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2007
| The films that society has termed pornographic movies have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet beyond a handful of scholarly tracts, and a few glancing references in certain Hollywood histories, there is no modern history of the subject available.Black and White and Blue fills that void. Taking as its cut-off point the late 1970s, when the advent of the home VCR irrevocably changed the face of the adult film industry, Black....[more] |
2006
| By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial superstar in recent rock history, Bowie was seen as a spent force. Almost twenty years later, Bowie has re-established himself at the very peak of his profession in one of the most extraordinary comebacks in rock history. His 1995 release of the critically-astonishin....[more] |
2004
| It is now 35 years since Deep Purple first came,together and today - 14 musicians, 17 albums and,millions of record sales later - the group remains,a monster. This is the first book in 20 years to,tell the story of this remarkable band, from their,grandiose inception in 1968 to the release of,their latest album in 2003. Drawing on candid,interviews with band members, associates and fans,alike, it traces the group through some of the,most turbulent times that any band has survived,placing the ban....[more] |
1997
| Covers the entire popular music spectrum with listings of the best underground recordings available. |
1994
| An inside look at the life of one of the most thought-provoking men of all time - Kurt Cobain. Examining an artisitic genius who was light years ahead of his time, this is an unfailing account of Nirvana's rise and Cobain eventual descent. |
1988
| This new edition will bring the story of The Cure right up to the Wish album and triumphant U.S. tour which followed. |
2010
| In print for the first time in thirty years, a 140 page digest of the very best (and least illegible) of the legendary TV Times (No Relation), the official publication of the TV Smith fan club between 1980-1983. Includes all 43 original covers, plus choice articles, illustrations, a wealth of never-before published photos, unpublished material and more. CAUTION: due to primitive original reproduction techniques, the quality of the illustrations is sometimes very low, and have been included here ....[more] |
2010
| Now updated to include Spector's trial and guilty conviction of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.The name Phil Spector is legendary in the music world. Writer and producer of countless chart-topping hits that have now become household names, his innovative genius in the studio revitalized musical production in the 1960s and changed the way we listen to music forever.But his success soon became overshadowed by his reputation for eccentricity and excess, his troublesome personality and fascination ....[more] |
2010
| Since the moment they emerged into the mainstream in 1974, armed with the hit "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us," the band Sparks—brothers Ron and Russell Mael—has endeared themselves to successive generations of fans, not only with their wry humor and quirkiness, but also with a lyrical and musical inventiveness that sees them listed among the most influential acts ever. Exclusive interviews and insights trace the group from its earliest strivings in California up to t....[more] |
2010
| Permeating the shadows and the darkness of the bayou—a world all its own that stretches from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama—this study of marsh music leaves New Orleans to discover secret legends and vivid mythology in the surrounding wilderness. The people and the cultures that have called the bayou home—such as Bob Dylan, Jerry Reed, Nick Cave, Bo Didley, and a one-armed Cajun backwoodsman and gator hunter named Amos Moses—are unearthed not only through their own w....[more] |
2008
| Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Rush, Pink Floyd, Peter Frampton, the Beatles, the Who, Elton John (but only the good stuff), the Rolling Stones... these are the names that classic rock worships. But where are the values for which they fought, where is the spirit that they once epitomized? Persuasive, incisive, and drawing blood with every keystroke, I Hate New Music is one man's crusade against everything that isn't what rock ought to be. Shamelessly retrospective and defiantly reaction....[more] |
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