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Gods, Gangsters and Honour

Author : Steven Machat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905636839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Gods, Gangsters and Honour written by Steven Machat and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, an insider's account of the deals and the dodges inside the music and entertainment business over the last 30 years As the son of the legendary showbiz lawyer Marty Machat, Steven Machat grew up among such names as Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Frankie Valli, and Sam Cooke. Following in his father's footsteps, by the time he was in his late 20s he was proud to see his name alongside his father's on the brass plaque outside their Broadway offices. But there was a price--Steven discovered from a young age that the glitter and the glamour too often disguises a crude and cruel reality, and that those who are publicly perceived as gods can just as easily be seen as gangsters. He found himself wondering how to live with such contradictions, and whether it is possible to maintain any sense of honor inside such a world. This beautifully constructed memoir of a life inside a fascinating world of celebrity includes appearances by Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson, David Copperfield, Sharon Osbourne, George Bush, Phil Collins, Suge Knight, Tupac, Biggie, Gianni Versace, Phil Spector, Joan Collins, Donny Osmond, Bobby Brown, and many more.

Gods, Gangsters and Honor

Author : Steven Machat
Publisher : McNae, Marlin and MacKenzie
ISBN 13 : 9781684541003
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Gods, Gangsters and Honor written by Steven Machat and published by McNae, Marlin and MacKenzie. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, an insider's account of the deals and the dodges inside the music and entertainment business over the last 30 years As the son of the legendary showbiz lawyer Marty Machat, Steven Machat grew up among such names as Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Frankie Valli, and Sam Cooke. Following in his father's footsteps, by the time he was in his late 20s he was proud to see his name alongside his father's on the brass plaque outside their Broadway offices. But there was a price--Steven discovered from a young age that the glitter and the glamour too often disguises a crude and cruel reality, and that those who are publicly perceived as gods can just as easily be seen as gangsters. He found himself wondering how to live with such contradictions, and whether it is possible to maintain any sense of honor inside such a world. This beautifully constructed memoir of a life inside a fascinating world of celebrity includes appearances by Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson, David Copperfield, Sharon Osbourne, George Bush, Phil Collins, Suge Knight, Tupac, Biggie, Gianni Versace, Phil Spector, Joan Collins, Donny Osmond, Bobby Brown, and many more.

I'm Your Man

Author : Sylvie Simmons
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771080425
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book I'm Your Man written by Sylvie Simmons and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the most emigmatic, beloved, and celebrated artists of our time. Leonard Cohen's extensive and successful recent worldwide tour has demonstrated that his popularity across generations and borders has never been greater. Cohen's life is one of singular mystique. This major in-depth biography is the book Cohen's fans have been waiting for. Acclaimed writer/journalist Sylvie Simmons has interviewed more than 100 figures from Cohen's life and work, including his main muses; the women in his life -- from Suzanne and Marianne to Rebecca de Mornay and Anjani Thomas; artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, David Crosby, Judy Collins, and Philip Glass; his record producers; his closest friends, from childhood to adulthood; and many of the spiritual figures who have influenced his life. Cohen, notoriously private, has granted interviews himself. Thoroughly researched and thoughtful, penetrating and lively, fascinating and revealing of stories and facts never read before, I'm Your Man offers new perspectives on Cohen and his life. It will be one of the most talked-about books of the season, and for years to come.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen

Author : David Boucher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345680
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen written by David Boucher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Dylan and Cohen have been a presence on the music and poetry landscape spanning six decades. This book begins with a discussion of their contemporary importance, and how they have sustained their enduring appeal as performers and recording artists. The authors argue that both Dylan and Cohen shared early aspirations that mirrored the Beat Generation. They sought to achieve the fame of Dylan Thomas, who proved a bohemian poet could thrive outside the academy, and to live his life of unconditional social irresponsibility. While Dylan's and Cohen's fame fluctuated over the decades, it was sustained by self-consciously adopted personas used to distance themselves from their public selves. This separation of self requires an exploration of the artists' relation to religion as an avenue to find and preserve inner identity. The relationship between their lyrics and poetry is explored in the context of Federico García Lorca's concept of the poetry of inspiration and the emotional depths of 'duende.' Such ideas draw upon the dislocation of the mind and the liberation of the senses that so struck Dylan and Cohen when they first read the poetry and letters of Arthur Rimbaud and Lorca. The authors show that performance and the poetry are integral, and the 'duende,' or passion, of the delivery, is inseparable from the lyric or poetry, and common to Dylan, Cohen and the Beat Generation.

God of Gangsters

Author : David D. Haynes IV
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980227540
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book God of Gangsters written by David D. Haynes IV and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if a nation was truly controlled by a purely capitalistic society? What if the symbol of that society came in the form of the modern gangster? In the country of Begistan, power belonged to the Marzins, a family with a criminal legacy that tries to hold on to everything they have as their patriarch, a former old-school mob boss turned president of the country, is assassinated. As some of his children seek revenge for his murder, they also form and break alliances that would end with a showdown among the remaining family members to become the number one criminal: the God of Gangsters.

36 Streets

Author : T.R. Napper
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1789097428
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book 36 Streets written by T.R. Napper and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this award-winning, fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives. Lin ‘The Silent One’ Vu is a gangster in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, living in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage, Lin has carved a place for herself in the Hanoi underworld under the tutelage of Bao Nguyen, who is training her to fight and survive. Because on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory, an addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war. When an Englishman – one of the game’s developers – comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods: the mega-corporations backed by powerful regimes that seek to control her city. Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.

Man, Community and Living the American Dream

Author : Steven Machat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983905714
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Man, Community and Living the American Dream written by Steven Machat and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life

Author : Anthony Reynolds
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857127845
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life written by Anthony Reynolds and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Reynolds’ fascinating and detailed biography draws on scores of new interviews conducted with Cohen’s band members past and present, his business associates, editors, friends, fans, producers, colleagues, enemies and peers. As well as their revealing accounts, the author has gained access to hours of previously unpublished interviews with Cohen as well as video archive recordings from several decades. The book also includes an authoritative summary of every Cohen album, with insights and recollections supplied from the musicians who appeared on the recordings. Gradually, despite Cohen’s own good-natured evasiveness over the past 40 years, a surprisingly frank portrait begins to emerge of the legendary figure who commands unparalleled loyalty from his fans and followers, young and old. From the distant days of his penniless beginnings as a much-praised poet in Montreal, through the travels, affairs and religious crisis to his latest tours, Cohen’s extraordinary life and body of work is examined as never before. The book includes many previously unpublished photographs.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Author : Scott Lynch
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0593725425
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Lies of Locke Lamora written by Scott Lynch and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy meets crime caper in the first book of a landmark, enduringly popular epic series about a roguish group of conmen, which George R. R. Martin has called “fresh, original, and engrossing . . . gorgeously realized.” An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges relentless danger, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentlemen Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.

Gods & Gangsters 4

Author : Slmn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954220720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Gods & Gangsters 4 written by Slmn and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Gangsters, 2nd. Ed

Author : William Spear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781291032765
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book God's Gangsters, 2nd. Ed written by William Spear and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gods & Gangsters

Author : Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999639085
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Gods & Gangsters written by Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Present Concerns

Author : Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156027854
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Present Concerns written by Clive Staples Lewis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where God gives the gift, the 'foolishness of preaching' is still mighty. But best of all is a team of two: one to deliver the preliminary intellectual barrage, and the other to follow up with a direct attack on the heart." An inveterate scholar, throughout his lifetime C.S. Lewis wrote on any number of topics. While his most famous essays concern his thoughts on Christianity, he was also interested in literature, masculinity, domestic life, and war. In the nineteen essays collected inPresent Concerns, he touches on all of these and more. Though wide-ranging, these essays all share one thing: C.S. Lewis's characteristic pragmatism and persuasiveness. Many of the essays included were written between 1940 and 1945, and so pertinently reflect on the issues raised by World War II: democratic values, the need for a new chivalry, and the cynicism of the modern soldier, all of which remain relevant today. "Lewis gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth."--Madeleine L'Engle

