Stunning color images, accompanied by photographer commentary, provide a fan's perspective from the early 1980s to the present. Beautiful hardcover volume recaptures many important musical events, including shows at Shea Stadium and Royal Albert Hall.
Taking in the sweep of Reed's career from Velvet Underground to the variants of forty years of resistant solo pioneering, Waiting For The Man accesses the man and his music, with the extraordinary perception and attention to detail.
The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights
Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father's band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving ......
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) has been called the father of the symphony and the string quartet. A friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven, "Papa" Haydn composed an amazing variety of music -- symphonies, string quartets, concerti, masses, operas, oratorios, keyboard works -- and his prolific output celebrates both the heights and depths of
Crazy in Love explores the life and astonishing career of Beyonce Knowles, the Texan teenager who rose from performing in her hometown backyards to headlining shows all over the world both with Destiny's Child and as a successful solo artist. The updated 2013 edition will feature the critical and commercial reaction to her 2011 album, 4, and the ......
The Michael Buble story is a fascinating and contradictory one. The man who became famous as a contemporary champion of The Great American Songbook often surprises his audiences by performing challenging original songs. In this sometimes painfullly honest account of Buble's life, author Michael Heatley explores the unlikely rise of the Canadian ......
The first joint biography of one of rock 'n' roll's greatest song writing teams, Hitmakers Inc. explores the private lives and public triumphs of lyricist Doc Pomus and composer Mort Shuman.
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. ......
