Cada periodista musical, cada crítico, cada aficionado, seguro que tiene elaborada su propia lista de discos preferidos. De Bob Dylan a los Sex Pistols, de Led Zeppelin a Bruce Springsteen, todos guardamos nuestros discos más estimados en...
Durante un par de años, desde 1964 a 1966, los Animals estuvieron al mismo nivel artístico y comercial que los Beatles y los Rolling Stones. El grupo, liderado por Eric Burdon, consiguió transmitir su pasión por el R&B al...
The tale of a Coney Island street gang who, framed for murder, have to make the perilous journey back to home turf across the terrain of rival crews out for revenge, it caused a sensation when it hit the theaters in early 1979. Despite a low budget, an...
THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF CORONATION STREET NOW IN PAPERBACK. Coronation Street was reluctantly commissioned in 1960 as a twice-weekly stop-gap until a new programme could be found to fill its airtime. Half a century later, the gritty working class serial...
The story of Eric Burdon and The Animals is the story of the Sixties. The original Animals were part of the British rhythm 'n' blues movement in the early years of that momentous decade - a movement whose love of a musical genre almost forgotten...
In The Clash: The Only Band That Matters , respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clashâs career and art through the prism of the uniquely interesting and fractious UK politics of the Seventies and Eighties, without which they...
THE ESSENTIAL STONES COMPANION.The Rolling Stones are still going strong after five decades. The Utmost Guide to The Rolling Stones leaves no stone unturned in exploring all aspects of the tumultuous career of The Greatest Rock ânâ...
Some albums are so extraordinary that they influence generations of aspiring artists and even redefine entire genres. Such a description applies to Are You Experienced.In this revelatory book, now UPDATED AND EXPANDED, Sean Egan tells the story of the...
James Kirkwood is the forgotten man of American lettersIn 1975, he had two shows playing on Broadway, while his latest novel Some Kind of Hero saw reviewers comparing him to Saul Bellow and Joseph Heller. One of those shows - A Chorus Line - won him a...
*Author is the maintainer of Gaim; and provides excellent insight into the application *Practice building and extending Gaim, while learning GTK toolkit and network protocols
Leiber & Stoller. Mann & Weil. Greenwich & Barry. Bobby Hart. Chip Taylor. Holland-Dozier-Holland. Tony Macaulay. Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Few would recognise them in the street but their melodies and lyrics are embedded in the minds of...
Sick of Being Me is the alternately exhilarating and harrowing story of guitarist Paul Hazelwood, from his childhood on a London council estate, where he nurtures his dreams of stardom, to his agonising realisation on the cusp of his thirties that talent...