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Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons

Author : Penny Valentine
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466878215
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Dusty Springfield: Dancing with Demons written by Penny Valentine and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dusty Springfield led a tragic yet inspiring life, battling her way to the top of the charts and into the hearts of music fans world-wide. Her signature voice made songs such as "I Only Want to Be with You," "Son of a Preacher Man," and "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me," international hits. In Dancing with Demons, two of her closest friends, Valentine and Wickham, capture, with vivid memories and personal anecdotes, a Dusty most people never glimpsed in this no-holds-barred yet touching portrait of one of the world's true grand dames of popular music.

The Complete Dusty Springfield

Author : Paul Howes
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1781165408
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Dusty Springfield written by Paul Howes and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on meticulous archive research and interviews with Dusty's friends and collaborators, Paul Howes details every song in Dusty's entire catalogue. This revised edition of The Complete Dusty Springfield includes new chapters on the Lana Sisters and the Springfields, expanded entries on Dusty's solo tracks and an in-depth analysis of Dusty's live work for TV and radio.

Dusty

Author : Lucy O'Brien
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1789291577
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Dusty written by Lucy O'Brien and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED, THE STORY OF DUSTY SPRINGFIELD TWENTY YEARS ON.

In the City

Author : Paul Du Noyer
Publisher : Virgin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the City written by Paul Du Noyer and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "London s music is as important as its landmarks. It is the city of immigrant music, West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones, all of whom transformed the city and were in turn transformed by it. In this fascinating history of the city's popular music, Paul Du Noyer, critically-acclaimed music writer and founding editor of Mojo, explores London's native talent, from No l Coward and David Bowie to the Sex Pistols and Amy Winehouse. He covers too the London visits of international artists such as Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, who also felt the city's influence. From Elizabethan traders and public execution songs, to The Beggar's Opera and East End music halls, right up to modern-day troubadours such as Dizzee Rascal and Lily Allen, he charts the rich musical inheritance of London and the many styles and characters that have helped to define the city's music over the years. This captivating book will appeal to residents, visitors and exiles alike, as well as lovers of popular culture, social history and music. Above all, it is a celebration of the city packed with stories of the people and places that have made L

Dusty!

Author : Annie J. Randall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199716307
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Dusty! written by Annie J. Randall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the "White Queen of Soul," singer Dusty Springfield became the first British soloist to break into the U.S. Top Ten music charts with her 1964 hit "I Only Want To Be With You"--a pop classic followed by many others, including "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "Son of a Preacher Man." Today she is usually placed within the history of the Beatles-led "British Invasion" or seen as a devoted acolyte of Motown. In this penetrating look at her music and career, Annie J. Randall shows how Springfield's contributions transcend the narrow limits of those descriptions and how this middle-class former convent girl became perhaps the unlikeliest of artists to achieve soul credibility on both sides of the Atlantic. Randall reevaluates Springfield's place in sixties popular music through close investigation of her performances as well as interviews with her friends, peers, professional associates, and longtime fans. As the author notes, the singer's unique look--blonde beehive wigs and heavy black mascara--became iconic of the mid-sixties postmodern moment in which identity scrambling and camp pastiche were the norms in swinging London's pop culture. Randall places Springfield within this rich cultural context, focusing on the years from 1964 to 1968, when she recorded her biggest international hits and was a constant presence on British television. The book pays special attention to Springfield's close collaboration and friendship with American gospel singer Madeline Bell, the distinctive way Springfield combined US soul and European melodrama to achieve her own musical style and stage presence, and how her camp sensibility figured as a key element of her artistry.

Dusty

Author : Karen Bartlett
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849547637
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Dusty written by Karen Bartlett and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century. Never one to be shy of the spotlight, Dusty broke the mould as the first female entertainer to publicly admit she was bisexual, and was famously deported from South Africa for refusing to play to segregated audiences during apartheid in 1964, just a year after the launch of her solo career. Combining brand-new material, meticulous research and frank interviews with friends, lovers, employees and confidants, journalist Karen Bartlett reveals sensational new details about the soul diva's unconventional upbringing, tumultuous relationships and unbridled addictions, including a lifelong struggle to come to terms with her sexuality. Named one of the Sunday Times's best musical biographies of 2014, this is the intimate portrait of an immensely complicated and talented woman - the definitive account of one of music's most legendary figures.

Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis

Author : Warren Zanes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826414923
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis written by Warren Zanes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the album's Memphis roots and talks to several of the key characters who were involved in its creation; many of whom were - like Zanes - outsiders drawn to the American South and mesmerized by its hold over the imagination. EXCERPT The love that is the subject of 'Dusty in Memphis' is different from the love of her earlier songs: it is a love that is all at once diffuse, dark, unpredictable, ecstatic, and a terrible deal. It is a love too big for the lyrical (and for that matter musical) framework of Dusty's earlier pop productions, no matter the breadth of that work. Like Memphis itself, the love that is the subject of 'Dusty in Memphis' is indeed bursting with the contrary: it happens not simply when you yearn for it, as in some adolescent dream, but when you're not prepared for it; it reveals itself not simply under the star-filled skies where a moon hangs low--in fact, as the first and last tracks on side one attest, it might be at its best when the sun's just arriving at work.

Anti Diva

Author : Carole Pope
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 1039010474
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Anti Diva written by Carole Pope and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the diva and anti-diva in all of us, and here she offers a no-holds-barred look at her adventures in the music scene – on the concert stage, in the recording studio, and in the bedroom. Known for ushering Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave sound of the 1980s with Rough Trade, she candidly shares her thoughts on AIDS, sexuality and sexual politics, and the new breed of music divas that dominates the charts today.

Just Around Midnight

Author : Jack Hamilton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674416597
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Just Around Midnight written by Jack Hamilton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become “white”? Just around Midnight reveals the interplay of popular music and racial thought that was responsible for this shift within the music industry and in the minds of fans. Rooted in rhythm-and-blues pioneered by black musicians, 1950s rock and roll was racially inclusive and attracted listeners and performers across the color line. In the 1960s, however, rock and roll gave way to rock: a new musical ideal regarded as more serious, more artistic—and the province of white musicians. Decoding the racial discourses that have distorted standard histories of rock music, Jack Hamilton underscores how ideas of “authenticity” have blinded us to rock’s inextricably interracial artistic enterprise. According to the standard storyline, the authentic white musician was guided by an individual creative vision, whereas black musicians were deemed authentic only when they stayed true to black tradition. Serious rock became white because only white musicians could be original without being accused of betraying their race. Juxtaposing Sam Cooke and Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and many others, Hamilton challenges the racial categories that oversimplified the sixties revolution and provides a deeper appreciation of the twists and turns that kept the music alive.

Anyone Who Had a Heart

Author : Burt Bacharach
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062206087
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Anyone Who Had a Heart written by Burt Bacharach and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest songwriters of all time finally shares his story. From his tumultuous marriages and the tragic loss of his daughter to his collaborations with Dionne Warwick and the surprising stories behind the songs that generations have come to know and love, Burt Bacharach offers a frank, moving account of an unparalleled life. Over the past six decades, Burt Bacharach's legendary songwriting has touched millions of devoted listeners all over the world. In Anyone Who Had a Heart, Bacharach steps out from behind the music to give an honest, engaging look at his life—from his childhood in Forest Hills, New York, during the 1930s and 1940s to his rise as one of the most accomplished composers in modern popular music, working with Hal David, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, and many others. While he soared professionally, Bacharach's private life was dominated by the never-ending search for love—and the heartbreak that comes when it is lost. His first three marriages ended in divorce. His long-running partnership with the late Hal David suffered a bitter split that lasted seventeen years. Throughout the highs and lows, Bacharach pursued his muse. Powerful and honest, Anyone Who Had a Heart illuminates the sensitivity and intelligence of a musical legend and offers a unique backstage look at the world of show business.

Memphis Boys

Author : Roben Jones
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604734027
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Memphis Boys written by Roben Jones and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis Boys chronicles the story of the rhythm section at Chips Moman's American Studios from 1964, when the group began working together, until 1972, when Moman shut down the studio and moved the entire operation to Atlanta. Utilizing extensive interviews with Moman and the group, as well as additional comments from the songwriters, sound engineers, and office staff, author Roben Jones creates a collective biography combined with a business history and a critical analysis of important recordings. She reveals how the personalities of the core group meshed, how they regarded newcomers, and how their personal and musical philosophies blended with Moman's vision to create timeless music based on themes of suffering and sorrow. Recording sessions with Elvis Presley, the Gentrys, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, the Box Tops, Joe Tex, Neil Diamond, B. J. Thomas, Dionne Warwick, and many others come alive in this book. Jones provides the stories behind memorable songs composed by group writers, such as "The Letter," "Dark End of the Street," "Do Right Woman," "Breakfast in Bed," and "You Were Always on My Mind." Featuring photographs, personal profiles, and a suggested listening section, Memphis Boys details a significant phase of American music and the impact of one studio.

