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The most influential, enduring, and iconic metal band of the 1980's reveals everything a tell–all of epic proportions.
This unbelievable autobiography explores the rebellious lives of four of the most influential icons in American rock history.
Motley Crue was the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of backward–masking pentagram rock, pioneers of Hollywood glam, and the creators of MTV's first ⯯wer ballad.⟔heir sex lives claimed celebrities from Heather Locklear to Pamela Anderson to Donna D
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rico. Their scuffles involved everyone from Axl Rose to 2LiveCrew. Their hobbies have included collecting automatic weapons, cultivating long arrest records, pushing the envelope of conceivable drug abuse, and dreaming up backstage antics that would make Ozzy Osbourne blanch with modesty.
Provocatively written and brilliantly designed, this book includes over 100 photos, many never before published, for the most exciting and insightful look ever into the Crue.
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Best book I've ever read!!!.......2007-09-30
Art is a piece of work that moves you & this book did. I laughed, I was disgusted, I even cried. This is twenty years of a band strugling though fights, overdoses, suicide attempts, mariages, deaths, prison (it's all here!). I love how the story is told by different people so you can hearing everybody's version of what happened (crazy how everybody remebers things differently). You get to hear what happened behind closed doors & what wasn't in the tabloids. It truly was an awesome read - very hard to put down!
Great book.......2007-09-18
From page one your are on a journey, as told by each memeber of the band, from the worst part of L.A. and Motley Crue's beginnings, to their rise to super stardom in the world of rock and roll. I was never much of a Crue fan when they were in their prime, but as I got older, I started to like their music and enjoyed reading about their beginning and the typical crazy road that most rock stars take.
Anazing !!.......2007-09-18
I loved the book the most amazing thing i have ever read inmy life !!!
Suprisingly great book.......2007-09-17
You will wet your pants laughing within the first 5 pages. I am half way through the book and learning alot about the band and Nikki Sixx himself. There is alot people do not know. Can't wait to finish the rest.
Great book, but just a little over-embelished........2007-09-13
This book is a FUN read and I have no doubt that for the most part things went down exactly as described. However I've also read Neil Strauss' other books and while a brilliant writer, he tend to make things larger than life and more polished than they really were (read the Game especially for examples of this.) Some things in the book seem a little too "neatly" described and he glosses over some of the more negative aspects of Motley Crue (And I grew up with them and obsessively followed their press since I was in middle school.)
But definitely a thumbs up. Look forward to reading Nikki's new book for comparison.
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Previously published as Invisible Republic, The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967-music that remains as seductive and baffling today as it was more than thirty years ago. "Marcus's contention is that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock, are where that community as a whole gets to speak," wrote Mark Singer in The Wire. But the country mapped in this book, as Bruce Shapiro wrote in The Nation, "is not Woody Guthrie's land made for you and me...... It's what Marcus calls 'the old, weird America'"-the "playground for God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence me, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all strips," as Luc Sante put it in New York magazine. It's no wonder The Old, Weird America "reads like a thriller" (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly); as Mary Gaitskill said in Artforum, Marcus's writing works much like music: It flies by in a comet tail."AUTHORBIO: Greil Marcus is the author of Double Trouble; Dead Elvis; Lipstick Traces; and Mystery Train. His pieces have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Artforum; Interview; The New Yorker; The New York Times; and Esquire. He lives in Berkeley, California. REVIEW: "This book is terminal, goes deeply into the subconscious and plows through that period of time like a rake. Greil Marcus has done it again."(Bob Dyl
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Pseudo-Intellectual Myth-Symbol Twaddle.......2007-08-10
Greil Marcus has somehow parlayed his college degree in the obsolete "myth-symbol" school of American Studies into a career as a philosopher of American music. In the process, he has conjured up some of the worst books ever published on rock and roll. Marcus confuses "myth" with the LSD-fuelled '60s fan dreams of musicians as shamans, elves and hobbits. Imagine Jim Morrison, Marc Bolan & Robert Plant attempting to be critics while still on the Kool Aid that produced "Prophets Seers and Sages, The Angels of the Ages", "Stairway to Heaven" and Morrison's ideas about rock concerts as Dionysian rites. Marcus fashioned "Mystery Train", his first sycophantic journey into over-stimulated ego-crazed fan-boy fantasy. Then, after spending too many nights rolling joints on the sleeves of John Wesley Harding and trying to figure out which one was Quinn The Eskimo, Marcus encountered Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music and completely lost his mind. In this horrible re-issue of "Invisible Republic" Marcus treats early American folk artists like Dock Boggs and Robert Johnson as if they were mythical beings rather than men. He then tries to turn Dylan's Basement Tapes into a natural successor to the "mystery school" of these artists. Mere words cannot express the mediocrity of Marcus's meditations. Please, if you have any soul, avoid this book. But dont let Marcus's mind-rot put you off Dock Boggs and Harry Smith's Anthology and Dylan's Basement Tapes -- Marcus does have good taste in music, he just doesn't have anything worth saying to say about it.
