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Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

By: Mark Paytress

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Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

By: Mark Paytress

Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the 1970s. As the seductive focus of T. Rex he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of classic records before tragically losing his way. The fatal car accident in 1977 cut short his planned comeback as a punk rocker, but also served to fix Bolan as the definitive icon of the Glam years. Bolan's music and chameleonic style were to influence a generation of future bands. In his various guises he could be a beatnik, a mod, a punk, a hippie and a Glam hero. This biography of a pop obsessive draws from interviews with many friends and colleagues including broadcaster John Peel, brother Harry and band members Mickey Finn and Bill Legend.

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Omnibus Press

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0857120239

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9780857120236

Rolling Stones: Off The Record

By: Mark Paytress

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Rolling Stones: Off The Record

By: Mark Paytress

A collection of original, off-the-cuff remarks by and about The Rolling Stones, unearthed and reassembled into a vivid verbal documentary. Containing outrageous opinions, unrehearsed interviews and impromptu but headline grabbing quotes. A candid and insightful history and an authentic taste of the group in their heyday and the cultural landscape they helped define.

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Omnibus Press

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0857121138

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9780857121134

Pigs Might Fly

The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

By: Mark Blake

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Pigs Might Fly

The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

By: Mark Blake

Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters’ world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums. Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour and Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour.

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Aurum

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1845137485

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9781845137489

Comfortably Numb

The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

By: Mark Blake

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Comfortably Numb

The Inside Story of Pink Floyd

By: Mark Blake

The acclaimed, definitive biography of Pink Floyd, from their iconic beginnings in psychedelic, Swinging London to their historic reunion at the Live8 concert ("The most complete, insightful, and current account of Pink Floyd...nearly as essential as the music itself."--Austin Chronicle) Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett's chaotic life at the time of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band's painstaking and Byzantine recording sessions at Abbey Road, and the fractious negotiations to bring about their fragile, tantalizing reunion in Hyde Park. Meticulous, exacting, and ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, Comfortably Numb is the definitive account of this most adventurous--and most English--rock band.

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Da Capo Press

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078672708X

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9780786727087

Queen: The Early Years

By: Mark Hodkinson

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Queen: The Early Years

By: Mark Hodkinson

This classic account of the birth of a legendary group is the truly authentic version of Queen's rise to stardom.Author Mark Hodkinson interviewed over 60 friends and colleagues of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon to piece together a fascinating jigsaw of anecdotes from the days when the future superstars were playing with bands like The Reaction, The Opposition, 1984 and Sour Milk.Intimate, suprising and meticulously researched, Queen: The Early Years is a riveting read accompanied by many previously unseen early photographs of the four band mambers.

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Omnibus Press

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0857120557

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9780857120557

Seditious Theology

Punk and the Ministry of Jesus

By: Mark Johnson

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Seditious Theology

Punk and the Ministry of Jesus

By: Mark Johnson

Seditious Theology explores the much analysed British punk movement of the 1970s from a theological perspective. Imaginatively engaging with subjects such as subversion, deconstruction, confrontation and sedition, this book highlights the stark contrasts between the punk genre and the ministry of Jesus while revealing surprising similarities and, in so doing, demonstrates how we may look at both subjects in fresh and unusual ways. Johnson looks at both punk and Jesus and their challenges to symbols, gestures of revolt, constructive use of conflict and the shattering of relational norms. He then points to the seditious pattern in Jesus' life and the way it can be discerned in some recent trends in theology. The imaginative images that he creates provide a challenging image of Jesus and of those who have relooked radically in recent years at what being a ’seditious’ follower of Christ means for the church. Introducing both a new partner for theological conversation and a fresh way of how to go about the task, this book presents a powerful approach to exploring the life of Christ and a new way of engaging with both recent theological trends and the more challenging expressions of popular culture.

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Routledge

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1317057848

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9781317057840

I was There

The Gigs that Changed the World

By: Mark Paytress

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I was There

The Gigs that Changed the World

By: Mark Paytress

I Was There is the definitive guide to the greatest live performances since the earliest stirrings of rock 'n' roll. A distillation of first-hand accounts, reportage of the day and illuminated reflections on the legacy of over a hundred of these most important musical moments. I Was There answers the burning questions, 'What happened? Who played? What was it really like?'. A stunning companion to over a century of live music, this book is a long overdue and unique testament to once-in-a-lifetime, never beaten, momentous music concerts. You can now, finally, be up at the front with the photographers and fans at some of the greatest ever gigs. Join them at 101 live shows that changed the world and helped shape popular culture as we know it. From John Lennon to James Brown, Billie Holiday to Iggy Pop, the musically gifted characters who grace the pages of this book have all been captured at ther finest, or their most notorious, through vivid commentary and beautiful photographs, memorabilia and reminiscences from contemporaries and luminaries. The audience, too, play their part. Join the heaving masses at the Trips Festival, California and journey to Woodstock and the Shea Stadium, New York to watch The Beatles. With extraordinary pictures from leading rock photographers and exclusive contributions from audience and band members, including Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, and Woody Woodmansey of Ziggy Stardust fame, I Was There truly captures the essence of each gig - immense or intimate, polished or impromptu.