Dusty Springfield

Author : Laurence Cole
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dusty Springfield written by Laurence Cole and published by Libri Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dusty Springfield - in the middle of nowhere deals with the idea of Dusty Springfield as cultural icon - partly promoted by the woman who went by that name, partly interpreted down the years by newspapers, magazines, television, books, websites and, of course, by the author." "The book describes the cultural reception of Dusty Springfield when she was alive and since her death. What has been said and written about her music, appearance and celebrity is reviewed with the intention of building a picture of her place in Anglo-American culture. Although neither history nor biography in any conventional sense, the book may be viewed as containing historical and biographical features, as it narrates a life-in-text across nearly half a century. The writing also sets Dusty against the musical and social background of her times, and provides theoretical perspectives against which to discuss her artistry." "This is the first book-length study of Dusty Springfield's contribution to popular culture in terms of race, gender or sexuality, and will appeal not only to Dusty fans but also to readers with a general interest in popular music or cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Madonna

Author : Lucy O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062939475
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Madonna written by Lucy O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons. Here is the groundbreaking biography that finally solves the mystery at the heart of Madonna's chameleonlike existence. Drawing upon scores of candid interviews with producers, musicians, collaborators, lovers, and friends, Lucy O'Brien's Madonna: Like an Icon explores the complex personality and legendary drive that have made Madonna the most famous female pop artist of our time. From her mother's premature death to Madonna's dynamic arrival on the New York club scene, from "Like a Virgin" to Evita and beyond, every stage of this dazzling star's life and career is brilliantly illuminated—the stereotypes deconstructed, the lies exposed, the artist examined, the legend celebrated.

The Queer Sixties

Author : Patricia Juliana Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136683615
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Queer Sixties written by Patricia Juliana Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful and powerful collection rescues the persistence of the queer imaginary.

Traps, the Drum Wonder

Author : Mel Tormé
Publisher : Rebeats Press
ISBN 13 : 9781888408034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Traps, the Drum Wonder written by Mel Tormé and published by Rebeats Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Now back in print, this bestseller by Mel Torme is a brilliant biography of his friend of forty years, Buddy Rich, who was one of the most famous drummers of the Swing Era, having starred in the Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey bands. His career started when he was two years old in his parents' Vaudeville act, and by the time he was four he was the highest paid child performer in the world. The Buddy Rich story is a fascinating one, as much for what it says about the world of American music and entertainment as for the remarkable life it portrays. Drawing from interviews and many personal reminiscences, Torme packs this biography with vivid, often funny, anecdotes. His personal touch and his in-depth knowledge of jazz make for a moving, insightful, and often hilarious biography. 233 pages, 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 Softcover

From the Closet to the Screen

Author : Jill Gardiner
Publisher : Pandora Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book From the Closet to the Screen written by Jill Gardiner and published by Pandora Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s the Gateways Club was known as 'the' lesbian club in London. In her portrait of the club, Gardiner also gives us a social history of lesbian lives, loves and mores, from a cloistered secret in the 1950s and 1960s, to a battleground between feminists and traditionalists in the 1970s.

She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music

Author : Laurie Stras
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351548743
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book She's So Fine: Reflections on Whiteness, Femininity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music written by Laurie Stras and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film and media studies, and cultural studies, this volume is the first interdisciplinary work to link close musical readings with rigorous cultural analysis in the treatment of artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Crystals, The Blossoms, Brenda Lee, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Tina Turner, and Marianne Faithfull. Currently available studies of 1960s girl groups/girl singers fall into one of three categories: industry-generated accounts of the music's production and sales, sociological commentaries, or omnibus chronologies/discographies. She's So Fine, by contrast, focuses on clearly defined themes via case studies of selected artists. Within this analytical rather than historically comprehensive framework, this book presents new research and original observations on the 60s girl group/girl singer phenomenon.