Download or read book The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles written by Martin Roach and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Arctic Monkeys and ABBA to the Zutons and Ziggy Stardust, from 'Anarchy in the UK' to 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' - and over 30,000 hit singles in between - this collector's must-have contains everything you could possibly want to know about every single to reach the charts since 1952. Packed full of charts, lists, facts and timelines as well as up-to-date information, extensive cross references and analysis from Martin Roach this is the perfect book for music buffs, downloaders glued to iPods and budding Mark Ronsons. This new edition, previously published by Guinness World Records, is the first to be published under the Virgin brand with a whole new look. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history from industry-insider Martin Roach, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.
Download or read book The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles written by Occ and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 40 Charts. Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1956, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most comprehensive, easy to read, and accessible music chart data and information. It's all here--expanded artist biographies, side notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on chart, and weeks at number one. The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover.
Download or read book British Hit Singles Albums written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Top 40 Charts written by and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music.
Download or read book British Hit Singles written by Paul Gambaccini and published by Billboard Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Official Christmas No 1 Singles Book written by Michael Mulligan and published by Nine Eight Books. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Christmas cracker' - Record CollectorSo here it is...The perfect gift for music lovers of all ages, The Official Christmas No. 1 Singles Book is jam-packed with facts, figures and photos to get your toes tapping along to the sounds of seven decades of festive chart-toppers. Have you ever wondered how many Christmas number ones actually have the word 'Christmas' in their title? Or how many TV talent-show winners have claimed the festive top spot? Do you know which artist has racked up the most Christmas number ones? Or which single is the biggest-selling seasonal chart-topper of all time? Can you name the only song to have topped the Christmas chart twice by two different artists? Or the only artist to have been Christmas number one twice with the same song? The answers to all these questions - plus many more - can be found in this exclusive festive companion, published in conjunction with the Official Charts Company. With a fully illustrated double-page spread for every year since the UK singles chart began in 1952, Michael Mulligan's fun and authoritative journey through the Christmas archives will delight curious browsers and dedicated pop nerds alike. Featuring top-ten countdowns, fascinating trivia about the highest-charting Christmas singles and plenty of entertaining infographics, this is the ideal family stocking-filler, celebrating all that is wonderful, whimsical and unpredictable about the festive season's most hotly contested musical event.
Download or read book The Official Albums Charts The Eighties written by Graham Betts and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Albums Charts: The Eighties is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week - full Top 75s, chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts, as curated today by the Official Charts Company and available at OfficialCharts.com - and including the Official Compilation Albums Charts from 14 January 1989.This is the first time these Top 75s and Top 100s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Eighties. Additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.
Download or read book Hit Singles written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side, month by month showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated, it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing, readers will find important facts such as the artist's name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the other side of the pond. Includes an alphabetical listing of song titles with artists, and an alphabetical listing of artists with song titles and chart-entry dates, enabling easy cross-referencing to help you track down any Top 20 record since 1954.
Download or read book The Complete Book of the British Charts written by Tony Brown and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated edition of the only chart book that lists both singles and albums in one volume. A new 'statistics' section has been added to include most number ones, most top ten hits, most weeks at number one, most weeks in the chart, one hit wonders and much more.
Download or read book Eddie Stobart written by Martin Roach and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble beginnings in a Cumbrian farmyard over forty years ago, the Eddie Stobart fleet has found a big parking place in the nation's heart, loved as much for its 2,200 immaculate green and red trucks, each emblazoned with a girl's name on the front, as for its famous army of dedicated Stobart Spotters who try to find each one. Buckle up with the Stobart drivers, and join them on a week in the life of a massive delivery, from paperwork to pallet. Learn what it's like to be sat in the driver seat of a Stobart truck - the noises, visibility, clutch control, gears, steering - and discover the sheer size and power of these machines. Illustrated throughout with amazing photographs, and featuring first-hand stories of incredible journeys from the intrepid truckers, as well as astonishing facts and stats and the history of the fleet, this is truly an irresistible book for Stobart fans of all ages.
Download or read book The Official Charts the Sixties written by Graham Betts and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Charts: The Sixties is an essential gathering together of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week, as the full published chart, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company - and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time the full charts have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day. Also included are the accompanying EP Charts, which were published between March 1960 and December 1967. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Sixties. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.
Download or read book Til Wrong Feels Right written by Iggy Pop and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Godfather of Punk and frontman for The Stooges offers insight into his creative world with this collection of lyrics brought to life by full-color photos, never-before-seen notes and memorabilia, short pieces by Iggy, and commentary from other music legends, including Danny Fields and Chris Stein from Blondie. Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he’s left it battered and bruised. From fronting the legendary proto-punk band The Stooges to being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 to collaborating with an eclectic mix of artists including David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Jarvis Cocker, Death In Vegas, Underworld and Josh Homme, Iggy has proved himself to be one of music’s most iconic, outrageous and enduring music artists. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the first and eponymous The Stooges record, here for the first time are Iggy’s collected lyrics, with stunning original photographs, illustrations and his and others' reflections on a genre-defining music career that spans five decades—the ultimate book for every rock and roll fan.
Download or read book Before We Was We written by Mike Barson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Foreword by Irvine Welsh. In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's basement to the Top of the Pops studio. In their own words they each look back on shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another's footsteps by day and rising up through the city's exploding pub music scene by night. Before We Was We is irreverent, funny and full of character. Just like them.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones written by Victor Coelho and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of academic essays focused entirely on the musical, historical, cultural and media impact of the Rolling Stones.
Download or read book The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums written by Martin Roach and published by Virgin Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band to Zoom by ELO, this indispensable, innovatively designed book celebrates fifty years of British album charts, telling you everything you could possibly want to know about every album to reach the Top 100. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums covers everything, from the classics (Sgt Pepper, Nevermind, The Dark Side of the Moon) to the dodgy (Spiceworld, Seriously Orchestra) and the downright bizarre (Smurfs Go Pop!, Seventies Dinner Party).Where else are you going to find out that-Bridge over Troubled Water spent 307 weeks in the chartsPavarotti has topped the album charts - twiceLily Allen went triple-platinum in 2006 with Alright, StillOasis sold 356,000 copies of Be Here Now in one day aloneBoth Gary Glitter and Mariah Carey released an album called GlitterDonny Osmond has never made it to No. 1 in the album charts
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Download or read book The Official Albums Chart the Seventies written by Graham Betts and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s and chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. That all adds up to more than 500 weeks of album charts. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts (and as curated today by the Official Charts Company - and made available at OfficialCharts.com). That means the charts broadcast at the time by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week.This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.
