Download or read book Marc Bolan Killed in Crash written by Ira A. Robbins and published by Trouser Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laila Russell is an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl living in East Acton, London with her father, who is morose over his wife’s accidental death. It’s the spring of 1972. As the story begins, Laila spots a lost pocketbook on the London Underground and returns it to Amanda Charles, a stylish young woman who works for a rock star. With glam becoming big in the UK, Chaz Bonapart -- more of a ‘60s bluesy strutter – is going out of style. His manager, Frank Guy, comes up with a plan to get him back in the game by feeding him song ideas that teens would respond to, and he enlists Laila to be his secret weapon.
Download or read book Marc Bolan Killed in Crash written by Ira Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ira Robbins brings a lifelong immersion in pop music's wish fulfillment to this detailed and note-perfect recreation of a glitter-tinged moment of generational transformation in pre-punk 1970s England. He plays his characters like members of a band, each with their own verse and chorus, I found myself waiting for the soundtrack to come, singing along. -- Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith Group guitarist, journalist, author, producerWith the U.K. glam-rock craze of the '70s as his gorgeous, glorious backdrop, Ira Robbins deftly explores the intersection where pop culture, society, and individualism meet. He's written a smart, lively, finely wrought novel that's packed with prose so glittery it positively sparkles. --Doug Brod, former Editor in Chief of SPIN
Download or read book Marc Bolan written by and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977 Marc Bolan, the idol of millions, was killed in a car crash at the age of 30. Part of the Modern Icons series, this book looks at his life as the front man of T-Rex and the popularity the band enjoyed, having four consecutive number one hit singles in 1974.
Download or read book Marc Bolan written by Ted Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of songs, photographs, lyrics, interviews, memorabilia, letters, notes and snapshots of the late lead singer of T/Rex, Marc Bolan. After a string of hits including Get It On, 20th Century Boy and Metal Guru, Marc Bolan was killed in a car accident in 1977.
Download or read book This Day in Music written by Neil Cossar and published by . This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.
Download or read book Ride a White Swan written by Lesley-Ann Jones and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon. His far-reaching musical and stylistic influence is more relevant today than ever with hits such as 'Ride A White Swan', 'Children Of The Revolution', 'Get It On' and 'Hot Love' as fresh and exhilarating as when first released. At the peak of his popularity during his lifetime Bolan was outselling Jimi Hendrix and The Who, and yet relatively little is really known about the hypnotic, enigmatic 20th century boy turned 21st century icon. At last, in the 35th anniversary year of his tragic death, Marc Bolan represents the definite biography. Here rock biographer, Lesley-Ann Jones, paints a meticulous portrait of the T-Rex front man. From his childhood growing up in Hackney to his untimely death at the age of 29, Bolan's life was one of relentless experimentation and metamorphoses. Hallucinogenic drugs, wizardry and levitation, alcoholism, tax evasion and a spectacular fall from grace were to punctuate his short life, as he continued to strive to reinvent himself and his music over and over again. Lesley-Ann has been granted access to those who knew Bolan best, including his partner and the mother of his only son, Gloria Jones and his brother, Harry Feld.
Download or read book Death Drive written by Stephen Bayley and published by Circa. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cars have a talismanic quality. No other manufactured object has the same disturbing allure. More emotions are involved in cars than any other product: vanity, cupidity, greed, social competitiveness, cultural modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends in catastrophe, these same talismanic qualities acquire an extra dimension. The car crash is a defining phenomenon of popular culture. Death Drive is both an appreciative essay about the historic place of the automobile in the modern imagination and an exploration of the circumstances surrounding multiple celebrity denouements, including Isadora Duncan, Jane Mansfield, James Dean, Jackson Pollack, Princess Grace, and Helmut Newton, among many others. En route the narrative traces one very big arc - the role of the car in extending or creating the personality of a celebrity - and concludes by confronting the imminent death of the car itself. AUTHOR: Stephen Bayley recounts delightfully grotesque tales about celebrities done in by trees, by lampposts, or by nonentities in ancient Chevys. A design masterpiece, this book combines exquisite prose with stylish presentation - the cars are described more lovingly than the people who perished in them. Like a Bugatti, Death Drive recalls a time when books and cars were beautiful. SELLING POINTS: * Albert Camus once remarked that there's "nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident". That was before his car hit a tree at 80mph. Death Drive - a compendium of stories about famous people killed stupidly in cars - oozes absurdity * A Times Book of the Year, 2016 * Big names like James Dean, Jackson Pollack, and Princess Grace are among the victims 72 colour photographs
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars written by Jeremy Simmonds and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published by the Penguin Group, London, as Number one in Heaven: the heroes who died for rock 'n' roll.
Download or read book Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the 1970s As the seductive focus of T Rex he revelled in fame and fortune released a string of classic records before tragically losing his way The fatal car accident in 1977 cut short his planned comeback as a punk rocker but also served to fix Bolan as the definitive icon of the Glam years Bolan s music and chameleonic style were to influence a generation of future bands Drawing from interviews with many of his friends and colleagues including broadcaster John Peel brother Harry and band members Mickey Finn and Bill Legend written by Mark Paytress and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the 1970s. As the seductive focus of T. Rex he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of classic records before tragically losing his way. The fatal car accident in 1977 cut short his planned comeback as a punk rocker, but also served to fix Bolan as the definitive icon of the Glam years. Bolan's music and chameleonic style were to influence a generation of future bands. In his various guises he could be a beatnik, a mod, a punk, a hippie and a Glam hero. This biography of a pop obsessive draws from interviews with many friends and colleagues including broadcaster John Peel, brother Harry and band members Mickey Finn and Bill Legend.
