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  • Movie Houses of Greater Newark

    by Philip M. Read ...
    Series series Images of America
    For decades, Newark and its environs have been lit up by the bright neon lights of grand movie palaces and theaters. In the early 20th century, stages that were originally built for vaudeville acts were turned over to silver screens and the flickering images from motion-picture projectors. This new technology ushered Hollywood movies to the East Coast and made cinema accessible for locals to enjoy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memories from the Meadowbrook

    America Through Time

    by Philip M Read ...
    It became a home-away-from-home for America's "greatest generation." "Coming to you live from Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook, Route 23, the Newark-Pompton Turnpike in Cedar Grove, New Jersey," said the announcer in those all-so-familiar radio broadcasts beamed at home and abroad. This is where Frank Sinatra sang with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the age of swing and the big bands. Glenn Miller. Harry ... Read more

    $6.70 USD

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    Noel Gallagher is as well-known for his singer-song writing talent as he is for his controversial, outspoken statements and his tempestuous relationships. With the renowned Britpop band, Oasis, Noel found worldwide acclaim and influenced the musical style of a generation. At the forefront of the Britpop movement in the Nineties, Noel was responsible for writing some of the big anthems of the ... Read more

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  • To Be Loved

    The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown

    by Berry Gordy ...
    The story of Motown Records and how it changed the course of American music, as told by its founder—"an African American culture hero of historic stature" ( The New York Times).Berry Gordy Jr., who once considered becoming a boxer, started a record company with a family loan of $800 in 1959. Gordy's company, Motown Records, went on to create some of the most popular music of all time. By the time ... Read more

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  • Take a Walk on the Dark Side

    Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses

    by R. Gary Patterson ...
    Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons.Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • As The Years Go By ... Conversations With Canada's Folk Rock & Pop Pioneers

    by Randy Ray, Mark Kearney ...
    Anyone who grew up in Canada in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, knows how amazing Canada's music scene was in those magical decades. Etched in the musical memories of millions of music fans in Canada and around the globe are great tunes, television appearances and live shows featuring The Diamonds, Lighthouse, Steppenwolf, Mashmakhan, Patsy Gallant, Skylark, Bobby Curtola, Edward Bear, Susan Jacks, ... Read more

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  • Elvis meets the Beatles

    by Chris Hutchins ...
    ELVIS meets the BEATLES**By Chris Hutchins and Peter ThompsonHOW did John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ever get to America in the first place? How did Elvis Presley, a poor boy from the Tennessee backwoods, arrive in Hollywood? Full of previously unpublished detail, this book is a rare focus on the lives and careers of five of the most famous entertainers ever. It ... Read more

    $5.36 USD

  • Singing from the Floor

    A History of British Folk Clubs

    by JP Bean ...
    In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and sound systems were unheard of, an acoustic revolution took place in Britain in the 1950s and '60s. This was the folk revival, where a generation of musicians, among much drink and raucous cheer, would rediscover the native songs of their own tradition, as ... Read more

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  • Let's Talk About Love

    Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste

    by Carl Wilson ...
    For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while ... Read more

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    by D.X. Ferris ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession of ten blindingly fast, apocalyptic songs. The first English book about Slayer explores the creation of the most universally respected metal album and its long road to the stores, through original ... Read more

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    by Daphne Carr ...
    Series series 33 1/3
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  • The Time out of Mind

    by Ian Bell ...
    By the middle of the 1970s, Bob Dylan’s position as the pre-eminent artist of his generation was assured. The 1975 album Blood on the Tracks seemed to prove, finally, that an uncertain age had found its poet.Then Dylan faltered. His instincts, formerly unerring, deserted him. in the 1980s, what had once appeared unthinkable came to pass: the “voice of a generation” began to sound irrelevant, a ... Read more

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