Music

In 1997 the 50-year-old playwright David Hare decided to visit the 50-year-old state of Israel and write a play - Via Dolorosa - about the conflict.

Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis.

This musicological study, by persuasive explanation, shows how, adhering to certain exact ratios and proportions, music gains objective power.

In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album.

"e;In the absence of love, there is loneliness, sorrow and desperation.

En este libro, el pastor Jorge Lozano, quien nació en México y vive en Argentina desde hace más de 20 años, nos enseña cómo acercarnos más a la persona de Jesús para experimentar Su abrazo y ser cambiados para siempre.

"e;Pinkard's account.

Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture?

Two and a half decades on, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence.

In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war.

This is a collection of Blake Parkers songs.

Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay.

SOUL PRINTS presents a collection of poetry and short pieces examining the deepest soulful reflections for anyone with a strong faith and belief in angelic guidance.

Hailed as a "e;quiet masterpiece"e; upon release, Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music.

Something sinister has crawled into the heart of the man that should be a father, a guide, a leader and the first nurturer to future relationships, but yet turns a childs worst nightmare into reality.

Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths.

Farinelli and the King is a "e;profoundly funny and haunting mediation on melancholy and the therapeutic powers of music"e; set in the Royal Spanish court in the 18th century.

Get your backstage pass to the world-famous Rockfield Recording Studios in Monmouth, Wales.

Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene.

ONE OF DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKSTHE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGEWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHORThe acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of 'the teenager' in 1945, from award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage.

Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, 'Forever Changes' is one of the defining albums of an era.

Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang'.

In Janelle Monae's full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human.

*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far' 2019*'Somehow this chronicle of a long, dark night of the soul also involves funny stories involving Trump, Putin, and a truly baffling array of degenerates.

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.

Winner of the 2020 George Devine AwardMiddle Child present The Canary and the Crow, brand new gig theatre about the journey of a working class black kid who is accepted to a prestigious school.

If You're Feeling Sinister shows how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves over the space of a decade, from a slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop group.

During a time when toughskin blue jeans, button-down shirts, and flat-top haircuts were all the rage, Gene Odom and Ronnie Van Zant became best friends.

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

"e;It's Time To Party,"e; the first track off of I Get Wet, opens with a rapid-fire guitar line - nothing fancy, just a couple crunchy power chords to acclimate the ears - repeated twice before a booming bass drum joins in to provide a quarter-note countdown.

Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive.

Shirley describes her family, and their early struggles, the trials and tribulations she went through during the Civil Rights movement, her early singing career, and her callilng to become a pastor and concert performer.

Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it.

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV.

Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits.

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

At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut its self-titled third album under the guidance of hip-hop guru Rick Rubin.

This book is about the kind of ordinary dancing you and I might do in our kitchens when a favourite tune comes on.

In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV.

Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book.

Since his death in 1977 Elvis Presley has become an even greater cultural icon than when he was making records and consuming deep-fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches.

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "e;La Divina Assoluta,"e; remains unsurpassed.

This is a collection of varied stories starting in 1938 and ending in 1996.

An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.

'They are not for you but for a later age!

A fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs - an album that was afforded "e;classic"e; status by many almost as soon as it was released.

Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release an official follow-up.

Christopher R.

July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide.