Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Written by Jonathan Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $17.00
Nearly twenty years in the making,
Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In
Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and...
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A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Written by Suze Rotolo
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $11.99
A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion...
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100 Great Operas And Their Stories
Act-By-Act Synopses
Written by Henry W. Simon
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: April 22, 1989
Price: $17.95
An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and afficionados, this volume contains act-by-act descriptions of operatic works ranging from the early seventeenth century masterworks of Monteverdi and Purcell to the modern classics of Menotti and Britten. Written in a lively anecdotal style, entries include character descriptions, historical background, and much...
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This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring
"A Practical Guide to Creating, Selling, Organizing, and Staging Concerts"
Written by Ray D. Waddell, Rich Barnet and Jake Berry
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $24.95
The only book that looks at the business of concert promotion. Concerts are part art, part party—and a big part business.
This Business of Concert Promotion and Touring is the first to focus on that all-important business aspect, from creating a show, to selling a show, to organizing the show, to...
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Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Written by Fredric Dannen
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2011
Price: $12.99
Hit Men is the shocking, highly controversial expose of the venality, greed, and corruption of many of the assorted kingpins and hustlers who rule over the music industry. "A sobering, blunt, and unusually well-observed depiction of the sometimes sordid inner workings of the music business."--Billboard. 4 pages of photographs.
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Lady Sings the Blues the 50th Anniversary Edition
Written by Billie Holiday and William Dufty
Foreword by David Ritz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $15.95
Lady Sings the Blues is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred autobiography of Billie Holiday, the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation. Taking the reader on a fast-moving journey from Holiday’s rough-and-tumble Baltimore childhood (where she ran errands at a whorehouse in exchange for the chance to listen to Louis Armstrong and...
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
Written by Jimmy McDonough
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $13.99
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with more than three hundred of Young’s...
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Honky Tonk Girl
My Life in Lyrics
Written by Loretta Lynn
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $29.95
One of the most beloved country music stars of all time gives us the first collection of her lyrics and, in her own words, tells the stories that inspired her most popular songs, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin'," and, of course, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl."
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