Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0297000179
Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen
Nik Cohn
Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen
Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Arfur Teenage Pinball Queen book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Arfur - Teenage Pinball Queen
Nik Cohn
Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0586035729
Arfur - Teenage Pinball Queen by Nik Cohn Pdf
Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen
Nik Cohn
Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035021380
Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen by Nik Cohn Pdf
Pretend You're In A War
Mark Blake
Author : Mark Blake
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781313183
Pretend You're In A War by Mark Blake Pdf
'A definitive tome for both Who fans and newcomers alike’ ***** Q Magazine Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who’s violent live performances. His answer? ‘Pretend you’re in a war.’ For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of ‘auto-destructive art’ this could have served as a motto. Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade, including ‘I Can’t Explain’, ‘My Generation’ and ‘I Can See For Miles’. This was a body of work driven by bitter rivalry, black humour and dark childhood secrets, but it also held up a mirror to a society in transition. Now, acclaimed rock biographer Mark Blake goes in search of its inspiration to present a unique perspective on both The Who and the sixties. From their breakthrough as Mod figureheads to the rise and fall of psychedelia, he reveals how The Who, in their explorations of sex, drugs, spirituality and class, refracted the growing turbulence of the time. He also lays bare the colourful but crucial role played by their managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. And – in the uneasy alliance between art-school experimentation and working-class ambition – he locates the motor of the Swinging Sixties. As the decade closed, with The Who performing Tommy in front of 500,000 people at the Woodstock Festival, the ‘rock opera’ was born. In retrospect, it was the crowning achievement of a band who had already embraced pop art and the concept album; who had pioneered the power chord and the guitar smash; and who had embodied – more so than any of their peers – the guiding spirit of the age: war.
A Band with Built-In Hate
Peter Stanfield
Author : Peter Stanfield
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789142785
A Band with Built-In Hate by Peter Stanfield Pdf
Exploring the explosion of the Who onto the international music scene, this heavily illustrated book looks at this furious band as an embodiment of pop art. “Ours is music with built-in hatred,” said Pete Townshend. A Band with Built-In Hate pictures the Who from their inception as the Detours in the mid-sixties to the late-seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is a story of ambition and anger, glamor and grime, viewed through the prism of pop art and the radical leveling of high and low culture that it brought about—a drama that was aggressively performed by the band. Peter Stanfield lays down a path through the British pop revolution, its attitude, and style, as it was uniquely embodied by the Who: first, under the mentorship of arch-mod Peter Meaden, as they learned their trade in the pubs and halls of suburban London; and then with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, two aspiring filmmakers, at the very center of things in Soho. Guided by contemporary commentators—among them, George Melly, Lawrence Alloway, and most conspicuously Nik Cohn—Stanfield describes a band driven by belligerence and delves into what happened when Townshend, Daltrey, Moon, and Entwistle moved from back-room stages to international arenas, from explosive 45s to expansive concept albums. Above all, he tells of how the Who confronted their lost youth as it was echoed in punk.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1830 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357219
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music
Dylan Jones
Author : Dylan Jones
Publisher : Picador
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781250031884
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music by Dylan Jones Pdf
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief. This A to Z reference is the true musical heir to David Thomson's seminal The New Biographical Dictionary of Popular Film. Jones writes entertainingly about bands that have inspired, bedeviled, and fascinated him over the years.
Who Are You: The Life Of Pete Townshend
Mark Wilkerson
Author : Mark Wilkerson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857120083
Who Are You: The Life Of Pete Townshend by Mark Wilkerson Pdf
An accurate, detailed and fascinating account of the life of a man whose story should have been told in this much detail long ago. Author Mark Wilkerson interviewed Townshend himself and several of Townshend's friends and associates for this biography.
The Noise From the Streets
Nik Cohn
Author : Nik Cohn
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781843445791
The Noise From the Streets by Nik Cohn Pdf
The book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Nik Cohn: A Derry boy who became the omnipresent man in music's developing story from the 50s to the present; a self-styled rat, addicted to adventure, a rock legend, forever at the heart of the real action. This memoir provides a strong flavour of the person whose writing inspired Saturday Night Fever and several other pop-culture landmarks. Cohn leads us, in reverse order, through the decades of his musical life and times, meeting familiar heroes and rogues - let readers decide the categories to which Hendrix, Moon, Proby, Vicious et al belong. The Noise From The Streets is elegiac, charming and thoughtful - wallow in it. Nik Cohn recently headed Jarvis Cocker's top 10 music books in The Guardian (13 June 2014) for his title Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom. 'The original title for this book was ' Pop from the Beginning' and that pretty much sums it up. Nik Cohn was only just out of his teens when he wrote it and it's the book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Loads of unfounded, biased assertions that almost always turn out to be right. He went on to provide the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever (Hurrah!) and Tommy (Boo!), but this is still his best book. Absolutely essential.'
Rock Criticism from the Beginning
Ulf Lindberg
Author : Ulf Lindberg
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820474908
Rock Criticism from the Beginning by Ulf Lindberg Pdf
Rock Criticism from the Beginning is a wide-ranging exploration of the rise and development of rock criticism in Britain and the United States from the 1960s to the present. It chronicles the evolution of a new form of journalism, and the course by which writing on rock was transformed into a respected field of cultural production. The authors explore the establishment of magazines from Crawdaddy! and Rolling Stone to The Source, and from Melody Maker and New Musical Express to The Wire, while investigating the careers of well-known music critics like Robert Christgau, Greil Marcus, and Lester Bangs in the U.S., and Nik Cohn, Paul Morley, and Jon Savage in the U.K., to name just a few. While much has been written on the history of rock, this Bourdieu-inspired book is the first to offer a look at the coming of age of rock journalism, and the critics that opened up a whole new kind of discourse on popular music.
The Best Novels of the Nineties
Linda Parent Lesher
Author : Linda Parent Lesher
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476603896
The Best Novels of the Nineties by Linda Parent Lesher Pdf
This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.
Women Sports
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Sports
ISBN : MINN:31951000595840R
Women Sports by Anonim Pdf
The Who and the Making of Tommy
Nigel Cawthorne
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Unanimous, Limited
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 1903318769
The Who and the Making of Tommy by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf
You're the Critic
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015036932823
You're the Critic by Anonim Pdf
The Who's Tommy
Pete Townshend
Author : Pete Townshend
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015063664463
The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend Pdf
Provides a history of Tommy from rock opera to its staging as a Broadway musical.