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The Sensational Alex Harvey

Author : John Neil Munro
Publisher : Birlinn Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781846970887
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Sensational Alex Harvey written by John Neil Munro and published by Birlinn Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer -- charismatic, provocative and intense. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band eventually became one of the most exciting live acts of the 1970s --taking in Jacques Brel, rock and vaudeville. But Harvey's life offstage was beset by tragedy and his own alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash. Eventually with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack whilst waiting for a ferry home from a gig in Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday. "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were one of the craziest, most honest, most creative and most courageous bands of their time . . . [Harvey] would go to any length to enlighten and to entertain." --NME "Alex was cheeky. Special. Very charismatic. A naughty boy who didn't want to grow up.'" --RICHARD O'BRIEN (Rocky Horror Show) "I would have died to have had Alex Harvey as an uncle." --Robert Smith, The Cure

The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio: A Memoir

Author : John Gorman
Publisher : Gray & Company
ISBN 13 : 1598510517
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of WMMS and Cleveland Rock Radio: A Memoir written by John Gorman and published by Gray & Company. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of Cleveland's WMMS radio station from 1973 to 1986, exploring how the station helped recreate rockradio and the city of Cleveland by showcasing new, influential musicians and inspiring listeners.

Chris Glen

Author : Chris Glen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781326982751
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Chris Glen written by Chris Glen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotsman Chris Glen found fame in 1972 when his band Tear Gas united with an established Glaswegian rock star to become The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. He went on to work with Michael Schenker, Ian Gillan, John Martyn and many others - and made a point of living every experience open to the bona fide rock star over the past five decades. This is Chris Glen's story in his own words. Co-written with author, rock journalist, musician and former colleague Martin Kielty. Foreword by Eric Singer of Kiss.

The Sensational Alex Harvey

Author : John Neil Munro
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901524
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Sensational Alex Harvey written by John Neil Munro and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow-born Alex Harvey's career began in the 1950s when he won a competition to become Scotland's answer to Tommy Steele (he dubbed himself 'Last of the Teenage Idols'). He was a devoted family man but in front of an audience he became an unforgettable entertainer - courageous, provocative and intense. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band eventually became one of the most exciting live acts of the 1970s, taking in Jacques Brel, rock and vaudeville. But Harvey's life offstage was beset by tragedy and alcoholism: his younger brother, Les, was electrocuted on stage; his manager and friend Billy Fehilly was killed in a plane crash; eventually, with his band in tatters, Alex sank into a sea of alcohol, finally succumbing to a fatal heart attack while waiting for a ferry home from Belgium in 1982, the day before his 47th birthday.

The Beatstalkers

Author : Martin Kielty
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244949077
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book The Beatstalkers written by Martin Kielty and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started in the early 1960s in a Glasgow school, moved to a secret makeshift bedroom in a factory and ended with a stolen van on a London street in 1968. But between those events lay hundreds of concerts, gang warfare, fan hysteria including a riot involving 7000 people, work with David Bowie - and a single that was a hit but went unrecognised. This is the story of The Beatstalkers - Scotland's number one beat group. Dave Lennox, Alan Mair, Ronnie Smith, Eddie Campbell and Jeff Allen were national heroes by their teenage years. They lived and played through Glasgow's No Mean City era and gathered the bruises to show for it. They pioneered an approach to music that set them on the road to fame and fortune. MARTIN KIELTY is author of 17 books, with three in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Permanent Collection. He's a magazine journalist, TV and radio presenter, former band manager and drummer.

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Author : Harry Harrison
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466822732
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Bill, the Galactic Hero written by Harry Harrison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The funniest science fiction book ever written” is a space military parody about a hapless soldier from a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee (Terry Pratchett, New York Times–bestselling author of the Discworld novels). It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn’t interested in honour—he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse . . . Praise for Harry Harrison “A perfectly grand storyteller.” —David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Star Tide Rising “Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison, a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights.” —Publishers Weekly

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Author : Jonathan Safran Foer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618329700
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close written by Jonathan Safran Foer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.

Stranger Than Kindness

Author : Nick Cave
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852255
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Stranger Than Kindness written by Nick Cave and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke. Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit. The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. The images were selected from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in June 2020.

