The Life Of A Song Volume 1

Author : David Cheal,Jan Dalley
Publisher : Chambers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781473668188

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Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful weekly The Life of a Song columns that appear in the FT Weekend every Saturday. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form (often a spiritual, or a jazz number), through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. The selection covers a wide spectrum of the songs we all know and love - rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.

Author : Jan Dalley
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781473670471

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Life of a Song by Jan Dalley Pdf

Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other fascinating back stories of some of our best-known and best-loved songs fill this book, a collection of the highly successful weekly The Life of a Song columns that appear in the FT Weekend every Saturday. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form (often a spiritual, or a jazz number), through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. The selection covers a wide spectrum of the songs we all know and love - rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.

Author : Jan Dalley,David Cheal
Publisher : Chambers
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781399800594

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The Life of a Song by Jan Dalley,David Cheal Pdf

Discover the stories behind the songs THE LIFE OF A SONG contains the stories of 100 songs exploring each song's biography and how they took on a new life following their release. Packed with intriguing factoids, these bite-sized essays will delight music fans and send you scurrying back to listen to the songs in all their beauty and mystery. Who knew that Paul McCartney originally referred to Yesterday as 'Scrambled Eggs' because he couldn't think of any lyrics for his heart-breaking tune? Or that Patti LaBelle didn't know what 'Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?' actually meant? These and countless other back stories fill this book. Each 600-word piece gives a mini-biography of a single song, from its earliest form through the various covers and changes, often morphing from one genre to another, always focusing on the 'biography' of the song itself while including the many famous artists who have performed or recorded it. This book collects 100 of the best pieces from the highly successful The Life of a Song columns from the FT Weekend every Saturday. Inside you'll find rock, pop, folk, jazz and more. Each piece is pithy, sparkily written, knowledgeable, entertaining, full of anecdotes and surprises. They combine deep musical knowledge with the vivid background of the performers and musicians, and of course the often intriguing social and political background against which the songs were created.

Author : Jan Dalley,David Cheal
Publisher : Chambers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781473668263

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The Life of a Song Volume 2 by Jan Dalley,David Cheal Pdf

When great songs have been written and released, they often take on a life of their own, reshaped and given new life, transcending genres. THE LIFE OF A SONG is a compilation of weekly columns written for FT Weekend, containing the biographies of 50 songs that have been born, reborn, sometimes hideously mangled, but often reinvigorated by new generations of artists. Here you will find songs that shook the world, songs that heralded the birth of a new musical movement, songs that made the journey from soul to punk and from heavy rock to hip-hop.

Author : Mary Gauthier
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250202123

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Saved by a Song by Mary Gauthier Pdf

"A handbook for compassion... a Must-Read Music Book.” —Rolling Stone Country "Generous and big-hearted, Gauthier has stories to tell and worthwhile advice to share." —Wally Lamb, author of I Know This Much Is True "Gauthier has an uncanny ability to combine songwriting craft with a seeker’s vulnerability and a sage’s wisdom.” —Amy Ray, Indigo Girls From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and the redemptive power of song Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to write her own, one day. Then, for a decade, while struggling with addiction, Gauthier put her dream away and her call to songwriting faded. It wasn’t until she got sober and went to an open mic with a friend did she realize that she not only still wanted to write songs, she needed to. Today, Gauthier is a decorated musical artist, with numerous awards and recognition for her songwriting, including a Grammy nomination. In Saved by a Song, Mary Gauthier pulls the curtain back on the artistry of songwriting. Part memoir, part philosophy of art, part nuts and bolts of songwriting, her book celebrates the redemptive power of song to inspire and bring seemingly different kinds of people together.

Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016936

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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1. The Middle Ages by Karen A. Winstead Pdf

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages explores the richness and variety of life-writing from late Antiquity to the threshold of the Renaissance. During the Middle Ages, writers from Bede to Chaucer were thinking about life and experimenting with ways to translate lives, their own and others', into literature. Their subjects included career religious, saints, celebrities, visionaries, pilgrims, princes, philosophers, poets, and even a few 'ordinary people.' They relay life stories not only in chronological narratives, but also in debates, dialogues, visions, and letters. Many medieval biographers relied on the reader's trust in their authority, but some espoused standards of evidence that seem distinctly modern, drawing on reliable written sources, interviewing eyewitnesses, and cross-checking their facts wherever possible. Others still professed allegiance to evidence but nonetheless freely embellished and invented not only events and dialogue but the sources to support them. The first book devoted to life-writing in medieval England, The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages covers major life stories in Old and Middle English, Latin, and French, along with such Continental classics as the letters of Abelard and Heloise and the autobiographical Vision of Christine de Pizan. In addition to the life stories of historical figures, it treats accounts of fictional heroes, from Beowulf to King Arthur to Queen Katherine of Alexandria, which show medieval authors experimenting with, adapting, and expanding the conventions of life writing. Though Medieval life writings can be challenging to read, we encounter in them the antecedents of many of our own diverse biographical forms-tabloid lives, literary lives, brief lives, revisionist lives; lives of political figures, memoirs, fictional lives, and psychologically-oriented accounts that register the inner lives of their subjects.

Author : Frankie Muse Freeman,Candace O'Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060636035

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A Song of Faith and Hope by Frankie Muse Freeman,Candace O'Connor Pdf

Louis Housing Authority general counsel - and lost her job amid bitter controversy stirred up by a commission hearing in St. Louis County.".

Author : Christopher J. Zehnder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1989905889

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A Song for Else: Volume 1: The Vow by Christopher J. Zehnder Pdf

Lorenz List didn't know what awaited him in the great city of Nürnberg. It was an impossibly large city for a boy from the rural hinterlands, where ancient custom, seething discontent, and (at times) a mystical fanaticism held sway. In Nürnberg, he hopes to fulfill a destiny for which he never had dared to dream. He could move from obscurity to fame, perhaps, and from poverty to wealth. In Nürnberg he begins to move among an urbane and cultivated class of people far superior (he thinks) to the peasant folk from which he came. And he finds unexpected love - a love that could prove the ruin of all his hopes. Set in early 16th century Germany, this is a tale of a young man in a time of impending revolution, felt but as yet unseen. This volume is the first part of a trilogy set against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427056634

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Life of Johnson, Book V Volume 1 of 2 (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609772482

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Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell Pdf

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the official life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Brontë's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.

Author : John Strachan,Steven E Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000712612

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British Satire, 1785-1840, Volume 1 by John Strachan,Steven E Jones Pdf

This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.

Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044919210

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The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Pdf

Author : Merriman Roger Bigelow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752443721

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Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 by Merriman Roger Bigelow Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 by Merriman Roger Bigelow

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076096738

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Life and Works of Charlotte Bronté and Her Sisters: The life of Charlotte Bronté, by Mrs. Gaskell by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Author : Leila Sales
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374351397

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This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales Pdf

Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski's strong suit. All throughout her life, she's been the butt of every joke and the outsider in every conversation. When a final attempt at popularity fails, Elise nearly gives up. Then she stumbles upon a warehouse party where she meets Vicky, a girl in a band who accepts her; Char, a cute, yet mysterious disc jockey; Pippa, a carefree spirit from England; and most importantly, a love for DJing. Told in a refreshingly genuine and laugh-out-loud funny voice, Leila Sales' THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE is an exuberant novel about identity, friendship, and the power of music to bring people together.