Greil Marcus Should Marry Bob Dylan.......2007-02-13
Greil Marcus Should Marry Bob Dylan...he's already written a long love-letter. True there are a lot of interesting musical relationships brought out in the author's discussion, but the details of the Basement Tapes are just not there. Marcus' approach is that of an ethno-musicologist, and one who is too close to his subject. Personally, the bias from the start of the book and the torturous prose were very hard to stomach. I can not recommend this book to anyone, and it will keep me away from anything else by Greil Marcus again. I only wish I could have been warned before I bought it.
Strange Paths.......2006-11-04
Taking Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes as a starting point this book wanders through the foundations of American music investigating some shadowy folk byways.
While the metaphor (actual towns populated by the characters in the songs) is a little overwrought the overall effect of the book is powerful.
I found it particularly exciting to see links to other musicians I like such as Nick Cave and Kirstin Hersh.
Fascinating and essential for any Dylan and American folk fan.......2006-08-13
(this is the updated verion of Marcus' "Invisible Republic")
In 1965, Bob Dylan played Newport with an electric band. Playing songs from the groundbreaking "Highway 61 Revisited", Dylan-- in one of the finest performances of his career-- was roundly booed by the audience and condemned by critics.
Why?
Greil Marcus' fascinating book starts with this question: why were audiences so hostile to Dylan's new material and style? Marcus' thesis is that Dylan on Highway 61 rediscovered the folk music that America had forgotten, a folk music which had been co-opted by the '30s (and subsequent) Left, a music which was much older and much, much weirder than the work of Woody Guthrie and other late '50s exemplars of the folk tradition. Audiences were in for a shock when Dylan's surreal imagery and often apolitical but weirdly resonant lyrics replaced his plainer earlier folk tunes and protest songs.
The book's former title is an allusion to Ralph Ellison's novel "The Invisible Man," whose protagonist is invisible to his fellow Americans because they choose not to see him. In the same way, the very, very weird music of Dock Boggs, Mississippi John Hurt and many others, documented with loving care by Harry Smith, the compiler of the seminal "The Anthology of American Folk Music," was invisible to mainstream audiences during the 1950s and '60s, just as the history they documented was invisible to the majority of its time. It is a countercultural history in song of the U.S., including everything from slave narratives, love ballads, ancient blues, mythical re-tellings of political events, etc. This music is much richer and more complex than the mid-twentieth century folk music familiar to Dylan fans.
Marcus illuminates the connections between Dylan's mid-60s work and the "The Anthology of American Folk Music" and shows how Dylan's leap forward-- into surrealism, wild juxtaposition, historical allusion, electric instrumentation and only elliptical allusions to politics-- was also a leap backward into the Anthology's traditions.
This is one of those books whose ideas make the head spin. Marcus writes clearly but manages to keep the imagination running on overdrive. Like Pynchon, Levi-Strauss, Murakami and Dylan himself, the work is as much a set of ideas as an invitation to connect the many dots. As well as a fascianting tour through the work of Dylan, the Band and the Anthology, this is partly an alternative history of the U.S. and a pretty incisive reminder that folk music, as Dylan once said "is pure mystery."
Reach excedes grasp.......2006-08-12
I like Greil's approach, which worked so much better in the recent "Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At The Crossroads", of honing in on small detail to produce something profound. Maybe this book can be considered practice for the latter, because it simply didn't work here. I welcome experimental writing, but in this case the wash of minute detail combined with nonlinearity produced confusion rather than clarity. I'm afraid for me the insights are Greil's alone rather than universal. To his credit though, in the same way I'd rather see an ambitious indie movie that fails than a Hollywood blockbuster, reading this is worth a shot. I may try again some time.
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Fado Portugues: Songs From the Soul of Portugal (With Audio CD)
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Release Date: 2003-12-31 |
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Twenty-six songs in melody line arrangements for voice and guitar, with chord boxes and full lyrics in both Portuguese and English. Fully illustrated throughout with background notes for each song. Includes a CD containing recordings of every song in the book performed by the original artists. Songs include: Liboa Antiga, Coimbra, Ai Mouraria, Por Morrer Uma Andorinha, O Embuçado, Vinte Arios, E Foi-se A Mocidade, Meu Bairra Alto, Vaiteau A Pena, Rosa Enjeitada, and more.
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Excellent work.......2007-03-09
This is an excellent compilation of fado songs, includes audio CD and a great book. The origin and roots of every Fado song on the CD is described in the book including the music sheet so you can sing and play along on your guitar. Even if you are not musically inclined you will love the accurate history of fado and wonderful photography included in the book.
