26 Music and Dance


70781 TREASURES OF THE BEE GEES by Brian Southall


Sixth in the American list of record bestsellers, the Bee Gees are world-class artists on a level with Elvis, the Beatles and Michael Jackson, and unlike most other chart-toppers they maintained their global profile over five decades. This beautifully produced boxed book tells their story along with numerous archive photos and five facsimile document wallets containing mementoes. Growing up in Manchester, on Saturdays Barry Gibb and his twin brothers went down to the Gaumont where kids could mime to records. One day the Gibb brothers’ record got smashed and they had to sing live. The manager gave them a shilling and asked them to come back next week. Soon they were performing Everly Brothers hits as The Rattlesnakes, but in 1958 the family emigrated to Australia. When they returned to the U.K. in 1976 they soon had a record deal with Polydor and their songs were covered by Janis Joplin, Nina Simone and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 1969 the brothers fell out, but the following year they reunited and started looking for a new sound. “Mr. Natural” in 1974 failed to make an impact, but their new mentor Arif Mardin picked up Barry’s falsetto vocal, which together with a smaller band gave the group a reincarnation with the album “Main Course”. “How


Deep is Your


Love” from Saturday Night Fever started a series of hits until the group finally disbanded with Maurice’s death in 2003. 63pp, numerous colour photos, five document wallets


containing rare facsimile


mementoes. £25


NOW £12


Then it was literally a harpsichord with hammers instead of quill plectra, to which an ingenious escapement mechanism gave the power of playing loudly or softly by means of touch alone. It suffered under the cumbersome title of gravicembalo col piano e forte, happily later shortened to piano. Here are the composers who have made the greatest contribution to the piano’s reputation as a vehicle for profound musical expression, from Johann Sebastian Bach to Oscar Peterson, the performers who have made the piano sing, from Claude Debussy to François Poulenc and here too the types of music written for it, from the classical forms of the sonata and the concerto to the rhythms of ragtime and jazz, Scarlatti to Gershwin. 192 pages 23cm by 28cm, over 200 photographs in b/w and colour. £14.99 NOW £7.50


70798 ELTON JOHN by David Buckley


One of music’s true global superstars and most admired figures, Elton John has sold over an estimated 200 million albums worldwide to date. He is loved as much for his outrageous personality and witty outspoken attitude as for his music. Drawing on many new first-hand interviews with his associates and musical collaborators, alongside


exhaustive research, this updated edition tells a page- turning story of high drama and prodigious enduring talent, and offers a new perspective on an extraordinary man. Here are his earliest gigs, and his taking on of a new personality with his legal change of name from Reginald Kenneth Dwight to Elton Hercules John. He has ‘played’ with many celebrities, among them John Lennon, Roger Daltry, Kiki Dee and Billie Jean King, and married sound-technician Renate Blauel, although his marriage was not destined to last and he now lives with his long-term partner David Furnish after a civil marriage. Here too are moving accounts of his associations with AIDS victims and his interaction with members of the Royal Family - especially Princess Diana. 432 paperback pages with photos in b/w and colour, discography, and appendix: Paul Buckmaster in Conversation with David Buckley £9.99 NOW £4


63679 ALWAYS MAGIC IN THE AIR by Ken Emmerson


Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Doc Pomus, Mike Stoller, Mort Shuman, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil melded black, white and Latino sounds before multiculturalism became a concept. Here is the story of how 14 American songwriters forever changed popular music. It is a family portrait of a remarkable group of young songwriters who, huddled in midtown Manhattan’s Brill Building and at 1650 Broadway during the late 1950s and early 60s crafted some of rock ‘n’ rolls great early classics. They wrote songs like Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock, Dionne Warwick’s Walk On By and the Righteous Brothers’ You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. 336pp in large softback with b/w photos. £15 NOW £2.50


68669 1001 CLASSICAL RECORDINGS YOU MUST HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE Selected and


Reviewed by Leading International Critics edited by Matthew Rye


Selected by a team of 35 leading music critics from around the world, the 1001 classical recordings are absolute ‘must-hear’ pieces. From medieval madrigals, through the heavy-hitting greats like Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorak Mahler and Sibelius, to the latest important living composers such as Steve Reich or Philip Glass, all the greatest works by the finest composers past and present are surveyed and described in one handy volume. The book features album cover illustrations, highlights recommended releases and quotations. 960 pages, illus in colour.


$36.95 NOW £6.50


68794 NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN by Cath Carroll


In 1977, Fleetwood Mac produced one of the bestselling albums of all time. Although the making of ‘Rumours’ was fraught with technical challenges and was ultimately fuelled by excessive drinking and drug taking, it remains a triumphant and wholly original album, fusing pop, folk and country music expertly, and exceeding the hype and


expectation that surrounded it. This fascinating book explores the complicated relationships and creative tensions between those individuals that helped to shape the lyrical content and unique sound. 240pp in paperback, photos. £12.99 NOW £2


69212 LEARN TO PLAY THE CLARINET: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Instructional Guide by Frank Cappelli


Designed by an award-winning clarinet player and composer, this delightful guide will help young players through the first difficult stages of learning the instrument without hassle. From the very beginning, it is packed with useful advice. The photos are very close-up and extremely clear, showing the reader how to put together the instrument so that, right from the first, the beginner will feel at home with it. 112 very large format pages illustrated in colour. £12.99 NOW £3.50


69213 LEARN TO PLAY THE TRUMPET: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Instructional Guide by Frank Cappelli


Playing trumpet is a fun, rewarding and moving experience - one that you will soon enjoy with the help of a carefully developed system, even if you have never read music before. Before you have finished, you will be able to read music and play songs that you and your friends will recognize. With practice, you can become the musician you have always dreamed of being. So get blowing! 112 very large format pages with colour photos. £12.99 NOW £3.50


69442 RICHARD RODGERS by Geoffrey Block The musicals of the Rodgers and Hart era began in the 1920s and 30s through to the great days of Oklahoma!, the ‘South Pacific’ film and Cinderella (1957) which became a milestone to bring the ideals of Broadway musical theatre to commercial television. Richard Rodgers was a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and 40 shows for the American stage. A Connecticut Yankee was their longest running musical of the 1920s and the only show that they chose to revise and revive, and The Boys from Syracuse, the first Broadway musical based on Shakespeare and one of the few 1930s musicals to enjoy frequent revivals. Concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals from the 1960s and 70s. 315pp, photos and some musical scores. £22.50 NOW £5.50


69569 HERBERT VON KARAJAN: A Life in Pictures


edited by Pierre-Henri Verlhac


No one would seriously dispute that Herbert von Karajan is a legend. The Salzburg Festival was founded in 1920, and the young Karajan’s passion for theatre was awakened. The biography at the beginning of this volume documents in gripping detail Karajan’s brilliant career and pulls no punches about his private life either, notably the two occasions on which he joined the NSDAP - the precursor of the Nazi Party. The photos of him with the cream of the music profession from all over the world are just stunning. With foreword by Anne- Sophie Mutter, biographical essay by Juergen Otten and text by Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin. 192 pages 30 x 25.5mm, 150 illus in colour and b/w with discography, dozens of quotations. £41.95 NOW £12.50


69815 BOB DYLAN: CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE by Bob Dylan


The first part of a projected 3-volume autobiography. The books starts with Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York in 1961 and his sign-up with the Columbia label. The Folklore Center and the Gaslight club followed and when he started writing his own songs the world changed again. One of his juke-box favourites was Judy Garland’s “The Man That Got Away”. Interspersed with the story of Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame are memories of his childhood, parents, schooling and his wide reading of writers such as Byron, Coleridge, Eliot and Nietzsche, to name a few people whose ideas he discusses. 293pp, paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3


69824 CLIFFHISTORY: The Authorised Photographic Memoir


by Robin Morgan and Amy Turner This is Cliff Richard, His Story, in pictures enhanced by concise and informative sections of text. His is a journey which would span decades and continents and result in his accumulating hundreds of gold and platinum awards, more than 250,000,000 record sales, ten box office hits and millions of minutes of airtime. Perhaps the secret of his success is that he never stands still. The 76th studio album released by Cliff reached No. 7 in the charts and produced three Top 20 hits and in 2009 he was reunited with his first band The Shadows in the London O2 Arena. A gorgeous souvenir volume. 192 pages, 29 x 24.5mm, b/w and colour photos, with silk bookmark. £29.95 NOW £7.50


