Music

The Go-Go's debut album Beauty and the Beat was released on July 8, 1981.

The recording sessions for Let It Be actually began as rehearsals for a proposed return to live stage work for the Beatles, to be inaugurated in a concert at a Roman amphitheatre in Tunisia.

Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made.

Arguably the most important popular British composer of the 20th century, John Barry (1933-2011) enjoyed a career that spanned over fifty years, in which time he won five Academy Awards for pictures includingBorn Free, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves.

Shepherd's Notes- Christian Classics Series is designed to give readers a quick, step by step overview of some of the enduring treasures of the Christian faith.

To absorb Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is to be taken on a wild voyage with a cast of downtrodden revolutionaries.

'Shows girlhood as it really was: brutal and tender, intimate and lonely, magical and utterly gross' Anna Beecher'Sensual and dirty, absurdist and tragic.

A conductor is one of classical music's most recognizable figures.

PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl.

Two kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs an awning with the new name for his venue.

It was the summer of 1971.

Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid picture of how this remarkable debut album was created.

Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious.

The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career.

Jacinto Trevino tiene una larga yexitosa carrera musical.

Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal.

* Go back to the beginning with the perfect gift for Ozzy and Black Sabbath fans *'Looking back on my life, I don't know how I got here.

Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertson) and low (Cheech and Chong).

Mo is 31.

I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs.

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented.

It was the season of the blockbuster.

In this exploration of Cocteau Twins' quintessential album, Chris Tapley traces lines in all directions from Blue Bell Knoll to paint a revealing portrait of the enigmatic trio and their career-long struggles with self-doubt, stubborn principles, and pure experimentation.

So you think you know soul music?

The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm.

John Denver was America's biggest-selling solo star of the '70s.

From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on Ecstasy and dance culture.

In the spirit of This Is Spinal Tap and MTVs Headbangers Ball, this is the essential guide to becoming a big-haired, mesh-wearing, guitar-shredding 80s rock star.

Come to My Garden (1970) introduced the world to Minnie Riperton, the solo artist.

David Bowie.

From the "e;War on Hippies"e; to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock 'n' roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a changing world.

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985.

A landmark collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world.

It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band.

Courtney Love has never been less than notorious.

Red Hot + Blue is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sense of our historical moment.

Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession of ten blindingly fast, apocalyptic songs.

One of the most controversial figures in the history of ideas as well as music, Richard Wagner continues to stimulate debate whenever his works are performed.

It's the summer of 1979.

Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimedand much-loved albums of the past 40 years.

Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997.

Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "e;rock and Rimbaud"e;), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology.

So you want to be a rock star?

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters.

Rockabilly had its roots in country, blues, folk, hillbilly, R&B, boogie-woogie and most other indigenous Deep South forms of popular song that you could strum three chords along to or howl down a cheap microphone.

A tool for piano teachers and their students, written by a celebrated concert pianist and highly regarded university teacher, covering areas of piano technique which he feels are often not given sufficient attention.

Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art.

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The intimate - and surprising - autobiography of Britain's most adored bandPrepare to meet the real McFly In 2003, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter came together and formed what would become one of the most popular and successful bands in the UK.

The recording sessions for Let It Be actually began as rehearsals for a proposed return to live stage work for the Beatles, to be inaugurated in a concert at a Roman amphitheatre in Tunisia.