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The Beatles: 10 Years that Shook the World is an unrivalled day-by-day account of the band that changed the face of music, by the world's greatest rock writers and key personalities of the era. The book chronicles the private and public events that revolutionized the music world, led to Beatlemania, and culminated in the Beatles' dramatic split. The foreword is written by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
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Beautifully Presented!.......2007-04-30
This book is gorgeous in it's lay out and presentation. The articles are arranged in a magazine style format with a very imaginative what?,where?.when?, tag at the top of each article. I must say that some of these articles were written by some of the best Beatles writers and authorities in the world like,Hunter Davies,Barry Miles, Mark Lewisohn, and Ian Macdonald, to name but a few. However, some seem to be written by MOJO staff writers who's knowledge of the Beatles would fit in a thimble. These particular authors had to relie on previously written books to assimilate their info.,so for the M.B.E. ceremony you get that stupid story about the boys smoking a joint in the palace bathroom before meeting the queen. (probably taken from Lennon Remembers which should have been retitled,Lennon is Angry this Week and Wants to Make Up a Bunch of Shock Stories.) A few of these ridiculous Beatles folk lore tales are retold in this book because the young staff writers at MOJO simply didn't know better. Seriously,with the drug penalties of 1965, would the boys have risked their entire career and reputation for a spliff in the QUEEN'S bathroom?
I did love the record reviews of each album, complete with vintage music reviews and commentary from Beatle fans in the music biz. Unfortunately the reviews of the earlier albums were given to those young staff writters again,(and they wouldn't know a Beatles album from a Cowsills album apparently.) It would have been nice if the reviewer for Beatles for Sale had taken the time to find out who is singing on Kansas City,instead of saying, "And WHOEVER is singing on Kansas City sounds great." Why were people like this allowed to write in the first place?
Also some of the picture captions are wrong. One of John and Paul is off by 3 years! (ouch) If I sound annoyingly anal,it's because I am anal when it comes to the Beatles. I've studied and read everything about them and because of this,I'm finding that I seem to know more than a lot of people who are making money writing about them. I always want to fix the many mistakes I find, and they are in every book except the ones by real experts like the fine writers I mentioned before.
Don't misunderstand, the wonderful things in this book far outweigh the anoying mistakes. In fact Ten Years... reminds me of the Beatles Anthology so it is definetly one of those must haves for the library. The pictures are absolutely gorgeous and almost all of them rare. The articles are facinating because they don't just retell the same story but they dig deeper,revealing unknown facts. They are written in a way that makes them seem fresh.
Also I really enjoyed the contributions from famous Beatles photographers with some of their most beautiful photos of the boys, and interesting anecdotes about working with them. You'll find everything here; the music,the mania,the private lives,and the personalities of the four who did indeed shake the world and changed our culture forever.
10 minutes that shook my life........2007-03-22
once youve read one story you have got to read them all, they go into detail about john and paul and its just great. theres stories for just about everything.
the pictures are clear and amazing, most, if not all of them you cannot find on the internet, this book is gigantic, almost the size of text books, which makes the pictures even more amazing.
you are not a beatles fan unless you have this book.
Top Mops.......2007-02-15
Yes you have heard the stories before, and you have even seen most of the picutres, but the way they have been put together still makes it worth while. It's like having all MOJO articles on the fabs in one book, and hey! maybe it's exactly what it is? They should have called it Chronology!
It's just dazzling!.......2007-01-19
This book is simply a delight that will hopefully introduce the nowadays young generation to the Beatles' unparalleled social and musical impact they have had on the world. I have always believed that the Beatles have set new standards in music as they imposed themselves as cultural icons in the sixties. I bet any Beatles fan would be joyful over the arrival of this book. I spent hours reading it, watching its photos, lovingly turning each page, smiling, laughing or weeping over so many previously unseen fantastic photos and background information to some of their songs and albums. I have many Beatle books at home but this one beats all of them in the detailed information provided, style and text. Some of the photos have never been released before. Besides, the material is extensive and professionally ellaborated. This book is a great work and I recommend it especially for the Beatle fans and connaisseurs. I'm sure everyone will love this book. The minute this book has been published, the timeless and greatest band of all times - The Beatles - are shocking the world, again!
Gave as a gift but..........2007-01-10
Went back and bought one for myself. DK always publishes excellent material, and their treatment of the Fab Four is up to their usual high standards. There are many, many books on the Beatles, but this is one of the ones you really should own.
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One of Europe's foremost jazz producers takes us through a world of musical traditions and explores the effects of sound on consciousness.
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Sound principles expand horizons.......2007-09-11
Joachim-Ernst Berendt has a great gift for synthesizing informaion. This book is a must read for anyone interested in harmony and understanding our place in the universe as part of the great expression of spirit. It will also appeal to those who prefer more practical information as to how sound and music has transcended and unified while informing those who play as well as the listener. I just love this book! I'm a yoga teacher and a singer and this book really touched me on all levels.