70432 UNLOCKING THE MASTERS DELUXE SET by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms


Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, the great ‘Three Bs’ of classical music, are brought together in one elegant box set by Amadeus Press, an imprint of Hal Leonard, and each book is accompanied by a full- length Naxos CD. The books are ‘Bach’s Keyboard Music: A Listener’s Guide’ by Victor Lederer, providing a close but non- technical look at the richness of the composer’s exploration of baroque genres. 147pp in paperback. ‘Beethoven’s Symphonies: A Guided Tour’ by John Bell Young is the second paperback in the box set. It takes the listener through each of Beethoven’s nine symphonies in detail. 132pp in paperback. The CD contains selections from all of the symphonies conducted by the legendary Wilhelm Furtwängler. ‘Brahms: A Listener’s Guide’ by John Bell Young looks at one of the 19th centuries pre-eminent composers and one of its most polarising musical figures. His thoughtful commentary considers various aspects of the composer’s life, the views of his peers and his complex relationships with women. The CD features recordings made specifically for this book. 145pp in paperback. Set of three in elegant slipcase, 500pp in total, 16 x 23.5cm. £43.95 NOW £15


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69579 OPERA COMPANION by George Martin


Almost 700 pages absolutely packed with information. There are synopses of an amazing 47 operas, and a 200 page refresher course. The book is designed differently from most opera guides in that it makes no attempt at ‘completeness’, but provides the reader with ‘the information necessary to go to any opera and find it at least interesting


if not enjoyable’. By ‘information’ the author means such background knowledge as the definition of a baritone, a brief history of the claque and the castrati, the why and how of an overture, the sounds of an orchestra and the structure of a melody. 695 paperback pages with line drawings. Gives composer, librettist, and date and place of first performance. £15.99 NOW £5.50


MYTHOLOGY


Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.


- C. G. Jung


70576 BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH FAIRY TALES: Fairy


Gold by Ernest Rhys Bargain facsimile reprint of the original 1906 edition with seven colour plates and many woodcuts and line illustrations throughout by Herbert Cole. Favourite characters like Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, King Arthur, Tom Thumb, Chicken Licken, the Green Knight sit alongside the King of the Cats, Old Fortunatus, The Lady Mole, Mr Fox,


The Princess of Colchester, Robin Goodfellow and the Giant of St Michaels among these 33 fairy tales to please children of all ages. One to dip into time and again. 236 page quality softback. £10.99 NOW £4.50


70584 WHY THE


CROCODILE HAS A WIDE MOUTH: And Other Nature


Myths by Florence Holbrook Why the cat always falls upon her feet, the story of the first butterflies, the story of the first woodpecker, why the magpie’s nest is not well built, why the serpent sheds his skin, why the dove is timid, why the bear has a short tail, the story of the bees and the flies, the story of


the first emeralds, why the juniper has berries, why all men love the moon, are among the 54 wonder filled stories. Adapted for curious young minds, they describe in simple folk tale style how many amazing creatures of the earth were created and why they look and act as they do. Find out how fire was brought to the Indians and how summer came to the Earth. Discover why the sea is salty and evergreen trees never lose their leaves. 29 enchanting line illus from the original 1902 edition. 110pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3


68543 BEST-LOVED STORIES by Hans Christian Andersen Illustrated by Isabelle Brent in her distinctive illuminated style with gold borders and page edges, here is Neil Philip’s sparkling translation of these much-loved tales. The stories include Thumbelina, Little Ida’s Flowers, The Wild Swans, The Sweethearts, The Nightingale, The Snow Queen: A Story in Seven


Parts, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Goblin at the Grocer’s, The Shadow, In A Thousand Years’ Time, It’s Perfectly True, Dance, Dance Dolly Mine!, Grief, The Gardner and His Master and The Snowman are among the 17 tales. Softback, 224pp, sparkling colour illus. £9.99 NOW £3


69463 WEIRD ENGLAND by Matt Lake


If the Geordie Yeti and the Cannock Chase Bigfoot are the Wookies of the British Isles, then the Duergar are its Ewoks, tiny fur-covered creatures no taller than the waist of an adult. They are indigenous to Simonside, Northumberland and


have strange powers like the legendary Black Dog. Nestled amongst other cemetery ghastly, grim and great stories, haunted crossroads, are a taunting in Taunton, dark forms on the Devil’s Elbow, the Da Vinci shepherd’s code, Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire, the cow sculptures of Milton Keynes, the M5 dinosaur, the Willow Man on the M5, Druid temples, a cement menagerie, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Monster Raving Looney Party. Pictures, 272 large pages. £14.99 NOW £4


69804 AN APPLE A DAY: Old-Fashioned Proverbs And


Why They Still Work by Caroline Taggart A proverb is a piece of wisdom or advice expressed in a short and memorable way. The insights that struck a chord with Aesop’s readers in Ancient Greece, or Shakespeare’s audiences 400 years ago, hold good in a surprising number of cases. Many of them contradict each other. Many hands may make light work


but remember that too many cooks spoil the broth. You could say, after all, that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive, and we can guarantee that you will have enjoyed yourself on the way. 184 pages with list of proverbs.


