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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of the definitive biography of the man, Sound Pictures traces the story of the Beatles breathtaking artistic trajectory after reaching the creative heights of Rubber Soul. As the bandmates engage in brash experimentation both inside...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
George Martin's working-class childhood and musical influences profoundly shaped his early career in the BBC's Classical Music department and as head of the EMI Group's Parlophone Records. Out of them flowed the genius behind his seven years producing the Beatles' incredible body of work. In this first book of two, Womack traces Martin's early years; his unlikely discovery of the Beatles, and his painstaking efforts to prepare their newfangled sound...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Draws on interviews and firsthand personal observations extending throughout a twenty-five-year period with both Phillips and legendary Sun Records artists to explain the label's unique and influential integration of new music styles.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
This title tells the story of George Martin, the man who spotted the Beatles' talent, who recorded and produced them from the start, and who brought their musical ideas to life. In this witty and charming autobiography, he describes exactly what it was like to work in the studio with the Beatles - from the first audition (and his decision to scrap Pete Best on drums) to the wild experimentation of Sgt Pepper (complete with sound effects, animal noises,...
45) Head games
Author
Series
Mike Garrity mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client. Lionel Harding is one of the best song writers of the 20th century, the multi-Grammy award-winning lyricist of the third most recorded song in history. But now he's 42 and six months overdue on the his latest paid...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Earth, Wind & Fire was one of the most popular and significant bands of the past century, celebrated alongside Chicago, the Commodores, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Sly and the Family Stone. They transcended genres and fused diverse influences, from R&B to pop to jazz and beyond, earning multiple Grammy Awards--and most recently a Lifetime Achievement Award, shortly after the passing of the band's founder, Maurice White. Although many of White's...
49) The son: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chris Blackwell, like the paradigm-shifting artists he came to support over his sixty-plus years in the music business, never took the conventional route. He grew up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol Flynn. After being expelled from an elite British school for rebellious behavior in 1954 at age seventeen, he moved back to Jamaica, and within five years, founded Island Records—the company that would...
51) Fantasia
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Records
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
Along with being a groundbreaking film, Fantasia remains a favorite among many Disney fans. Along with the original soundtrack, this collection features bonus material that sheds more light into one of Disney's most acclaimed movies.
52) Here
Author
Publisher
Vagrant Records
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
The Indie Folk Rock band, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, releases its second album Here, a follow up from the debut album Up From Below.
53) Muted
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A tale inspired by true events traces the experiences of a talented singer who wants to escape her all-white community before catching the attention of an R&B star who gives her access to fame and luxury in exchange for unscrupulous sacrifices.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions -- to be part of rock royalty's trusted inner circle. Illustrated with private photographs and jam-packed with intimate anecdotes, Miss O'Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock history.
56) The keys
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"From Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success" -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This striking photographic journey shows how Tony Brown became the King of Nashville: from pianist for Elvis Presley, to president of MCA Records Nashville, to producer of over 100 number-one country songs that are beloved by millions. ELVIS, STRAIT, TO JESUS celebrates a music icon's legendary rise, his history-making industry relationships, and how these friendships gave us the songs we still live by. The magic of Tony Brown's forty-year career...
58) Just friends
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In school Chris was an overweight nerd and in love with his best friend Jamie, but she thought of him like a brother. Now a hot L.A. music exec, he returns to his hometown and falls in love with Jamie all over again. Can they be more than Just Friends?
During their high school years, Chris confessed his love for his best friend and was met with a broken heart and degrading humiliation. Adding insult to injury, Chris was a big guy and was a source...
59) Storm front
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Minnesota cop Virgil Flowers teams up with an Israeli cop who is tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic -- a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Problems mount when teams of murderous bad guys believe Virgil and the woman cop are getting in their way of claiming the relic for themselves.
In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets...
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