Reinventing Pink Floyd

2018-02-09 Music

Author : Bill Kopp
Release : 2018-02-09
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reinventing Pink Floyd written by Bill Kopp. This book was released on 2018-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett’s departure, but it went on to release landmark albums that continue to influence generations of musicians and fans. Reinventing Pink Floyd follows the path taken by the remaining band members to establish a musical identity, develop a songwriting style, and create a new template for the manner in which albums are made and even enjoyed by listeners. As veteran music journalist Bill Kopp illustrates, that path was filled with failed experiments, creative blind alleys, one-off musical excursions, abortive collaborations, general restlessness, and—most importantly—a dedicated search for a distinctive musical personality. This exciting guide to the works of 1968 through 1973 highlights key innovations and musical breakthroughs of lasting influence. Kopp places Pink Floyd in its historical, cultural, and musical contexts while celebrating the test of fire that took the band from the brink of demise to enduring superstardom.

Reinventing Bach

2013-04-04 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Paul Elie
Release : 2013-04-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 416/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reinventing Bach written by Paul Elie. This book was released on 2013-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’ s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’ s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’ s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’ s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’ s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’ s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’ s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gö del, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist.

Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll

1998 Music

Author : Richie Unterberger
Release : 1998
Genre : Music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll written by Richie Unterberger. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles rock musicians from the 1950s to the 1990s who never made it big, including the Collins Kids, Graham Bond, Duffy Powder, the Remains, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Martin Newell, and the Free Spirits

In The Pink

2017 Rock groups

Author : Nick Sedgwick
Release : 2017
Genre : Rock groups
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book In The Pink written by Nick Sedgwick. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stick It!

2016-05-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Carmine Appice
Release : 2016-05-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Stick It! written by Carmine Appice. This book was released on 2016-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll life—and now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin to support him on tour, taught John Bonham to play drums (and helped Fred Astaire too), and took part in Zeppelin's infamous deflowering of a groupie with a mud shark. After enrolling in Rod Stewart's infamous Sex Police, he hung out with Kojak, accidentally shared a house with Prince, was blood brothers with Ozzy Osbourne and was fired by Sharon. He formed an all-blond hair-metal band, jammed with John McEnroe and Steven Seagal, got married five times, slept with 4,500 groupies—and, along the way, became a rock legend by single-handedly reinventing hard rock and heavy metal drumming. His memoir, Stick It!, is one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll books of the early twenty-first century.

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