Nada Brahma.......2005-12-27
I read this book a little while ago and it completely transformed the way I perceive the world around me. This book showed me the power that sound has. While the book is primarily concerned with the mysticism of sound, he also relates the world around us to sound, and shows us how reliable and accurate our ears are when compared to our eyes.
Joachim-Ernst Berendt also gives listening tests in some of the chapters to give the reader an opportunity to develop their sense of hearing, which he says is being underused in our predominantly visual western culture.
I am a private detective and ever since reading this book, I have always tried to use sound equipment and techniques on my investigations. Since reading this book I have completely re-evaluated and structured the approach and conduct of my work for the better. Can't recommend it enough.
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Nadha Bhrama is an excellent esoteric book.......1999-12-04
My intimate partner is a spriritual practitioner of the Way of Adidam. He is also a musician and chanter. He finds this book both exciting and fascinating. I deals with subtle and cosmic aspects of music, sound and the manifest universe. He has wanted it for a long time. I am happy to have finally found it for him.
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- The book about female groups that rocked, well, rocks.
- As Good As It Gets
- The Book Still Remains To Be Written
- A terrific achievement
- Doo-lang, it's mod!
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Girl Groups: Fabulous Females That Rocked the World
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Girls, girls, girls! From the 1950s through the 1980s girl groups were hot. This book features the top sixty girl groups of rock n roll and rhythm n blues, such as the Supremes and the Go-Gos, who have contributed the most to the genre. Also included is a discography for all listed groups, pricing, and a comprehensive listing of all female rock n roll groups and their respective record labels. All girl group enthusiasts and music lovers in general will benefit from the biographical information included in this book.
-Features 60 of the most influential girl groups of the 1950s to the 1980s.
-More than 150 photos and a comprehensive listing of all female rock n roll groups.
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The book about female groups that rocked, well, rocks........2004-01-19
Simply the best thing written on girl groups, ever.
As Good As It Gets.......2002-10-22
This is as close to a definitive book on the Girl Group genre as you are likely to find... unless John Clemente decides to write a sequel, including the groups he had to leave out due to space limitations.
He corrects many of the mistakes made in Alan Betrock's book on the same subject. This book sets the record straight. The discographies are amazing. The interviews and rare pics are terrific. Any fan would be pleased.
If I have a complaint, it's that some groups have been left out. How can you include the Go-Go's but not the Bangles? As I said, space must have been the issue. Let's hope there is a volume 2 in the works.
The Book Still Remains To Be Written.......2002-09-06
Yes, this was a welcomed book, with the rare photos of obscure and not-so-obscure groups, the interviews with the players, the histories of the groups, and the discographies.
But. I want more. I want better. I want authoritative. And this just ain't that. Unfortunately, given the subject matter, there aren't going to be all that many chances to get what I want unless and until I write it myself. (The last, and first, book to cover this subject matter was "Girl Groups: The Story Of A Sound" back in the mid-1980s.)
Since the publication of Clemente's book, the online girl-group community has lifted him to near-godhead status, and I've heard not a peep of criticism: when you're starving, anything's better than nothing. But I think the book has obvious problems and these should be pointed out.
Despite Clemente's good intentions and obvious love for his subject matter, his writing is mundane, repetitive and often irritating. (Is there an editor in the house??) Worse is his lack of perspective/criticism: every girl group or female singer is just fa-a-abulous, so we don't get much insight into musical quality -- just a not very well-written cheerleader's surface story of when, who and how. Very little about the output --the "what", except, of course, that it's fa-a-abulous. Later I found, through a chat-list Clemente was on, that this may have been a quid pro quo for the interviews: he revealed in one post that he wasn't really much of a fan of, or that knowledgeable about, at least one of the groups' music, that of Reparata & the Delrons, but you wouldn't know it from their section in the book. For me, this cast doubt on the honesty of the whole project.
I've found several omissions in his discographies which could easily have been rectified with a quick check of other, reliable sources. Some of the histories are incomplete: While his piece on the Angels is in-depth and informative as far as it goes, their later-60's, early-70's story is truncated (and there is a story there still waiting to be told). ...And WHO designed that ugly cover?!
It's frustrating that books on this topic are so rare that an inferior book such as this one becomes a Bible.
A terrific achievement.......2001-11-05
There have been a lot of books and videos about girl groups but all them involved large, really large, gaps of information, missing names, erroneous information and so on. John Clemente amazingly gets it all down, all correct and every little detail in. How he did it I don't know. This book is fabulous and endlessly rereadable. And you will love the rare photos.
Doo-lang, it's mod!.......2001-04-23
The work that went into this book is astounding. As a girl-groups expert, I seldom find information that is new to me. However, author John Clemente painstakingly looked at the top girl groups and not only gives a narrative history, but a listing of group members over the various years and an exhaustive discography. Fun to read, fab pictures, and, if you're into collectibles, a good reference book, too.
