Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2026

Book Review: Too Much Too Young

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In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers b...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

Book Review: Mighty Real

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From the underground dancefloors of the Seventies to the global charts of the Nineties, LGBTQ artists and audiences shaped music’s sound, ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Book Review: Queens of Disco

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From leading vocalists such as Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer and The Pointer Sisters, who helped popularize disco music in the late seventie...
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Book Review: Prince's Minneapolis

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When nineteen-year-old Prince took the stage to perform “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on American Bandstand, those who watched couldn’t reconcil...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Book Review: Uncharted Territory

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Did you know that hit songs in the late 1950s were regularly about gruesome death? That a US vice president wrote a number one hit? That w...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Book Review: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Craig Inciardi was a rising star at Sotheby’s, wheeling and dealing in rock memorabilia, when he got the call to help launch the Rock ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Book Review: A History of Punk

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Punk was filthy and furious, yet it was also a new dawn for the British music scene. In its original form it was a movement of human liber...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Book Review: Tonight in Jungleland

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From the opening piano notes of “Thunder Road,” to the final outro of “Jungleland” – with American anthems like “Born to Run” and “Tenth A...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Book Review: Revolution

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Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince’s most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration a...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Book Review: Underscore (The Vinyl Detective #8)

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Italy is known for some of the greatest (and grooviest) music ever committed to vinyl, including a rich diversity of soundtracks. One of t...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Book Review: John and Paul

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The Beatles shook the world to its core in the 1960’s and, to this day, new generations continue to fall in love with their songs and thei...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Book Review: The Permanent Holdout

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Known for albums like Late for the Sky , The Pretender , and Running on Empty , Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the countercultur...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Book Review: Eternal Flame

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From their first meeting in 1981, the Bangles were ambitious, focused, and intentional; their hard-work and determination resulted in mill...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Book Review: Mood Machine

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Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inne...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Book Review: Adventures in Modern Recording

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As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. His production work since t...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Book Review: The Story of the Bee Gees

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People tend to have their favorite era of the Bee Gees's career, but many listeners are also conscious that there is more to uncover a...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Book Review: My Name Is Barbra

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Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainme...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Book Review: High and Rising

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De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising , an “anything goes” hip-hop ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Book Review: Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

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A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl ...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Book Review: Songbird

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Christine McVie (born Christine Perfect) was the quintessentially English rock star, as both the backbone and the beating heart of Fleetwo...