Rock Star Syndrome
Rock Star Syndrome

Author: Pamela Harju

Publisher: Pamela Harju

Published: 2023-10-12

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13:

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Shae Kinnon always knew his role as the frontman of glam rock band Spicy Hyena came with rules, but he didn’t know it meant losing himself. Shae is everything Robert Courtenay is not – unattainable, beguiling and mysterious with looks and a voice to die for. In Shae, Robert created the perfect rock star and fulfilled his lifelong dream of creating a successful rock act. After four years, Shae is done with being Robert's puppet. He is lonely, homesick and tired of pretending to be someone he is not. When Shae falls in love, he sees his chance to break free, but a public romance threatens everything Robert has built over the years, and Robert is not ready to let go yet... Rock Star Syndrome is a dazzling portrayal of life in a manufactured band by award-winning musical fiction author Pamela Harju.

British Progressive Pop 1970-1980
British Progressive Pop 1970-1980

Author: Andy Bennett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1501336649

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Positioned between the psychedelic and counter-cultural music of the late 1960s and the punk and new wave styles of the late 1970s, early 1970s British popular music is often overlooked in pop music studies of the late 20th century, but it was, in fact, highly diverse with many artists displaying an eclecticism and flair for musical experimentation. 'Progressive pop' artists such as Roxy Music, David Bowie, the early Queen, the Electric Light Orchestra, 10cc and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel successfully straddled the album and singles markets, producing music that often drew on a variety of different musical styles and traditions. Similarly, such artists often set new benchmarks for songwriting and production, utilizing the full potential of the rapidly expanding studio technology of the era to produce albums of highly diverse material featuring, in some cases, special studio-crafted effects and soundscapes that remain unique to this day. This book considers the significance of British progressive pop in the early 1970s as a period during which the boundaries between pop and rock were periodically relaxed, providing a platform for musical creativity less confined by genre and branding.

Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll

Author: Joe Stuessy

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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This interesting book presents a history of rock and roll from its roots through its current trends. It gives a comprehensive analytical insight into the various musical styles of rock, providing thorough historical detail and discussing the social context of each style as it developed, from the early 1950s through the 60s, 70s, 80s, and today. Giving comprehensive historical detail and social context, this book places special emphasis on rock as a musical style, dealing with each parameter of music (rhythm, harmony, melody, form, and texture) as it applies to rock music. It covers such topics as the roots of rock, rock and roll as an emerging force, the Fifties, the Sixties, the Beatles, the British Invasion, folk music and folk rock, soul and Motown, San Francisco, jazz and art rock, the Seventies, the Eighties, and recent trends and developments. For anyone interested in a comprehensive book about the history of rock and roll, including those in the music industry, such as disc jockeys, rock music writers, and promoters.

DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews
DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews

Author: Frank Alkyer

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781423463849

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Collects interviews from DownBeat's seventy-five year history, including conversations with Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Joe Zawinul.

There Goes Gravity
There Goes Gravity

Author: Lisa Robinson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1594632952

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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music—including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z, and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home. She spent hours talking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment—and in recording studios just weeks before his murder. She introduced David Bowie to Lou Reed at a private dinner in a Manhattan restaurant, helped the Clash and Elvis Costello get their record deals, was with the Rolling Stones on their jet during a frightening storm, and was mid-flight with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. A pioneering female journalist in an exclusive boys’ club, Lisa Robinson is a preeminent authority on the personalities and influences that have shaped the music world; she has been recognized as rock journalism’s ultimate insider. A keenly observed and lovingly recounted look back on years spent with countless musicians backstage, after-hours, and on the road, There Goes Gravity documents a lifetime of riveting stories, told together here for the first time.

Shadow on the Mountain
Shadow on the Mountain

Author: Stephen Singular

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1250069416

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Chronicles the life and subsequent murder of Nancy Pfister, Aspen royalty and heir to Buttermilk Mountain. When Nancy was found beaten to death in her own home, the her assistant and another couple close to her fell under suspicion for the gruesome murder. In the close-knit, wealthy town set on keeping its reputation and secrets safe from the public eye, the police struggled to solve the mystery of what really happened.

Direct Selling 101
Direct Selling 101

Author: Vicki Fitch

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1642790087

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“Brilliantly blend[s] all the principles of building a business with common sense [and] insightful analogies.” —Joel Comm, New York Times–bestselling author of The Fun Formula The most potentially lucrative job in the world with the lowest barrier to entry is the direct sales industry—and this first book in Vicki Fitch’s series is designed to not only reveal the how-to of the direct sales industry, but how to do it profitably without losing who you are or your priorities in the process. Vicki’s fun analogies and focused understanding of how to make money in this industry is broken down into simple steps that make it not only doable but simple to achieve success. With Direct Selling 101, gain confidence in who you are while increasing your sales, scheduling more and better customer meetings, and recruiting a team while living the life of your dreams.

Billy and The Joels - The American rock star and his German family story (eBook)
Billy and The Joels - The American rock star and his German family story (eBook)

Author: Steffen Radlmaier

Publisher: ars vivendi Verlag

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3869133422

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In the 1920s, Karl Amson Joel and his wife Meta founded a mail-order linen goods company in Nuremberg, Germany. The business flourished, and it could have turned out to be a picture-book success story, were it not for the coming to power of Adolf Hitler. To escape the Nazis, the Jewish couple and their son Helmut fled first to Berlin and then on to Switzerland. The linen goods company was snapped up by department-store 'king' Josef Neckermann at basement price. A further hazardous journey then took the Joels to Cuba and, finally, to New York. Helmut married a young girl from Brooklyn and, in 1949, she gave birth to their son William Martin, known as 'Billy'. When the marriage fell apart, Helmut returned alone to Germany, re-married and had a second son, Alexander, now an internationally sought-after conductor. Billy Joel is one of the most successful solo artists in the world of international pop music, having sold over 100 million albums. His daughter Alexa Ray has also carved out a career for herself in music. In order to write this extensive biography, Steffen Radlmaier not only researched archives and analyzed specialist literature and interviews, over a period of many years he also conducted personal interviews with numerous family members, acquaintances and contemporary witnesses. He visited Billy Joel and his daughter in New York in the autumn of 2008.

Metallica and Philosophy
Metallica and Philosophy

Author: William Irwin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-04-23

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1405163488

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Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school—they actually paid $5.98 for The $5.98 EP. But back before these philosophy professors cut their hair, they were lieutenants in the Metal Militia. A provocative study of the 'thinking man's' metal band Maps out the connections between Aristotle, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Metallica, to demonstrate the band's philosophical significance Uses themes in Metallica's work to illuminate topics such as freedom, truth, identity, existentialism, questions of life and death, metaphysics, epistemology, the mind-body problem, morality, justice, and what we owe one another Draws on Metallica's lyrical content, Lars Ulrich's relationship with Napster, as well as the documentary Some Kind of Monster Serves as a guide for thinking through the work of one of the greatest rock bands of all time Compiled by the editor of Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing and The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer