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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names. By turns fascinating, funny, and bizarre, the pages offer insight into the peculiar choices and idiosyncratic psychologies of hundreds of top musicians from the 1960s to the present. Originally published more than two decades ago to great success, it's been out of print for years and has now been completely updated and expanded to feature dozens of exclusive interviews including conversations with groups like The Black Keys, The Killers, Twenty One Pilots, Coldplay, Cage the Elephant, and Vampire Weekend. From Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, this diverting and handsome collection reveals the often overlooked but defining histories of hundreds of the biggest names in rock and pop.
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• Skunk
• Formigão
• Rafael
• Bacalhau
• Ronaldo
• D2
• Encontros e reencontros
• E a sementinha brotou
• Super-Elza
• Brrruno
• Diamante negro
• Bola pra frente
• Usuário
• O "A" e o Zé
• Abril pro planet
• Censura e confusão
• Lobatto
• Cidade do rock
• A primeira turnê pelo nordeste
• Jackson
• Hemp family
• As meninas do planet
• Gente que incomoda
• Dominando SP
• Black alien
• Cannabis cup
• Fortalecendo o movimento
• Os cães ladram
• Hemp new year
• Intensa mente
• Cachorrada
• Queimando tudo
• Divergências
• Poltrona 22
• Baseado em fatos reais
• Fazendo escolhas
• Loucura, loucura, loucura
• Eu tiro é onda
• Saem dois, volta um
• Casa do caralho
• A invasão do Sagaz Ganjaman
• Salve, Jorge
• Pedrinho & Pedrão
• Hip hop rio
• A grande família
• O dono da banca
• Bebi, comi e fui embora
• Cara ou coroa?
• Sambandido
• Marcelodedois
• Desabafo
• Speed
• Duas voltas pontuais
• Adivinha, doutor ...
• O ritmo e a raiva
• Nada pode me parar
• Nobru
• Mais vivos do que nunca
• Legalize já
• Legado
• Cronologia.

The cult Swedish graphic novel that inspired the critically acclaimed Lukas Moodysson film 'We Are the Best!' Coco, Klara and Mathilda have known each other since primary school, where they met in folk dancing class. Now they're almost teenagers, and their anarchist ideals and dreams of forming a world-beating punk band set them apart from the other girls at school. They can't play any instruments, practice with pillows and pans, and keep getting told that punk is dead. But they're not going to let any of those things get in their way...Published in English for the first time, Never Goodnight is a hilarious and life-affirming memoir which will remind you that all you need in life is your best friends, a can of hairspray and three guitar chords.
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Ramon and Cornelio are best friends, driven by boredom as teenagers to start a band. Not just any band. A norteño band, playing God's favorite music. God even pitches in to write the songs. Success, disaster and good music follow.