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Music touches us all, from the dancing and rebellion of youth to the quiet contemplation of the older listener. Music provides the beat to the rhythm of our lives, introducing TV programs, selling advertisements, blasting out from market stalls or along the aisles of superstores.
The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music is the ultimate guide for anyone with a passing or a passionate interest in music. Authoritative, informative, accessible, and entertaining, the book conveys the spirit and substance of practically every type of music one might listen to, from rock, pop, jazz, folk, blues, hip-hop, reggae, and dance, to classical music, country, gospel, R&B, soul, soundtracks, musical theater, and world music.
Organized by genre, the book presents a concise introduction to each music form, listing its major exponents, offering a four-bar sample of its style, and provides information on major musicians, performers, composers, and songwriters - over 12,000 names in all - highlighting their main period of activity and cross-references to the relevant music style section.
Also included are three useful appendices. A short "Instruments" glossary covers all key instruments mentioned in the narrative, showing the reader which type of music each instrument is normally used in, with examples of its best or most rewarding use. "How to Read Music, the Basics" instructs the reader on how to read music, providing a simply understanding of the four bar examples of music offered with each major genre. The appendices contain a comprehensive bibliography as well.
Bringing the world of music to life are 800 colorful illustrations of musicians, instruments, album covers, music engravings, and more.
Whether passionate or casual listener, anyone interested in music will find The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music a must-have for both enjoyable reading as well as for reference.
Foreword provided by the legendary Beatles producer, Sir George Martin.
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- Very Disappointing, Given the Author's Previous Work...
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The Aladdin/Imperial Labels: A Discography (Discographies)
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Aladdin and Imperial, two independent recording labels, emerged on the West Coast following World War II. They were hugely successful with their recordings of popular music based on jazz and blues. For Aladdin, the blues and rhythm and blues fields were to become the most important aspects of the label, with later additions of special series devoted to gospel and country. The Imperial label began with recordings of local Mexican groups and folk artists, and later the label took on a country and rockabilly flavor. A move to New Orleans and recordings by such artists as Fats Domino put Imperial into the blues and rhythm and blues fields. After Aladdin's demise in 1961, it was purchased by Imperial which reissued many Aladdin titles. Today Aladdin/Imperial is part of the United Artists/EMI conglomerate which has over the years reissued many Imperial and Aladdin records including such hits as "Blueberry Hill." In this complete discographical listing of all recordings issued on the Aladdin/Imperial labels from 1942 to 1974, Michel Ruppli includes every available detail relating to session recording dates and personnel. The discography also lists titles with both master numbers and issue numbers. Included are many jazz sessions with Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Billie Holiday, and others; popular and rock artists like Ricky Nelson and Johnny Rivers; blues players such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Joe Turner, and T-Bone Walker; rhythm and blues artists, including Fats Domino, and groups such as the Five Keys. Along with international dance band music, country, rockabilly, and folk can be found here as well. Using the standard format employed in Ruppli's previous volumes in Greenwood's Discography Series, the book is divided into seven parts. Part I contains the Aladdin sessions and includes a list of untraced sessions and a table of Imperial masters assigned to Aladdin titles. The Imperial folk/dance sessions and the Imperial popular sessions are treated in two separate sections. The Black and White label, Minit label, foreign, and miscellaneous labels are found in Part IV. An entire chapter is devoted to single numerical listings and includes seven Aladdin Series labels and eight Imperial Series labels along with foreign series, Liberty/UA Series, 78 rpm albums, and 45 rpm albums. Part VI gives complete album numerical listings. An index of artists completes the volume. This discography has a potentially wide audience including record collectors around the globe interested in Jazz/Blues/Rhythm and Blues/Country/Rockabilly/Rock Music; music book shops; libraries; researchers; record company executives and producers; and licensees.
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Very Disappointing, Given the Author's Previous Work..........2007-05-02
Let me start by saying that Ruppli's 4 volume Atlantic Discographies are so wonderfully researched and annotated, that as a prospective buyer I assumed that this volume would be of the same high quality.
Sadly, it isn't. The big problem is the '60s Imperial recordings tend to cover mainly the released material and for this material the book services as a glorified album and 45 listing (and very pricey at $139.00!!), sorted by date of entry into the Imperial (tape?) library.
Case in point. Nowhere can you find the Imperial unreleased masters on Irma Thomas, or even a mention of the previously unreleased title "Love Again" which surfaced on a mid-90s EMI CD.
The 40s and 50s information seems to be more accurate, so make sure you buy from Amazon to ensure that the book is returnable if the information you need is not there!!
