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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

Rob Sheffield
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran Book PDF

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101437209

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From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence".—Entertainment Weekly The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes on the members of Duran Duran. As a solitary teenager stranded in the suburbs, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music, and himself. And he was sure his radio had all the answers. As evidenced by the bestselling sales of Sheffield's first book, Love Is a Mix Tape, the connection between music and memory strikes a chord with readers. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran strikes that chord all over again, and is a pitch-perfect trip through '80s music-from Bowie to Bobby Brown, from hair metal to hip-hop. But this book is not just about music. It's about growing up and how every song is a snapshot of a moment that you'll remember the rest of your life.

Talking to Girls about Duran Duran

Rob Sheffield
Talking to Girls about Duran Duran Book PDF

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525951563

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Talking to Girls about Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield Pdf

The best-selling author of Love Is a Mix Tape traces his adolescence in the 1980s, a journey during which pop culture trends marked his transformation from a reclusive geek to an independent young man with a first girlfriend.

Love Is a Mix Tape

Rob Sheffield
Love Is a Mix Tape Book PDF

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : Crown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400083039

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Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield Pdf

“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head—the one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life. Praise for Love is a Mixtape “A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time.”—The New York Times Book Review “Humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic.”—Entertainment Weekly “The finest lines ever written about rock ‘n’ roll . . . Like that song on the radio, every word of Rob’s book is true. Love is a mix tape.”—Rolling Stone “Many of us use pop culture as a mirror of our emotional lives, but Sheffield happily walks right through the looking glass.”—Los Angeles Times “Sheffield writes with such aching remembering, you feel like you are invading his privacy . . . and it’s the truth of those details that make this memoir so touching.”—Newsweek

Turn Around Bright Eyes

Rob Sheffield
Turn Around Bright Eyes Book PDF

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062207647

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Turn Around Bright Eyes by Rob Sheffield Pdf

Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love. Pick up the microphone. When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past, was his life as a happily married rock critic, with a wife he adored, and a massive collection of mix tapes that captured their life together. And then, in a flash, all he had left were the tapes. Beyoncé , Bowie, Bon Jovi, Benatar . . . One night, some friends dragged him to a karaoke bar in the West Village. A night out was a rare occasion for Rob back then. Turn around Somehow, that night in a karaoke bar turned into many nights, in many karaoke bars. Karaoke became a way out, a way to escape the past, a way to be someone else if only for the span of a three-minute song. Discovering the sublime ridiculousness of karaoke, despite the fact that he couldn't carry a tune, he began to find his voice. Turn around And then the unexpected happened. A voice on the radio got Rob's attention. The voice came attached to a woman who was unlike anyone he'd ever met before. A woman who could name every constellation in the sky, and every Depeche Mode B side. A woman who could belt out a mean Bonnie Tyler. Bright Eyes Turn Around Bright Eyes is an emotional journey of hilarity and heartbreak with a karaoke soundtrack. It's a story about finding the courage to move on, clearing your throat, and letting it rip. It's a story about navi- gating your way through adult romance. And it's a story about how songs get tangled up in our deepest emotions, evoking memories of the past while inspiring hope for the future.

In the Pleasure Groove

John Taylor
In the Pleasure Groove Book PDF

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780142196946

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In the Pleasure Groove by John Taylor Pdf

With a new introduction by Nick Rhodes The talent. The charisma. The videos. From their 1981 hit "Planet Earth" to their latest number-one album, All You Need Is Now, John Taylor and Duran Duran have enchanted audiences around the world. It's been a wild ride, and—for John in particular—dangerous. John recounts the story of the band's formation, their massive success, and his journey to the brink of self-destruction. Told with humor, honesty—and packed with exclusive pictures—In the Pleasure Groove is an irresistible rock-and-roll portrait of a band whose popularity has never been stronger.

Rat Girl

Kristin Hersh
Rat Girl Book PDF

Author : Kristin Hersh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101459027

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Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh Pdf

"One of the 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time” --Rolling Stone Magazine (#8) “Sensitive and emotionally raw… it’s also wildly funny”--The New York Times Book Review A powerfully original memoir of pregnancy and mental illness by the legendary founder of the seminal rock band Throwing Muses, 'a magnificently charged union of Sylvia Plath and Patti Smith' - The Guardian Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting college at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car, unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head - the songs for which she is now known. But just as her band was taking off, Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Rat Girl chronicles the unraveling of a young woman's personality, culminating in a suicide attempt; and then her arduous yet inspiring recovery, her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19, and the birth of her first son. Playful, vivid, and wonderfully warm, this is a visceral and brave memoir by a truly original performer, told in a truly original voice.

