About Time: The Unsung Genius of Steve Winwood

2018-01-10 Performing Arts

Author : Chuck Sullivan
Release : 2018-01-10
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 460/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book About Time: The Unsung Genius of Steve Winwood written by Chuck Sullivan. This book was released on 2018-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Winwood has been creating his own form of R&B genres for over 50 years, and is an international star. His music includes blues, folk, rock, funk, pop and most recently Latin rhythms. His immediately recognizable blue-eyed soulful voice makes him one of the greatest singers of our time. Winwood has been the bandleader of iconic groups including The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and an extensive solo career. Winwood is also an extremely talented Hammond B-3 organist, synthesizer keyboardist, and guitarist. His work as a session player helped him become a visionary engineer and producer, sometimes creating entire albums by himself. Author Chuck Sullivan explores Winwood's journey through first hand interviews with notable musicians, extensive research, and uses his personal experiences as a musician and producer to describe the remarkable career of this musical genius.

Steve Winwood--roll with it

1990 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Chris Welch
Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Steve Winwood--roll with it written by Chris Welch. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His '80s comeback with Back in the High Life proves that Steve Winwood is hotter than ever. Here is the only authorized biography that reveals the complex artist behind the superstar and chronicles the radical ups and downs of his career. 16-page photo insert.

Tragic Magic

2015-12-07 Music

Author : Dan Ropek
Release : 2015-12-07
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 192/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tragic Magic written by Dan Ropek. This book was released on 2015-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traffic was the most enigmatic British band of their day. Formed in early 1967 by Chris Wood, Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason, they rejected the bright lights of London in favor of a run-down, supposedly haunted, cottage in the country - a place to live communally and write music. With Chris especially intent on channeling the vibes of England's landscape into their sound, days would be spent getting high, exploring, playing and working in varying proportions. Against all odds, this eccentric model paid off - songs such as "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and "John Barleycorn Must Die" would lift Traffic into the upper echelons of the rock world. As they brushed shoulders with Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, and the Grateful Dead, and with Dave dropping in and out of the band, Traffic's music evolved from a synthesis of Steve's innate musicality, Jim's atmospheric lyrics and Chris's special brand of congenial mysticism. Record sales boomed and tours carried them back and forth across the Atlantic, everything seemed to be going to plan - a dreamlike fairy tale come true. But for Chris, a toll would be exacted. Amid the clashing egos, wearing road trips, stressful break ups and a complex personal life, he vacillated precariously between bursts of exquisite creativity and torrents of self-destruction; a paradoxical dance which continued until his death in 1983. For a man who found artistic expression everything, and for whom suffering for it was an expectation, Chris would stare fully into the Medusa's face of the music industry, paying a higher price than perhaps any of his contemporaries. Researched and written over a ten-year period, "Tragic Magic" offers the only definitive account of Traffic's story and Chris Wood's quietly extraordinary life.

A Year with Swollen Appendices

2020-11-17 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Brian Eno
Release : 2020-11-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 624/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Year with Swollen Appendices written by Brian Eno. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.'One of the seminal books about music . . . an invaluable insight into the mind and working practices of one of the industry's undeniable geniuses.'GUARDIANAt the end of 1994, Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell quickly to the wayside. What he did do - and write - however, was astonishing: ruminations on his collaborative work with David Bowie, U2, James and Jah Wobble, interspersed with correspondence and essays dating back to 1978. These 'appendices' covered topics from the generative and ambient music Eno pioneered to what he believed the role of an artist and their art to be, alongside adroit commentary on quotidian tribulations and happenings around the world.This beautiful 25th-anniversary hardcover edition has been redesigned in the same size as the diary that eventually became this book. It features two ribbons, pink paper delineating the appendices (matching the original edition) and a two-tone paper-over-board cover, which pays homage to the original design.An intimate insight into one of the most influential creative artists of our time, A Year with Swollen Appendices is an essential classic.

Conversations With Tom Petty

2012-02-23 Music

Author : Paul Zollo
Release : 2012-02-23
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 640/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Conversations With Tom Petty written by Paul Zollo. This book was released on 2012-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...the notoriously media-wary Petty responds...about his life, career, and craft…” Publishers Weekly Conversations with Tom Petty is the first authorized book to focus solely on the life and work of the man responsible for some of the most memorable rock anthems of our generation, including: American Girl, Breakdown, Don’t Come Around Here No More, I Won’t Back Down, Free Fallin’, Runnin’ Down a Dream, You Don’t Know How It Feels , and many others. He was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 and his work with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, as well as his solo albums and those with the Traveling Wilburys, have been critically acclaimed the world over and have earned numerous Platinum-status awards from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as Grammys, MTV Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and many other honours. Author, Paul Zollo, conducted a series of in-depth discussions with Tom about his career, with special focus on his song writing. The conversations are reprinted with little or no editorial comment alongside rare photographs of the legend and represent a unique perspective on Tom’s entire career.

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