(Easy Piano Songbook). We proudly present this superb collection of 55 GRAMMY Awards Songs of the Year arranged for easy piano. Together these elite songs provide a snapshot of the changing times in popular music: All I Wanna Do * Beat It * Beautiful Day * Bridge over Troubled Water * Change the World * Don't Know Why * Don't Worry, Be Happy * The Girl from Ipanema * Graceland * Hotel California * I Will Always Love You * Just the Way You Are * Killing Me Softly with His Song * Mack the Knife * Mrs. Robinson * Moon River * My Heart Will Go On * Rehab * Rolling in the Deep * Sailing * Smooth * Tears in Heaven * Unforgettable * Up, Up and Away * Volare * What a Fool Believes * What's Love Got to Do with It * The Wind Beneath My Wings * and more. Features fantastic upfront photos and an introduction on the Recording Academy.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of over 50 of the winners of the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, including: After the Love Has Gone * Ain't No Sunshine * Be Without You * Billie Jean * End of the Road * Good Golly Miss Molly * Hit the Road Jack * If You Don't Know Me by Now * Just the Two of Us * Miss Independent * Papa's Got a Brand New Bag * Respect * Shine * Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) * (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay * Superstition * U Can't Touch This * We Belong Together * You Make Me Feel like Dancing * and more. Also includes photos and articles about the Grammy Awards and the Recording Academy.

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2017 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest Latin hits of the past fifty years. From the salsa born and bred in the streets of New York City, to Puerto Rican reggaetón and bilingual chart-toppers, this rich oral history is a veritable treasure trove of never-before heard anecdotes and insight from a who's who of Latin music artists, executives, observers, and players. Their stories, told in their own words, take you inside the hits, to the inner sanctum of the creative minds behind the tracks that have defined eras and become hallmarks of history. FEATURING THE STORIES BEHIND SONGS BY: José Feliciano • Los Tigres Del Norte • Julio Iglesias • Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine • Willie Colón • Juan Luis Guerra • Selena • Los Del Río • Carlos Vives • Elvis Crespo • Ricky Martin • Santana • Shakira • Daddy Yankee • Marc Anthony • Enrique Iglesias with Descemer Bueno and Gente De Zona • Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee • J Balvin with Willy William • Rosalía

Chronicles the creation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man—reprinted now as the Broadway Edition Composer Meredith Willson described The Music Man as “an Iowan’s attempt to pay tribute to his home state.” Now featuring a new foreword by noted singer and educator Michael Feinstein, this book presents Willson’s reflections on the ups and downs, surprises and disappointments, and finally successes of making one of America’s most popular musicals. Willson’s whimsical, personable writing style brings readers back in time with him to the 1950s to experience firsthand the exciting trials and tribulations of creating a Broadway masterpiece. Fresh admiration of the musical—and the man behind the music—is sure to result.

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point, and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity—the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism—never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?