Duran Duran's Rio

Annie Zaleski
Duran Duran s Rio Book PDF

Author : Annie Zaleski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501355196

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Duran Duran's Rio by Annie Zaleski Pdf

In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound-influences include danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock-the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track. However, Rio wasn't a success everywhere at first; in fact, the LP had to be buffed-up with remixes and reissued before it found an audience in America. The album was further buoyed by colorful music videos, which established Duran Duran as leaders of an MTV-driven second British Invasion, and the group's cutting-edge visual aesthetic. Via extensive new interviews with band members and other figures who helped Rio succeed, this book explores how and why Rio became a landmark pop-rock album, and examines how the LP was both a musical inspiration-and a reflection of a musical, cultural, and technology zeitgeist.

How to Kill a Rock Star

Tiffanie DeBartolo
How to Kill a Rock Star Book PDF

Author : Tiffanie DeBartolo
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402250392

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How to Kill a Rock Star by Tiffanie DeBartolo Pdf

"Funny, tender, edgy. I wanted the love story to go on forever."—Joan Johnston, bestselling author of No Longer a Stranger Written in the wonderfully honest, edgy, and hilarious voice she perfected in God-Shaped Hole, Tiffanie DeBartolo shines in a passionate new story of music, love, and sacrifice. Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, is finally getting her footing in New York when she meets Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. They soon realize they share more than a reverence for rock music and plunge headlong into love. When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza's past forces her to make a heartbreaking decision that might be the key to Paul's sudden disappearance. A layered and emotional look into the world of music, this raw summer read will resonate with readers who loved Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole: "From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."—People "Honest, raw, and engaging."—Booklist "This generation's Love Story."—Kirkus Reviews

Duranalysis

Morgan Richter
Duranalysis Book PDF

Author : Morgan Richter
Publisher : Luft Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990936791

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No band epitomizes the eighties, a decade of stylish and absurd excesses, as much as Duran Duran. Certainly no band inspires the same dizzying range of emotional responses-adoration, lust, delight, confusion, contempt-as those five beautiful and cocksure boys from England, who burst onto the scene like a glitter-encrusted wrecking ball at the start of the decade and held the public's attention in a vise grip. Still (mostly) together and going strong, they've endured because no one could ever quite forget them, even when the end of the eighties threatened to turn them into relics of an era that overstayed its welcome. Duran Duran are celebrities par excellence: glamorous, ridiculous, larger than life, and absolutely hilarious. With wit and affection, Duranalysis tackles the Duran Duran phenomenon. Duranalysis is composed of a series of insightful, informative, irreverent essays encompassing the complete history of Duran Duran, from their inauspicious origins in working-class Birmingham through the crazy chaos of megafame in the eighties to their lower-profile but still glamorous present. Welcome to Duranalysis. It's going to be a wild ride.

Mad World

Lori Majewski,Jonathan Bernstein
Mad World Book PDF

Author : Lori Majewski,Jonathan Bernstein
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781613126660

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Mad World by Lori Majewski,Jonathan Bernstein Pdf

A “hugely entertaining” history of the 1980s New Wave music scene told through new interviews with its biggest artists (Rolling Stone). Mad World is a compelling oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song and leads to stories of their history and place in the scene, ultimately painting a vivid picture of this colorful, idiosyncratic time. Mixtape suggestions, fashion sidebars, and quotes from famous contemporary admirers help fill out the fun. Participants include members of Duran Duran, New Order, The Smiths, Tears for Fears, Adam Ant, Echo, and the Bunnymen, Devo, ABC, Spandau Ballet, A Flock of Seagulls, Thompson Twins, INXS, and more. “One addictive chapter after another.” —Rob Sheffield, author of Talking to Girls About Duran Duran “Tells the tale of some of the decade’s most unforgettable songs . . . in fascinating detail, letting the architects of these memorable records shine a light on how the sound of a generation came to be.” —The Hollywood Reporter “The new wave era is often dismissed for its one-hit wonders and silly haircuts, but [Mad World] examines the period with a great deal of love and reverence.” —Buzzfeed “A really informative and insightful read.” —People

Dreaming the Beatles

Rob Sheffield
Dreaming the Beatles Book PDF

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062207678

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Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield Pdf

An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism “This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today.

