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more than 300 quotations spanning more than 60 years. The volume includes his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Organised into four sections, Struggle, Victory, Wisdom and Future. Remember such one liners as ‘I think the United States has become drunk with power’, ‘People are human beings, produced by the society in which they live’, ‘You encourage people by seeing the good in them’. 176pp. $20 NOW £3.50


74236 TALES OF LONDON’S DOCKLANDS by Henry T. Bradford


Henry Bradford was born into a dock-working family, and entered the industry himself in 1954. Despite the backbreaking and perilous daily toil there was much humour and real camaraderie amongst the dockers and some larger than life characters. Big Dave (25 stone) and his mate Little Fred (8½ stone), “Flash” Lightning, Soapy Jim and Old Percy were five such men with whom the author worked, and reading of their antics had us chuckling away. His pen portraits of co-workers, bosses, customs and police officers, sailors, tea ladies, divers and others are so sharply observed you could almost be there with them. Photos, 96pp softback. £10.99 NOW £3.75


74554 THE FORSAKEN by Tim Tzouliadis Subtitled ‘From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia’. In the depths of the Depression of the 1930s, vast numbers of men, women and children emigrated to Stalin’s Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working man, racial equality and honest labour. What awaited them however was the most monstrous betrayal. Among the thousands who vanished into the gulags were Gorky Park’s American baseball players. Tzouliadis focuses on two men, Thomas Sgovio and Victor Herman, who miraculously survived. 472pp with many disturbing pictures of emaciated children, NKVD execution squads, Stalin and other images.


£10.99 NOW £4 MUSIC AND DANCE


Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation. - John Milton Cage


75301 FIRE AND RAIN: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the


Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne


Based on candid interviews as well as access to rare documents and recordings, a journalist and music critic examines a pivotal, transitional and under-documented year - one that was as important as the much- studied 1968 and 1969. He sets the


stories of rock legends and legends-to-be against the increasingly chaotic backdrop of end-of-the-sixties events that were sending the world spinning. It was the tumultuous time of the Apollo 13 débâcle, the series of bombings by radical groups, the Kent State shootings, the launch of the ‘Southern Strategy’ in American politics and the start of the ‘green’ movement. The book takes readers inside the final days of the Beatles, the creative and personal clashes that led to the breakups both of Simon and Garfunkel and of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the shifting public mood that catapulted James Taylor to stardom by the year’s end. Over that 12 months the lives of these musicians and the world around them was to change irrevocably. Here is the compelling story of four landmark albums of 1970, the intertwining personal ties between the legendary artists who made them, and the ways in which their songs and journeys mirrored the end of one era and the start of another. 369 pages with archive b/w photos. £16.99 NOW £7


74716 MAMMOTH BOOK OF SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK


N’ROLL by Jim Driver Over 50 contributions include Paul Morley getting into the head of Jim Kerr, Peter Paphides on cocaine, Mike Gee on the death of Michael Hutchence and gnomic utterances by Allen Ginsburg. Nat Hentoff describes Dylan’s jealousy when Baez stole the audience’s attention by doing the Charleston, but Joanie


stayed loyal to the Kid’s genius. Back in the more recent past, Nat Fuller has some sharp observations on the madcap partnership of Winehouse and Fielder-Civil. The final section of the book is a quiz: how many Stones turned up at Brian Jones’s funeral? How did Keith Moon come to bite his neighbour Steve McQueen’s dog? What was Elvis’s sole reading at Graceland? 592pp, paperback. $13.95 NOW £4.50


72387 SIR ADRIAN BOULT CONDUCTS


ELGAR: Five CDs by Regis Records Adrian Boult was born in Chester in 1889 and became part of the music staff at Covent Garden in 1914 and in 1919 conducted the première of Holst’s The Planets at the composer’s invitation. He was at the forefront of British musical life in the 1930s and 40s and with the BBC Philharmonic and was at the helm for over 1500 broadcasts. The majority of the recordings on this box set date from the 1950s and the recording of Elgar’s First Symphony (1907-8) dates from the very start of his directorship of the LPO and was recorded for HMV in 1950. The set also includes many of Elgar’s important shorter orchestral works from the famous Pomp and Circumstance Marches to the charming Nursery Suite plus violin concerto (Campoli), cello concerto (Casals), Enigma Variations, Falstaff and Cockaigne. Elegantly packaged five CD box set. ONLY £11


74719 OPERA: The Great Composers and Their Masterworks by Joyce Bourne


A compelling tour de force of 400 years of the world’s greatest operas from Monteverdi and Purcell through to Philip Glass and John Adams, explaining en route that the word ‘élite’ means not merely an


experience reserved for special people but simply ‘the best of its kind’ . Here, the development of each operatic era - from the Baroque to the present day - is explored and set in its international, political and social context. Concise biographies and synopses of the key works of all the major composers are featured, accompanied by stunning stage photography and listings of the key pieces of music to listen out for. There are works from Armenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Britain, France, Austria, Russia and the United States, with revelations about the conductors and entrepreneurs, the great opera houses such as Sadler’s Wells Opera, and the great singers of the stature of Maria Callas, Sir Peter Pears, Jessye (sic) Norman, and a host of others who have won the public’s heart. 224 pages, colour and b/w illus with list of opera houses and festivals, and glossary. £30 NOW £10


75006 GREAT INSTRUMENTAL WORKS by M. Owen Lee


If you want to find out what is really going on in a Mozart symphony, a Beethoven string quartet or the orchestral works of Debussy or Ravel, then you could not do better than to learn from this internationally renowned expert, variously described as “irreverently amusing” and “rich, dense and profound”. In this book Father Owen examines the works of some 50 composers, along the way imparting the basics of classical music with wit and panache, dropping in scores of delightful biographical titbits and generally showing the reader how life-enhancing music can be. Even better, included with the book are two CDs. CD1 (playing time 62 min) features six works by Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert and CD2 (playing time 74 min) includes among its ten pieces the work of Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Brahms, Holst, Dvorak, Mahler and Chopin. Offers many “you may also want to hear” referrals, a glossary of terms and more unrestrained joy in his subject than is usually considered decent for a man of the cloth. 266pp paperback. £22.50 NOW £6.50


74019 CLAPTON: The Ultimate


Illustrated History by Chris Welch One of the greatest blues guitarists ever, Eric Clapton was being hailed as a giant of rock by the end of the sixties. This sumptuous book is not only crammed with wonderful pictures but also aims to assess Clapton’s appeal and achievement. His first band was the Roosters, and when he at last got a call - though he had no phone - from a serious Blues band, the Yardbirds, Clapton was on his way to the top. Ever publicity- conscious, the Yardbirds invaded Lord Willis’s home after he made disparaging remarks about modern bands, and an archive photo shows them performing for the grinning peer. In 1965 Clapton quit the Yardbirds and the following year Cream was formed, with the iconic album Blues Breakers featuring Clapton on the cover reading the Beano. Clapton is a survivor. 256pp, colour photos, features on his guitars, discography. £25 NOW £12


74491 A HYMN FOR ETERNITY: The Story of


Wallace Hartley by Yvonne Carroll Wallace Hartley was the bandmaster on the Titanic and it was his band that was playing when the ship went down. But who was he and where did he come from? What about his part in the tragedy? The author interviewed a surviving relative and here tells the story of one of the most British heroes ever on that ‘brilliantly beautiful starlit night.’ With cartoon illus, details on Cunard, the other musicians, the ship and crew, many rare photographs, some maps and manuscripts and programme of entertainment reproduced in facsimile. 128 page paperback. £8.99 NOW £2.50


74020 FENDER TELECASTER: The Life and Times of the Electric Guitar That


Changed the World by Dave Hunter The Fender Telecaster is the ultimate blue-collar guitar. A solid, single cutaway body of swamp-grown hardwood, six strings, one set of pick-ups, two chrome knurled tone and volume controls and that iconic six-in-a- line headstock that can turn its hand to any style, be it C&W, blues, rock’n’roll, punk, jazz or reggae. Tracing the evolution of the Telecaster from the Broadcaster, Nocaster and Esquire of the late ’40s and early ’50s, here are over 400 mouthwatering colour shots of the Telecaster, as well as its afore-mentioned siblings and its other family members, the Stratocaster and Precision Bass, pictured in the factory, in collections, waiting to be picked up and, most thrillingly, in use with their acolytes, people like Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, Luther Perkins, Wilko Johnson (who provides the foreword), Jimmy Page, Chrissie Hynde, Keith Richards, Waylon Jennings, Jeff Beck, Andy Summers, Merle Haggard and a great many more. 240pp, 9½”×11", colour. £25 NOW £14


74699 MAMMOTH BOOK OF BOB DYLAN edited by Sean Egan


From the Zeitgeist-encapsulating protest of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ to the streetwise venom of ‘Like A Rollin’ Stone’ and from the mid 60s trilogy of albums ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde on Blonde’, to ‘Time Out of Mind’, his astonishing if world-weary comeback at the age of 56, Bob Dylan’s genius has endured. Egan presents a selection of the best writing on Dylan, both praise and criticism, from interviews, essays, features and reviews of every single album to create a comprehensive picture of the artist whose chimes of freedom still resound. 518pp in paperback.


$13.95 NOW £5 74710 JOHN LENNON: The


Life by Philip Norman The most comprehensive and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. Tough and cynical, hilariously funny but also naïve, vulnerable and insecure - the author talks frankly about the mother who gave her toddler away and how this haunted Lennon’s mind and music for the rest of his days. Here is his upbringing


by his strict Aunt Mimi, his allegedly wasted school and student days, the evolution of his partnership with Paul McCartney, his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist, his forays into painting and literature, his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy and drugs. The book’s numerous informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candour about the inner workings of her marriage to John. 851 paperback pages. $19.99 NOW £6


74513 SERPENT OF THE NILE: Women and


Dance in the Arab World by Wendy Buonaventura


The women’s solo dance raqs al-sharqi (dance of the east), a variation on the Egyptian baladi, is not strictly Arabic but is found throughout North Africa and the Middle East. The western fascination with all things oriental began in the mid-19th century, where young men who went on the Grand Tour would seek out the forbidden pleasures of women’s dancing. Painters like Delacroix and Holman Hunt, who visited the eastern Mediterranean, made serious efforts to capture the real thing. The dances of Ouled Nail exerted a special fascination for their extravagant dress, and inevitably these erotic displays raise questions about women’s roles in society and entertainment within Islam. Ruth St. Denis, famous for the rippling movement of her arms in the Cobra dance, achieved celebrity and in the 21st century Arab dancing is again increasing in popularity. 223pp, softback, colour and archive photos. £14.99 NOW £5.50


74621 GOD OF HELLFIRE: The Crazy Life and


Times of Arthur Brown by Polly Marshall As a student, Arthur Brown bought a bass guitar and turned up at a jazz band rehearsal saying “I’m your new bassist, tell me how to play”. By the end of his degree he was married and regretfully decided to jack the music in, but a chance encounter with agent Philip Woods sent him to Paris with a newly formed band which tangled with the mafia and had to make a hasty exit. Back in the U.K., Brown adopted an increasingly psychedelic persona and when his band, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, penned the song ‘Fire’, influenced by Bosch and Blake, they tapped into the volatile zeitgeist of 1968. Black now adopted the full Gothic persona. Brown sang falsetto, performed archaic wobble dances and peeled off layer after layer to reveal ever more bizarre costumes. His patter included references to Jesus, Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. Following an American tour Brown made world headlines by stripping off onstage in Palermo. Crazy World was soon to be broken up by rivalry between band members Vincent and Drachen. A star-studded read. 255pp, photos. £20 NOW £6.50


74680 MORE ROOM IN A BROKEN HEART: The True


Adventures of Carly Simon by Stephen Davis


One of the greatest songwriters of a gifted generation, Carly Simon’s story is the last untold epics of American rock ‘n’ roll. Naturally the big question - the subject of “You’re So Vain” - is broached: “It’s my first bitter song”, she said at the time, “I was thinking about three or four


people when I wrote it”, three of them being Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger and Kris Kristofferson. Simon was arguably the first feminist pop star, a very difficult thing to be in an era that blatantly marketed female artistes on their sex appeal - her erect nipples, gracing the cover of No Secrets, her third album, are even today discussed and given the credit for a proportion of its platinum (25 million) sales! Her relationships with the three aforementioned lotharios and Cat Stevens, her stormy marriage to US folk hero James Taylor, her battle with breast cancer and more recent artistic and financial struggles, the stories behind the songs - it is all here. Never-before-published photos. 438pp paperback. $18 NOW £4.75


74709 JIMI HENDRIX: A BROTHER’S STORY by Leon Hendrix


Leon Hendrix was in a cell at Monroe reformatory when he heard of his elder brother Jimi’s death and this memoir is a record of the close relationship between the two boys as they grew up in difficult circumstances. Their parents split up after a drunken drive in which Hendrix senior nearly killed his family, and after that they never saw their mum and dad together, being shunted between them and placed in a succession of foster homes. Leon recounts making do by recycling every plastic or metal container he could find to sell for what little money he could make. Jimi ‘Buster’ was an honest lad, but even he was driven to steal from the supermarket. Leon was finally fostered by the Wheelers, a couple with degrees and good standing at the community, and meanwhile Buster found a beat-up ukulele in the garbage dump. He was soon trying out different sounds, and when the ukulele had exhausted all the possibilities, he experimented with strings, wires and rubber bands. The boys’ dad refused to buy an old Sears, Roebuck, Kay acoustic guitar for five dollars, but when Aunt Ernestine stood up to him he caved in. Finally the lucky break came: a friend of a neighbour was Little Richard’s aunt, and they met him in the neighbourhood and started jamming with other players. A great career was at last on its way, dogged by tragedy at every turn but ensuring a place in the hall of fame. 276pp, photos. £25.99 NOW £6


