Download or read book Remain in Love written by Chris Frantz and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring Europe with the Ramones, and creating hits like “Psycho Killer” and “Burning Down the House” that captured the post-baby boom generation’s intense, affectless style. In Remain in Love, Frantz writes about the beginnings of Talking Heads—their days as art students in Providence, moving to the sparse Chrystie Street loft Frantz, Weymouth, and Byrne shared where the music that defined an era was written. With never-before-seen photos and immersive vivid detail, Frantz describes life on tour, down to the meals eaten and the clothes worn—and reveals the mechanics of a long and complicated working relationship with a mercurial frontman. At the heart of Remain in Love is Frantz’s love for Weymouth: their once-in-a-lifetime connection as lovers, musicians, and bandmates, and how their creativity surged with the creation of their own band Tom Tom Club, bringing a fresh Afro-Caribbean beat to hits like “Genius of Love.” Studded with memorable places and names from the era—Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, Stephen Sprouse, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, and Debbie Harry among them—Remain in Love is a frank and open memoir of an emblematic life in music and in love.
Download or read book How Music Works written by David Byrne and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”—The Boston Globe Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.
Download or read book Talking Heads Fear of Music written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" - and everything spins outward from that one moment. Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece - edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future. Lethem transports us again to the New York City of another time - tackling one of his great adolescent obsessions and illuminating the ways in which we fall in and out of love with works of art.
Download or read book Talking Heads written by Alan Bennett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as an acute observer of British life with a series of six monologues. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, these modern-day classics invite us to explore 12 very different but very real characters and their lives.
Download or read book The Complete Talking Heads written by Alan Bennett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two series of monologues written for BBC television and broadcast in 1988 and 1998, along with 'A woman of no importance', an earlier monologue first televised in 1982.
Download or read book The Name of this Book is Talking Heads written by Krista Reese and published by Proteus Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of this popular new wave band, discusses each of their recordings, and explains how their music has evolved
Download or read book The Phish Book written by Richard Gehr and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only authorized book by and about the band whom "Rolling Stone" calls "the left-field success story of the '90s", "The Phish Book" has been produced with the band's full involvement and includes hundreds of never-before-seen personal and concert photos.
Download or read book Alan Bennett Monologues written by Alan Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spin Alternative Record Guide written by Eric Weisbard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's premiere alternative music magazine presents a book of outrageously opinionated reviews of the essential albums of punk, new wave, indie rock, grunge, and rap. Its abundantly illustrated, full-color pages provide in-depth and informative record reviews on the widest possible scale of alternative music. National ads/media.
Download or read book Songwriters On Songwriting written by Paul Zollo and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic collection of candid interviews with the greatest songwriters of our time, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Patti Smith, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, and dozens more This expanded fourth edition of Songwriters on Songwriting includes ten new interviews--with Alanis Morissette, Lenny Kravitz, Lou Reed, and others. In these pages, sixty-two of the greatest songwriters of our time go straight to the source of the magic of songwriting by offering their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on their art. Representing almost every genre of popular music, from blues to pop to rock, here are the figures that have shaped American music as we know it.
Download or read book Talking Heads written by Ian Gittins and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). A superbly illustrated, in-depth examination of the stories, events, places, and characters that inspired the songs of the Talking Heads, arguably the most significant band to emerge from the late-'70s New York punk scene based around CBGB's club. Led by guitarist-vocalist David Byrne, the band enjoyed major chart success on both sides of the Atlantic with infectious, incendiary singles like "Road to Nowhere," "Psycho Killer," and "Once in a Lifetime." During their influential seventeen-year career, Talking Heads assembled a body of raw yet intellectual rock music second to none. Then in 2002, having vowed to never work together again, the four original Heads reconvened and played live when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ian Gittins has written about music and popular culture for fifteen years for such varied publications as Melody Maker , Q , The Guardian , Daily Telegraph , Time Out , MTV , and the New York Times . He lives in London, England.
Download or read book All Hopped Up and Ready to Go Music from the Streets of New York 1927 77 written by Tony Fletcher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon comes a vibrant picture of mid-20th-century New York and the ways in which its indigenous art, theater, literature, and political movements converge to create an original American sound.
Download or read book Let s Play written by Shelalagh McGovern and published by Rockpool Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful nature magick is yours when you learn the mystical way of the trees and listen well to their beautiful wisdom. From forests, plains, mountains and fields, this book of divine tree spells will enrich your life with the support, strength and balance of dedicated and time-honoured botanical magick. It includes: • 60 sacred tree spells • spellcrafting and spellcasting basics • magickal gardening • dedicated lessons on how to write your own spells a personal grimoire journal section
Download or read book The Freaks Came Out to Write written by Tricia Romano and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers. You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when other papers dismissed it as a gay disease. In 1979, the Voice’s Wayne Barrett uncovered Donald Trump as a corrupt con artist before anyone else was paying attention. It invented new forms of criticism and storytelling and revolutionized journalism, spawning hundreds of copycats. With more than 200 interviews, including two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead, cultural critic Greg Tate, gossip columnist Michael Musto, and feminist writers Vivian Gornick and Susan Brownmiller, former Voice writer Tricia Romano pays homage to the paper that saved NYC landmarks from destruction and exposed corrupt landlords and judges. With interviews featuring post-punk band, Blondie, sportscaster Bob Costas, and drummer Max Weinberg, of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in this definitive oral history, Romano tells the story of journalism, New York City and American culture—and the most famous alt-weekly of all time.
Download or read book Punk Diary written by George Gimarc and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock, 1970-1982
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Download or read book Legends of Rock Guitar written by Pete Prown and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). This book is a virtual encyclopedia of great electric guitar players, with 35 chapters examining the major players in each important era of rock. The book begins with rock's birth from the blues, covering masters like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. It proceeds to cover rockabilly greats like Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly; through the mop tops and matching suits of the British Invasion; to the psychedelia of the Dead and Hendrix; glam rock's dresses and distortion; fusion virtuosos like Metheny, Gambale, and Henderson; metal masters; shred stars; grunge gods; grindcore; and much more. Legends of Rock Guitar is not only a great resource for guitar fans, but an interesting and well-researched chronology of the rock idiom.
