Download or read book Making Records written by Phil Ramone and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinatra. Streisand. Dylan. Pavarotti. McCartney. Sting. Madonna. What do these musicians have in common besides their super-stardom? They have all worked with legendary music producer Phil Ramone. For almost five decades, Phil Ramone has been a force in the music industry. He has produced records and collaborated with almost every major talent in the business. There is a craft to making records, and Phil has spent his life mastering it. For the first time ever, he shares the secrets of his trade. Making Records is a fascinating look "behind the glass" of a recording studio. From Phil's exhilarating early days recording jazz and commercial jingles at A&R, to his first studio, and eventual legendary producer status, Phil allows you to sit in on the sessions that created some of the most memorable music of the 20th century -- including Frank Sinatra's Duets album, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Ray Charles's 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, Making Records is an unprecedented tutorial on the magic behind what music producers and engineers do. In these pages, Phil offers a rare peek inside the way music is made . . . illuminating the creative thought processes behind some of the most influential sessions in music history. This is a book about the art that is making records -- the way it began, the way it is now, and everything in between.

Download or read book Billy Joel Piano Man written by Billy Joel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). David Rosenthal has carefully arranged all the tracks from Joel's classic 1973 release to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements while transcribing those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. This book features the iconic title track and nine others: Ain't No Crime * (The) Ballad of Billy the Kid * Captain Jack * If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You) * Somewhere Along the Line * Stop in Nevada * Travelin' Prayer * Worse Comes to Worst * You're My Home.

Download or read book Christgau s Consumer Guide Albums of the 90s written by Robert Christgau and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dean of American Rock Critics tackles the decade when music exploded. The '90s saw more albums produced and distributed than any other decade. It was a fertile era for new genres, from alt-rock to Afropop, hip hop to techno. Rock critic Robert Christgau's obsessive ear and authoritative pen have covered it all-over 3,800 albums graded and classified, from A+s to his celebrated turkeys and duds. A rich appendix section ensures that nothing's been left out-from "subjects for further research" to "everything rocks but nothing ever dies." Christgau's Consumer Guide is essential reading and reference for any dedicated listener.

Download or read book All Time Top 1000 Albums written by Colin Larkin and published by Virgin Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Best of Billy Joel Songbook written by Billy Joel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993-04-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Piano Personality). An excellent collection of 21 of Joel's best, including: And So It Goes * It's Still Rock and Roll to Me * Just the Way You Are * The Longest Time * My Life * Piano Man * We Didn't Start the Fire * and more.

Download or read book The New Standards written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Piano Songbook). 64 pop hits which have become modern-day standards are included in this collection for easy piano. Includes: Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Dream On (Aerosmith) * Every Breath You Take (The Police) * Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd) * Free Fallin' (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) * Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) * Imagine (John Lennon) * Landslide (Fleetwood Mac) * Purple Rain (Prince) * Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash) * Rolling in the Deep (Adele) * Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) * With or Without You (U2)* You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) * and more.

Download or read book Billy Joel 52nd Street Songbook written by Billy Joel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). All 9 songs from the 1978 album by the Piano Man, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Includes black and white photos and a foreword by Joel's band member and keyboard player David Rosenthal. Includes: Big Shot * 52nd Street * Half a Mile Away * Honesty * My Life * Rosalinda's Eyes * Stiletto * Until the Night * Zanzibar.

Download or read book Billy Joel written by Hank Bordowitz and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man is a look at the superstar's entire career, including his troubled youth as a gang member; the controversy surrounding his first hit, "Captain Jack"; his legal problems; his storied marriage with Christie Brinkley; and his continued artistic frustration. "The Beatles did 'Michelle' and 'Yesterday,'" he has said. "They also did 'Revolution' and 'Helter Skelter' and they weren't pegged as balladeers. But because I had hit singles that were ballads, I became known as a balladeer. I've always resented it." Joel one of the top ten touring takes of the decade has continued his standing road date with Elton John on the never-ending Two Pianos tour.

Download or read book Experiencing Billy Joel written by Thomas MacFarlane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his career, Billy Joel has released a series of remarkable albums that together chart his journey as an artist from relative obscurity to international success. In Experiencing Billy Joel, musician and writer Thomas MacFarlane explores that musical journey, from Joel’s apprenticeship in the Long Island music scene to his experiences in both New York and Los Angeles writing and recording his own unique brand of piano rock and pop. After achieving a certain degree of musical success in the late 1960s, Joel embarked on a career as a singer-songwriter in the early 1970s. Although his initial albums demonstrated a precocious mastery that helped establish him in the field, his full potential as a recording artist blossomed on The Stranger (1977), created under the guidance of legendary producer Phil Ramone. Subsequent releases explored a variety of musical styles and helped solidify Joel’s reputation as one of the most important pop composers of his era. Experiencing Billy Joel explores each of Joel’s albums, laying out their appeal to musicians and non-musicians alike while also exploring the various production styles that have characterized Joel’s development in the studio. Along the way, MacFarlane reveals how Billy Joel’s recorded works as a whole serve as the foundation for a complex and enduring musical legacy.

