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Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance

By: Johnny Rogan

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Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance

By: Johnny Rogan

Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful – and controversial – rock biographies ever published. Having denounced the book and called for the death of its author Johnny Rogan, Morrissey later did a U-turn and cited it as evidence in the royalty-related court case brought by Smiths drummer Mike Joyce.Now, 20 years after it was first published, Rogan has returned to his definitive Smiths biography to produce a completely revised edition based on new information and new interviews to add to the almost 100 initially conducted over a four-year period. Widely acclaimed as one rock’s leading writers, Johnny Rogan now brings yet more insight and analysis to his best-selling book that revealed, for the first time, the true and unsanitised story of The Smiths – the most important group of their generation.

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0857127829

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9780857127822

Set the Boy Free

The Autobiography

By: Johnny Marr

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Set the Boy Free

The Autobiography

By: Johnny Marr

The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths. An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band with the signature sound he cofounded, remains one of the most beloved bands ever, and have a profound influence on a number of acts that followed—from the Stone Roses, Suede, Blur, and Radiohead to Oasis, The Libertines, and Arctic Monkeys. Marr recalls his childhood growing up in the northern working-class city of Manchester, in a house filled with music. He takes us back to the summer of 1982 when, at eighteen, he sought out one Stephen Morrissey to form a new band they called The Smiths. Marr invites fans on stage, on the road, and in the studio for the five years The Smiths were together and how after a rapid ascent, the working-class teenage rock star enjoyed and battled with the perks of success until ideological differences, combined with his much publicized strained relationships with fellow band mates, caused him to leave in 1987. Marr’s “escape” as he calls it, ensured the beginning of the end for one of the most influential groups of a generation. But The Smiths’ end was only the beginning for Marr. The bona-fide guitar hero continues to experiment and evolve in his solo career to this day, playing with Paul McCartney, Pretenders, Modest Mouse, Oasis and collaborating today’s most creative and renowned artists. Rising above and beyond the personal struggles and bitter feuds, Marr delivers the story of his music and his band, sharing the real insights of a man who has made music his life, and finally giving fans what they’ve truly been waiting for.

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HarperCollins

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0062438727

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9780062438720

Johnny Marr, Set the boy free

A autobiografia

By: Johnny Marr

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Johnny Marr, Set the boy free

A autobiografia

By: Johnny Marr

UMA JORNADA NA MENTE CRIATIVA DE JOHNNY MARR, MÚSICO QUE INFLUENCIOU UMA GERAÇÃO DE GUITARRISTAS DESDE THE SMITHS. "Nunca descobri por que me sentia tão atraído pela guitarra quando era criança e por que ela me acompanhou por toda minha vida. Ser guitarrista tem sido minha identidade, para o mundo e para mim mesmo. Tem sido desse jeito desde que vi a primeira em uma vitrine aos cinco anos, e não conheço uma vida diferente disso desde aquele momento." Início da década de 1980, subúrbios de Manchester. O guitarrista jovem Johnny Marr bate à porta de Steven Morrissey, cantor semidesconhecido, alguns anos mais velho que ele, e o convida para fundar uma banda juntos. Desse encontro, nasce um dos grupos de rock mais famosos de todos os tempos: The Smiths. Poucas bandas tiveram tanto impacto quanto The Smiths e poucos músicos são tão celebrados quanto Johnny Marr. No entanto, A autobiografia não é apenas a história de uma das bandas icônicas dos anos 1980. É a história de um menino que cresceu em uma família irlandesa, operária e católica, que rapidamente descobre o poder da música e da arte. É a história de um adolescente que observa com curiosidade e entusiasmo as grandes mudanças sociais na Inglaterra pós-industrial, os movimentos da contracultura juvenil, os novos gêneros musicais — do glam rock ao punk e à new wave. E é também a história de um músico já maduro, que, após a dissolução, dos Smiths não tem medo de tomar novos caminhos. Desde então, Marr não parou de explorar os limites da música. Ele se juntou a bandas como The Pretenders, Modest Mouse, The The e The Cribs, além de ter colaborado com Hans Zimmer. Aqui, pela primeira vez, ele conta sua versão da história. Alternando memórias pessoais, insights musicais e reflexões sobre a sociedade e os costumes, esta obra é uma jornada em uma das mentes criativas mais férteis da música pop contemporânea.

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Editora Belas-Letras

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6555372052

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Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance

By: Johnny Rogan

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Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance

By: Johnny Rogan

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35 Degrees 24 Minutes North - 91 Degrees West

A Town Called Hickory Ridge

By: Johnny H. Wilson,Isaac A. Bratcher,Don Evans,James O. Jeffers

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35 Degrees 24 Minutes North - 91 Degrees West

