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Rollaresque

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473502217
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Rollaresque written by Simon Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 1962. Five young hooligans have formed a band and are on a collision course with the austere and intolerant values of post-war Britain. From their beginning in a scummy flat off the Kings Road to the notorious Redlands scandal, this is the anarchic rollercoaster ride of the Stones’ first five years. We follow our heroes in a rags-to-riches romp of sex, scandal, mischief and uproarious behaviour as they challenge the establishment, invent the archetype of the rebellious, parent-scaring rock star lothario and, eventually, receive their comeuppance from the powers that be. Presented with the audacious wit and bawdy humour of a vintage novel, complete with Dickensian illustrations, Rollaresque celebrates the young Stones in the grand English literary tradition of lovable rogues. This is the music biography reinvented as a ripping yarn.

Rollaresque, Or, The Rakish Progress of The Rolling Stones

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Rollaresque, Or, The Rakish Progress of The Rolling Stones written by Simon Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ziggyology

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448118468
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Ziggyology written by Simon Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He came from Outer Space... It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music – the rock god who came from the stars – which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens. When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust? And where did he really come from? In a work of supreme pop archaeology, Simon Goddard unearths every influence that brought Ziggy to life – from HG Wells to Holst, Kabuki to Kubrick, and Elvis to Iggy. Ziggyology documents the epic drama of the Starman’s short but eventful time on Planet Earth... and why Bowie eventually had to kill him.

Simply Thrilled

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 147350208X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Simply Thrilled written by Simon Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had just a few hundred pounds, one band missing a drummer, a sock drawer for an office, more dreams than sense and not a clue between them how to run a record company. But when Alan Horne and Edwyn Collins decided to start their own label from a shabby Glasgow flat in 1979, nobody was going to stand in their way. Postcard Records was the mad, makeshift and quite preposterous result. Launching the careers of Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and cult heroes Josef K, the self-styled ‘Sound of Young Scotland’ stuck it to the London music biz and, quite by accident, kickstarted the 1980s indie music revolution. Simon Goddard has interviewed everyone involved in the making of the Postcard legend to tell this thrilling rock’n’roll story of punk audacity, knickerbocker glories, broken windscreens, raccoon-fur hats, comedy, violence and creating something beautiful from nothing, against all the odds.

Mozipedia

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091927102
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Mozipedia written by Simon Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Patrick Morrissey is one of the most original and controversial voices in the history of popular music. With The Smiths, he led the most influential British guitar group of the 1980s, his enigmatic wit and style defining a generation. As a solo artist, he has continued to broach subjects no other singer would dare. Worshipped by some, vilified by others, Morrissey is a unique rock and roll creation. The 300,000 words of Mozipedia make this the most intimate and in-depth biographical portrait of the man and his music yet. Bringing together every song, album, collaborator, key location, every hero, book, film and record to have influenced his art, it is the summation of years of meticulous research. Morrissey authority Simon Goddard has interviewed almost everybody of any importance, making Mozipedia the last word on Morrissey and The Smiths.

Bowie Odyssey: 71

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Bowie Odyssey
ISBN 13 : 9781913172053
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Bowie Odyssey: 71 written by Simon Goddard and published by Bowie Odyssey. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain, 1971. A land of hot pants, porn trials, angry bombs, and bitter protest. As Marc Bolan is crowned the kids' teenage saviour, the forgotten hope called David Bowie secretly gathers the arsenal for his own revolution in his bohemian retreat. New friends Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and The Pretty Things among the London gay scene. New songs about life on Mars and cosmic messiahs. New fashions fit for the ultimate 70s superstar... In the sequel to Bowie Odyssey 70 (a Sunday Times Book Of The Year), Simon Goddard continues his groundbreaking VR narrative into the world inside and around Bowie, year by year, through the decade he changed pop forever.

Bowie Odyssey 70

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913172039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Bowie Odyssey 70 written by Simon Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He starts the decade a teenage pop idol. But the one-hit wonder who sang 'Space Oddity' is still very far from becoming the star who will one day define the 1970s. Not when he still has a band to find, a manager to sack, a mentally ill brother to save, a wife to marry and a rival called Marc Bolan to beat. Not when David Bowie still has no idea who or what David Bowie is. Starting at the beginning of Bowie's incredible ten-year odyssey changing the course of pop music, Simon Goddard's bold and expressionistic biography weaves time, space, rock'n'roll and social history to relive Bowie's 1970 - moment by vivid moment.

Songs That Saved Your Life (Revised Edition)

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 178116259X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Songs That Saved Your Life (Revised Edition) written by Simon Goddard and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the seminal groups of the Eighties, The Smiths' career was as brilliant as it was brief. Now, drawing on interviews with band members, producers, and colleagues, music journalist Simon Goddard presents a meticulous chronological survey of the group's musical evolution, from their first demos in 1982 to their final fractured studio session five years later. Investigating the stories behind the songs, and detailing every British TV and radio session, he also offers a unique analysis of each track's concert life. Granted unprecedented access to The Smiths' studio archives and to the private collection of outtakes and rehearsals retained by drummer Mike Joyce, the author lifts the lid on unreleased material as well as the lost songs and alternate versions that have remained closely guarded secrets until now.

The Smiths

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903111840
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Smiths written by Simon Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The Smiths - Songs That Saved Your Life is now re-issued in a revised and expanded form, to include the fruits of Simon Goddard's most recent research, undertaken since the publication of the first edition in 2002. The new material for this edition includes: - Interview with guitarist Craig Gannon - Interview with John Peel - Interview with producer John Porter - Previously unpublished stills of the band

The Comeback: Elvis and the Story of the '68 Special

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1787591530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Comeback: Elvis and the Story of the '68 Special written by Simon Goddard and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘He wasn’t dead and gone to heaven. He was alive and still in Graceland. Cursed to live another year on god’s earth as Elvis Presley. The man from yesterday trapped in a today of tomorrows…’ As 1968 dawns, the once King of Rock ’n’ Roll faces cultural oblivion. While elsewhere the Sixties are swinging, for Elvis they’re sinking – in terrible films, drug addiction, paranoia, religious mania and the mercenary wiles of his psychopathic manager. At 33 the legend who once had it all is lost, lonely and slowly going insane. Until thrown a last lifeline. His own one-hour TV special: a do-or-die final chance to remind the world who, and what, Elvis Presley really is. The Comeback plots the incredible true story of Elvis’ fall and rise from Army discharge to iconic black leather resurrection. Simon Goddard takes the reader inside the life, music and mind of Elvis: a 24/7 delirium of women, pills, midnight movies and holy mumbo jumbo, isolated from an America unravelling in its own Sixties chaos of war, racism, riots and assassinations, until his world and theirs collide in the greatest performance of his life. A genre-busting modernist rock ’n’ roll fable unlike any music biography you’ve ever read, The Comeback is the definitive account of how it took Elvis eight years on the big screen to lose his crown – but just one magical hour on a small one to win it back.

Radiohead and Philosophy

Author : Jason T. Eberl
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459601041
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Radiohead and Philosophy written by Jason T. Eberl and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only is Radiohead the most innovative and influential rock bandit's also the most philosophically and culturally relevant. Since the 1993 breakthrough hit ""Creep,"" the band keeps on making waves, with its view of the Bush presidency (Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its ecologically conscious road tours, its videos, and its decision to sell In Rainbows online at a 'pay whatever you want' price. Composed by a team of Radiohead fans who also think for a living, Radiohead and Philosophy is packet like a crushed tin box with insights into the meaning and implications of Radiohead's work. Paranoid or not, you'll understand Radiohead better than any android. ""Can a rock band still matter? Can it be a positive force in a postmodern world? For millions, Radiohead can, and these thought-provoking essays address how and why Radiohead makes a difference by working at the margins of popular culture.""

