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1) White tears
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.
"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books
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"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books
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English
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As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, from Ray Charles to Kid Rock. Working alongside his older brother, Nesuhi, one of the preeminent jazz producers of all time, and the legendary Jerry Wexler, Ertegun transformed Atlantic Records from a small independent record label into a hugely profitable multinational corporation. In successive generations, he also...
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English
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"Maximum Volume offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. George Martin?s working-class childhood and musical influences profoundly shaped his early career in the BBC?s Classical Music department and as head of the EMI Group?s Parlophone Records. Out of them flowed the genius behind his seven years producing the Beatles? incredible body of work, including such albums as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper?s...
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English
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"During his post-Beatles years, Martin attempts to discover new vistas of sound recording with a host of acts, including Jeff Beck, America, Cheap Trick, Paul McCartney, and Elton John, his creative breakthroughs followed by unprecedented commercial success. Eventually, though, all roads bring Martin back to the Beatles, as the group seeks out new ways to memorialize their achievement under the supervision of the man who has come to be known as Sir...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The founder of Island Records and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who is credited with being responsible for turning the world on to reggae music presents this lyrical, warmhearted, and inspirational memoir about his extraordinary life and career.
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Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Even hard-core music fans don't know the name Ron Weisner ... but they should. A high-powered manager for more than four decades, Weisner worked alongside Madonna, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, and, most notably, Michael Jackson."--Dust jacket flap.
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Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Brimming with hilarious scenes and character portraits, Siren Song's wider narrative is about modernity in motion, and the slow acceptance of diversity in America - thanks largely to daring pop music. Including both the high and low points in his life, Siren Song touches on everything from his discovery of Madonna to his wife Linda Stein's violent death."--Amazon.com.
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English
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"Did you ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? And how someone becomes an iconic music professional who is universally admired? Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music reveals answers to these questions and more. In this memoir of one of the most respected engineers of all time, you'll discover how a very young boy mentored by his uncle Harry progressed through the recording world in its infancy...
Publisher
Eagle Vision
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
An episode of "Arena," chronicling the life and legacy of George Martin with clips of the record producer at work and at home, and featuring interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Michael Palin, Jeff Beck, Rolf Harris, Cilla Black, Millicent Martin and Bernard Cribbins.
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English
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"In Blue, Aoki recounts the epic highs of music festivals, clubs and pool parties around the world, as well as the lows of friendships lost to drugs and alcohol, and his relationship with his flamboyant father. Illustrated with candid photos gathered throughout his life, the book reveals how Aoki became a force of nature as an early social media adopter, helping to turn dance music into the phenomenon it is today. All this, while remaining true to...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This enhanced e-book includes 49 of the greatest songs Ralph Peer was involved with, from groundbreaking numbers that changed the history of recorded music to revelatory obscurities, all linked to the text so that the reader can hear the music while reading about it. This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous-even revolutionary-A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Told through interviews with both celebrities and less-well known people who knew the late artist, a music writer and editor for The New Yorker tells the story of Shakur's life and legacy.
15) The defiant ones
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Allen Hughes, it chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling, and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts, and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more, the docu-series showcases how the two men rose to...
16) Spinning gold
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The unbelievably true story of music industry's most colorful and brilliant music producer, Neil Bogart, founder of Casablanca Records. Along with a rag tag team of young music lovers, Neil and Casablanca Records would rewrite history and change the music industry forever, igniting the careers of legendary icons like Donna Summer, Parliament, Gladys Knight and KISS, whose mix of creative insanity shaped our culture and ultimately defined a generation....
17) Len and Company
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
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Description
Len is a punk rocker-turned-in-demand pop producer, who following a very public meltdown, retreats to his country home for some time away from the pressures of the business. His solitude is interrupted, however, when he receives a visit from some surprise guest, his estranged son and pop star protge who arrive with complications of their own and who shake the prickly Len out of his stupor.
18) Be cool
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Juliet Lyman is a senior executive at Yesterday Records. Music is her passion and she's very good at her job. That's why her famously philanthropic boss Gideon sends her to Majorca, Spain to work with a very tortured, but talented client. Lionel Harding is one of the best song writers of the 20th century, the multi-Grammy award-winning lyricist of the third most recorded song in history. But now he's 42 and six months overdue on his latest paid assignment....
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Rudy Pérez, el ganador del premio Grammy en cinco ocasiones e icónico productor musical latino, comparte su cautivante proceso de ser un niño refugiado cubano a crear algunas de las producciones musicales más maravillosas del siglo veintuno.
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