A Town Called Hickory Ridge

By: Johnny H. Wilson,Isaac A. Bratcher,Don Evans,James O. Jeffers

A history of the settlement and development of the townships of Brushy Lake and Hickory Ridge and of the emergence of the town of Hickory ridge, all located within the state of Arkansas. The time span covered begins with the discovery of America and comes forth to about the year 2000. It includes such events as DeSoto's trek through the area, transfer of ownership via the Louisiana Purchase, regional exploration and surveying, territorial politics and gaining the status of statehood. Following the time of the Civil War, the narrative focuses more on the development of Cross County, the two townships of Brushy Lake and Hickory Ridge and, finally, on the town of hickory Ridge. A history of some of the region's schools, churches, and cemeteries is included as well as several maps, some as early as 1819, a full record of Cross County post offices, Peace Court Records from the early part of the 20th century, and many random photographs.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412221862

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9781412221863

Mind the Bollocks

A riotous rant through the ridiculousness of Rock'n'Roll

By: Johnny Sharp

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Mind the Bollocks

A riotous rant through the ridiculousness of Rock'n'Roll

By: Johnny Sharp

Popular music has always attracted the kind of morally bankrupt individuals who are too unhinged to hold down a proper job. And that’s just as well. After all, if your local fishmonger told you he’d just snorted his father’s ashes, you might think twice about doing business with him. But when Keith Richards says it, you think ‘Nice one, Keef!’ and have a flick through your iPod to find ‘Honky Tonk Women’. From deeply suspect sexual politics to crackpot religions, musicians’ elevated position in popular culture allows them to hold forth freely on subjects about which they know precious little. For the first time, Mind The Bollocks collects some of the finest stools of wisdom ever to fall from their foul, ill-educated mouths. Mind The Bollocks also digs beneath the culture of nonsense surrounding popular music and asks: Are the X-Factor auditions all they appear to be? Is there really a musical frequency that can make you soil yourself? And which world-renowned rock guitarist sliced his own penis off? All is revealed herein, with bonus satanic messages included if you read it backwards. Word count: 40,000

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Portico

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1907554890

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9781907554896

Lennon: The Albums

By: Johnny Rogan

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Lennon: The Albums

By: Johnny Rogan

A comprehensive analysis of every album recorded by John Lennon during his solo years from the end of the Sixties to his death in 1980, as well as the posthumous work that followed. A lively and provocative commentary of every song is interspersed with comments from Lennon on his final decade. Features a song by song analysis, a song index for easy reference, details of compilations and live albums and details of posthumous releases. From his early experimental work with Yoko Ono, through the startling sound of the Plastic Ono Bandk, the chart-topping Imagine, the political years in New York, the 'lost weekend' in Los Angeles, retirement, the comeback with Double Fantasy and his tragic assasination in December 1980 - Rogan leaves no stone unturned. Johnny Rogan is the author of the best-selling Morrissey And Marr: The Severed Alliance, one of the most acclaimed music biographies ever written, and still a best seller since its first publication in 1992. He has written high-profile biographies on The Byrds, Neil Young, George Michael and his latest, Van Morrison: No Surrender was featured in the Sunday Times' best books of 2005.

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Calidore

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0857124382

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9780857124388

Ray Davies

A Complicated Life

By: Johnny Rogan

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Ray Davies

A Complicated Life

By: Johnny Rogan

NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit ‘You Really Got Me’. Within months, they were established among the pop elite, swamped by fans and fast becoming renowned for the rioting at their gigs. But Ray’s journey from working-class Muswell Hill to the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame was tumultuous in the extreme, featuring breakdowns, bitter lawsuits, spectacular punch-ups and a ban from entering the USA. His relationship with his brother Dave is surely the most ferocious and abusive in music history. Based on countless interviews conducted over several decades, this richly detailed and revelatory biography presents the most frank and intimate portrait yet of Ray Davies.

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Random House

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1847923313

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9781847923318

EC Archives Tales from the Crypt Vol 2

By: Albert B. Feldstein,Wallace Wood,Jack Kamen,Johnny Craig,Jack Davis,Joe Orlando,Graham Ingels,Howard Larsen,George Roussos

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EC Archives Tales from the Crypt Vol 2

By: Albert B. Feldstein,Wallace Wood,Jack Kamen,Johnny Craig,Jack Davis,Joe Orlando,Graham Ingels,Howard Larsen,George Roussos

EC Comics are widely credited for causing the dissolution of the morals of kids and teens in the 1950s, thus playing a large part in the public outcry over comics that led to Senate hearings condemning the sex and violence within their pages. Dark Horse brings their usual high quality design and production to the creation of collector's editions of these seminal comics.

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1506700543

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9781506700540

Events Management

By: Glenn A. J. Bowdin,Johnny Allen,Rob Harris,Leo Jago,William O'Toole,Ian McDonnell

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Events Management

By: Glenn A. J. Bowdin,Johnny Allen,Rob Harris,Leo Jago,William O'Toole,Ian McDonnell

A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events. The book offers a systematic guide to organising successful events, examining areas such as event design, logistics, marketing, human resource management, financial planning, risk management, impacts, evaluation and reporting. The fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include content covering technology, including virtual and hybrid events, concepts such as social capital, soft power and events, social inclusion, equality, accessibility and diversity, and the latest industry reports, research and legal frameworks. The book is logically structured and features new case studies, showing real-life applications and highlighting issues with planning events of all types and scales in a range of geographical locations. This book has been dubbed ‘the events management bible’ and fosters an interactive learning experience amongst scholars of events management, tourism and hospitality.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000904393

