Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions

Author: Duane Tudahl
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153811643X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 593

Book Description
Featuring insights on even more groundbreaking recording sessions, rehearsals, and sound checks, the expanded edition of Duane Tudahl's award-winning book pulls back the paisley curtain to reveal the untold story of Prince’s rise from cult favorite to the biggest rock star on the planet. His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the doors of the recording studio as well as his days on tour. With unprecedented access to the musicians, singers, and studio engineers who knew Prince best, including members of the Revolution and the Time, Duane Tudahl weaves an intimate saga of an eccentric genius and the people and events who helped shape the groundbreaking music he created. From Sunset Sound Studios’ daily recording logs and the Warner Bros. vault of information, Tudahl uncovers hidden truths about the origins of songs such as “Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry,” and “Raspberry Beret” and also reveals never-before-published details about Prince’s unreleased outtakes. This definitive chronicle of Prince’s creative brilliance during 1983 and 1984 provides a new experience of the Purple Rain album as an integral part of Prince’s life and the lives of those closest to him.

Prince

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781681341217
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
An inside look at the early years of Prince, presented through both iconic and never-before-seen images taken by the photographer who was at his side through it all.

Just Ella

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481420216
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This retelling of a beloved fairy tale finds 15-year-old Ella discovering that accepting the Prince's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette.

Ma'am Darling

Author: Craig Brown
Publisher: Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9780008203634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An original, memorable and substantial achievement' TLS'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' ObserverShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now ... Ma'am Darling is, as you would expect, very funny; also, full of quirky facts and genial footnotes. Brown has managed to ingest huge numbers of royal books and documents without losing either his judgment or his sanity. He adores the spectacle of human vanity' Julian Barnes, Guardian

Where's the Princess?

Author: Chuck Whelon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481446339
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
This magical books features scenes from twelve favorite fairy tales, from "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella" to "Aladdin" and "Pinocchio," with search-and-find fun on every page. -- Provided by publisher.

Dude, Where's My Country?

Author: Michael Moore
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141938390
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
He's the man everyone's talking about. He's taken on gun freaks, stupid white men and corporate crooks. Now Michael Moore is on a new mission: to get us of our behinds and kicking out the corrupt political elites who rule our lives.

Where's Bowie?: 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 1925811557
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
There's a jiiiigsaaaaw, waiting in this box / It'd like for you to solve it / but it thinks it'll blow your mind! Not unlike the lyrical genius of David Bowie, jigsaw puzzles are at times mystifying yet always satisfying. Not only is the Where's Bowie? Jigsaw Puzzle a fun 500-piece detail-focused puzzle, it's also a find-Bowie interactive adventure. On the finished eight-by-eight-inch puzzle, hidden in multiple places across the detailed image, Bowie--in his various chameleonic guises--is patiently waiting to be spotted by a well-trained eye. It's like Where's Waldo? but, well, better, because it's about Bowie! This jigsaw is jam-packed with Bowie references that might even teach the most hardened Bowie aficionado a thing or two. In case you missed it--jigsaws are back, baby! Give yourself a much-needed digital detox, turn off your phone/tablet/laptop screen, grab a stiff drink, and put on your puzzle hat. This 500-piece jig saw puzzle is going to take some good old-fashioned puzzling. Maybe whack on Aladdin Sane, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, or whichever Bowie record you adore the most, for the ideal backing track to your puzzle-solving adventure.

Prince of Dreams

Author: Lisa Kleypas
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061750468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
A wealthy and bitter exile, he most dangerous and desirable man in all of England, he burns to possess a proud, headstrong beauty who is promised to another. But winning Emma Stokehurst's exquisite hand through threats and determination does nothing to fill the empty spaces in Nikola's heart—until passion's magic carries the handsome, tormented prince back to a bygone era of splendor and romantic dreams. For there his destiny awaits him in a distant life. And in one remarkable woman's tender touch—achingly familiar but gloriously new—he must seek the elusive promise of ecstasy . . .and learn, at last, to love.

Where's Bowie?

Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 1925811190
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Scour these intricately illustrated pages for our most beloved icon of pop culture, the late and great David Bowie. This book is a reverent and interactive homage to David Bowie, with dense illustrations of the many real and imagined universes of his own making. Hidden somewhere on each of these double-page spreads, a Bowie is patiently waiting to be spotted by the well-trained eye of a fan. As the chameleonic Bowie took on so many iconic personas across his illustrious career, each moment is celebrated chronologically in this book. You will have to find young and dapper David Jones in 1960s Brixton; look for Ziggy Stardust in spaced-out Outer Space, crawling with Martian spiders and nestled between the stars; then search for glam Bowie among the revelers at Studio 54; and ask yourself, is that the Thin White Duke outside Hansa by the Wall in late-'70s Berlin? Each page of this book is so laden with Bowie references that you might even pick up a factoid or two in your search. With fun, detailed illustrations that explore Bowie's world--and that of his influences--Where's Bowie? is the perfect guide to the cultural icon for both adults and children. Plus, who doesn't want to raise their kid as a Bowie super-geek? No one--that's who.

Prince of Wolves

Author: Quinn Loftis
Publisher: Quinn Loftis Books, LLC
ISBN: 1466146443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Jaque Pierce was an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in high school in Coldspring, TX when a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street. Jacque and her two best friends Sally and Jen don’t realize the last two weeks of their summer are going to get a lot more interesting. From the moment Jacque sets eyes on Fane, she feels an instant connection, a pull like a moth to a flame. Little does she know that the flame she is drawn too is actually a Canis Lupus, werewolf, and she just happens to be his mate, the other half of his soul. The problem is Fane is not the only wolf in Coldspring. Just as Fane and Jacque are getting to know each other, another wolf steps out to try and claim Jacque as his mate. Fane will now have to fight for the right to complete the mating bond, something that is his right by birth but is being denied him by a crazed Alpha. Will the love Fane has for Jacque be enough to give him the strength to defeat his enemy and will Jacque accept she is Fane’s mate and complete the bond between them?