The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles PDF Author: Martin Roach
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753515377
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
From Arctic Monkeys and ABBA to the Zutons and Ziggy Stardust, from 'Anarchy in the UK' to 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' - and over 30,000 hit singles in between - this collector's must-have contains everything you could possibly want to know about every single to reach the charts since 1952. Packed full of charts, lists, facts and timelines as well as up-to-date information, extensive cross references and analysis from Martin Roach this is the perfect book for music buffs, downloaders glued to iPods and budding Mark Ronsons. This new edition, previously published by Guinness World Records, is the first to be published under the Virgin brand with a whole new look. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history from industry-insider Martin Roach, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles PDF Author: Occ
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753522454
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 722

Book Description
The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 40 Charts. Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1956, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most comprehensive, easy to read, and accessible music chart data and information. It's all here--expanded artist biographies, side notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on chart, and weeks at number one. The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover.

All Time Top 1000 Albums

All Time Top 1000 Albums PDF Author: Colin Larkin
Publisher: Virgin Publishing
ISBN: 9780753503546
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This volume acts as a reference to the 1000 top albums of all time. All the key information is provided, including track listings and a brief judgement on each album. The appendices in this new edition have been expanded and enlarged to include the top 1000 albums across a range of genres, from blues to rap, reggae to indie and jazz to dance. More specialist areas, such as Latin, have been included and the number of jazz albums have been increased.

Top 40 Charts

Top 40 Charts PDF Author:
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753522004
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 1055

Book Description
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The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums

The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums PDF Author: Martin Roach
Publisher: Virgin Books
ISBN: 9780753517000
Category : Musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO, this indispensable, innovatively designed book celebrates fifty years of British album charts, telling you everything you could possibly want to know about every album to reach the Top 100. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums covers everything, from the classics (Sgt Pepper, Nevermind, The Dark Side of the Moon) to the dodgy (Spiceworld, Seriously Orchestra) and the downright bizarre (Smurfs Go Pop!, Seventies Dinner Party).Where else are you going to find out that-Bridge over Troubled Water spent 307 weeks in the chartsPavarotti has topped the album charts - twiceLily Allen went triple-platinum in 2006 with Alright, StillOasis sold 356,000 copies of Be Here Now in one day aloneBoth Gary Glitter and Mariah Carey released an album called GlitterDonny Osmond has never made it to No. 1 in the album charts

The Official Christmas No. 1 Singles Book

The Official Christmas No. 1 Singles Book PDF Author: Michael Mulligan
Publisher: Nine Eight Books
ISBN: 9781788705851
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
'A Christmas cracker' - Record CollectorSo here it is...The perfect gift for music lovers of all ages, The Official Christmas No. 1 Singles Book is jam-packed with facts, figures and photos to get your toes tapping along to the sounds of seven decades of festive chart-toppers. Have you ever wondered how many Christmas number ones actually have the word 'Christmas' in their title? Or how many TV talent-show winners have claimed the festive top spot? Do you know which artist has racked up the most Christmas number ones? Or which single is the biggest-selling seasonal chart-topper of all time? Can you name the only song to have topped the Christmas chart twice by two different artists? Or the only artist to have been Christmas number one twice with the same song? The answers to all these questions - plus many more - can be found in this exclusive festive companion, published in conjunction with the Official Charts Company. With a fully illustrated double-page spread for every year since the UK singles chart began in 1952, Michael Mulligan's fun and authoritative journey through the Christmas archives will delight curious browsers and dedicated pop nerds alike. Featuring top-ten countdowns, fascinating trivia about the highest-charting Christmas singles and plenty of entertaining infographics, this is the ideal family stocking-filler, celebrating all that is wonderful, whimsical and unpredictable about the festive season's most hotly contested musical event.

The Official Albums Charts - The Eighties

The Official Albums Charts - The Eighties PDF Author: Graham Betts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781724487087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550

Book Description
The Official Albums Charts: The Eighties is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week - full Top 75s, chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts, as curated today by the Official Charts Company and available at OfficialCharts.com - and including the Official Compilation Albums Charts from 14 January 1989.This is the first time these Top 75s and Top 100s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Eighties. Additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

Eddie Stobart

Eddie Stobart PDF Author: Martin Roach
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448132185
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
From humble beginnings in a Cumbrian farmyard over forty years ago, the Eddie Stobart fleet has found a big parking place in the nation's heart, loved as much for its 2,200 immaculate green and red trucks, each emblazoned with a girl's name on the front, as for its famous army of dedicated Stobart Spotters who try to find each one. Buckle up with the Stobart drivers, and join them on a week in the life of a massive delivery, from paperwork to pallet. Learn what it's like to be sat in the driver seat of a Stobart truck - the noises, visibility, clutch control, gears, steering - and discover the sheer size and power of these machines. Illustrated throughout with amazing photographs, and featuring first-hand stories of incredible journeys from the intrepid truckers, as well as astonishing facts and stats and the history of the fleet, this is truly an irresistible book for Stobart fans of all ages.
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