Author : Wayne Jancik
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Musicians
ISBN :
Every artist of the rock & roll era who had only one single in the Top 40, covering songs from the 50s to the 80s.
Author : Fred Bronson
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823076772
Provides lists of hit songs by date with information on the artist, songwriter, producer, label, and offering interviews with popular artists.
Author : Wayne Jancik
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823075331
Author : Christopher G. Feldman
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780823076956
Discusses the popular hit singles that never reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, offering a history of each song and commenting on its significance in the history of pop music.
Author : Joel Whitburn
Publisher : Billboard Books
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Billboard (Cincinnati, Ohio : 1963)
ISBN : 9780823075119
A descriptive list of top 40 hits with information on the performers, the names of their hits, number of weeks on the charts, and accompanying record labels.
Author : Fred Bronson
Publisher : Billboard Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780823075225
When Bill Haley's song "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" hit number one on Billboard magazine's chart of best-selling single records in the US on July 9, 1955, the rock era began. For each of the 860 number one hits from July 1955, through October 1997, the author provides an interpretive history and a black-and-white photograph of the performers, and lists the writers, producers, record label and number, and the songs that filled the number 2 through 5 spots. Includes artist, title, and label indexes, and appends statistics regarding the charts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Dorothy Carvello
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0912777931
Dorothy Carvello knows all about the music biz. She was the first female A&R executive at Atlantic Records, and one of the few in the room at RCA and Columbia. But before that, she was secretary to Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic's infamous president, who signed acts like Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin, negotiated distribution deals with Mick Jagger, and added Neil Young to Crosby, Stills & Nash. The stories she tells about the kingmakers of the music biz are outrageous, but it is her sinuous friendship with Ahmet that frames her narrative. He was notoriously abusive, sexually harassing Dorothy on a daily basis. Carvello reveals here how she flipped the script and showed Ertegun and every other man who tried to control her that a woman can be just as willing to do what it takes to get a hit. Never-before-heard stories about artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Steven Tyler, Bon Jovi, INXS, Marc Anthony, and many more make this book a must-read for anyone looking for the real stories on what it takes for a woman to make it in a male-dominated industry.
Author : Fredric Dannen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0307802086
Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Updated with a new last chapter by the author.
Author : Ben Folds
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984817280
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir that is as nuanced, witty, and relatable as his cult-classic songs. “A Dream About Lightning Bugs reads like its author: intelligent, curious, unapologetically punk, and funny as hell.”—Sara Bareilles NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND PASTE Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as “Brick,” “You Don’t Know Me,” “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” and “The Luckiest,” and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he’s an unconventional icon, more normcore than hardcore. Now, in his first book, Folds looks back at his life so far in a charming and wise chronicle of his artistic coming of age, infused with the wry observations of a natural storyteller. In the title chapter, “A Dream About Lightning Bugs,” Folds recalls his earliest childhood dream—and realizes how much it influenced his understanding of what it means to be an artist. In “Measure Twice, Cut Once” he learns to resist the urge to skip steps during the creative process. In “Hall Pass” he recounts his 1970s North Carolina working-class childhood, and in “Cheap Lessons” he returns to the painful life lessons he learned the hard way—but that luckily didn’t kill him. In his inimitable voice, both relatable and thought-provoking, Folds digs deep into the life experiences that shaped him, imparting hard-earned wisdom about both art and life. Collectively, these stories embody the message Folds has been singing about for years: Smile like you’ve got nothing to prove, because it hurts to grow up, and life flies by in seconds. Praise for A Dream About Lightning Bugs “Besides being super talented, and an incredibly poignant and multifaceted musician, Ben Folds is a fantastic author. I couldn’t put this book down—and not just because I taped it to my hand. Ben takes us into his mind and into his process from the very beginnings of his childhood to where he is today—one of the greatest musicians and writers that has ever graced the art.”—Bob Saget
Author : Michaelangelo Matos
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306903350
A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.
