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Book Synopsis Long Drawn Out Trip by : Gerald Scarfe
Download or read book Long Drawn Out Trip written by Gerald Scarfe and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from his childhood and early days at Punch and Private Eye, through his long and occasionally tumultuous career as the Sunday Times cartoonist, to his film-making at the BBC and much-loved designs for Pink Floyd's The Wall and Disney's Hercules. Along the way he has drawn Churchill from life, gone on tour with The Beatles and thoroughly upset Mrs Mary Whitehouse. It is a very personal, wickedly funny and caustically insightful account of an artist's life at the forefront of contemporary culture and society.
Book Synopsis Narratives of Travel and Tourism by : Tijana Rakic
Download or read book Narratives of Travel and Tourism written by Tijana Rakic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and tourism 'stories' have been told and recorded within every culture, in every period of oral and written history, and across the breadth of the fact/fiction continuum. Taking two broad themes as its starting point - travellers and their narratives, and place narratives in travel and tourism - the book has a deliberately wide scope, with different chapters addressing the subject through various relevant 'lenses' and in relation to a number of different contexts. The narratives discussed include both historical and contemporary, as well as 'real-life' and fictional, narratives contained within travel writing, travel and tourism stories and different types of media. In relation to the principal themes of the book, some chapters also explore the importance of collecting memorabilia and image making in the recording, remembering, writing, telling or disseminating of stories about travel and tourism experiences and some examine the ways in which travel and tourism narratives may construct and reinforce personal, collective and place identities. The whole book is marked by an over-arching concern for narrative interpretation as a means of understanding, and providing a new perspective on, travel and tourism.
Download or read book Irish Legacy written by B. Conner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time she was a small girl, 28-year-old Maggie Gaffney disregarded the gift that her Granny Gaffney proudly insisted she had inherited from her father. She always regarded the premonitions and overwhelming feelings of danger as nothing special, just common everyday feelings. The fiery haired Irish lass who grew up in the brownstones in Chicago, was summoned by her maternal grandfather to visit him in his huge mansion, Glenmoor Manor, in Southern Indiana. Maggie had no wish to know Donovan O'Connor, a wealthy businessman, who had disowned her mother when she married Maggie's father and she would have refused to go if her Granny Gaffney had not insisted. The headstrong Maggie agrees to go. When a feeling of impending doom overcomes her on the train, she dismisses it. But after her arrival, she becomes embroiled in a mystery that involves her grandfather, a secret society, and murder. Trying to unravel the mystery, Maggie finds herself in peril as well as falling in love. She begins to believe that there just may be some truth to her gift, her Irish Legacy .
Download or read book Roger Waters written by Dave Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To some, he is the face behind classic Pink Floyd. To others, he is the temperament behind some of the greatest albums of the rock era. And to others still, he is one of the most original songwriters of a generation that overflows with notable talent. To all, he is an enigma: a rock star who not only eschewed stardom but also spent much of his career railing against it. But to call Roger Waters a mass of contradictions is simply taking the easy way out. He is so much more than that. Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall is the first full biography of the author of The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and, of course, The Wall. It traces his life from war-torn suburbia to the multitude of wars he has fought since then – with his bandmates, with his audience, and most of all with himself. Packed with insight and exclusive interviews with friends and associates, Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall dismantles the wall brick by brick, revealing the man who built it in all his glory.
