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Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE. A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Musician and arti ...Show more
Coltrane - The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the fi ...Show more
DC Comics Heroines: 100 Greatest Moments by Robert Greenberger
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Category: History | Series: 100 Greatest Moments of DC Comics Ser.
From Batgirl to Wonder Woman, all of the greatest female characters of the DC Comics universe are paid homage in this epic tome, DC Comics Heroines: 100 Greatest Moments. Broken down, moment by moment, readers are able to follow pivotal points in the development of their favorite heroines. The second i ...Show more
In the Country of Country - A Journey to the Roots of American Music by Nicholas Dawidoff
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
In a series of indelible portraits of country music stars, Dawidoff reveals, among others, Jimmie Rodgers, the “father of Country”; Johnny Cash, the “Man in Black”; and Patsy Cline, a lonely figure striding out bravely in a man’s world. In the Country of Country is a passionate and expansive account of ...Show more
Lowside of the Road - A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider ...Show more
Re-Make/Re-Model - The Art School Roots of Roxy Music by Michael Bracewell
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Re-make/Re-model tells the extraordinary and largely unknown story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead over a period of almost ...Show more
Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
'A fantastic tribute to an amazingly creative musical period . . . An instant pop classic, worthy of a place on your shelves beside the handful of music books that really matter.' John McTernan, Scotland on Sunday. Punk revitalized rock in the mid-seventies, but the movement soon degenerated into self-p ...Show more
Syd Barrett - A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (1966-68) he was the driving force behind the unit. After he left the band he made just two further solo albums which were both released in 1970, before withd ...Show more
The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told - Thirty Amazing Tales about the Greatest Game Ever Invented by Jeff Silverman (Editor)
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Category: Sport | Series: Greatest Ser.
The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled at the skill of touring professionals on television, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told is a compulsively readable collection of some of the most entertaining and insightful stories on the subject of golf. Contributions include some we ...Show more
The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories
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Category: Sailing | Series: Greatest Ser.
A page-turning collection of the best sailing yarns, from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Joshua Slocum to William F. Buckley and Samuel Eliot Morrison. For thousands of years, man has sailed into battle, sailed for rumored wealth, and sailed for pure adventure. And for nearly as long, stories about the sea h ...Show more
The Most Notorious Talker Runs the World's Greatest Clan (Manga) Vol. 3 by Jaki; Yamorichan (Illustrator); Fame (Contribution by)
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Category: Graphic Novels | Series: The\Most Notorious Talker Runs the World's Greatest Clan (Manga) Ser.
THE TIME FOR TALK IS OVER! Noel, that coldhearted handsome devil, has gotten his revenge on his former comrades, and is now allied with the lightning-fast assassin Alma. Together they accept a mission to free a village from the depredations of a bandit gang, but the villagers themselves are hardly so i ...Show more
Turn the Beat Around - The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, ...Show more
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