Celine Dion is the most successful female singer in the world. In just two years, she sold more than 50 million albums. And then along came TITANIC and her themesong, 'My Heart Will Go On', which has received more radio play than any other piece of music in history. Celine's income for 1997 has been estimated at $55 million. But it hasn't always been like this. Now, for the first time, you can read the story of Celine's rise and rise. Drawing on 15 years of research material as well as first-h...
26 First Class Songs From Amy, Adele, Corinne, Duffy, Eva, Leona, Lily, Norah, Rihanna And Many Others
Nothing defines the songs of the Great American Songbook more centrally than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriters such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and IraGershwin, and Thomas "Fats" Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Through their songs, these artists described America -- not its geography or politics, but its heart -- to Americansand to the world at large. In City Song...
Holidays (Sharon O'Connor's Menus and Music, Vol III)
by Sharon O'Connor
"The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."-RimbaudIn 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature and a professor at Duke University. Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I don't read French that easily. . . . I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me." Fourte...
The term jam band" is used to categorize a type of music that favours improvisation and musicianship over concise riffs, hooks, and traditional songwriting structure. The term also helps define the fiercely dedicated fans of the music as accurately as it does the bands. Much as with the Grateful Dead,the progenitors of the jam band scene,the survival of the scene depends upon a symbiotic relationship with fans. Jam bands nurture a close relationship with their fans, fostered through constant to...
Freddie Mercury was the face of Queen for 20 years and this lavishly illustrated book celebrates him as one of the key players in the British music scene.