Download or read book The Words and Music of Billy Joel written by Ken Bielen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed exploration looks at the musical works of recording artist Billy Joel and his impact on popular culture. Billy Joel skyrocketed to popularity in 1977 with his fifth album, The Stranger, and he has been a major American artist ever since. His songs are timeless and appreciated by generations of fans. The Words and Music of Billy Joel examines this influential musician's songs in detail, exploring the meaning of the lyrics and placing Joel's artistry in a regional and cultural context. Covering work that ranges from Joel's recordings with the Lost Souls to his classical compositions, the book focuses on the dozen studio albums of popular music released between 1971 and 1993. A bibliographic essay is included, as are both a discography and a filmography. There is also a special focus on the interpretation of Joel's songs by other recording artists.

Download or read book Billy Joel Favorites Keyboard Book Songbook written by Billy Joel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Keyboard Recorded Versions). Here are 18 of the very best from Billy, presented in authentic transcriptions for keyboard. Includes: Don't Ask Me Why * The Entertainer * 52nd Street * An Innocent Man * Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) * Only the Good Die Young * Say Goodbye to Hollywood * Vienna * and more.

Download or read book Billy and The Joels The American rock star and his German family story eBook written by Steffen Radlmaier and published by ars vivendi Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Karl Amson Joel and his wife Meta founded a mail-order linen goods company in Nuremberg, Germany. The business flourished, and it could have turned out to be a picture-book success story, were it not for the coming to power of Adolf Hitler. To escape the Nazis, the Jewish couple and their son Helmut fled first to Berlin and then on to Switzerland. The linen goods company was snapped up by department-store 'king' Josef Neckermann at basement price. A further hazardous journey then took the Joels to Cuba and, finally, to New York. Helmut married a young girl from Brooklyn and, in 1949, she gave birth to their son William Martin, known as 'Billy'. When the marriage fell apart, Helmut returned alone to Germany, re-married and had a second son, Alexander, now an internationally sought-after conductor. Billy Joel is one of the most successful solo artists in the world of international pop music, having sold over 100 million albums. His daughter Alexa Ray has also carved out a career for herself in music. In order to write this extensive biography, Steffen Radlmaier not only researched archives and analyzed specialist literature and interviews, over a period of many years he also conducted personal interviews with numerous family members, acquaintances and contemporary witnesses. He visited Billy Joel and his daughter in New York in the autumn of 2008.

Download or read book Lush Life written by David Hajdu and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Arguably the finest biography yet written about a jazz musician . . . [It] will fascinate readers who have never heard a note of Strayhorn’s music.” —Joel E. Seigel, Washington City Paper A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Billy Strayhorn (1915–67) was one of the greatest composers in the history of American music, the creator of a body of work that includes such standards as “Take the ‘A’ Train.” Yet all his life Strayhorn was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator Duke Ellington, with whom he worked for three decades as the Ellington Orchestra’s ace songwriter and arranger. A “definitive” corrective (USA Today) to decades of patchwork scholarship and journalism about this giant of jazz, David Hajdu’s Lush Life is a vibrant and absorbing account of the “lush life” that Strayhorn and other jazz musicians led in Harlem and Paris. While composing some of the most gorgeous American music of the twentieth century, Strayhorn labored under a complex agreement whereby Ellington took the bows for his work. Until his life was tragically cut short by cancer and alcohol abuse, the small, shy composer carried himself with singular style and grace as one of the few jazzmen to be openly homosexual. Lush Life has sparked an enthusiastic revival of interest in Strayhorn’s work and is already acknowledged as a jazz classic. “A book as beautiful and intelligent as its subject. David Hajdu has brought all my dear memories of Billy Strayhorn to life.” —Lena Horne “It is a mark of excellence of this biography that it leaves one wanting nothing so much as to listen to the music.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Download or read book A Life in Focus written by Graham Nash and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music legend, photographer, and artist Graham Nash reflects on more than fifty years of an extraordinary life in this extensive collection of personal photographs, paintings, and mixed-media artwork. In this curated collection of art and photography from his personal archive, Graham Nash’s life as a musician and artist unfolds in vivid detail. Best known as a founding member of the Hollies and supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, Graham developed a love of photography from the time he was a child. Inspired by his father, Nash began taking pictures at 10 years old and would go on to take his camera with him ever since—on tour with the Hollies and later CSN and CSNY, among friends at Laurel Canyon and abroad. Many of his photographs depict intimate moments with family and friends, among them Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young. This volume presents these images alongside Nash’s own reflections, telling the story behind the pictures and giving insight into the life of one of the greatest musicians of all time.

Download or read book Root Beer Rag Sheet Music written by Billy Joel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part as well as in the vocal line.

Download or read book We Didn t Start the Fire written by Ryan Raul Bañagale and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays offers close analysis and careful insight into the ways his work has impacted popular music during the last fifty years. Using diverse approaches, this volume serves as a model for how any scholar can approach the study of popular music. Ultimately, these chapters interrogate how popular music frames our experiences, constitutes our history and culture, and gains importance in our daily lives.

Download or read book Just the Way You Are Sheet Music written by Bruno Mars and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Vocal). This sheet music features an arrangement for piano and voice with guitar chord frames, with the melody presented in the right hand of the piano part, as well as in the vocal line.