The Pick Up Pitch

Duran Damai
The Pick Up Pitch Book PDF

Author : Duran Damai
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1723933368

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The Pick Up Pitch by Duran Damai Pdf

The Pick Up Pitch is the hilarious self-development book that started #ThePickUpPitchChallenge on Twitter and Instagram; and has the internet going wild! This very-easy-to-read 129 page book makes for the perfect gag gift to any male of any age "who could do with a little help when it comes to talking to women"; or for the perfect gift to yourself if you are looking to greatly increase your statistical chances of success when picking up women. People pay hundreds of dollars to attend workshops to improve in these areas and none will ever be as effective as this book. There is a reason people willingly pay more for this book. It's the only book you will ever need on the topic. Finally there is a system that works for any and everybody regardless of past experiences, bravery, skill level, mastery of words, looks or appearances. The author - Duran Damai - creatively draws from proven solid techniques that have been in use for a lifetime all across the world in field marketing and sales to bring in billions of dollars year after year; finds parallels between how such salespersons approach customers and how pickup artists approach women; then uses these groundbreaking findings to develop a script - The Pick Up Pitch - that teaches a very simple yet extremely effective system of approaching any female in any given situation without the use of pick up lines.

Almost a Mirror

Kirsten Krauth
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Author : Kirsten Krauth
Publisher : Transit Lounge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925760569

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Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth Pdf

Shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize Like fireflies to the light, Mona, Benny and Jimmy are drawn into the elegantly wasted orbit of the Crystal Ballroom and the post-punk scene of 80s Melbourne, a world that includes Nick Cave and Dodge, a photographer pushing his art to the edge. With precision and richness Kirsten Krauth hauntingly evokes the power of music to infuse our lives, while diving deep into loss, beauty, innocence and agency. Filled with unforgettable characters, the novel is above all about the shapes that love can take and the many ways we express tenderness throughout a lifetime. As it moves between the Blue Mountains and Melbourne, Sydney and Castlemaine, Almost a Mirror reflects on the healing power of creativity and the everyday sacredness of family and friendship in the face of unexpected tragedy.

On Bowie

Rob Sheffield
On Bowie Book PDF

Author : Rob Sheffield
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062562722

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On Bowie by Rob Sheffield Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fans. Innovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David Bowie created art that not only pushed boundaries, but helped fans understand themselves and view the world from fantastic new perspectives. When the shocking news of his death on January 10, 2016 broke, the outpouring of grief and adulation was immediate and ongoing. Fans around the world and across generations paid homage to this brilliant, innovate, ever evolving artist who both shaped and embodied our times. In this concise and penetrating book, featuring color photographs, highly regarded Rolling Stone critic, bestselling author, and lifelong Bowie fan Rob Sheffield shares his own feelings about the passing of this icon and explains why Bowie’s death has elicited such an unprecedented emotional outpouring from so many lives.

Wild Boy

Andy Taylor
Wild Boy Book PDF

Author : Andy Taylor
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409111160

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Wild Boy by Andy Taylor Pdf

The first member of Duran Duran to write his memoirs tells the full story of the excesses, glamour and excitement they lived through in the 1980s. When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in April 1980 asking for a 'live wire guitarist' to audition in Birmingham, he saw his chance. Even he could not have predicted what happened next. The group, Duran Duran, released their first single, 'Planet Earth', ten months later and soon became the biggest band since the Beatles. Emerging in the post-punk era, Duran headed the New Romantic movement and with their stunning videos and style consciousness, they set the trend for the consumerist 1980s. Popular with everyone from rockers to Princess Diana, they had a string of massive worldwide hits such as 'Rio', 'The Reflex' and 'A View to a Kill'. They won Grammys and an Ivor Novello award among many other things. By Live Aid, in 1985, they were at their very pinnacle of success - and then the band began to fall apart. At the centre of it all, giving the group its musical pulse, was lead guitarist Andy Taylor. In this revealing and raw memoir, Taylor recalls the highs and lows of an unbelievable period where the squeaky clean facade hid the truth of wild partying as five young men took just about every opportunity that was offered to them. Andy Taylor's story is of an era when MTV was new, the media allowed superstars to get away with lots and rock stars knew how to party like there was no tomorrow. Wild Boy is a book that millions of fans of Duran Duran around the world will want to read to know the full story of what really happened.