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All Yesterdays Parties by HEYLIN CLINTON
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Category: Music
The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the popular image of downtown New York. "Discovered" by Andy Warhol in 1966, the VU - with their original line-up of Lou Reed, John Cale, ...Show more
All the Mad Men: Barrett, Bowie, Drake, The Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and the Journey to the Dark Side of English Rock by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. "All the Mad Men" tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend, Ray ...Show more
Babylon's Burning : From Punk to Grunge by Clinton Heylin
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Category: New Hardbacks
In this enthralling history of punk and grunge, Clinton Heylin describes how the word 'punk' was coined by revered rock journalist Lester Bangs, and charts the rise and fall of the movement, from the explosion of the Sex Pistols to the death of Kurt Cobain. Tracing punk's origins on three continents - f ...Show more
Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
Describes how the word 'punk' was coined by revered rock journalist Lester Bangs, and charts the rise and fall of the movement, from the explosion of the Sex Pistols to the death of Kurt Cobain. The author explores the groups who were the scenemakers, along with the underground networks established to a ...Show more
Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who changed the whole course of popular music in the sixties and, over thirty years later, won three G ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
Presents an account of Bob Dylan - a great figure to have come out of popular culture in the 20th century.
Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: a New Biography by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
Van Morrison is an enigma. The legendary rock star who wrote and recorded such influential albums as Astral Weeks and Moondance and has mesmerised millions live, is also a reclusive and troubled man who'll do anything to avoid publicity. Through interviews with friends, through the music itself and thro ...Show more
Despite the System : Orson Welles versus the Hollywood Studios by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Film & TV
Orson Welles was all too aware, in his later years, that posterity would judge his life to have been essentially a failure: that it would construct a neat parabola of decline that would arc down from his youthful masterpiece, "Citizen Kane", to the wine adverts he used to fund his latter-day imbibing. I ...Show more
From the Velvets to the Voidoids : The birth of American Punk Rock by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
Long overdue and fully revised updated edition of the definitive account of the rise of the US punk and new wave movement led by acts such as Richard Hell, Television, The Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads. This was originally published by Penguin in the 1990s. First published 1993; this edition 2005. ...Show more
It's One for the Money by Clinton Heylin
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Category: Music
A cross between Hollywood Babylon and The Hitmen, It's One For The Money rips the lid off Pop's own Pandora box and explicates just what it is that makes the world of sound go round - song publishing.
The Act You've Known for All These Years : The life and afterlife of Sgt, Pepper (revised edition) by Clinton Heylin
$34.95 AUD
Category: Music
In 1967, The Beatles unleashed their seminal album on an unsuspecting world. This new edition of "The Act You've Known For All These Years" explores the huge impact the album had on The Beatles and their contemporaries - Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. It was part of the re ...Show more