The Cultural Revolution on Trial

Author : Alexander C. Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761115
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Revolution on Trial written by Alexander C. Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Indictment -- Monsters -- Testimony -- Emotions -- Verdict -- Vanity -- Conclusion -- Index of Chinese terms

Shock and Awe

Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062279815
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Shock and Awe written by Simon Reynolds and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR Great Read of 2016 From the acclaimed author of Rip It Upand Start Again and Retromania—“the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)—comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop. Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late Sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early Seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider Seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre’s major themes—stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse—Reynolds tracks glam’s legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from Eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists’ obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.

Boy on Fire

Author : Mark Mordue
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 183895371X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Boy on Fire written by Mark Mordue and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become. A powerful account of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is also a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark rivers and ghost gums of country-town Australia to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and manic energy of the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb. Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement.

Genius, Isolated

Author : Dean Mullaney
Publisher : Library of American Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781600108280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Genius, Isolated written by Dean Mullaney and published by Library of American Comics. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the artist's life and explores his career as a cartoonist and comic book illustrator with such publishing houses as Western, Dell, and National Periodicals, along with a compilation of some of his work.

The Sacred Art of Stealing

Author : Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146775
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Art of Stealing written by Christopher Brookmyre and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Glasgow bank heist turns into an unlikely meet-cute for a disgruntled female cop in this hilarious crime novel by the master of tartan noir. Their eyes met across a crowded room. It was a room crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and Zal’s eyes were the only part of him that Angelique could see behind his mask. Officer Angelique de Xavia already had enough to be upset about before she’s taken hostage by the most bizarrely unorthodox crooks ever to set foot in Glasgow. Disillusioned, disaffected and chronically single, she’s starting to take stock of the sacrifices she’s made for a job that’s given her back nothing but grief. So when her erstwhile captor has the chutzpah to phone her at work and ask her out on a date, Angelique finds herself in no great hurry to turn him in. She’s long since learned that the cops will never love her back. But maybe one of the robbers will.

A Promoter's Tale

Author : Geoff Docherty
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781480060326
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book A Promoter's Tale written by Geoff Docherty and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He promoted them all: The Who, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Yes, Free, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, The Nice and scores more. Acts that didn't usually play in the North-East played for Geoff Docherty. And this is his incredible story in his own words At The Bay Hotel in Sunderland, Geoff 'Doc of The Bay' Docherty progressed from being doorman and bouncer to self-appointed promoter with a style all of his own. After an upbringing marked by hardship and countless street fights, he brought self-belief and steely determination to getting the big stars to play on his local patch. Sometimes they were on the way up. Sometimes they were already big. Sometimes they didn't show at all. But Docherty was always optimistic, always resolute and always driven by an innate sense of fair play - and he always paid in cash. Rock At The Sharp End - A Promoter's Tale is a unique star-filled memoir of a street-fighting man who became an unforgettable promoter. In the process he also became a folk-hero in his native North-East and one of British rock's most colourful legends.

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Author : Rob Nixon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424799X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor written by Rob Nixon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Groundbreaking in its call to reconsider our approach to the slow rhythm of time in the very concrete realms of environmental health and social justice.” —Wold Literature Today The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, Rob Nixon focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle-driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence, because it is so readily ignored by a hard-charging capitalism, exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and of people who are poor, disempowered, and often involuntarily displaced, while fueling social conflicts that arise from desperation as life-sustaining conditions erode. In a book of extraordinary scope, Nixon examines a cluster of writer-activists affiliated with the environmentalism of the poor in the global South. By approaching environmental justice literature from this transnational perspective, he exposes the limitations of the national and local frames that dominate environmental writing. And by skillfully illuminating the strategies these writer-activists deploy to give dramatic visibility to environmental emergencies, Nixon invites his readers to engage with some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

The Best of The Sensational Alex Harvey

Author : Alex Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Best of The Sensational Alex Harvey written by Alex Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mercury

Author : Lesley-Ann Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451663951
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Mercury written by Lesley-Ann Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and Queen a household name. The author, a rock journalist, conducted more than a hundred interviews with key figures in Mercury's life, to offer this account of one man's legendary life in the spotlight and behind the scenes.