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Publisher
Inception Media Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Flamboyant and with a hair-trigger temper that more than once led to him pulling a gun on musicians, 1960s British pop producer Joe Meek makes Phil Spector look like a pussycat. From Meek's ascension to the top of the charts with 'Telstar' to his dabblings in the occult and implication in a boy's murder, the film charts the composer's tumultuous life.
23) The late show
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Series
Language
English
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Introducing Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPD's toughest beat. Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood--also known as the Late Show--beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.But one night she...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A powerful executive in the music industry recounts how a street kid from the Bronx became music's most creative and successful CEO, sharing details about his marriage to Mariah Carey and dealings with the biggest icons in music.
Author
Series
Chronicles of the One volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world. They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed beforethe city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this entertaining and observant memoir, Johns takes us on a tour of his world during the heady years of the sixties, with beguiling stories that will delight music fans the world over: he remembers helping to get the Steve Miller Band released from jail shortly after their arrival in London, he recalls his impressions of John and Yoko during the Let It Be sessions, and he recounts running into Bob Dylan at JFK and being asked to work on a collaborative...
31) Phil Spector
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwrite David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of recorded sound--the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. In Into the Groove, vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind-blowing feat that we all take for granted today--the domestication of sound. Thomas Edison's phonograph, the first device that could both record and reproduce sound, represented...
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Series
Vinyl detective novels volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"He is a record collector -- a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. Some end up on his turntable, some are sold at a handsome profit, and all sound a hell of a lot better than any digital recording. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like the beautiful, mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording -- on behalf...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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From Sarah Dessen, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of SAINT ANYTHING and JUST LISTEN, comes a new novel set in the world of wedding planning!Is it really better to have loved and lost? Louna's summer job is to help brides plan their perfect day, even though she stopped believing in happily-ever-after when her first love ended tragically. But charming girl-magnet Ambrose isn't about to be discouraged now that he's met the one he really...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This time the search for a rare record ensnares our hero in a mystery with its roots stretching back to the Second World War. Three young RAF airmen played in a legendary band called the Flare Path Orchestra. When a precious record of their music turns up in the most unexpected place the Vinyl Detective finds himself hired to track down the rest of their highly sought-after recordings. But, as he does so, he finds that the battles of the last World...
37) Len & Company
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Len is a punk rocker-turned-in-demand pop producer, who following a very public meltdown, retreats to his country home for some time away from the pressures of the business. His solitude is interrupted, however, when he receives a visit from some surprise guest, his estranged son and pop star protgeé, who arrive with complications of their own and who shake the prickly Len out of his stupor.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The music. The mix. His life. "[A] passionate, introspective memoir." Publishers Weekly. "Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue..." Steve Aoki. Blue is the remarkable storyin pictures and wordsof Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/producer who started his career as a vegan straightedge hardcore music kid hellbent on defying his millionaire father, whose unquenchable thirst to entertaininherited from his dad, Rocky Aoki, founder...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The perfect read for music lovers and business aficionados alike, The Big Payback reveals the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC’s crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE VH1 SERIES THE BREAKS The Big Payback takes readers from the first $15 made by a “rapping...
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