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Autumn’s the mellow time. - William Allingham


70831 CAMPBELL’S


WEATHER COMPENDIUM In Britain we can experience four seasons in one day! Beautiful and diverse, here is a perfect companion to learn more about the weather and why we are constantly at Mother Nature’s mercy. Meteorology is a highly complex science and not the most exact and even with today’s satellites, radar and computer simulations, a reliable


weather forecast still seems a long way off. First we go back to a wealth of folklore and mythology and a thousand homely rhymes and maxims that are still current today. The names of scientists are preserved in the effects, processes and phenomena that they bequeathed to the world from Hadley cells to the Coriolis Effect and the splendidly named Madden-Julian oscillation. The language of weather is a delight and there are charmingly evocative terms like mackerel sky and mares’ tales, the categorisation of clouds to the dustbowls of the American prairies. May all your white Christmases come with this very browseworthy record of weather, water cycle, halcyon days to ice ages, mirages and monsoons to superstitions, forecasting disasters and stats galore. 166pp. £9.99 NOW £4.50


70600 POCKET GUIDE TO BIRDS OF PREY OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE by Peter


Hayman and Rob Hume Slimline pocket paperback with plastic cover for use in the field, this pocket guide features the nine raptor families that breed or regularly visit Britain and Europe. Up to 15 meticulously detailed illustrations for each species in flight and at rest facilitate accurate identification. Stunning photography demonstrates the habitat, breeding and feeding patterns of each family and celebrates the living bird. Symbols


provide at-a-glance essential information on habitat, while maps indicate breeding and migration patterns. There are colour-coded groups of birds by family for quick reference. 176 in paperback. £9.99 NOW £5


70849 REALLY RURAL: Peculiar Country Ways and


How to Embrace Them by Janey Wilks


A mixture of hilarious old wives’ tales and timeless country lore, this fascinating compendium of all things rural draws on old books, stories and sayings together with an amusing commentary from the author. Recipes and remedies


include Mumbled Rabbits and Taddago Pie, though the former is supposed to be served on Sippets which the author admits defeats her. The West Country method of curing hams from Granny’s Cookery Book should be within reach of anyone who needs to do a bit of large- scale catering, but a remedy for boils offers more of a challenge as a major ingredient is gunpowder. A section on rural children is a mine of information, particularly the telling comparison involving 8-year old Alice in a lace- making class, kept upright by a stay busk, though her body is already getting bent. Contrast this with Alice, 8, today, in Year Three, looking forward to receiving an iPod for her birthday and enjoying swimming, ballet and sleepovers with her friends. Rural crafts such as blacksmithing and thatching have their own lore, while old-fashioned hints on maintaining your cottage garden include a millipede trap and Alexander Pope’s suggestions for topiary. 247pp, sepia drawings. £9.99 NOW £4


68762 WORLD OF WHALES,


DOLPHINS, AND PORPOISES by Tony Martin


Here are fascinating facts on some 85 species including White and Grey whales, Beluga and Narwhal with


its mythological, unicorn-style tusk, marine dolphins and porpoises and river dolphins. The fabulous colour photographs come from the world’s best wildlife photographers. Author Tony Martin presents the latest research and leads us on a journey of discovery about some of the sea’s finest creatures. 96 huge pages in paperback, colour photos throughout. $17.95 NOW £2.50


69043 JUMBO by Paul Chambers The colourful tale of the greatest elephant ever known. Born in Africa in 1861 then captured and shipped to London Zoo, Jumbo was a superstar of the Victorian era. For three decades he enjoyed global renown and


70295 MAGICAL WORLDS OF PHILIP PULLMAN by David Colbert


Takes fans on a journey through the worlds of art, science and religion evoked by Pullman’s classic sagas. From the philosophy of William Blake and John Milton’s classic poem Paradise Lost to quantum physics and the Bible, discover the complex origins and controversial themes that have


made Pullman’s trilogy a modern marvel in literature. How was his idea of Dusk shaped by his life? What made Pullman think of daemons and would they be magpies or the raven from native North American legend? 160pp in illus softback. £8.95 NOW £2.75


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