Download or read book Far Cries written by Brian Fitzpatrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leamey’s is an epic story of hardship, devotion and love of an Irish family living in Doonas Ireland in the 1840s, where they are taken to the depths of despair, separated by hardship and starvation during the potato famine and overcoming immense tragedy which split the family to three Continents on a journey so incredible it test the souls to breaking point, where hope and determination creates great triumphs of the human spirit. Brian Leamey is very angry but worried for his family when he’s convicted of assaulting a Police Officer. His beloved wife and family are devastated when he is sentenced to ten years on a wretched penal colony on the infamous Van Diemans land. He is transported almost immediately. His wife Kate is now left to bring up their children alone, Patrick, Katherine and Tomas. Lonely and desperate Kate struggles to survive, and when the devastation of the potato famine hits Ireland starvation and disease follows. Meanwhile, on Van Deamans Land Brian is forced to hard labour where his tormentors inform him of the tragedy currently sweeping Ireland, Brian is horror-stricken, but can do nothing. His young family are suffering at the mercy of the famine he is just devastated and doesn’t know what to do. Seeing her family suffering Kate confides in the oldest boy Patrick that he must fend for himself now and find a new life, he must get out of Ireland, and he must find his own path of survival. Kate arranges Patrick’s transportation to America with his Uncle and Aunty along with thousands more Irish people. It is hard for her but she does it out of love. Patrick is taken on a sweeping journey across America, all the while having one focus, to have his family reunited. He must make it to Van Diemans land to find his father. He must. So begins Patrick’s amazing heartfelt journey across America in a land that tests his conviction, a tumultuous land of violence, poverty and fortune, where bare-knuckle fighting can lead to regaled opportunities, a time of the gold rush, and the mania of staking a claim among ruthless and desperate criminals. The Leamey’s adventure is a breathless tale of one man’s brutal survival, and another man who never loses hope that his dreams just may come true.
Download or read book The Massachusetts Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thin Ice written by Mark Bowen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has based his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator in search of clues to the history of climate change. He collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history.
Book Synopsis Pink Floyd in the 1970s by : Georg Purvis
Download or read book Pink Floyd in the 1970s written by Georg Purvis and published by Sonicbond Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may have all started with Syd Barrett, but the persistence and creativity of Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Nick Mason and David Gilmour meant that Pink Floyd went from one of England’s top underground psychedelic bands to one of the biggest rock bands on the planet — all thanks to an album wondering if there really was a dark side of the moon. Pink Floyd in the 1970s: Decades focuses on the band throughout the 1970s — undoubtedly the peak of their success — from the weird brilliance of Atom Heart Mother to the epic, autobiographical storytelling of The Wall. In between, the band achieved tremendous success with Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon, yet struggled to come to terms with their place in the pantheon of rock music on Wish You Were Here and Animals. The decade of Pink Floyd’s greatest successes was dominated by shifting musical trends and a balance in power in the band changing from democratic equality to Waters calling most of the shots. These factors, and the looming spectre of Barrett, their erstwhile founder, inspired some of the greatest albums of all time. The book explores the music, the defining moments and the personality clashes that very nearly destroyed the band. The author: Georg Purvis is the author of Queen: The Complete Works, currently in its third edition. While Queen was his gateway band, he has come to appreciate all kinds of music over the years and considers himself lucky that his first-ever concert, at the age of 10, was on Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell tour at Veteran’s Stadium on June 2, 1994. He has since turned his love of writing about music into a hobby, with several unfinished manuscripts collecting dust on an external hard drive. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Meredith, and their two cats, Spencer and William.
Download or read book All for the Boss written by Ruchoma Shain and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pigs Might Fly written by Mark Blake and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters’ world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums. Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour and Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour.
Book Synopsis An American Organist in Paris by : Lee Erwin
Download or read book An American Organist in Paris written by Lee Erwin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century's great American composers, spent time studying in Paris. From 1930 until 1931 Erwin studied in France with organist André Marchal and the harmony teachers Jean Verd and Nadia Boulanger. This formative experience greatly shaped his compositional style and aesthetic. Upon returning to the United States, Erwin began his lengthy career in radio and television working with Arthur Godfrey. In 1967, Erwin was commissioned by the American Theater Organ Society to compose organ music for the Gloria Swanson film Queen Kelly. It was this film that led his career back into the consoles of the great American theater organs. He toured extensively, playing thousands of concerts of organ music during silent film showings. He thus ushered in the silent film revival, continuing the genre of live music performance accompanying film. Erwin, believing that cue sheets originally compiled for these films during the silent film era were "full of the musical cliché's of the 1920s," composed new scores to over 100 silent films. An American Organist in Paris presents Lee Orville Erwin's letters from France to his family in 1930-1931. In these letters, Erwin recounts his daily experiences and encounters with some of the 20th century's greatest musicians and teachers. He writes of his lessons with Marchal, Verd, and Boulanger and dinner parties with Olivier Messiaen. Erwin's letters not only provide the singular experiences of a young musician but also reflect the common experiences shared by the multitude of American composers who studied in France during this time. These letters are extensively footnoted to provide clarity and background information of the locations and personalities discussed. A biographical chapter on Erwin, which outlines his extensive musical career and impact on the silent film music revival in the 20th century, is also included. This book will serve as a unique glimpse into the life of one of America's most prolific composers for the theater organ.
