Monterey Pop

A celebration of the rock concert that introduced such cultural icons as Janis Joplin to the world captures the spirit of the event with photographs of Simon and Garfunkle, The Grateful Dead, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, and many others. Original.

Monterey Pop: June 16-18, 1967

Arts & Photography

Joel Selvin

Photography & Video

Chronicle Books LLC.

Music

Plexus Publishing Ltd.

PhotoPass: The Rock and Roll Photography of Randy Bachman

Individual Artists

SLG Books

Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos

The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand "Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colorful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners have become internationally ubiquitous. But long before the fashion world discovered his iconic designs, the man behind the eponymous brand spearheaded nothing less than a cultural revolution. In Wear Your Dreams, Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist and leader in the movement to recognize tattooing as a valid and rich art form, through to the ultimate transformation of his career into a multi-billion dollar branding empire. From giving colored pencil tattoos to neighborhood kids at age ten to working with legendary artists like Sailor Jerry to learning at the feet of the masters in Japan, the book explains how this Godfather of Tattoos fomented the explosion of tattoo art and how his influence can be witnessed on everyone, from countless celebs to ink-adorned rockers to butterfly-branded, stroller-pushing moms. With over fifty different product categories, the Ed Hardy brand generates over $700 million in retail sales annually. Vividly packaged with original Ed Hardy artwork and ideal for ink devotees and Ed Hardy aficionados alike, Wear Your Dreams is a never-before-seen look at the tattoo artist who rocked the art world and has left a permanent mark on fashion history.

Ed Hardy

Thomas Dunne Books

"I don't know where he's buried, but if I did I'd piss on his grave." &#0151;Jerry Wexler, best friend and mentor Here Comes the Night: Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues is both a definitive account of the New York rhythm and blues world of the early '60s and the harrowing, ultimately tragic story of songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, whose meteoric career was fueled by his pending doom. His heart damaged by rheumatic fever as a youth, doctors told Berns he would not live to see 21. Although his name is little remembered today, Berns worked alongside all the greats of the era: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Burt Bacharach, Phil Spector, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and anyone who was anyone in New York rhythm and blues. In seven quick years, he went from nobody to the top of the pops producer of monumental r&b classics, songwriter of "Twist and Shout," "My Girl Sloopy," and others. His fury to succeed led Berns to use his Mafia associations to muscle Atlantic Records out of a partnership and intimidate new talents (like Neil Diamond and Van Morrison) he signed to his record label, only to drop dead of a long-expected heart attack, just when he was seeing his grandest plans and life's ambitions frustrated and foiled.

Here Comes The Night

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise

Blackstone Publishing

Jimu maÌ„sharu mitchaku = Jim Marshall: proof

Jim Marshall

Minami Aoyama

ToÌ„kyoÌ„ : Furekkusu FaÌ„mu, 2004

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