Records of my Life
Title | Records of my Life PDF eBook |
Author | John TAYLOR (Author of “Monsieur Tonson.”.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1832 |
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In Love With These Times
Title | In Love With These Times PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Shepherd |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2016-06-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1775491269 |
The inside story of New Zealand's iconic independent record label by the man who made it happen. I wanted to be more than just an observer. I wanted to be a part of what was going on. I had told someone and the word was out, and now I had to actually do this thing. Start a record label. I must have been drunk. Roger Shepherd was working in a Christchurch record shop when he realised the local bands he loved needed someone to make their records. Flying Nun was born. Those records and the bands that created them – The Chills, The Clean, Chris Knox and the Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings, The Bats, Straitjacket Fits and many more – went on to define an era and create what became known as “the Dunedin Sound”. In truth it was less a unified sound than a spirit of adventure and independence that characterised the Flying Nun ethos. In this long-awaited memoir, label founder Roger Shepherd describes the idealism and passion that drove the project in the first place, the hard realities of the music industry, and the constant tension between art and commerce. Filled with revealing anecdote and insight, this is the definitive insider history of the one of the most innovative and original record labels of the modern era. "Surely the label with the highest quality output per capita in pop history." – Guardian UK. "Something inexplicably special happened in the Southern Hemisphere a quarter of a century or so ago, the ripples still rumbling, and without it, all the music you love today would sound ever so slightly, and indefinably, different.” - British comedian Stewart Lee.
Records of My Life
Title | Records of My Life PDF eBook |
Author | John Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1832 |
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Popkiss
Title | Popkiss PDF eBook |
Author | Michael White |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2015-12-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1628922206 |
From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred to as “indie-pop,” “C86,” “cutie” and “twee”) whose moment had passed. Yet now, more than 20 years after its founders symbolically “destroyed” it, Sarah is among the most passionately fetishized record labels of all time. Its rare releases command hundreds of dollars, devotees around the world hungrily seek out any information they can find about its poorly documented history, and young musicians-some of them not yet born when Sarah shut down-claim its bands (such as Blueboy, the Field Mice, Heavenly, and the Wake) as major influences. Featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with the music-makers, producers, writers and assorted eyewitnesses who played a part in Sarah's eight-year odyssey, Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records is the first authorised biography of an unlikely cult legend.
The Soundtrack of My Life
Title | The Soundtrack of My Life PDF eBook |
Author | Clive Davis |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 585 |
Release | 2013-02-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476714789 |
The chief creative officer of Sony Music presents a candid assessment of his life and the past half-century of popular music from an insider's perspective, tracing his work with a wide array of stars and personalities.
Kentucky Traveler
Title | Kentucky Traveler PDF eBook |
Author | Ricky Skaggs |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2013-08-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 006209243X |
In Kentucky Traveler, Ricky Skaggs, the music legend who revived modern bluegrass music, gives a warm, honest, one-of-a-kind memoir of forty years in music—along with the Ten Commandments of Bluegrass, as handed down by Ricky’s mentor Bill Monroe; the Essential Guide to Bedrock Country Songs, a lovingly compiled walk through the songs that have moved Skaggs the most throughout his life; Songs the Lord Taught Us, a primer on Skaggs’s most essential gospel songs; and a bevy of personal snapshots of his musical heroes. For readers of Johnny Cash’s autobiography, lovers of O Brother Where Art Thou, and fans of country music and bluegrass, Kentucky Traveler is a priceless look at America’s most cherished and vibrant musical tradition through the eyes of someone who has lived it.
Dust & Grooves
Title | Dust & Grooves PDF eBook |
Author | Eilon Paz |
Publisher | Ten Speed Press |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1607748703 |
A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.