The Chieftains

Author : John Glatt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250105382
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Chieftains written by John Glatt and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their humble beginnings in the folk clubs and bars of Ireland in the early '60s, The Chieftains have built a worldwide reputation and following based on their brilliant musicianship, their rediscovery and reinvention of traditional Irish music, and their own original music and Oscar-winning soundtracks. Based on exclusive interviews with all the band's members, their families and friends, this is the intimate and comprehensive history of one of the most acclaimed Irish bands of all time. photos.

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781529111590
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1 written by Clinton Heylin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Restless, Hungry Feeling tells the story of Dylan's meteoric rise to fame - his arrival in early 1961 in New York, where he is embraced by the folk scene; his elevation to spokesman of a generation whose protest songs provide the soundtrack for the burgeoning Civil Rights movement; his alleged betrayal when he 'goes electric' at Newport in 1965; his subsequent controversial world tour with a rock 'n' roll band; and the recording of his three undisputed electric masterpieces - Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. At the peak of his fame in July 1966 he reportedly crashes his motorbike in Woodstock, upstate New York, and disappears from public view. When he re-emerges, he looks different, his voice sounds different, his songs are different.

Aim High

Author : Tom Sheehan
Publisher : Flood Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9780992836641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Aim High written by Tom Sheehan and published by Flood Gallery. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning photographic history of the Mod music and style icon Paul Weller, by celebrated music photographer Tom Sheehan. Encompassing his incredible career from The Jam, to The Style Council and his solo work, the book features a Foreword by Paul Weller himself and an essay written by the critically acclaimed music journalist Simon Goddard.

Paul Weller - The Changing Man

Author : Paolo Hewitt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446497755
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Paul Weller - The Changing Man written by Paolo Hewitt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the inspiration for some of Weller's songs - and he has extraordinary in-depth knowledge of the inspiration behind the rest. Once, when Hewitt interviewed Weller for a music magazine, he complained - 'I don't know why people ask me all these questions. All the answers are in my songs.' Largely unnoticed, Weller has used thirty-years of lyrics to explore his personal history and beliefs. Taking as his starting point these lyrics, alongside a lifetime's friendship, Paolo Hewitt shows us the real Paul Weller, the man inside the music.

Redemption Song

Author : Chris Salewicz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466821620
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Redemption Song written by Chris Salewicz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock 'n roll icon. The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience to punk. Their eponymous first record and London Calling still rank in Rolling Stone's top-ten best albums of all time, and in 2003 they were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joe Strummer was the Clash's front man, a rock-and-roll hero seen by many as the personification of outlaw integrity and street cool. The political heart of the Clash, Strummer synthesized gritty toughness and poetic sensitivity in a manner that still resonates with listeners, and his untimely death in December 2002 shook the world, further solidifying his iconic status. Salewicz was a friend to Strummer for close to three decades and has covered the Clash's career and the entire punk movement from its inception. He uses his vantage point to write Redemption Song, the definitive biography of Strummer, charting his enormous worldwide success, his bleak years in the wilderness after the Clash's bitter breakup, and his triumphant return to stardom at the end of his life. Salewicz argues for Strummer's place in a long line of protest singers that includes Woody Guthrie, John Lennon, and Bob Marley, and examines by turns Strummer's and punk's ongoing cultural influence.

Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd

Author : Pete Anderson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857121227
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd written by Pete Anderson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing investigation into the life of a reclusive cult genius. Syd Barrett was Pink Floyd's founder, singer, guitarist and principal composer, who left the group in 1968 amidst tales of acid-induced madness. Barrett's brief flash of erratic brilliance is now the stuff of rock legend, and his post-Floyd recordings have become cult classics. Revised in 2006, this book draws on years on research to relate the story of an epic rock tragedy.