St. Martin's Press, July 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the '70s and '80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring..... More
Stein and Day, January 1974. Hardcover. More
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University of Texas Press, June 2018. Paper Back. This summer, No Depression will dig into topics of immigration and migration in roots music. Stories will delve into the ways songs spread across borders and profiles on the songwriters who undertake those journeys. The issue will also highlight means of transportation..... More
Pantheon Books, April 2002. Hardcover. In "Stardust Melodies," Will Friedwald takes each of these legendary songs apart and puts it together again, with a staggering wealth of detail and unprecedented understanding. Each chapter gives us an extended history of one song--the circumstances under which it was written and first performed--and..... More
Chicago Review Pr, May 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Pantheon, November 1981. Trade Paperback. Clean, gently read copy. More
Penguin Putnam, April 1990. First Edition. Cloth. The Complete Aspects of Love is the ideal companion to Ganzl's musical, Aspects of Love, and is lavishly illustrated and fully researched, offering readers a rare view behind the scenes as well as a seat front-and-center. Color and black-and-white photographs. Quarto. {8 &..... More
ECW Press, November 1993. Paper Back. Keith Garebian peers behind the curtain of "My Fair Lady" to reveal the story behind the making of the musical. Beginning with George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," Garebian traces the development of the musical idea. We read with interest about Lerner and Loewe's writing difficulties..... More
Mosaic Press, January 2010. Paper Back. In his book Harold Prince and the American Musical Theater, Foster Hirsch recalls a woman who left the opening-night performance of Cabaret in Wilmington, Delaware, exclaiming: It is more than a musical! The exclamation suggests that the Broadway show had gone beyond European ethnicity..... More
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, June 1971. Hardcover. More
Abrams, January 1983. Cloth. Beautiful blood red cloth binding, embossed on the front board and lettered in gold along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Da Capo Pr, April 1993. Oversize Softcover. From the earliest riverboat jazz to Dizzy Gillespie's Hep-Sations of 1945, Swing Out is the story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Included are stories of the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotised by..... More
Plume, November 1997. Trade Paperback. The first-ever biography of this controversial rock legend chronicles his amazing career, deadly addictions, and enduring presence as one of the world's greatest popular composers and performers. He was the brains behind the innovative and phenomenally popular band The Who. He invented the rock opera..... More
Cooper Square Press, October 2001. Paper Back. More
Omnibus Press and One Ten records, January 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Acc Art Books, August 2017. Hardcover. - Collects original and rare photographs from Bowie's debut album shoot, which were released for the first time as fine art prints in 2016- These pictures show Bowie pre-fame, pre Ziggy Stardust, as a young man unaware of what the future holds- A glimpse..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, November 1993. Oversized Hardcover. The most literate and word-loving of song writers, Ira Gershwin wrote irresistibly witty and enticing lyrics. Here are his collaborations with his brother George, with Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, and Kurt Weill, just to name a few--over 700 songs, 400 of which have..... More
Tangent Books, October 2014. Paper Back. A collection of rare archive images by phographer John Spink document the Bristol Music scene from the days of Prog Rock, through Punk to Art Rock. Gill Loats, the first female DJ at the legendary Dug Out Club provides the words. Oblong octavo. Gently..... More
Third Man Books, February 2022. Paper Back. "[Gillespie] is a major influence on so many people; musicians and fans alike." --Rolling Stone Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespie's vivid and evocative new memoir, TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s..... More
Doubleday, July 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. This is not a beautiful copy: boards are rubbed, soiled, even a tad warped. Jacket is interiorly taped repaired, soiled and chipped. But it is INSCRIBED BY DIZZY GILLESPIE TWICE: 'To Brenda, Love Dizzy Gillespie' and 'To Pete, Ciao! Dizzy Gillespie' on the front..... More
Liveright, April 2015. Hardcover. A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler..... More
St Martins Pr, December 1981. Oversize Softcover. More
Popular Library, (1970). Mass Market PaperBack. More
ABRAMS, September 1993. Oversized Hardcover. Stephen Sondheim musicals are among the most popular and critically acclaimed Broadway shows of recent times. This profusely illustrated volume tells the complete story of Sondheim's remarkable career. The text is accompanied by 100 photographs, half in full color, from Sondheim's personal files and from..... More
Lynn Farnol Group, January 1980. Paper Back. Octavo. Black cardstock cover with gold lettering. Spine & spine edge margins of front & rear cover browned from sun. Else wrapper is clean and very good overall. Small address stamp of a previus dealer -- 'Larry Edmund Cinema Bookshop inc., Hollywood, CA'..... More