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Who could forget the decade that brought us AIDS, Milli Vannilli, teen slasher movies, and a sitting U.S. president with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease? Well, I guess that question answers itself, but for those who wish to remember, no finer source can be found than Totally Awesome 80s, by Matthew Rettenmund, the man who brought us Encyclopedia Madonnica. This loving but ironic catalog of the most important cultural events of the 80s is fittingly slim, flashy, and shallow, covering mostly the poppiest movies, songs, and political actions of the era that told us "greed is good."
Book Description
The 80s revival starts here!The 80s ended only a few years ago, but already the days of Dynasty, skinny ties, and Valley Girls beckon. In Totally Awesome 80s, Matthew Rettenmund drops the touchy-feely 90s and dredges up the garish, glorious 80s. He's captured it all, from Culture Club to Men at Work, parachute pants to Members Only jackets, E.T. to Porky's, Moonlighting to The Cosby Show, and much more.Deliciously wicked and unnervingly hip, Totally Awesome 80s holds a mirror up to that indulgent decade and lets us laugh at the all-too-familiar reflection.
Customer Reviews:
It wasn't exactly what I expected, but not bad.......2005-02-13
It was funny enough, and decently representative of the pop-culture scene that I recall living through.
However there were numerous mentions of homosexual issues and quite a few political comments that I could have done without. I find it tiring when an author grinds his axe about personal issues as much as this one has done. A chapter would have been fine and totally understandale, but the consistent focus on the emerging gay culture wasn't what I was looking for.
A comprehensive lexicon of the best decade ever!.......2005-01-03
The 1980's are my pop culture reference point, and what better way to go back and reflect time and again with Matthew Rettenmund's reference book, Totally Awesome 80's? Because they were awesome. He covers pop music, movies, TV shows, and trends in my decade.
Yes, the 80's were the Reagan years, the year AIDS entered our vocabulary, MTV, back when it was good, VCRs and thus the video rental boom, the War on Drugs, Yuppies, and given her longevity and legendary status, Madonna. Love or hate her, you gotta admit she was the biggest star of the 80's-sorry Michael Jackson and Prince. But we lost a lot of people who made it big back then. John Lennon, Orson Welles, Mae West, and Alfred Hitchcock, to name a few. And games and pastimes such as Trivial Pursuit, Rubik's Cube, classic arcade hits like Pacman, Frogger, and Q*bert.
The list of 80speak, inspired by valley girl talk, stuff from TV shows, "
-o-rama," "have a cow," "space cadet," or "rad," takes me back as well.
In the music section, included are special text sections on Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Wham!, Madonna, Prince, and others who were essentially 80's figures. The Billboard chart figures for them are also included. However, the section on We Are The World, which lists the reasons for why the artists sang, is a bit jokey, making me wonder if the event's impact isn't as big as it is now.
The list of the top music videos, hit songs, and movies of the decade.
I'll list the Top Five of each:
Music videos:
1. Eurythmics: "Sweet Dreams"
2. Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star"
3. `til tuesday "Voices Carry"
4. Duran Duran, "Hungry Like The Wolf"
5. Madonna, "Material Girl."
Quintessentially 80s songs:
1. Prince and the Revolution: "Let's Go Crazy"
2. Kajagoogoo: "Too Shy"
3. Animotion: "Obsession"
4. Asia: "Heat of the Moment"
5. Simple Minds: "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
Quintessentially 80s movies
Ultimate: The Breakfast Club
1. Risky Business
2. Airplane!
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Flashdance
5. Purple Rain
I'm not sure about the top two entries, but of the ones I really liked, Dirty Dancing came in at #10, Fast Times at Ridgemont High at #19, Ghostbusters right behind it, Back to the Future at #38, insultingly way behind at #62 instead of being in the Top Five, both Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi-like, I'm so sure-and Gremlins at #70. There are sublists of funny movies, hottest movies, horror, action, camp, overrated and underrated movies. And things aren't complete without a small section on the Brat Pack, i.e. the stars of the Breakfast Club. But yes, the 80's were also a decade where the teen market was exploited in a major way, via comedies and horror flicks. The same market is being mined right now, but the output today makes the 80's oeuvre like Oscar winners. And movies that were PG got an extra edge with that PG-13 rating, where there was more violence and other stuff in non-R movies.
Of the TV shows I watched regularly, The A-Team came in at #11, Diff'rent Strokes at #34, my brother watched Knight Rider religiously (#54). And come to think of it, I don't think I ever watched any of the so-called "Disease of the Week TV movies."
The appendix in the back lists the top Academy Award, Golden Globe, Grammy, and MTV winners, as well as a list of who sang in Live Aid, in order.
I find myself in somewhat of a midlife crisis, as much of the music I'm trying to get is stuff from that era that I'm still missing. Hey, I had to undergo the transition from cassettes to CDs unlike many Gen Y whippersnappers out there!
