The Sonic Swagger Of Elvis Presley

Author : Gary Parker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476684314

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The Sonic Swagger of Elvis Presley by Gary Parker Pdf

Elvis Presley's clever manipulation of his numerous interests remains one of the music world's great marvels. His synthesis of country, rhythm & blues and gospel resulted in an inventive mixture of hair-raising rock & roll and balladry. This book focuses on the music of Presley's groundbreaking early years and includes a comprehensive analysis of every Presley recording session from the 1950s. Chapters show how Presley, with one foot in delta mud and the other in a country hoedown, teamed with Scotty Moore and Bill Black to fuse two distinctly American musical forms--country and blues--to form what would come to be known as "rockabilly." Also detailed is Presley's influence on music and how his contributions are still celebrated today.

Author : Gary Parker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476645148

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The Sonic Swagger of Elvis Presley by Gary Parker Pdf

Elvis Presley's clever manipulation of his numerous interests remains one of the music world's great marvels. His synthesis of country, rhythm & blues and gospel resulted in an inventive mixture of hair-raising rock & roll and balladry. This book focuses on the music of Presley's groundbreaking early years and includes a comprehensive analysis of every Presley recording session from the 1950s. Chapters show how Presley, with one foot in delta mud and the other in a country hoedown, teamed with Scotty Moore and Bill Black to fuse two distinctly American musical forms--country and blues--to form what would come to be known as "rockabilly." Also detailed is Presley's influence on music and how his contributions are still celebrated today.

Author : Rick Tuber
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798885313896

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Love, Death, and Whisky: The Last Wee Dram by Rick Tuber Pdf

Life is predictably random, and no one knows that better than the recently retired Rob Turner who spends his days watching reruns on TV, sitting on his patio deck drinking whisky, and waiting for his wife Susan to return home from work. His carefree (ok, boring) existence is shattered when his doctor delivers the devastating news that he has less than a year to live. Hoping to spare his family the pain of waiting for him to die, Rob decides to keep his diagnosis to himself. When Susan comes home from work one day and finds Rob deep in conversation with a squirrel, she suggests he get out of his rut by taking a trip. Rob jumps at the opportunity, and within days he embarks on a month-long bucket list-adventure to Scotland. Though his looming death is constantly on his mind, Rob enjoys a couple of weeks touring the distilleries, lochs, and castle ruins of the Scottish Highlands. The last stop on his tour is the Isle of Islay, and it’s there that he meets two people who will change his outlook on life: Mia, an attractive British widow who brings him to the brink of temptation, and Moses, a Scottish shaman of sorts who, upon hearing of Rob’s impending death, predicts a much happier ending for him. Rob boards his flight back to LA feeling renewed, refreshed, and ready to face his destiny, whatever it may be. He can’t wait to see Susan and share a few surprises he has for her, not the least of which is coming clean about his diagnosis. Will it be the reunion made in heaven that he’s hoping for? When life is predictably random, it’s anybody’s guess.

Author : Gary Parker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476634654

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Original Jethro Tull by Gary Parker Pdf

 Jethro Tull was one of the truly innovative rock bands to emerge from the late 1960s. At their peak the idiosyncratic group, fronted by multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson, resembled a troupe of roving English minstrels. Crafting a signature progressive rock sound that resisted easy categorization, they were often derided by critics as too British, too eccentric, too theatrical. Over the span of a decade, Tull released a string of sublime albums featuring intricate compositions in a wide range of musical styles, with little regard for the showbiz maxim “give the public what it wants.” Focusing on the years 1968–1980, this history includes insider accounts based on exclusive interviews with key members and rare photographs from Ian Anderson’s personal collection.

Author : Mark Ribowsky
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635767230

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The Big Life of Little Richard by Mark Ribowsky Pdf

“This entertaining, fast-paced biography” of the legendary singer-songwriter “will thrill fans of Little Richard and early rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly). Richard Wayne Penniman, known to the world as Little Richard, blazed the trail for generations of musicians: The Beatles, James Brown, the Everly Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Prince . . . the list seems endless. He was “The Originator,” “The Innovator,” and the self-anointed “King and Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll.” In The Big Life of Little Richard, Mark Ribowsky shares the raucous story of his life from early childhood in Macon, Georgia, to his death in 2020. Ribowsky, acclaimed biographer of musical icons―including the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and Otis Redding―takes readers through venues, gigs, and studios, conveying the sweaty energy of music sessions limited to a few tracks on an Ampex tape machine and vocals sung along with a live band. He explores Little Richard’s musicianship; his family life; his uphill battle against racism; his interactions with famous contemporaries and the media; and his lifelong inner conflict between his religion and his sexuality. By 2020, eighty-seven-year-old Little Richard’s electrifying smile was still intact, as were his bona fides as rock’s royal architect: the ’50s defined his reign, and he extended elder statesmanship ever since. The Big Life of Little Richard not only explores a legendary stage persona, but also a complex life under the makeup and pomade

Author : Victor Coelho,John Covach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107030268

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The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones by Victor Coelho,John Covach Pdf

The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.

