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Carl Magnus Palm: The Real Story of ABBA: Bright Lights Dark Shadows

Скачать книгу (размер 3 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 604) Аннотация: Bright Lights Dark Shadows is the definitive biography of Abba, the world's greatest pop band whose hit musical Mamma Mia! has become the most successful stage show and UK film of all time. This new edition of the best-selling Abba book has been substantially updated and revised to include details Mamma Mia's extraordinary success and the ongoing lives of Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid…

Lewis Dave: From A Whisper To A Scream

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Led Zeppelin. An album by album, track by track, run-down of every song released by Led Zeppelin, from their classic first album to their best selling albums of the seventies and beyond. Also includes details of their remastered recordings, compilation albums, live albums and Led Zeppelin on DVD.

Osbourne Ben: The Arctic Monkeys

Скачать книгу (размер 1 289 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 254) Аннотация: Published in the summer of 2013 to coincide with the anniversary of Arctic Monkeys' debut gig in 2003, this is the first fully comprehensive biography of their story to date. Charting both the highs and the lows and including detailed new research and original interviews, this follows the Arctic Monkeys' meteoric rise from awkward, hip-hop loving Sheffield schoolboys to record breaking…

Thomson Graeme: George Harrison: Behind The Locked Door

Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: Published to co-incide with what would have been the 70th anniversary of George Harrison's birth. Explores Harrison's work both within and without the Beatles and at the same time examining in detail his private and public passions, from Eastern spiritualism to horticulture, from comedy to film-making, from fast cars to working with UNICEF. His career renaissance in the 80s with the Travelling…

Bouhis Herve: The Beatles Graphic

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Herve Bourhis, creator of The Little Book of Rock, turns his unique graphic talents to the legend of The Beatles, told from the very beginning. Bourhis' visual imagination illuminates the individual lives of each band member from their pre-Beatles youth to what would become a rock band of phenomenal worldwide fame. All of the epic details of their story are vividly evoked: the triumphs, the…

Henry Scott Irvine: Procol Harum: The Ghosts of a Whiter Shade of Pale

Скачать книгу (размер 1 727 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 340) Аннотация: Formed in the 1960s, 'Prog Rock' British group Procol Harum are best known for their multi million selling single A Whiter Shade of Pale which is the most played record by a British artist of the last 70 years. Features exclusive interviews with band members Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher, Robin Trower, Dave Ball, Mick Grabham, Geoff Whitehorn, Chris Copping and Dave Bronze. Also…

Roach Martin: Viva Coldplay: A Biography

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Author Martin Roach reveals how the band members met, played their early gigs, financed their own early EPs and how, with four hit albums under their belt; they still continue to maintain a tight degree of control over their output. Featuring insights into Coldplay's professional insecurities and anxieties and the notoriously angst-ridden personality of lead vocalist Chris Martin, this is an…

Vincentelli Elisabeth: ABBA Treasures: A Celebration of the Ultimate Pop Group

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The ABBA brand of deliciously catchy pop music made the Swedish group an international sensation, and changed the landscape of pop music. In a fitting tribute ABBA Treasures will showcase photos and pieces of removable memorabilia to offer fans their own hands-on exploration of the band's career. With new interviews from collaborators and famous fans, and an elegant eye-catching foil cover and…

Legg Barnaby: GodSpeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This brand-new small format edition of GodSpeed is much more than a biography, it is unlike anything you have read about Kurt Cobain before. Going beyond the facts, it transmutes Cobain's extraordinary life into an equally exteraordinary work of art.

Shelton Robert: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan it is only this one that has been written with the Dylan's active cooperation. Dylan…

Patrick Humphries: The Beatles: The Music and the Myth

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: It's an album-by-album, track-by-track run down of every Beatles song on record and includes The Beatles Live At the BBC album, various compilations and the three best-selling Anthology sets released in 1995 and the 1 compilation, the Love medley CD and the re-mastered back catalogue albums.

Herbert Wise: People You'd Like to Know: Legendary Musicians Photographed by Herb Wise

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: This superb new collection of photographs shows a fascinating variety of blues, folk and rock performers as they appeared at events across North America during the second half of the 20th century. The pictures were all taken by Herb Wise, a man who learned his craft from his friend David Gahr, the revered photographer of American folk music performers. Gradually Herb Wise too became a fixture at…

Whitacre Eric: Eric Whitacre Collection

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty, wide-ranging in theme, from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and This Marriage are…

Slattery: «Oasis»: A Year on the Road»

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This is an evocative photo book of Oasis during their first, traumatic and wildly exciting year together. Between March 1994 and April 1995 the Gallagher Brothers Noel and Liam, together with Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll spearheaded the movement known as Britpop. Photographer Paul Slattery captured them on film every inch of the way, in the UK and on…

Preston Neal: Led Zeppelin

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This is a spectacular photographic record of Led Zeppelin at their peak! No one has captured the romance and mystique of Led Zeppelin on film more successfully than American photographer Neal Preston. His stunning collection of photographs shows Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham in full flight, both on and off stage. Preston was very much part of Led Zeppelin's inner…

Mercury Freddie: Freddie Mercury: A Life in His Own Words

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Despite being in the limelight for over 20 years and selling nearly 200 million records, Freddie Mercury was a very private person — avoiding interviews as he was painfully shy and uncomfortable in the company of anyone who might intrude upon his famous 'royal family' of close friends. This book takes us on the journey of Queen — three academics and a frustrated art student, tired of having no…

Middles Mick: Torn Apart: The Life of Ian Curtis

Скачать книгу (размер 2 084 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 410) Аннотация: This is the b format edition of the critically acclaimed biography. Cloaked in mystique, Joy Division's extraordinary vocalist Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980, leaving just two haunting albums an a depleted band that would famously evolve into New Order. In this in-depth biography of the late singer, the authors have gained exclusive access to Ian Curtis's family and many others…

Grant Adrian: Michael Jackson: Making HIStory

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: This picture book features photographs of Michael Jackson's world tour, and contains a report on the opening shows which hit Wembley in July 1997 and continued in Europe. A colour poster is also included.

Matt McGee: U2 a Diary

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: U2 are the biggest band in the world and this diary is the single most comprehensive resource that details all of the relevant day-to-day events that have shaped U2 into the band it is today. It presents the complete history of the band from 1950s Dublin to the present day. It provides the important stories behind the 'who, what, when and where' including stories and insights about key moments in…

Miller Jonathan: Stripped: Depeche Mode

Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: This is an updated edition of the electrifying biography about four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars and champions of synth pop/rock. This groundbreaking book features in-depth interviews with founder member Vince Clarke, engineer-cum-producer Gareth Jones — who together with Mute Records founder/mentor Daniel Miller — played a pivotal role in shaping Depeche Mode's unique…