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The rise and fall of Some Bizzarethe label that introduced the world to Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, and The Theis the great untold story of alternative music.Along with Factory, Mute, and Creation, Some Bizzare was the vanguard of outsider music in t...

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In the words of singer Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode were a new sort of band from a new sort of town: Basildon, a radical post-war experiment in design and living; a city of the future that serves as a mirror for Depeche Modes stark, electronic ultra-p...

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Driven to the brink of madness by cocaine, overwork, marital strife, and a paranoid obsession with the occult, David Bowie fled Los Angeles in 1975 and ended up in Berlin, the divided city on the frontline between communist East and capitalist Wes...

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In his first book, Australian singer-songwriter Robert Forster takes readers on an idiosyncratic journey through the past and present of popular music: from Bob Dylan to Cat Power, from AC/DC to Nana Mouskouri, from The Saints to Franz Ferdinand.W...

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Singer, bassist, and songwriter Glenn Hughes is a living, breathing embodiment of British rock, and his is a compelling story.Starting out in the 60s with beat combo Finders Keepers, he formed acclaimed funk-rock band Trapeze, then joined Deep Pur...

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In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Incredible String Band, Va...

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If you know what you want, Ill get it for you. If you dont know what you want, Ill do it for you.Few record producers possess the musical facility to back up such a bold promise, but in over forty-plus years behind the glass, Todd Rundgren has wil...

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Nirvana are one of the most influential bands in rock history, and even now, nearly 20 years after Kurt Cobains death, the reverence in which they are held is undiminished.Books have been written about Nirvana before, but they tend to concentrate ...

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In 1992, Johnny Cash was battered and bruised. In constant pain through heart problems, broken bones and the aftermath of a second bout of drug addiction, his career wasnt in much better shape than his body. One of his last singles for CBS, before...

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When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success. After all, it was Jack Bruce who had the looks, and who co-wrote and sang all the bands major hits, in...

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Return Of The King tells the story of a tumultuous period in the life of Elvis Presley. By 1967, The King Of RocknRoll was all but washed-up, thanks to a string of bland movie roles and lackluster records. But within a year he had roused himself, ...

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Beatles For Sale details the ups and downs of The Beatles from their inception, as they promoted, advertised, and sold records, played concerts, produced tacky merchandise, made films, and set up publishing and record companies.It shows that The B...

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In 1958 Gibson introduced an electric guitar called the Les Paul Standard, a solidbody electric with mahogany body, two pickups, and a three-colour sunburst maple top, priced at $280. About 1,500 were made before production ceased in 1960 of what ...

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Hot Burritos is the first ever biography of the band, as told to writer John Einarson by founding Burrito Chris Hillman and other group members and associates.Forty years ago, former Byrds Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons released The Gilded Palace ...

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The Walker Brothers were the US counter-strike to the British invasion of the mid-60s. While The Beatles, the Stones and many others were busy colonising the US charts, three tall, handsome American men went into voluntary exile in a freezing Lond...

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Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially-mixed band Love, and accelerating the evolution of California folk-r...

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Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era.If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historical accident. Yet they seem never to have quite...

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Weve sort of flirted with greatness, R.E.M.s Peter Buck admitted. But weve yet to make a record as good as Big Stars Third.Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little commercial success, the influence of their three ori...

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Devo may have become synonymous with the crass commercialism of 80s new wave, but many of their guiding principles are firmly rooted in the idealism of the 60s. Taking a wilfully non-traditional approach to the surprisingly conservative world of r...

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When Laughter In The Rain, Bad Blood, and Love Will Keep Us Together all reached number one in 1975, they said, Sedakas back. It was a thrilling ride for me that signaled the end of a long, hard climb back to the top. I want to thank Rich Podolsky...

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Suddenly, this skinny, longhaired kid who had been lounging against the wall inside sprang forward to confront me, rolling and popping his eyes, intensely vibing me with his own personal voodoo. He looked electric, on fireas if he was about to jum...

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On February 16 1969, John McLaughlin flew into New York, from London, in a snowstorm. The following day, Miles Davis, his hero, invited him to play on a record. Two years later, on the path of Bengali mystic Sri Chinmoy, John launched the Mahavish...

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I have been seeking P.F. Sloan, but no one knows where hes goneP.F. Sloan by Jimmy WebbAbsolutely none of em could beat ol P.F.Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone magazineWhats Exactly The Matter With Me? is a first-person account of an extraordinary life...

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At a time in rock and pop history when almost everything has been done before, few artists have proved as restlessly innovative as Beck.Since bursting onto the scene in 1994 with Loser, he has zigzagged his way across the contemporary music landsc...

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Heroic and absurd, scurrilous and profound, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? charts the descent of four intelligent young men with faces like rubyeyed dimestore skull rings into a glittering and very modern maelstrom. Fast, compelling, and disarmingly...

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Its 1967, the Summer of Love, and Bob Dylan is holed up in Woodstock with a group of musicians once known as The Hawks, laying down a set of recordings that will soon turn the music world on its head. These recordings the Basement Tapes would not ...

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If I had a name like Wyndham Wallace I would not associate or correspond with anyone with a simple name like mine. However, since you have lowered yourself to such depths, how can my old Indian heart (west not east) not respond favourably. Lee Haz...

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REBELLION IS A PART OF YOUTH. SOMETIMES ITS DANGEROUS. INSTEAD OF A SWORD, I HOLD A GUITAR IN MY HANDS. IM IN THE SAME, RIGID WORLD, BUT INSTEAD OF MOLOTOV COCKTAILS, IVE GOT A COMPUTER. ITS A MUCH MORE POWERFUL WEAPON.Confessions Of A Heretic is ...

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I LIKE ACCIDENTS. I LIKE TO PUT MYSELF IN THE WAY OF MUSICAL HARM. I LIKE BEING AT THE WHEEL OF THAT MUSICAL CAR, AND AIMING IT AT THE WALL, JUST TO SEE WHAT SHAPE THE CARS GOING TO COME OUT. IT MIGHT COME OUT AN INTERESTING SHAPE THAT WOULD HAVE ...

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In 1969, Andy Powell was one of four founder members of progressive rock pioneers Wishbone Ash. Forty-five years later, with no sabbaticals, he is still a member of Wishbone Ash. And he has seen a lot of interesting things along the way.Watching t...

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