Popular music

This book explores the synergetic cooperation and sometimes complex relationship between Western pop songs and East Asian films.

Ever since their debut single was released in 1983, The Smiths have influenced musicians worldwide with their jangly guitar pop, infectious melodies and front man Morrissey's passionate lyrics.

When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock star.

As a band, The Beatles released over 200 songs in the eight years between 1962 and 1970.

Once, there were four university students who started a rock band named after a firetruck.

Slade were one of the biggest British bands of the 1970s.

The 1980s saw Alice Cooper arguably release his most diverse collection of albums, ranging from new wave to metal to full-on radio-friendly rock.

The 1970s was the decade that saw the arrival of Alice Cooper as a major force in the rock firmament.

90125, released towards the end of 1983, was Yes' best-selling album.

In 1998, the future of the Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed extremely uncertain.

The Stooges were formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, outside Detroit.

Of all the British bands that rose to fame in rock's golden age, Nektar remain the most mysterious and least documented.

One of the most pivotal albums in the evolution of rock music, few other recordings have had more impact than the 1965 Bob Dylan classic, Bringing It All Back Home.

Depending on who you asked, George Harrison was many different things to different people.

One of the most iconic and successful British bands of the 1980s, Level 42 are also arguably the ultimate 'fusion' unit, streamlining their energetic early jazz/funk/rock sound into slick, effortlessly-soulful pop music.

Few singers have been able to change with the times like Johnny Mathis.

Traversing power metal, acoustic introspect and finally settling on their breakthrough cinematic sound, Finnish heavyweights Nightwish are the leading name in the sumptuous world of symphonic metal.

Formed as shambolic art-punk four-piece Seymour whilst attending London's Goldsmiths University, the rechristened Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991, marking them as promising indie upstarts in thrall to the voguish sub-genres of baggy and shoegaze.

This book explores the synergetic cooperation and sometimes complex relationship between Western pop songs and East Asian films.

Released in 1969, Let It Bleed was The Rolling Stones' eighth studio album and tenth in the USA.

It was the year the Sixties really started swinging - the Summer of Love, when the Rolling Stones said 'We Love You' and The Beatles pointed out that 'All You Need Is Love'.

In January 1981, the four members of Bucks Fizz - Mike Nolan, Cheryl Baker, Jay Aston, and Bobby G - met each other for the first time.

The Damned are a great British rock n' roll institution.

Over their 30-year career as one of the most influential and successful bands in the world, The Grateful Dead released just a handful of studio albums and a small number of live recordings.

Pearl Jam are the last men standing from the great alternative rock explosion of the 1990s.

Exploding onto the late 1960s scene, The Stooges were a bunch of misfit Mid-Western delinquents, and their charismatic frontman, Iggy Pop, was a performer extraordinaire.

Towards the tail end of the 1980s, Neil Hannon: a talented singer/songwriter from Northern Ireland, formed his first line-up of The Divine Comedy.

Linda Ronstadt is one of the most important women in the history of popular music.

It started off so well.

This revised edition adds previously unpublished material from Joe Strummer's personal notebook and cartoonist Ray Lowry's archive.

The hard-rocking British supergroup was fronted by Steve Marriott, possessor of what is generally regarded as one of the finest ever rock and blue-eyed soul voices.

This is a new edition, bringing the Yes story up to date for 2020 and specifically including a brand new section on the 2019 album 'From A Page'.

When Yes ran into problems recording their tenth album in Paris at the end of 1979, it was almost the end.

Bob Dylan is the magician who sprinkled poetic fairy dust onto the popular music of the early sixties.

Derek Taylor lived a charmed life.

In 1992, Singer, pianist and composer Tori Amos achieved fame with the intensely personal solid gold record, Little Earthquakes, the first of fifteen studio albums.

There has never been - and never will be - another band like Opeth.

Swedish quartet ABBA released their third, self-titled album in 1975.

The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined users and uses.

The Roland x0x Series: A History of Early Roland Synthesizers and Drum Machines from SH-101 to TR-909 offers an authoritative but accessible investigation of how the design of these most influential musical instruments is shaped by technological factors, institutional contexts, market forces and imagined users and uses.

Of all of the 'classic' British rockers who came to prominence in the 1960s, only a very few have achieved significant, sustained success through to the present day.

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood is who we are, our cover is blown.

Since their formation in the early 1970s, Earth, Wind & Fire have been at the forefront of popular music.

Schwarz oder wei: Das tragische Leben von Michael Jackson40 Jahre lang begeisterte der King of Pop die Fans mit einer Karriere der Superlative das legendare Album Thriller von 1982, mit dem er den weltweiten Durchbruch als Solokunstler feierte, ist mit 67 Millionen verkauften Tontragern bis heute das weltweit erfolgreichste Pop- Album aller Zeiten.

Hendrik Otremba, Schriftsteller und Musiker in Personalunion, nahert sich einfuhlsam dem Werk der legendaren Kolner Band Can an und spricht mit deren Grunder Irmin Schmidt.