the beginnings of a successful Hollywood soundtrack career.
Punkzines
"Along with its long-lasting influence on music, art, fashion and culture, the punk explosion in the late 1970s also fuelled a thriving underground press. A physical representation of punk's DIY attitude, fanzines rebelled against establish forms of expression surviving outside of the mainstream media and providing a voice for a generation. Punkzines features interviews with leading figures from the scene, including fanzine editors, bands, DJs, promoters and journalists, to provide exclusive anecdotes from this momentous period."--From back cover.
The Best of Jamming!
As one of Britain's best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming ran for an impressive 10 years and 36 issues, documenting the changing musical landscape between 1977 and 1986 as it developed from a 6-page school publication to a nationally distributed monthly. Fully illustrated throughout, The Best of Jamming features stand-out pieces from the zines' momentous run, from early features on The Jam, The Alarm, Adam & The Ants, and the Dead Kennedys, to surprise exclusive interviews with the likes of Paul McCartney, U2 and Pete Townshend. Personal letters from Mark E. Smith, Paul Weller and others are included along with previously unseen interview manuscripts and many of Jamming 's arts and politics features too. Editor Tony Fletcher provides an introduction to each issue, and former star contributors and now-established musicians reflect on their interviews and Jamming 's influence and impact.
Young Punks
A collection of photographs from the late 1970s and early 1980s of musicians and others involved with the Punk culture, taken by photographer Sheila Rock and accompanied by select interview excerpts with the photographer and with those pictured.
Dayglo!
Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift for satirising the world around her. Based on interviews with those who knew and loved Poly (whether personally or through music) this honestly and openly explores her exceptional life, up until her untimely passing in 1991. It is about her growing up mixed-race in Brixton in the 1960s, to being at the forefront of the emerging punk scene with X-Ray Spex in the 1970s, to finding faith with the Hare Krishna movement, to balancing single motherhood with a solo music career and often debilitating mental health issues.--
Who Is Florence Price?
Florence loved her mother's piano playing and wanted to be just like her. When she was just four years old she played her first piano concert and as she grew up she studied and wrote music hoping one day to hear her own music performed by an orchestra. This is the story of a brilliant musician who prevailed against race and gender prejudices to become the first Black woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer and be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933.
Small Hours
No one else sounded like John Martyn. No genre could claim him. He is one of the few musicians truly deserving of over-used terms like 'one-off' and 'unique.' He is a treasure, no less precious for being tarnished. He was a uniquely expressive singer, a dazzling guitarist on both acoustic and electric, a fearless experimenter, a poetic songwriter, a vaulting live performer, and an innovative recording artist. His music was that of both a troubled soul and an inveterate chancer and charmer; he was at once bar-room raconteur and small hours' brooder. He lived an extraordinary and often chaotic life. It involved alcoholism, heavy drug-taking, two failed marriages, and numerous affairs; by his o...
David Bowie
Was Bowie an aloof and unavailable artist, or a 'Starman' who descended to bring good news to the masses...a chameleon? David Bowie: The Collector teases out the elements which Bowie used to build his success: his profound sense of artifice, his ability to tap into the zeitgeist of his times and his gift for gathering ideas and influences from a variety of sources and rearranging them to produce not only new perspectives but also brand-new ideas. Revealed by the testimony of his closest friends and partners we see Bowie with humour, grace and humility – a highly focused Bowie – borrowing and combining ideas from multiple sources and creating new visions. Praise for this book. 'A gripping...