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9781000904390

Permanently Suspended

The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again of Radio's Most Notorious Shock Jock

By: Anthony Cumia,Johnny Russo,Brad Trackman

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Permanently Suspended

The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again of Radio's Most Notorious Shock Jock

By: Anthony Cumia,Johnny Russo,Brad Trackman

Today, Anthony Cumia is the co-host of the wildly popular “Anthony Cumia Show,” which live-streams to a huge following of paid subscribers; however, Anthony is most well-known from the legendary, nationally syndicated “Opie and Anthony Show.” Permanently Suspended is an all-access pass to the controversial mayhem that ensued on-and-off the air. A must-read for all diehard O&A fans, Permanently Suspended finally answers the questions that everyone has been waiting for: What really happened between Opie and Anthony? What was the reasoning behind the multiple firings? What prompted the tweeting about the Times Square NYC incident? What is the true account of the controversial allegations? What are the never-before-revealed details of Anthony’s stint in rehab? What does the future hold for his livestream podcast? These questions, and many more, will be answered. Permanently Suspended is a humorous, no-holds-barred account of the legendary career and life of Anthony Cumia—a blue collar guy who made his dreams come true, rising above all obstacles to become one of the most well-known and successful personalities in radio history.

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Post Hill Press

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164293092X

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9781642930924

I Call the Shots

By: Johnny Miller,Guy Yocom

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I Call the Shots

By: Johnny Miller,Guy Yocom

A straight-shooting look at the hottest issues and controversies in golf today, from the game’s most popular and provocative commentator Johnny Miller’s brilliant career as a professional golfer—including U.S. Open and British Open championships—has been followed by a fourteen-year tenure in the broadcast booth as America’s most respected television golf analyst. In I Call the Shots he offers his no-holds-barred opinions, with trademark insight and wit, on all things golf: from the decline of playing etiquette to boorish fans; from legendary victories by the game’s greatest champions to monumental chokes that have destroyed careers; from the current state of the PGA Tour to the future of the game itself. Packed with the best and worst Johnny has seen in more than thirty years as a champion player and cherished announcer, I Call the Shots is a must-read for any golfer or fan of the game and is sure to be fuel for controversy and conversation on fairways, in locker rooms, and at nineteenth holes across the country.

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Penguin

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1101216603

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9781101216606

The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin

By: Johnny Lyons

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The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin

By: Johnny Lyons

I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun.' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to philosophy in favour of the history of ideas. In The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Johnny Lyons shows that Berlin's approach to intellectual history amounted to the pursuit of philosophy by other means, creating a more original and fruitful engagement with his lifelong subject. By recasting Berlin as a philosopher who took humanity and history seriously, Lyons reveals the underlying unity of his wide-ranging and disparate ideas and throws into sharp relief the enduring moral charm of his outlook. Lyons emphasises aspects of Berlin's thinking that have largely been neglected. These include his recognition of historical contingency and of the importance of truth in human affairs, his scepticism about the so-called implications of determinism for our everyday understanding of freedom, and his deeper reasons for thinking that negative liberty should be valued. This introduction to Berlin's thought, and particularly its examination of these mainly overlooked elements of his outlook, reveals a new Berlin, one with surprising and urgent contemporary relevance to the debates that continue to dominate philosophy, politics and intellectual history today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350121452

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9781350121454

The Dreamhunter's Diaries

The Big Pipedream Society Companion

By: Johnny Reynolds

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The Dreamhunter's Diaries

The Big Pipedream Society Companion

By: Johnny Reynolds

A satirical mirror of leading politicians and the national media, to enable them to see their grotesque image... Following on from Johnny Reynold’s first satirical novel The Big Pipedream Society, The Dreamhunter’s Diaries is a socio-political and quasi-economical satirical farce that makes reference to real-life situations. It focuses on the ludicrousness of the ruling establishment and the state-governed media. Written in the spirit of Jon Steward, the book was borne out of Johnny’s opinion that David Cameron and Ed Milliband are both equally politically irresponsible and too petty-minded to be seen as trustworthy statesmen and qualified politicians. Johnny also wrote the book in response to his anguish and despair at seeing Britain – the country that he has always been deeply committed to – in a state of decline. He has observed, with sorrow, the dignified institution of the monarchy reduce itself to a show and tourist curiosity. “The moral downfall of the institution of chuch, which in my early times was seen as a pillar of ethical standards worth following, no longer exists,” he notes. These observations have all been woven into The Dreamhunter’s Diaries. The book will appeal to those who enjoy reading about important social and political issues and who read and enjoyed Johnny’s first book, The Big Pipedream Society.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1784624187

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9781784624187

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

By: Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

By: Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

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Knopf

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0307273229

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The Complete Guide to the Music of The Smiths & Morrissey/Marr

By: Johnny Rogan

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The Complete Guide to the Music of The Smiths & Morrissey/Marr

By: Johnny Rogan

A guide to the music of The Smiths. The book examines every recorded song in the band's catalogue to date, and acts as a consumer's critical guide to the music. Shaped like a CD box, it is designed to sit alongside the reader's existing CD collection.

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