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| Born in Florida, Herbert Lawrence Becker trained initially as an accountant and CPA.
He worked as a district manager, an accountant, and a senior financial planner for companies in the U.S. and Canada before returning to Florida to live.
H Becker is also a magician, performing as The Great Kardeen, and it is his....[more] |
| Kristofer Engelhardt's first public appearance was on January 20, 1952, in Bay City, Michigan, where he still resides. Kris attended both of The Beatles' performances at Olympia Stadium in Detroit in 1966 which inspired him to begin seriously collecting their records. Today he has one of the largest collections of The ....[more] |
| Alan Goldsher is the author of "Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read" (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and "Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" (Hal Leonard, 2002), as well as the music-themed novels "Jam" (Permanent Press, 2002) and "The Record Haus" (PublishAmerica 2003). Written as A.M. Goldsh....[more] |
| John William Law is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and books. He has worked on the staffs of daily, weekly and monthly publications. He is the author of numerous
books and narrates a podcast on iTunes entitled The Movie Files. He has appeared on television and film documentari....[more] |
| Writer, professor, and photographer Julius Lester was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 27, 1939. He received a B.A. in English from Fisk University in 1960. Lester's photographs from the civil rights movement era have been exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution and are part of Howard University's permanent coll....[more] |
| STEVEN ROBY is a respected Jimi Hendrix historian/archivist and author of the bestseller Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix. It was selected as the Best Rock Book for 2002 by the Minnesota Spokesman – Recorder.
Roby was editor of Straight Ahead: The International Jimi Hendrix Fanzine (1989-1996), editor o....[more] |
| Robert Rosen is the author of "Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon," an international bestseller that’s been translated into six languages. His investigative memoir, "Beaver Street: A History of Modern Pornography," will be published by Headpress in the UK in 2010. Rosen's work has appeared in publications all o....[more] |
| W. Fraser Sandercombe has been a writer and an artist for most of his life. At seventeen, he sold his first painting. At eighteen, he published his first short story. And his first published book was Nothing Gold Can Stay. He is involved in selling rare, antiquarian and collectible books on the internet. And his most r....[more] |
| Born and raised in Kingston Jamaica and while growing up in the ghettoes of Trench Town created and invented the word- Reggae and with my brethrens such as Junior Braithwaite, and Garth Dennis gave the name -Wailing Wailers to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer. Bob then formed his group of singers and musicians ....[more] |
| Dale Sherman began writing about rock music in small-press popular culture publications fresh out of high-school back in the early 1980s. With his background in reviewing theatrical bands, Dale moved on to write a bestselling book about KISS in 1997, BLACK DIAMOND: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF KISS. This led to a refe....[more] |
| Johnny Sumrall is a native of Jackson, MS and is a graduate of Provine High School and Belhaven College. His love of music crosses all genres, but is focused on Rock and Roll. This book is a compilation of his memories as a teenager during the era as well as information from interviews with the artists. Many of the....[more] |
| With over 100 published books to his name, pop culture historian Dave Thompson is one of rock'n'roll's leading experts. Ferociously self-opinionated, relentless controversially but writing, too, with irresistible charm and finesse, Thompson's sharply-honed eye for culture and historical context ensure a no-nonsense ....[more] |
| Best known for his contributions to the field of philosophy but also a music composer and critic, Theodor Adorno proved popular culture was a phenomenon worth analyzing. This German-born author, who lived from September 11, 1903 to August 6, 1969, was a member of the Frankfurt School, along with such other luminaries s....[more] |
| Known for his literary criticism, Erich Auerbach was born in Berlin, Germany in 1892. His first major work, Dante: Poet of the Secular World, was published in 1929 during his time at the University of Marburg. However, like many Jewish intellectuals at the time, Auerbach was forced into exile by the Nazi Party. Now hav....[more] |
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