(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The 1980s were all about shoulders pads, parachute pants, and jams like the ones in this rad collection of nearly 60 hits: Africa * Billie Jean * Can't Fight This Feeling * Come On Eileen * Down Under * Every Breath You Take * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Faith * Footloose * Girls Just Want to Have Fun * Hello * Here I Go Again * I Love Rock 'N Roll * I Want to Know What Love Is * Jessie's Girl * Like a Virgin * Livin' on a Prayer * Open Arms * Right Here Waiting * Rosanna * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Time After Time * Total Eclipse of the Heart * Uptown Girl * and more.

This collection of over 40 songs highlights the biggest hits from the '80s, by such artists as Bruce Springsteen, Journey, Madonna, The Motels, Toto, Cyndi Lauper, and more. Piano accompaniment, vocal melodies, lyrics, and guitar chord diagrams are included. Titles: Africa (Toto) * Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) (Phil Collins) * Anything for You (Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine) * Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) (from Arthur) (Christopher Cross) * Born in the U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen) * Circle in the Sand (Belinda Carlisle) * Conga (Miami Sound Machine) * Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Everybody Have Fun Tonight (Wang Chung) * Footloose (Kenny Loggins) * Get Closer (Linda Ronstadt) * Ghostbusters (Ray Parker, Jr.) * Gloria (Laura Branigan) * Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen) * Glory of Love (Theme from The Karate Kid) (Peter Cetera) * The Greatest Love of All (Whitney Houston) * Heart of Mine (Boz Scaggs) * Heart to Heart (Kenny Loggins) * Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Belinda Carlisle) * How Do You Keep the Music Playing? (from Best Friends) (Patti Austin and James Ingram) * I Live for Your Love (Natalie Cole) * I Love L.A. (Randy Newman) * I'm Alright (from Caddyshack) (Kenny Loggins) * Into the Night (Benny Mardones) * Jojo (Boz Scaggs) * Kokomo (The Beach Boys) * Only the Lonely (The Motels) * Open Arms (Journey) * Open Your Heart (Madonna) * Pink Cadillac (Bruce Springsteen) * Rhythm of the Night (DeBarge) * Rosanna (Toto) * Separate Lives (Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin) * Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Journey) * She Bop (Cyndi Lauper) * Solitaire (Laura Branigan) * Suddenly Last Summer (The Motels) * Who Will You Run To (Heart) * Who's Crying Now (Journey) * Words Get in the Way (Miami Sound Machine).

(Easy Piano Songbook). Easy piano arrangements of over 80 songs from the decade of excess where Generation X came of age. Includes: Another Brick in the Wall * Billie Jean * Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) * Chariots of Fire * Don't Stop Believin' * Endless Love * Eye of the Tiger * Flashdance...What a Feeling * Girls Just Want to Have Fun * How Will I Know * I Love Rock 'N Roll * Jump * Karma Chameleon * Let's Hear It for the Boy * Like a Virgin * Missing You * Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now * One More Night * Pour Some Sugar on Me * Right Here Waiting * Sweet Child O' Mine * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Take on Me * Through the Years * Up Where We Belong * What's Love Got to Do with It * When Doves Cry * With or Without You * and more.

This illustrated A-Z guide covers more than 700 country music artists, groups, and bands. Articles also cover specific genres within country music as well as instruments used. Written in a lively, engaging style, the entries not only outline the careers of country music's greatest artists, they provide an understanding of the artist's importance or failings, and a feeling for his or her style. Select discographies are provided at the end of each entry, while a bibliography and indexes by instrument, musical style, genre, and song title round out the work. For a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary website.

From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music’s legendary royal couple—George Jones and Tammy Wynette. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After taking honky-tonk rockers like “White Lightning” all the way up the country charts, he revealed himself to be an unmatched virtuoso on “She Thinks I Still Care,” thus cementing his status as a living legend. That’s where the trouble started. Only at this new level of fame did Jones realize he suffered from extreme stage fright. His method of dealing with that involved great quantities of alcohol, which his audience soon discovered as Jones more often than not showed up to concerts falling-down drunk or failed to show up at all. But the fans always forgave him because he just kept singing so damn good. Then he got married to Tammy Wynette right around the time she became one of the most famous women alive with the release of “Stand by Your Man.” Tammy Wynette grew up believing George Jones was the greatest country singer of all time. After deciding to become a country singer herself, she went to Nashville, got a record deal, then met and married her hero. With the pop crossover success of “Stand by Your Man” (and the international political drama surrounding the song’s lyrics) came a gigantic audience, who were sold a fairy tale image of a couple soon being called The King and Queen of Country Music. Many fans still believe that fairy tale today. The behind-the-scenes truth is very different from the images shown on album covers. Illustrated throughout by singular artist Wayne White, Cocaine & Rhinestones is an unprecedented look at the lives of two indelible country icons, reframing their careers within country music as well as modern history itself.

TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.