Author : Peter Guralnick,Ernst Jorgensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0345420896

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Elvis Day by Day by Peter Guralnick,Ernst Jorgensen Pdf

From Elvis's definitive chronicler and Ernst Jorgensen, the premier archivist and reissue producer of Elvis's recordings, comes a unique portrait of Presley's life and music. 300+ photos.

Author : Ray Connolly
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474604581

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Being Elvis by Ray Connolly Pdf

The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming biopic Elvis, a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler. What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he could share the burden of being himself - of being Elvis. On the outside he was all charm, sex appeal, outrageously confident on stage and stunningly gifted in the recording studio. To his fans he seemed to have it all. He was Elvis. With his voice and style influencing succeeding generations of musicians, he should have been free to sing any song he liked, to star in any film he was offered, and to tour in any country he chose. But he wasn't free. The circumstances of his poor beginnings in the American South, which, as he blended gospel music with black rhythm and blues and white country songs, helped him create rock and roll, had left him with a lifelong vulnerability. Made rich and famous beyond his wildest imaginings when he mortgaged his talent to the machinations of his manager, 'Colonel' Tom Parker, there would be an inevitable price to pay. Though he daydreamed of becoming a serious film actor, instead he grew to despise his own movies and many of the songs he had to sing in them. He could have rebelled. But he didn't. Why? In the Seventies, as the hits rolled in again, and millions of fans saw him in a second career as he sang his way across America, he talked of wanting to tour the world. But he never did. What was stopping him? BEING ELVIS takes a clear-eyed look at the most-loved entertainer ever, and finds an unusual boy with a dazzling talent who grew up to change popular culture; a man who sold a billion records and had more hits than any other singer, but who became trapped by his own frailties in the loneliness of fame.

Author : Nick Tosches
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802135668

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Hellfire by Nick Tosches Pdf

A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity.

Author : Holly George-Warren
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698151420

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A Man Called Destruction by Holly George-Warren Pdf

The first biography of the artist who “essentially invented indie and alternative rock” (Spin) A brilliant and influential songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist, the charismatic Alex Chilton was more than a rock star—he was a true cult icon. Awardwinning music writer Holly George-Warren’s A Man Called Destruction is the first biography of this enigmatic artist, who died in 2010. Covering Chilton’s life from his early work with the charttopping Box Tops and the seminal power-pop band Big Star to his experiments with punk and roots music and his sprawling solo career, A Man Called Destruction is the story of a musical icon and a richly detailed chronicle of pop music’s evolution, from the mid-1960s through today’s indie rock.

Author : Shaun Ryder
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571330942

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Wrote For Luck by Shaun Ryder Pdf

In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like Kinky Afro, 24 Hour Party People and Performance, would come to define a generation. Here collected and edited for the first time, in trade and special editions, are his unforgettable lyrics.

Author : Gary Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692766081

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The Fourth Order by Gary Parker Pdf

When tech nova Reid Temple and his partners announce they have developed a revolutionary energy source to reverse the ravages of global climate change, a stunned world rejoices. Privately, Temple battles to contain a malignant computer virus that has infected the new energy source and threatens the world with nuclear devastation. When Temple turns up missing, it falls to the woman he loves, Los Angeles news anchor Maddy Daniel, to piece together clues to the threat and the vile force behind it -- a murderous cult with a chilling ultimatum. Comply with our demands or three great cities will be destroyed. Your choice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1376 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Chicago tribune
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025893897

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Chicago Tribune Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Craig Anderson
Publisher : Hellgate Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Assassins
ISBN : 1555717292

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Cobra Clearance by Richard Craig Anderson Pdf

The world economy is already in severe crisis when Amahl, a cunning Middle Eastern fanatic, butchers Morgan Melchior-America's second black president-on live TV. Amahl's name is linked with that of Brent Kruger, a homegrown terrorist and leader of a white supremacist cult. And the two of them are just getting started. Enter Dragon Team-an elite special ops group led by former FBI agent Levi Hart. Its mission: Waylay a plot by two of the world's most dangerous terrorists to assassinate President Melchior's successor and cause global economic collapse. But when Levi goes undercover to infiltrate Kruger's gang of violent skinheads, he gets cut off from his backup team and has to go it alone. Now it's anybody's game to win, and the good guys are running out of time.

Author : Maureen Mahon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478012771

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Black Diamond Queens by Maureen Mahon Pdf

African American women have played a pivotal part in rock and roll—from laying its foundations and singing chart-topping hits to influencing some of the genre's most iconic acts. Despite this, black women's importance to the music's history has been diminished by narratives of rock as a mostly white male enterprise. In Black Diamond Queens, Maureen Mahon draws on recordings, press coverage, archival materials, and interviews to document the history of African American women in rock and roll between the 1950s and the 1980s. Mahon details the musical contributions and cultural impact of Big Mama Thornton, LaVern Baker, Betty Davis, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton, Labelle, the Shirelles, and others, demonstrating how dominant views of gender, race, sexuality, and genre affected their careers. By uncovering this hidden history of black women in rock and roll, Mahon reveals a powerful sonic legacy that continues to reverberate into the twenty-first century.