Twenty-three years on from their slightly dodgy, single foray into the charts, Scottish pop sensations The Majestics are mourning the loss of Bigg Jazza - their charismatic frontman - whose Ford Sierra just collided with a bus shelter via an unwelcome late-night kebab. With a Silver Jubilee tour booked, an album to cut and a TV documentary in the offing, can Jazza's brother, Danny, just washed up from New York with only four dollars to his name, save the day? It was 1987 when John Bryne's award-winning comedy-drama burst onto the nation's TV screens, searing itself into a generation's consciousness in the process. Now he has adapted his own original script, as the National Theatre of Scotland and His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, bring Vinne, Eddie Clockerty, Miss Toner, Suzi Kettles, Bomba et al. to the stage for the very first time. The stage version of Tutti Frutti premiered at His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, in September 2006.
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Dave Raymond, lead guitarist of New Jersey wedding band The Wishbones, dreams of rock fame. Unfortunately, the future of the band is in jeopardy. Then the Wishbones get a gig on a cable TV show fronted by a Nazi, and Dave's problems grow even more complex.
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All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of what would come to be called the Krautrock scene in late sixties Cologne. With Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay - two classically trained students of Stockhausen - at the heart of the band, CAN's studio and live performances burned an incendiary trail through the decade that followed: and left a legacy that is still reverberating today in hip hop, post rock, ambient, and countless other genres. Rob Young's account draws on unique interviews with all founding members of CAN, as well as their vocalists, friends and music industry associates. And he revisits the music, which is still deliriously innovative and unclassifiable more than four decades on. All Gates Open is a portrait of a group who worked with visionary intensity and belief, outside the system and inside their own inner space. Book Two, Can Kiosk, has been assembled by Irmin Schmidt, founding member and guiding spirit of the band, as a 'collage - a technique long associated with CAN's approach to recording. There is an oral history of the band drawing on interviews that Irmin made with musicians who see CAN as an influence - such as Bobby Gillespie, Geoff Barrow, Daniel Miller, and many others. There are also interviews with artists and filmmakers like Wim Wenders and John Malkovitch, where Schmidt reflects on more personal matters and his work with film. Extracts of Schmidt's notebook and diaries from 2013-14 are also reproduced as a reflection on the creative process, and the memories, dreams, and epiphanies it entails. Can Kiosk offers further perspectives on a band that have inspired several generations of musicians and filmmakers in the voices of the artists themselves. CAN were unique, and their legacy is articulated in two books in this volume with the depth, rigour, originality, and intensity associated with the band itself. It is illustrated throughout with previously unseen art, photographs, and ephemera from the band's archive.
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"This book is all about the meteoric rise and fall of a wholly indigenous Nigerian pop group called The Wings. The rock band made its debut in 1968 having been put together by the Biafran Airforce authorities primarily for their entertainment and pleasure. At the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war, these young school leavers hopefully continued playing together not minding the difficult challenges that confronted them. With three successful hit singles and a long-playing album to their credit in the long run, the group gained instant recognition all over the country. By December 1974, the story of the group turned sour and the flight to stardom was over. Three members of the band namely, Spud Nathans, an extraordinarily talented lead singer, Okey Uwakwe, an experienced lead guitarist and Manford Best, a singer/rhythm guitarist were involved in a fatal auto-crash. The accident took place while they were returning to Aba after a gig at Akuma the night before. Manford was on the wheels. This was shortly after crossing the notorious Njaba bridge situated before Owerri. Spud died on the spot. Okey was hospitalized and died later but Manford escaped with minor injuries. Unfortunately, Manford has been unsettled since that road mishap that claimed the lives of his indispensable colleagues, Spud and Okey. This was largely because of rumours making the rounds that the accident was caused intentionally. Certainly, Manford does not have a guilty conscience in line with the popular saying that a clear conscience fears no accusations. However, he has been persuaded to break his silence and to tell his own side of the story for posterity. It took a long time for this to materialize because the urge to do so came by chance. The book has twenty-one chapters beginning with, “Response to Necessity” to “At Last” being the first and last chapters respectively."--Amazon.com

AC/DC have reigned over rock'n'roll for almost four decades. Their signature power chord rock was the sonic standard bearer of the genre they pioneered, summarised in Rolling Stone's declaration that they are 'one of the top hard rock bands in history'. The group has transcended their Australian roots to become a global phenomenon. Their albums consistently go platinum and they have earned their reputation as one of the best bands on the planet. The band's live arsenal includes 'It's a Long Way to the Top (If you Want to Rock'n'Roll)', 'Highway to Hell' and 'You Shook Me All Night Long' (which Billboard called 'the greatest one-night-stand anthem in rock history') and their influence is felt today as strongly as ever. Their most recent release Black Ice sold more than 1.5 million copies in its first week in 2008, making history by debuting at No 1 on album charts in 29 countries simultaneously. The record would go on to sell seven milion copies worldwide, spending serveral weeks in the top of the Billboard Top 200. As late as 2009 they were still getting the honours - winning the Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy over the likes of Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, Nickelback and Metallica.
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This work tracks every move in the Kinks' career. With the help of band members, Doug Hinman has reconstructed their meteoric rise to fame in the early 60s through its dissolution and revival in the 70s, stadium success in the 80s, and an apparently final breakdown in the late 90s.
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