Overall rating: Even though I wasn't cool with the movie stuff, I found it like, totally tubular, in a major way. Done with this review, now it's off to play Pacman, or maybe listen to some Cyndi Lauper or watch some Gremlins or Ghostbusters.
A Total Time Warp Into the Greatest Decade In History!!!.......2004-07-01
I wasn't even born in the '80s and I truly love everything about that era. The fashion the trends, and the music was great! I know more about the '80s then my parents do, and they grew up in the decade! Well this book says it all. It covers everything about the decade and more!!! The kids in my school don't even know what A-track tapes are!!! I think that it is a great thing to know about the '80s even though I was born in 1990. Well get the book! It will teach you loads of stuff!
Totally awesome!.......2004-05-23
This book is hysterically funny and has EVERYTHING you'd want re the '80s! I can't recommend it highly enough.
Calling All Children of the 80's.......2004-01-15
Do you love the 80's like I do? This will bring it all back to you in one book. The topics covered are current events, fashion, music, TV, and movies. Special attention is paid to the last three especially. I think fans of 80's music will love this the most. It covers everything from Lionele Richie, to Madonna, to Depehe Mode. As for movies, don't forget E.T., The Breakfast Club, and Back to the Future. In the realm of TV, The A Team comes on strong, the Dukes of Hazard wreck their car, and Arnold says "Whatchootalkinabout Willis?"
This will be a great gift for anyone who was a TV child in the 80's. If you're a child of the 80's, you should get it for yourself.
Book Description
An insider's look at the world's first major rock-and-roll tour, Ticket to Ride tells the Beatles' story like it's never been told before.
• Includes a CD featuring an hour of Kane's rare interviews with the Beatles
• Features a foreword by Dick Clark
Customer Reviews:
"Ticket to Ride" ...Yeah Yeah Yeah !.......2007-07-16
Larry Kane's "Ticket to Ride" is simply a must-read for all Beatles fan. As the only American journalist to cover every single date of both the '64 & '65 North American tours, Kane was in the eye of the storm of the hysteria of Beatlemania. The journalist developed a rapport and friendly relationship with John, Paul, George & Ringo, and his insights are invaluable.
It's fascinating to witness Kane's transformation from cynical journalist who was at first reluctanct to accept the assignment, to someone who developed an admiration and respect for the Beatles as musicians and as men.
It's a light and breezy read, and the paper-back edition is light and easy to carry. Perfect summer reading for the beach or a plane ride.
An added bonus is a CD featuring snippets of exclusive interviews Kane conducted w/ the Fab Four.
Interesting and Entertaining Just like Kane's Other Beatle Book.......2007-06-09
I really enjoyed this book. I loved the eyewitness recollections of each concert and city. I enjoyed Larry's anecdotes just like anyone who has asked him, "What was it like"? The stories on the plane were a delight, especially the revealing ones. I wonder who made that anti semetic remark anyway? I can't help thinking it was John because he was so outspoken, and I've heard he made other"jew" remarks. Who knows? Concidering Larry's catty, unfair, unwarranted, little asides about Paul McCartney, you'd almost think Paul was the one who made the remark, and maybe Larry knows this but isn't saying. There has to be some reason why Larry digs Paul throughout this book. Like other reviewers I found this book biased in Lennon's favor. I'm not begrudging his picking John as his favorite. He has excellent taste, but like his book Lennon Revealed this book puts Lennon on a pedestal and doesn't mention the others enough. Okay, for a book about John Lennon but not a book that's supposed to be about all four of them. Also people who love John the most seem to feel that this means that they need to show Paul in the worst possible light, and the Paul fans seem to always do this to John as well. Nothing is more boring and childish. We're not in 7th grade. Please grow up, Beatle writers. Jeez I love both of them equally. Why doesn't everybody else? Larry doesn't bash Paul McCartney in this book, but he never misses an opportunity to spin every event to make it look like everything Paul did had an ulterior motive. For instance, at the Capitol Records garden party the boys were expected to sit on little stools and greet over 500 guests, who shuffled past them one by one. Larry observes that while John, George and Ringo seem to be going through the motions, Paul greets each guest warmly and even finds something to say to almost all of them. (I'm not quoting from the text because I don't have the book in front of me) Then Larry somehow slants this observation to make it seem like Paul is phoney or superficial. Because my oppinion is not biased by dislike, I view this story as an example of professionalism. If Larry really knew the boys as well as he pretends to, he would have seen that all four of them were professional like this. They always went that extra mile and every obligation was carried out with enthusiasm, even if they weren't feeling that way deep down. Paul is more well known for this but all of them played the game. Another thing that Larry seems to have missed about Paul because he really does not know him very well, is that Paul is NICE. His father was NICE. His brother is NICE. The entire family has always been described by insiders as impeccably well behaved and well mannered. Paul was brought up to beleive in a work ethic and to be a team player. In fact he has said that if he didn't act this way, it would have been phoney. I'm sure if John or George were seen greeting the guests with enthusiasm Larry would have gushed about what troopers they were and how professional. In fact if Larry had portrayed George in this unfavorable light, all of the Harrison mommies and daddies would be slamming this book, and giving it one star. ( see Here There and Everywhere and Revolution in the Head) In another part of this book, where Paul is talking about his views on civil rights, Larry even has the nerve to insert words into the text that Paul never said, to try and show that he's really a racist in disguise (listen to the accompanying cd which has the actual, Paul and Larry civil rights interview to see that what he really says differs from the text.) After reading this book my feeling is that ALL FOUR of them were lovely men, with a strong sense of humanity and for twentysomething pop stars, they had an unusual amount of integrety. They were discreet in their personal lives, wonderful to their fans, and just really down to earth. This book does a fantastic job of conveying that.