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74714 MAKING RECORDS: The Scenes Behind the Music


by Phil Ramone with Charles L. Granata For almost 50 years, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. There is a craft to making records, and he has spent his life mastering it. Here, for the first time ever he shares his secrets. In a thrilling peep behind the glass of a recording studio he allows readers to sit in on the sessions during Frank Sinatra’s Duets album, Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company and Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years. In addition to being a ringside seat for contemporary popular music history, this volume is an unprecedented tutorial on the magic behind what music producers and engineers actually do. What do the following musicians have in common: Pavarotti, McCartney, Sting, Madonna? Easy. They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone! 320 pages illustrated in b/w with selected discography and list of awards, honours and degrees. $24.95 NOW £6


74687 WILL YOU TAKE ME AS I AM? Joni


Mitchell’s Blue Period by Michelle Mercer Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last 50 years, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works. Generations inspired by the way it clarified difficult emotions, and critics and musicians admire the idiosyncratic virtuosity of its compositions. Acclaimed musical biographer Michelle Mercer calls Mitchell’s early to mid-1970s career - which also encompasses the much- loved and largely autobiographical albums For the Roses, Court and Spark and Hejira - her “Blue Period”. A book which is much more than the “making of an album” genre incorporates biography, memoir, reportage, criticism and interviews into what is effectively a new form of music writing. With previously unpublished photos and the coda of her unedited commentary on the places, books, music, pastimes and philosophies she holds dear and striking new perspectives on the art of songwriting. 240pp paperback, b/w photos. £15.99 NOW £6.50


74691 60 YEARS OF FENDER: Six Decades of


the Greatest Electric Guitars by Tony Bacon Creating a fresh perspective on the biggest name in electric guitars, this detailed and very entertaining, revised and updated volume is a must for any Fender fan. It provides a comprehensive account of Fender’s development from the 1950s through to the new millennium and is illustrated by an unrivalled gallery of colour photos of instruments, basses and amps, players who have been inspired by them, and memorabilia. Leo Fender introduced the world to the solid body electric guitar in 1950, with the instrument we know now as the Fender Telecaster. He soon gave us two more classics: the Fender Stratocaster and the Fender Precision Bass. His sleek, adaptable instruments fuelled the pop-music boom of the 1960s, and the company’s range of instruments have been used ever since by virtually every top player, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Jaco Pastorius and Kurt Cobain. 27 x 21cm, 144 pages, colour photos, and with chronology of models. £20 NOW £7


MYTHOLOGY


It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.


- The Hobbit


75305 MYTHOLOGY: The Complete Guide to our Imagined Worlds by Christopher Dell


In a complete theme-by-theme guide to extraordinary, mind-stretching stories and images from every corner of the globe, a graduate of the Courtauld Institute in London demonstrates how human beings tell tales to make sense of their surroundings and how they endeavour to explain the world around them. He also clarifies how, wherever they originate, many myths share common patterns. Here are accounts of earth’s creation, undying love, jealous gods, sturdy and fearless heroes, terrible monsters, the afterlife and the underworld, all illustrated by glorious pictures in many different styles of art. From Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium, via Mexico in 150 BC, to a Tibetan tapestry and an Aztec ‘sun stone’, through Pre-Raphaelite portraits and beautiful 19th century stained glass windows, here is the whole of the human experience condensed into one volume. It is also fascinating to see, for example, manuscripts from the Middle Ages depicting scenes from ancient mythology, which shows how myths have a lasting power to inspire later generations, as stories are recited and reinvented and how, in the process, an extra layer of magic is added to humankind’s day-to-day existence. In this enchanting volume there are quests, journeys and epics, miraculous births, animals who have special significance, details of the supernatural realm, investigation into sleep and dreams, and hopes for resurrection and eternal life. A


cornucopia of delights. 352 pages very


lavishly illustrated with 410 plates, 356 of them in colour, plus an overview of world mythologies, an inspired selection of images from unusual sources.


£24.95 NOW £12


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