Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
For over 20 years, the Pet Shop Boys have been at the cutting edge of popular music. This book is a lavish visual retrospective of the duo's career, featuring behind-the-scenes shots from every video, concert and theatre show.
Author : Chris Heath
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1473575699
The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be modern, ecstatic and playful as well as serious and intelligent, winning them legions of devoted fans throughout the world. In 1989, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe invited journalist Chris Heath and photographer Lawrence Watson to shadow them around Hong Kong, Japan and the UK as they embarked on their first-ever tour. This book is the result: an immersive portrait giving access into the duo’s inner sanctum, showing them in brilliantly observed detail as they work, relax, gossip, argue and occasionally try to make sense of what they do. ‘As clear a picture as could be wished for of the seething mass of elegant contradictions that is the Pet Shop Boys’ on-the-road experience.’ Independent on Sunday ‘This superbly reported book transcends tired rock journalism cliché. It’s about what it means to be a pop star, what it means to be a Pet Shop Boy... how to love pop, hold it to a higher standard and subvert its expectations.’ Laura Snapes
Author : Neil Tennant
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571348912
Everything I've ever doneEverything I ever doEvery place I've ever beenEverywhere I'm going toOver a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish of contemporary lyricists. Arranged alphabetically, One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem presents an overview of Neil Tennant's considerable achievement as a chronicler of modern life: the romance, the break-ups, the aspirations, the changing attitudes, the history, the politics, the pain. The landscape of Tennant's lyrics is recognisably British in character - restrained and preoccupied with the mundane, occasionally satirical, yet also yearning for escape and theatrical release. Often surprisingly revealing, this volume is contextualised by a personal commentary on each lyric and a fascinating introduction by the author which gives an insight into the process and genesis of writing. Flamboyant, understated, celebratory and elegiac, Neil Tennant's lyrics are a document of our times.
Author : Thomas W. Holland
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
If you're like most of us, the mailman's annual delivery of Sears, Roebuck and Company's Christmas Catalog was a holiday event in years past. Most American children watched the mailbox carefully for those wondrous old catalogs. They were chock full of childhood fantasies... enough toys, dolls, trains and bikes to make any kid start writing his or her letter to Santa Claus. That's probably why the nickname "Wishbook" stuck. And if you grew up during the Baby Boomer years of the Fifties and Sixties, there's big news. Those lost Wishbook pages full of wonderful toys targeted to boys have been reproduced in Boys' Toys, an exciting new book containing authorized reproductions of the very best boy-toy pages from 1950 through 1969. Boys' Toys and its companion book Girls' Toys are two in a series of Sears catalog re-issues covering the spectrum of toys, dolls and other popular collectibles of the Fifties and Sixties. This 8 fi x 11 softcover book's 192 pages illustrate hundreds of now-collectible toys. All the best are represented: Lionel trains, Marx playsets, Remco's "Toys for Boys" G.I. Joe, Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks... all the way to Sixties space-age robots, rockets, and flying saucers! Included too, is a year-by-year commentary on the toys, their manufacturers and historical relevance. So put on your Davy Crockett coonskin cap and settle in for hours of fond childhood memories. Boys' Toys is fun reading for anyone... male or female... toy fan or not. It's an invaluable reference source for serious collectors and history buffs, too. -- Jam-packed with warm and happy childhood memories. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations with accompanying commentary -- A "must have"reference volume for all toy, antique and memorabilia enthusiasts
Author : Jarrod Pakosh
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
The story of the Versatile Tractor company, long recognized for its innovation and its product dependability. The book is well-illustrated with contemporary and archival photographs as well as selections from company catalogs.
Author : Philipsborn's (Department store)
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 9780486293851
Enormous selection of moderately priced dresses for women and girls, men's and boy's clothing, shoes, hats, gloves, more. Fascinating record of everyday fashions of the '20s.
Author : Kavita Bedford
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609456653
“Bedford beautifully portrays the life of an Australian Indian writer struggling with grief a year after the death of her father.” —Publishers Weekly Sydney’s inner city is very much its own place, yet also a stand in for gentrifying inner-city suburbs the world over. Here, four young housemates struggle to untangle their complicated relationships while a poignant story of loss, grieving, and recovery unfolds. The nameless narrator of this story has recently lost her father and now her existence is split in two: she conjures the past in which he was alive and yet lives in the present, where he is not. To others, she appears to have it all together, but the grief she still feels creates an insurmountable barrier between herself and others, between the life she had and the one she leads. Wry, relatable, lyrical, and beautifully told, a book about politics, desire, youth, relationships and friends, Friends and Dark Shapes introduces a bold new Australian voice to American readers. Praise for Friends and Dark Shapes Shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards “An unflinching novel that captures the isolation and emotional overload of modern life.” —ForeWord Reviews “An intimate portrait of an individual in an ever-changing city and a searching meditation on the madness of grief . . . Bedford brilliantly maps the city and examines the narrator’s “dysfunctional relationship” with it. She also explores issues of race, identity and belonging through her heroine’s journalistic assignments and encounters with immigrants and refugees. However, the novel is at its most powerful when it centers upon a world caving in and the aftershocks: what it is like to “lose a parent and lose your base.”“—The Star Tribune
Author : Royce Buckingham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101198311
In the desert town of Richland, Washington, there stands a giant sycamore tree. Horribly mutated by nuclear waste, it feeds on the life energy of boys that it snags with its living roots. And when Teddy Matthews moves to town, the tree trains its sights on its next victim. From the start, Teddy knows something is very wrong with Richland-every kid he meets disappears before his eyes. A trip to the cemetery confirms that these boys are actually dead and trying to lure him to the tree. But that knowledge is no help when Teddy is swept into the tree's world, a dark version of Richland from which there is no escape . . .
Author : Bruce C. Greenberg
Publisher : Greenberg Books
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780897781206
Extremely rare early catalogues present the company's first two decades when Lionel established itself as America's premier model train manufacturer. Includes hundreds of illustrations showing a variety of trains, parts, and manufacturing processes.
Author : Gene Sculatti
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780446375153
A collection of profiles, essays, source listings, and photographs provide an in-depth review of the expressions, iconology, and ethic of the "cool," presenting a panoramic overview of American pop culture from the fifties to the present
