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Author : Ray Davies
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Sunset written by Ray Davies and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2000-02-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative force behind the '60s superband, The Kinks, offers his debut collection of short stories.
Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950540
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Sunset written by Martin Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edwards skillfully weaves the strands together [in] this twisty whodunit." —Publishers Weekly This atmospheric, fast-moving and intricate thriller features Harry Devlin, one of modern crime fiction's most memorable amateur detectives, in the deadliest case of his life. A notice announcing that Harry Devlin died suddenly on Midsummer's Eve arrives at the office of his law firm one June day. Harry isn't happy to read it: Midsummer's Eve is less than a week away. His partner Jim Crusoe treats the message as a joke, but Harry isn't so sure. Meanwhile, young women are being murdered in Harry's home city of Liverpool. When a friend who has asked to meet him becomes the latest victim, Harry becomes a suspect. He's soon fighting for survival on two fronts. Even as he unravels the shocking secret behind the murders, Harry must discover and confront the enemy who wants him dead if he is to live to see Midsummer's Day.
Author : Jan Dalley
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1473670470
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Life of a Song written by Jan Dalley and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful weekly The Life of a Song columns that appear in the FT Weekend every Saturday. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form (often a spiritual, or a jazz number), through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. The selection covers a wide spectrum of the songs we all know and love - rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.
Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144565086X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Station Through Time Revised Edition written by John Christopher and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Waterloo Station illustrated through old and modern pictures in a fully updated edition.
Author : Robert Lordan
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785008692
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Station written by Robert Lordan and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years old, has a rich and fascinating history to discover. This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day. With over 160 archive and contemporary photographs, it includes: Waterloo's precursor, Nine Elms; the expansion and chaos that occurred in the late nineteenth century; how Waterloo fared during the two World Wars and the Necropolis Railway which, for almost ninety years, conveyed coffins to Brookwood Cemetery. The curious satellite station, Waterloo East, is covered along with the Waterloo and City line link to the capital's financial heart. There is the story behind London's first Eurostar terminal and the station's impact on popular culture, including literature, film, television, art and music. Finally, there is a revealing insight into what lies beneath the station, in the vast, cavernous area that the public never get to see.....
Author : John Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223793
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Sunrise written by John Davis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an urban history of London during the pivotal years of the 1960s and 1970s, when the metropolis was transformed from an industrial city that the Victorians might have recognised to an embryonic modern 'world city.' Previous work on London in these years has tended to focus upon the 1960s -in particular the 'Swinging London' phenomenon. Mary Quant, Carnaby Street and the King's Road, Chelsea, all appear in these pages, but it is argued that the 'swinging moment' of the mid-sixties was a passing symptom of a much broader transformation from an industrial to a service-based city, and it is that transformation which this book examines. London is too complex and diverse a city to be comprehended in a simple linear narrative; this book adopts instead an innovative approach to urban history, by which London life and London's transformation are examined through a number of case studies looking at specific themes and areas of the city. Consumerism and the 'experience economy', home ownership and gentrification, deindustrialisation and deprivation, racial tension and unemployment, the attrition of public services and the steady loss of confidence in public agencies - national and local - emerge as overarching themes from the individual case studies in this book. Their combined effect, it is argued, was to prepare the ground for the Britain that Margaret Thatcher is usually held to have created after 1979 - without Thatcher herself having anything to do it"--
Author : Dan Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Sunset at the Hayward Gallery written by Dan Graham and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749013966
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Waterloo Sunset written by Martin Edwards and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN MEMORY Harry Devlin Died Suddenly Liverpool Midsummer's Eve No one expects to read their own obituary. Liverpool lawyer Harry Devlin never knew five short lines could be so menacing - someone wants him dead and he's only got seven days to find the killer. When the mutilated corpse of a young woman washes up on Waterloo Beach, Harry wonders if the premature notice of his demise and the discovery of a dead girl might be connected. Now he's only got six days...
Author : Doug Hinman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879307653
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Kinks written by Doug Hinman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tracks every move in the Kinks' career. With the help of band members, Doug Hinman has reconstructed their meteoric rise to fame in the early 60s through its dissolution and revival in the 70s, stadium success in the 80s, and an apparently final breakdown in the late 90s
Author : Rodney J Croft
Publisher : Croft Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843963329
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Churchill's Final Farewell written by Rodney J Croft and published by Croft Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated account of one of British history's great national events is the first ever published having as its sole subject the state and private funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Significantly, 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Churchill's death and it is 120 years since the death of Churchill's father, Lord Randolph, who died on 24 January 1895. The year 2015 is also the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in which Churchill played such a pivotal and dynamic role. The book covers all aspects of Operation Hope Not - the codename for the arrangements for Churchill's state funeral - the details of which only made available to the public in 1996 under the 30-year official secrets rule. The author was given access to archive papers at Arundel Castle; the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge; the National Archives at Kew; and the College of Arms in London. In 2013 he interviewed The 11th Duke of Marlborough - who, as the Marquis of Blandford, greeted and then accompanied the mourners after the service at St. Paul's Cathedral; on the funeral train to Hanborough; then on to St. Martin's Church, Bladon, where Churchill's burial took place. The author also interviewed in 2013 the Countess of Avon, Churchill's niece, who attended the funeral, and Mrs. Minnie Churchill, who attended Churchill's Lying-in-State and is the mother of Churchill's living heir, Randolph Churchill - Winston Churchill's great-grandson.'Churchill's Final Farewell' also explains aspects of state and ceremonial funerals, together with details of that of Churchill; the reasons for Waterloo Station, not Paddington, being chosen as the departure point to Bladon, where Churchill lies, and the story of his interment there. There are also particulars of some rather special champagne served on the funeral train with a personal message from Winston - stories that the 16th Duke of Norfolk, The Earl Marshall of England (responsible for all the arrangements for Operation Hope Not) told his close friend, the great English bowler Alec Bedser.