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Bounty Books

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075372457X

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9780753724576

Wham Bam Thank You Glam

By: Mark Paytress

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Wham Bam Thank You Glam

By: Mark Paytress

Drawing on interviews with stars and musicians, producers and photographers, stylists, writers and celebrity fans, Wham Bam Thank You Glam chronicles the glam era from its origins in 1970, through its 1972/73 heyday to its mid-seventies collapse and the death of Marc Bolan in September 1977. Fully illustrated throughout, the book includes a wealth of visual material, be it band shots, record sleeves, and pin-up posters, or the era's best clobber, magazines, and assorted memorabilia.

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1913172287

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9781913172282

History of Rock

By: Mark Paytress

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History of Rock

By: Mark Paytress

The History of Rock chronicles over six decades of key events in rock, punk, metal, and more. Featuring profiles of 100 groundbreaking artists from the rock music pantheon and special breakout sections on trends like Beatlemania, Disco Fever, and Motown, this book is the definitive guide to all things rock n' roll. It includes over 450 photographs and essays detailing each rock style, from R & B and Rockabilly to Trip Hop and Electronic.

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Parragon Pubishing India

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1445438143

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9781445438146

Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

By: Mark Paytress

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Omnibus Press

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0857120239

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9780857120236

Rolling Stones: Off The Record

By: Mark Paytress

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Rolling Stones: Off The Record

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0857121138

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9780857121134

Nirvana: Story Und Songs Kompakt

By: Mark Paytress

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Nirvana: Story Und Songs Kompakt

By: Mark Paytress

Das unverzichtbare Verbraucher Leitfaden für die Musik von Nirvana. Ein Album nach Album, Titel für Titel Prüfung jedes Lied von Nirvana veröffentlicht, von ihrem ersten limitierten Auflage Sub Pop Single Love Buzz, der Zusammenstellungen nach Kurt Cobains Tod veröffentlicht. Auch einem gesonderten Abschnitt wird auf Krist Novoselic's Solo-Arbeit und Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana-Band, die Foo Fighters. Der Leitfaden bietet: Eine Analyse von Album zu Album Eine vollständige Diskographie Details, wann und wo die Musik aufgenommen wurde Ein besonderer Abschnitt über die Erstellung, Archivierung, Neuausstellung und Bootleg veröffentlicht Sechzehn Seiten vollfarbige Bilder Deutsch Sprache erschienen.

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Bosworth Music

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0857123408

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9780857123404

The Rolling Stones Files

By: Mark Paytress

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The Rolling Stones Files

By: Mark Paytress

More than four hundred photographs from the archives of the Daily Mirror follow the evolution of the Rolling Stones from the London club scene to their rise to superstardom in rock music.

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Quadrillion Pub

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1841002615

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9781841002613

The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul Weller & The Jam

By: Mark Paytress,John Reed

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The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul Weller & The Jam

By: Mark Paytress,John Reed

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

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Omnibus Press

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0711968187

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9780711968189

The Complete Guide to the Music of Sex Pistols

By: Mark Paytress,James Hector

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The Complete Guide to the Music of Sex Pistols

By: Mark Paytress,James Hector

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

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0711968209

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9780711968202

Siouxsie & the Banshees

à travers le miroir

By: Mark Paytress,Shirley Manson

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Siouxsie & the Banshees

à travers le miroir

By: Mark Paytress,Shirley Manson

Présentation de ce groupe qui marqua la scène postpunk de la fin des années 1970 au début des années 1990. Comporte des témoignages notamment de S.J. Ballion alias Siouxsie Sioux et de S. Severin, les deux membres fondateurs du groupe.

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Camion Blanc

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2910196550

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9782910196554

Book's by Mark Paytress

Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

Rolling Stones: Off The Record

Rolling Stones: Off The Record

Pigs Might Fly

Pigs Might Fly

Comfortably Numb

Comfortably Numb

Queen: The Early Years

Queen: The Early Years

Seditious Theology

Seditious Theology

I was There

I was There

Wham Bam Thank You Glam

Wham Bam Thank You Glam

History of Rock

History of Rock

Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

Marc Bolan: The Rise And Fall Of A 20th Century Superstar

Rolling Stones: Off The Record

Rolling Stones: Off The Record

Nirvana: Story Und Songs Kompakt

Nirvana: Story Und Songs Kompakt

The Rolling Stones Files

The Rolling Stones Files

The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul Weller & The Jam

The Complete Guide to the Music of Paul Weller & The Jam

The Complete Guide to the Music of Sex Pistols

The Complete Guide to the Music of Sex Pistols

Siouxsie & the Banshees

Siouxsie & the Banshees

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