Blues music originating from the African-American community in the Southern states of the U.S. went on to influence every popular musical form in Western music. This collection gives the reader/listener a superb introduction to the blues with artists from the legendary Robert Johnson to B.B. King. Includes a CD with a sampling of classic blues tracks.

The Golden Age Of The Blues (With CD)

Arts & Photography

RICHARD EVANS

RICHARD HAVERS

Music

Chartwell Books

Highlighted by more than eight hundred photographs spanning seventy years, a visual biography of one of America's most famous singer-actors offers a portrait of his personal life, his music, his film career, and more, accompanied by information on his recordings, arrangements, and lyrics and a listing of his movies.

Sinatra

Humor & Entertainment

DK Pub.

"A nation that forgets its past has no future." Winston Churchill When Britain Went To War everyone in the country was involved, whether they were in the military or civilians whose jobs were vital to the war effort. Additionally, every woman in the country, whether a mother, sister, grandmother or daughter was caught up in the conflict. They helped to maintain the everyday life for which Britain's military men were fighting. We all think we know what happened in Britain during the Second World War. There was the blackout, the Blitz, the shortages and the rationing. There was the Home Guard, the ARP men and women, the firefighters, and there were hundreds of thousands of women suddenly thrust into jobs previously thought only doable by men. But there was also football, fashion, entertainment, humour and even Christmas! This is the real, the everyday story of British men, women and children who fought a daily battle to keep the home fires burning When Britain Went To War. It's illustrated with many unseen photographs from the Archive of the "Daily Mirror".

When Britain When to War: The Real Life Story of Life on the Home Front. by Richard Havers

Haynes Manuals

The Beatles Days of Their Life

Greene Media

For the Rolling Stones everything changed in the summer of '69. They were no longer the blues band that Brian Jones had put together in 1962; they had stopped being a pop band and had hardly performed on stage since 1967 - and it was live that the Stones always excelled. Drug busts, fall-outs, at least one album that failed to live up to expectations and uncertainty surrounded the band. Finally on Sunday 8 June 1969 Brian Jones left the band he had founded, less than a month later he was dead. Undaunted the Stones, who have always been greater than the sum of their parts, recruited Mick Taylor to play guitar, recorded one of their greatest ever singles, they played the largest ever concert in Britain to that point and Mick Jagger, like many pop singers before him, went off to be a film star. They also became - The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World. "The Stones in the Park" tells this amazing story as well as featuring many unseen photographs.

The Stones in the Park: The Summer of '69 and the Making of the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World by Richard Havers (2009-05-03)

Haynes Publishing Group

When Britain Went To War: The Real Story of Life on the Home Front

J H Haynes Co Ltd

The most famous pop band in the world, even today The Beatles hold center stage. Anyone who lived through the 1960s remembers them and the digital remastering of their output has ensured that younger generations know them too. How could they not? The songs will live forever and are regularly reused in film or TV scores, on advertisements, and on radio channels everywhere.With such coverage and interest, how can there be anything new to say about the band? The Beatles: The Days of Their Life manages to do so thanks to the remarkable collection of photographs housed in Mirropix, the library of the Daily Mirror, Britain's premier popular daily. With so much interest in the band, photographers were always looking to cover not just the major events that all the media attended, but smaller more intimate moments. And then, of course there were the paparazzi: the Beatles were perfect targets for this new breed of photographer who didn't ask for permission to take their photos and followed George, Paul, John, and Ringo wherever they went.Mirropix has a sensational collection of material taken to feed an insatiable desire to see the band, its families, hangers on and what they did. Record launches, publicity events, holidays, flights in and out of the country. TV broadcasts, film work, births, deaths, and marriages: everything was photographed. With this sort of coverage, unsurprisingly much material was not published and it is this treasure trove that is exploited in The Beatles: The Days of Their Life.

Beatles: The Days of Their Life

Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors

From poverty to power, Hoboken to Hollywood, this story is the embodiment of the American Dream. For over 50 years Frank Sinatra was at the epicenter of American life - on the radio, in the movie theaters, on TV, and in newspapers and magazines. Includes over 800 photographs, some rare and unseen, capture each moment of the legend's seven-decade career.

Verve signed practically every major jazz artist of the 1950s and 1960s and is home to some of the greatest music ever recorded. Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, and Ella Fitzgerald all released records through Verve.\nThis superb new volume presents some of the rarest records and unseen ephemera from the label that helped define the world of jazz. Hundreds of the best examples of iconic seven-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch records appear, along with publicity reports, news clippings, ledger books, telegrams, and contracts.\nThe ultimate music guide, the book includes features on key artists as well as infographics and timelines that reveal the connections between leading artists and Verve. Looking beyond the music scene, the book discusses segregation in America, the missions to take jazz to Europe and the world, the clubs, the places, and the people who made jazz vital. Commentary from the biggest names in jazz today, including some of Verve’s own artists, complements the text.

Verve. The Sound of America

Sieveking Verlag

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The Golden Age Of The Blues (With CD)

Sinatra

When Britain When to War: The Real Life Story of Life on the Home Front. by Richard Havers

The Beatles Days of Their Life

The Stones in the Park: The Summer of '69 and the Making of the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World by Richard Havers (2009-05-03)

When Britain Went To War: The Real Story of Life on the Home Front

Beatles: The Days of Their Life

Sinatra

Verve. The Sound of America