Author : Nick Hasted
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857129910
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks written by Nick Hasted and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Really Got Me is Nick Hasted’s illuminating biography of The Kinks, drawing on years of in-depth interviews with Ray and Dave Davies and shedding new light on a turbulent 30-year career scarred by suicide attempts, on-stage fights and recurring mental breakdowns. The Kinks’ distorted fuzz cut through popular music like a chainsaw and unexpectedly propelled two brothers from North London straight to the heights of stardom, to stand alongside The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. With exclusive interviews Nick Hasted untangles this turbulence: Why The Kinks became the only British group to be banned from America at the height of their success; why original bassist Pete Quaife quit in 1968; Ray Davies’ fraught relationship with Chrissie Hynde; how The Kinks’ later years rehabilitated their reputation in America. Updated to include details of the hit musical Sunny Afternoon and an up-to-the-minute report on the troubled relationship between the Davies brothers, You Really Got Me is the ultimate Kinks biography. “Keen eyed critique of a most contrary band” Uncut “Hasted is illuminating” Guardian
Author : Eric Weisbard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013216
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (132 download)
Download or read book This is Pop written by Eric Weisbard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is an inquiry that crosses stylistic categories of pop music and writing pop music.
Author : Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113586795X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Ray Davies written by Thomas M. Kitts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else is a critical biography of Ray Davies, with a focus on his music and his times. The book studies Davies’ work from the Kinks’ first singles through his 2006 solo album, from his rock musicals in the early 1970s to his one-man stage show in the 1990s, and from his films to his autobiography. Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date. Kitts situates Davies’ work in the context of the British Invasion and the growth of rock in the '60s and '70s, and in the larger context of English cultural history. For fans of rock music and the music of the Kinks, this book is a must have. It will finally place this legendary innovator in the pantheon of the great rock artists of the past half-century. Thomas M. Kitts, Professor of English and Chair of the Division of English/Speech at St. John’s University, NY, is the co-editor of Living on a Thin Line: Crossing Aesthetic Borders with The Kinks, the author of The Theatrical Life of George Henry Boker, articles on American literature and popular culture, reviews of books, CDs, and performances, and a play Gypsies. He is the book review editor of Popular Music and Society and the editor of The Mid-Atlantic Almanack.
Author : John Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315294672
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Davies and Penhall's Sunny Afternoon written by John Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ‘You Really Got Me’ exploded on Swinging London in 1964, the Kinks forever changed the course of rock ’n’ roll. Ray Davies and Joe Penhall’s Olivier Award-winning Sunny Afternoon (2014) covers the band’s formative years of 1964–7, when four working- class North London lads broke through to become one of the most unlikely and influential rock bands of the 1960s. Mixing the comic adventures of ‘Dave the Rave’ with the touching introspection of Ray’s sometimes fragile psyche, Joe Penhall’s script weaves Ray Davies’ songs, both the hits and lesser-known works, into one of the finest jukebox musicals of the new millennium. Drawing on a wealth of background material, John Fleming examines the blend of events and songs selected, reconsidering the relationship between biography and drama to shed new light on the Kinks and the musical that tells their story.
Author : Carey Fleiner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144223542X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Kinks written by Carey Fleiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the same British music boom that birthed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Dave and Ray Davies’s band, the Kinks, became one of England’s most influential groups. Remembered best for such singles as “You Really Got Me,” “Lola,” and “Sunny Afternoon,” the Kinks produced 24 studio albums between 1964 and 1996. The Kinks’ prolific and varied catalog have made them both a mirror of and a counterfoil to nearly five decades of British and American culture. The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon examines the music and performance of this quintessentially English band and shows how aspects of everyday life such as work, play, buying a house, driving a car, drinking tea, getting drunk, and getting laid, affected and shaped their creative output. Through an investigation of their music, lyrics, and image, Carey Fleiner shows how the Kinks reflected both the ordinary and the absurd, sometimes confronting topics with anger and sometimes with self-deprecating humor. The Kinks follows the band’s trajectory more or less chronologically and explores themes such as growing up in post-war Britain, the packaging and exploitation of the “British Invasion” bands, satire and self-consciousness, sexuality and gender-bending, social and political pessimism, the comforts of family, and the effects of fame and fandom. Fleiner’s investigation into the influences on and impact of the Kinks’ music takes readers on an engaging adventure through the musical culture of the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, revealing how the Kinks created an undeniable sound and image that still attracts new followers today.
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473857112
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book British Steam Sunset written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a selection of pictures he took around the country in British steam's final years.British Railways withdrew their last steam engines with almost indecent haste in the mid- to late–1960s, many having seen only a few years' service before consignment to the scrapheap. Jim's pictures graphically show how not only the locomotives themselves were neglected in their final years, but also their working environment. Their motive power depots were also badly run down, particularly when slated for closure upon steam's demise.Most of Jim's pictures of steam locomotives, taken fifty years ago, are previously unpublished. In BR steam's last two years, they were based in two distinctly different areas on the London & South Western main line, and in the industrial north. However, their decline was just as sad and depressing in both areas once proud depots such as London's Nine Elms, with broken windows and roof open to the sky, not repaired after wartime, piles of ash and clinker everywhere, were just as derelict as those in such places as Wigan or Sunderland. Many scenes herein invoke the sad, eerie atmosphere of steam's last months.Ironically, it was London Transport who operated the last publicly-owned standard gauge steam locomotives in 1971, some three years after BR's had gone. These are included within these pages too.
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book London Underground written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
