In a quarter of a century at the top of the rock and roll ladder, Rod Stewart is now one of the legends of the business. His songs include such memorable classics as "Maggie May", "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" and "Sailing". This work captures the excitement of Stewart's career and reflects his dazzling energy. Ray Coleman takes us through his early days busking on the streets of London, through stints with "Long John Baldry" and the "Jeff Beck Group" to the heady days with the "Faces" and right up t...
A collection of images that brings together the work of over 30 photographers, spanning a 30-year period. The pictures chart the history of popular music in the latter half of the 20th century, and include such illustious subjects as The Clash, Madonna, Jimi Hendrix and the Spice Girls.
The music of Queen and powerhouse lead singer Freddie Mercury are best experienced with the volume turned all the way up. Alfonso Casas’s Freddie Mercury delivers a sonorous homage to the formidable singer and the turning points that produced a game-changing body of music that continues to inspire fans around the globe. First published in Spain and now available worldwide, this luminous work covers Freddie's three “births”: his birth as Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar; his adoption of the last name...
By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become "white"? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans.Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s...
'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our hair and bought skinny trousers. It was year zero. That was the moment for me' Billy BraggPunk Rock is a book like no other. It is an oral history of a radical movement which exploded in Seventies Britain. With its own clothes, hair, artwork, fanzi...
Over 30 hits from the greatest female artists of the 21st Century, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes Behind These Hazel Eyes (Kelly Clarkson), Fallin' (Alicia Keys), Hung Up (Madonna), Strict Machine (Goldfrapp), Push The Button (Sugababes), Here With Me (Dido) and No More Drama (Mary J Blige).
The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock'n' roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash's music, which swiftly evolved from ferocious punk rock to incorporate reggae, ska, funk, jazz, soul, and hip-hop. Passion Is a Fashion draws on over 70 interviews with the key participants in the story,roadies, producers, friends, and...