Book Synopsis All My Mob by : Ruby Langford Ginibi
Download or read book All My Mob written by Ruby Langford Ginibi and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling collection of reminiscences on family life, Indigenous social issues, and being Aboriginal in today's Australia.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists by : Mark Bryant
Download or read book Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists written by Mark Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994, this dictionary provides a unique 'who’s who' of the major figures in the world of British cartoons and caricatures. It was the first book to encompass the entire field from c.1730 when Hogarth published the first of his 'modern moral pictures' to 1980. In addition to describing the careers and achievements of the artists and the characteristics of their styles, more than 500 entries give details of their publications, their illustrations to books and periodicals, exhibitions of their work, public collections in which their work is represented and literature on or referring to them. More than 150 illustrations are included. This is a comprehensive reference work and will be of interest to social and political historians as well as cartoon and caricature enthusiasts.
Book Synopsis The 3rd Secret by : Tara Taylor Quinn
Download or read book The 3rd Secret written by Tara Taylor Quinn and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Thomas stole drug-cartel evidence from a government facility. And spent three years in a federal prison. Attorney Erin Morgan has a rule: never defend the bad guys. But Rick Thomas, quiet and self-assured, doesn't seem bad. That's why she agrees to defend him against what he swears is a trumped-up murder charge. She's ignoring her experience and listening to her instincts instead. But psychologist and expert witness Kelly Chapman is listening to her instincts, too. And they're saying that Rick Thomas is lying to Erin. That he's keeping secrets. That he's a dangerous man. And that, despite everything, maybe he's one of the good guys….
Book Synopsis Pink Floyd: In the Flesh by : Glenn Povey
Download or read book Pink Floyd: In the Flesh written by Glenn Povey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From gigs in tiny church halls in the mid-sixties to multimillion-selling albums and spectacular stadium shows all around the world, the Pink Floyd story is a pop legend. Pink Floyd: In the Flesh combines, for the first time, a detailed listing of every single Pink Floyd show with a biographical account of the band's collective and individual careers. Illustrated throughout with scores of previously unpublished photographs and a wealth of rare graphic memorabilia, including posters, advertisements, handbills and tickets from every era of the band's remarkable thirty-year history.
Book Synopsis Saucerful of Secrets by : Nicholas Schaffner
Download or read book Saucerful of Secrets written by Nicholas Schaffner and published by Delta. This book was released on 1992 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called by The Chicago Tribune "the best book around on this enduringly popular band", Saucerful of Secrets is the first in-depth biography of this very private group. It goes beyond the smoke and lasers of Pink Floyd's incredible stage shows and into the secretive and often tumultuous lives of each band member. 16 pages of photographs.
Download or read book Rock Concert written by Marc Myers and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating, intimate” oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on nearly 100 interviews with musicians, fans, and others (Publishers Weekly). Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its power as a unifying experience—and as a multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed music writer Marc Myers delves into the history of this cultural phenomenon, weaving together ground-breaking accounts from the people who were there. Myers combines the tales of icons like Joan Baez, Ian Anderson, Alice Cooper, Steve Miller, Roger Waters, and Angus Young with the disc jockeys, audio engineers, and music journalists, and promoters who organized it all, like Michael Lang, co-founder of Woodstock, to create a rounded and vivid account of live rock’s stratospheric rise. Rock Concert offers a backstage view of rock ‘n’ roll as it evolved through live performance—from the rise of R&B in the 1950s, to the hippie gatherings of the ‘60s, and the growing arena tours of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Elvis Presley’s gyrating hips, the “British Invasion” of the Beatles, the Grateful Dead’s free flowing jams, and Pink Floyd’s The Wall are just a few of the defining musical acts that drive this rich narrative.