Priest of Bones

Author : Peter McLean
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451490215
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Priest of Bones written by Peter McLean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody Anne at his side. But things have changed while he was away: his crime empire has been stolen and the people of Ellinburg--his people--have run out of food and hope and places to hide. Tomas sets out to reclaim what was his with help from Anne, his brother, Jochan, and his new gang: the Pious Men. But when he finds himself dragged into a web of political intrigue once again, everything gets more complicated. As the Pious Men fight shadowy foreign infiltrators in the back-street taverns, brothels, and gambling dens of Tomas's old life, it becomes clear: The war is only just beginning.

Spiritual Insomnia

Author : Steven Machat
Publisher : McNae, Marlin and MacKenzie
ISBN 13 : 9781684541034
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Insomnia written by Steven Machat and published by McNae, Marlin and MacKenzie. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Machat's SPIRITUAL INSOMNIA is a game plan for 21st Century government - putting YOU, your family, and the community in charge of your happiness and prosperity. "Spiritual Insomnia" was written to wake us up! This is the mantra that echoes throughout the words of author Steven Machat. Wake up! Action is so vital that the urgency was yesterday. The majority of us are not only physically asleep, but spiritually asleep as well - but not the author. He suffers, enjoys, endures, or simply experiences, Spiritual Insomnia. Machat feels that we do not care enough about our human condition. Steven Machat, the ever pro-active optimist, tells us we can do it, that we can save ourselves. Spiritual Insomnia is more than an alarm call; it is also an uplifting empowerment, a reassurance that we have what it takes to wake up and to bring about change for ourselves, and for our global community. Steven Machat is an American entertainment entrepreneur. a film producer, the author of five books, a music publisher, and manager and lawyer of talent as well as an owner of record labels. Machat's recent label is Hippos in Tanks/Machat Records. This he created with his late son Barron Machat. Machat has represented Electric Light Orchestra, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Ready For The World, Leonard Cohen, Phil Spector Snoop Dogg, Stacey Jackson, Phil Crown and Bobby Brown to name a few. Mr. Machat specializes in world music and amongst many has worked with Gilberto Gil, Rita Lee, Manu Dibango, Angelic Kidjo and his new release Dayramir Gonzales from Cuba who is up for three Grammys. Machat has run for the US Senate and the US Congress in Florida in 2016 and 2018. He has also taught and lectured at such prestigious universities as Oxford and Cambridge in England and at music festivals and book fairs in 100 countries.

Marked for Death

Author : Geert Wilders
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596987960
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Marked for Death written by Geert Wilders and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial Netherlands Parliament member recounts his battle against the spread of Islam in the West, addressing why liberal politicians downplay the threat and why the free speech of Islam's critics is often suppressed.

Who They Was

Author : Gabriel Krauze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635577675
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Who They Was written by Gabriel Krauze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Booker Prize Named a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and CrimeReads Named a Best Book of 2021 by Time An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare. The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he's Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the classroom, he's Snoopz, a hard living member of London's gangs, well-acquainted with drugs, guns, stabbings, and robbery. Navigating these sides of himself, dealing with loving parents at the same time as treacherous, endangering friends and the looming threat of prison, he is forced to come to terms with who he really is and the life he's chosen for himself. In a distinct, lyrical urban slang all his own, author Gabriel Krauze brings to vivid life the underworld of his city and the destructive impact of toxic masculinity. Who They Was is a disturbing yet tender and perspective-altering account of the thrill of violence and the trauma it leaves behind. It is the story of inner cities everywhere, and of the lost boys who must find themselves in their tower blocks.