Procol Harum: The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade of Pale

Author: Henry Scott-Irvine
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857128027
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Book Description
Formed in the 1960s, progressive rock band Procol Harum are best known for their multimillion-selling single ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" which is the most played record by a British artist of the last 70 years. This book features exclusive interviews with band members as well as with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, film director Alan Parker, former managers, DJs and many others. It tells the story of their formation in Essex in the 60s, their split on the 10th anniversary in 1977 and their reformation in 1991. This enthralling account details one of the costliest court cases in British music history whereby a judge awarded a 40% share in the copyright of ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" to a former organist of the band. The band's history is brought right up to date with details of recent album releases and tours over the last decade.

Whiter Shades of Pale

Author: Christian Lander
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0812982061
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
HOW WHITE YOU ARE! If you thought you had white people pegged as Oscar-party-throwing, Prius-driving, Sunday New York Times–reading, self-satisfied latte lovers—you were right. But if you thought diversity was just for other races, then hang on to your eco-friendly tote bags. Veteran white person Christian Lander is back with fascinating new information and advice on dealing with the Caucasian population. Sure, their indie-band T-shirts, trendy politics, vegan diets, and pop-culture references make them all seem the same. But a closer look reveals that from Austin to Australia, from L.A. to the U.K., indigenous white people are as different from one another as 1 percent rBGH-free milk is different from 2 percent. Where do skinny jeans and bulky sweaters rule? Where is down-market beer the nectar of the hip? If you want to know the places cute girls with bangs and cool guys with beards roam and emo musicians and unpaid interns call home, you’d better switch off the Adult Swim reruns, put down that copy of The Onion, pick up this book, and prepare to see the white.

Procol Harum

Author: Claes Johansen
Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9780946719280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
The one-hit wonders who weren't. Nine classic albums that redefined the rock/classical interface.

Lives of the Great Songs

Author: Tim De Lisle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Looks at timeless songs which have remained popular, living on in the hands of many artists who include them on their records or in their stage repertoire, and in the hearts and minds of the public.

A Darker Shade of Pale

Author: Beryl Crosher-Segers
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
ISBN: 1611532795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Courage to Love in the Shadow of Hate. A Darker Shade of Pale tells of Beryl Crosher-Segers' family and community life in apartheid-era South Africa. With a piercing narrative, she details the injustices, humiliation and challenges she faced under the brutal reign of the National Party. Through her multi-racial heritage, Beryl was born into a life of inequality and hardship. This is the remarkable story of resilience and courage to power forward toward a better life, to love in the shadow of hate. A Darker Shade of Pale is a story of hope in the face of despair and of courage when faced with insurmountable obstacles.

Rough Ideas

Author: Stephen Hough
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721408
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.

Encyclopedia Metallica

Author: Brian Harrigan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description

The Ultimate David Lanz Collection (Songbook)

Author: David Lanz
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1458479285
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
(Easy Piano Personality). 20 easy piano arrangements of favorites from this Grammy-nominated pianist. Includes: Before the Last Leaf Falls * Behind the Waterfall/Desert Rain Medley * Courage of the Wind * Cristofori's Dream * The Dragon's Daughter * Dream of the Forgotten Child * Dreamer's Waltz * Farewell Amparo * Leaves on the Seine * London Blue * Madre De La Tierra * Madrona * Nightfall * A Path with Heart * Return to the Heart * Reverie * Sitting in an English Garden * Summer's Child * Take the High Road * Valencia. Includes a biography.

Pale Fire

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Tony Visconti: The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy

Author: Tony Visconti
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007343574
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
A name synonymous with ground-breaking music, Tony Visconti has worked with the most dynamic and influential names in pop, from T.Rex and Iggy Pop to David Bowie and U2. This is the compelling life story of the man who helped shape music history, and gives a unique, first-hand insight into life in London during the late 1960s and '70s.