Download or read book Diamond Star Halo written by Tiffany Murray and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a rural recording studio, Halo Llewellyn is rarely star-struck, but when one of the visiting singers gives birth to Fred, she knows right away that he's special. As the golden child grows into the gilded man, she remains dazzled by his ambition and his talent. Up on stage, being screamed at by hundreds of teenage girls, Fred will always turn his spotlight on Halo in the crowd. But that's the problem with falling in love with your charismatic almost-brother - it can never be a secret. In the end, the whole world has to know.
Download or read book Marc Bolan Beautiful Dreamer written by John Bramley and published by Bonnier Zaffre. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years after his tragic death, this homage to Marc Bolan pays tribute to one of the pioneers of the glam rock movement. Marc Bolan was the wizard who brought magic to rock music - his heart beat to the rhythm of rock. Moving from early folk influences and songs on the mythology of Tolkien, he transformed himself into a unique, sparkling and effervescent glam-rock icon. His boogie roots combined with Marc's own natural glitter dust, and propelled him forward on an adventure, with fortunes that were to ebb and flow over a decade. His diamond-studded halo was extinguished on 16 September 1977, at a time when his music was in the ascendancy. The annals of history are strewn with stories of artists who passed away in shocking circumstances of those that died too young, from substance abuse, mysterious illnesses or even murder. Sometimes, the shock of their passing immediately elevates their standing in cultural memory and cements their work in a favourable light. Marc Bolan died at twenty-nine years of age, in a tragic car crash - an accident that could have been avoided. However, it took many years for people to start appreciating what Marc Bolan brought to a rock music scene in the early seventies which had stagnated in some corners after the explosion of creativity in the sixties. Yet, gradually, acclaim has grown for how he enriched the period, bringing colour and humour to an increasingly leaden genre. Much like Hendrix before him, and Cobain after him, his natural charisma and striking beauty have underpinned his status as a dreamlike bard, an enigmatic pin-up whom boys wished they looked like and girls wished they were with. Yet it was his scorching talent as a performer and songwriter which have formed the bedrock for longevity as a legend. Including rare and unpublished photographs, and works of Marc's own poetry, this book is put together by a true, original fan - one who followed Marc Bolan on tour, who bought every piece of vinyl he released and who was fortunate enough to have made Marc's acquaintance during the peak of his career. Published forty years on from Bolan's death, Beautiful Dreamer is unashamedly a book of love, a book that every Marc Bolan fan will identify with, because it paints a picture of the man that the fans idolised, worshipped and continue to cherish to this day.
Download or read book Reading the Beatles written by Kenneth Womack and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band's abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading the Beatles firmly establish the Beatles as a locus of serious academic and cultural study. Exploring the group's resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music, the contributors trace not only the literary and musicological qualities of selected Beatles songs but also the development of the Beatles' artistry in their films and the ways in which the band has functioned as a cultural, historical, and economic product. In a poignant afterword, Jane Tompkins offers an autobiographical account of the ways in which the Beatles afforded her with the self-actualizing means to become less alienated from popular culture, gender expectations, and even herself during the early 1960s.
Download or read book Pop Cult written by Rupert Till and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society.>
Download or read book Short Candles written by Rita Donovan and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Candles is a novel about possibility, choice, and acceptance and is remarkable for its insights into human nature. It spans the life of Suzanne Cardinal, who has the gift, or bears the burden, of foresight -- sometimes. While she becomes a visionary to some people in her hometown, to her family she is the difficult child who was unable to warn them of an impending death. Suzanne has little control over the manifestation of her gift. Suzanne grows up confused, with her mental health in question. Ultimately she faces a decision that is the culmination of her internal struggle with freedom and responsibility. In the end it is her understanding of neither, but of love, that guides her. Through her childhood, her troubled teens, her search for acceptance and normalcy, Suzanne's troubled life spans forty years of social and personal change.
Download or read book Marc Bolan 1947 1977 written by Cliff McLenehan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T-Rex icon Marc Bolan day-by-day through super stardom to tragic car crash death.
Download or read book Solo Cruiser written by Stuart St Paul and published by Cruise Doris Visits. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twisted and deadly romance. Sectioned in a mental institution for most of her life, Violet has hit fifty and never experienced life. As lockdown ends and the country is released, agoraphobia aside, and against all medical advice she follows the media fuelled population rush to freedom and she gets on a cruise liner before she can be stopped. Following a dubious suicide on a cruise ship, those around Violet start to question who she is. The CSCI investigation team in Miami try to find out more about her before Kieron, who is on holiday, gets too romantically involved.
Download or read book The Portsmouth Book of Days written by John Sadden and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking you through the year day by day, The Portsmouth Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on, or reflect, the social and political history of England as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Portsmouth's archives, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