Another wonderful thing are the recounting of stories by the fans who were lucky enough to either witness a concert first hand or at least were first generation fans and remember the magic first hand. I love Beatle books that do this. It's always nice to hear what other fans have to say.I gave this book five stars because I really loved everything about it. It was fun, facinating and exciting to read. I'm just not happy with Larry's snotty, catty remarks about Paul, especially since he doesn't seem to have anything to back them up. Paul doesn't deserve it. Larry is lucky to have been given the priviledge of traveling with, and getting to know The Beatles. And we are lucky that he finally wrote a memoir. Add this one to your collection.
A Great Ride Down Memory Lane.......2007-05-27
I was 16 years old when I learned about the Beatles in February, 1974. I was totally blown away, and have yet to recover. I bought, Meet The Beatles, as quickly as I could scrape up $3.00, and get to Woolworths, where the records were in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It seemed like it was a matter of days, and the Beatles owned places 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, on the Billboard Top 100 Chart.
Then I started working on Mama to buy me my first guitar, which I still have, with 5 others. It was a $50.00 Silvertone from Sears. I constantly play the songs I heard on the 3 Ed Sullivan Shows in Febtuary, 1974.
I didn't really understand why the Beatles stopped touring when they did. Now I do since I read this book. I learned a whole lot of things that I didn't know after reading, Ticket To Ride. If you want to go from city to city with Larry Kane, Brian Epstein, the Beatles, other insiders, and the avid Beatle fans during the 1964 and 1965 tours, read this book.
I am a Christian, a rock and roller, and a serious Beatle fan. This book is written in pretty good taste, yet it gets down to the nitty-gritty of Beatlemania. Get this book!
Steve Hummel
steve0094@aol.com
Take a ride with the Beatles.......2007-01-17
Larry Kane is familiar to most of us in Philadelphia as one of our most well-known and loved newscasters, but before coming to our city he experienced a news story of a lifetime: traveling with The Beatles on their 1964 and 1965 concert tours of America. Working for a Miami radio station at the time, Larry takes us city by city from his first meeting with the band to their hotel rooms on the road, their chartered plane zigziagging across the county, and to Shea Stadium to witness the frenzy of Beatlemania.
The story makes for an easy, fun read, seeing the Beatles from a unique "insider-yet-outsider" perspective. Not one of the band's inner circle of managers or road crew, Larry still had an exposure to and a relationship with the band that few others enjoyed, and was entrusted to report on the band for his job while keeping some of the more scandalous sights he saw out of the public eye. Even here, he mostly leaves the sex and drugs out of the rock and roll equation, only suggesting and hinting at what may have happened (and probably did happen) behind closed doors. He obviously holds the Beatles in high respect and did not write this book to in any way diminish their reputation.
You won't find deep insight into the band members here, either, nor a great deal about their creative process. Larry's opinions of each member of the band come through quite clearly, though, especially his strong admiration for John Lennon, who comes across as easily angered yet intelligent and passionate in his convictions. Paul McCartney is the only member of the band who comes across sometimes in a less than favorable light, as Kane suggests a polished, suave, yet perhaps superficial character to "The Cute Beatle". The descriptions of fan behavior and the lengths to which fans would go to meet the band are quite interesting and revealing, at least to those of us who never experienced Beatlemania firsthand.
One weakness to the book is at times, Kane's newscaster profession takes over the writing style and the book can read like a transcript of "48 Hours" or "Dateline NBC". Most chapters end on a teaser or cliffhanger note that seems begging for someone to add, "That story after this commercial break!" The book is at times repetitive as well, as if he was stretching to fill out a page count by rehashing information. But overall, this is still a good read for any Beatles fan, or for those curious about the impact of Beatlemania on America in the 1960s.
FAV BOOK ABOUT THE FAB 4!!!.......2006-06-20
I think Larry Kane did a wonderful job on this book! I actually bought this off of amazon, and i am glad i did. He Describes the American tours so well, you can picture everything!! THis is my favorite book about the "Boys" and i am sure you will think so too!
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