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Race with the Devil

Author : Susan VanHecke

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 14,4 MB

Release : 2000-08-19

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780312262228

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Famous for his classic hit 'Be-Bop-A-Lula,' Gene Vincent was one of the most influential rock 'n' roll artists of all time. This is the first American biography written of this rock pioneer and the most comprehensive account of his career and turbulent personal life. Adored by British and European fans, Gene Vincent moved to the UK in 1959 where his leather-clad, street-tough persona met with instant acclaim. The survivor of the crash that killed Eddie Cochran, his closest friend, he was to die himself at just 36, a victim of torment and tragedy. Illustrated.



Gene Vincent

Author : Mick Farren

Publisher :

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 50,32 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Gene Vincent was the original and legendary black-leather bad-boy of rock 'n' roll. His records were banned and censored, his live shows incited riots, he wrecked hotel rooms while Keith Moon was still a schoolboy. His private life was a combat zone of booze, pills, guns, and women, and he ultimately died for the blue jean bop. Without him there would have been no Jim Morrison, no Sid, no Marilyn Manson, and even Elvis would have struggled. And that's why Gene Vincent is still remembered and celebrated thirty years after he should have been dead and gone.



Gene Vincent

Author : Derek Henderson

Publisher :

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 41,59 MB

Release : 2005

Category :

ISBN : 0951941674

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Gene Vincent & Eddie Cochran

Author : John Collis

Publisher : Random House

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 44,37 MB

Release : 2011-08-19

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 075354783X

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The United Kingdom had never seen anything like it, as two rock'n'roll legends rampaged around the country on Britain's first-ever rock tour. Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran lived the rock'n'roll lifestyle to the full, bringing to an end the monochrome 1950s and ushering in the swinging 60s. John Collis has traced the story of the UK tour that was a defining moment in British popular culture to its tragic climax with the death of Eddie Cochran. He looks back on the contrasting backgrounds of the two stars, follows the tale onwards to Gene Vincent's death from alcohol and drug abuse, and examines the lasting legacy of their music.



The Day the World Turned Blue

Author : Britt Hagarty

Publisher : Poole, Dorset : Blandford Press

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 43,37 MB

Release : 1983

Category : Rock musicians

ISBN : 9780713715316

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The Century of the Gene

Author : Evelyn Fox KELLER

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 28,28 MB

Release : 2009-06-30

Category : Science

ISBN : 0674039432

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In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.



The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars

Author : Jeremy Simmonds

Publisher : Chicago Review Press

Page : 850 pages

File Size : 17,51 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1613744781

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"First published by the Penguin Group, London, as Number one in Heaven: the heroes who died for rock 'n' roll.



Rockabilly

Author : Billy Poore

Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 43,29 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Music

ISBN : 0793591422

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...a great reference guide, detailing artists, chart activity, career milestones, tours and recent activity.



The Cavern Club

Author : Spencer Leigh.

Publisher : McNidder and Grace Limited

Page : 475 pages

File Size : 47,24 MB

Release : 2015-10-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0857160982

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This is the story of the Cavern Club - the most famous club in the world. The Cavern saw the birth of the Beatles and Merseybeat, and more. Respected author, music journalist and Merseybeat historian Spencer Leigh - with a little help from Sir Paul McCartney, who provides the Foreword - tells the Cavern's history by talking to the owners, hundreds of musicians who played at the club, the backroom staff and fans. Spencer paints a vivid picture of the Cavern, from its days as a jazz club, through the Beatles years to the present



Freaks Out!

Author : Luke Haines

Publisher : Nine Eight Books

Page : 218 pages

File Size : 50,56 MB

Release : 2024-03-28

Category : Music

ISBN : 1788709330

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'Dividing pop sheep from out-there GOATS with spite and guile, it's part SCUM manifesto, part insane hot or not list.' SUNDAY TIMES The followers - this book is not for you. The salt of the earth - this book is not for you. The worthy - this book is not for you. The ideologists - this book is not for you. Hedonists and bohemians - this book is not for you. The middlebrow - this book is not for you. The highbrow - this book is not for you. Dilettantes - this book is not for you. 1970s middle school RE teachers - this book is not for you. The England football team (women's and men's) - this book is not for you. The litanists - this book is not for you. Gatekeepers - this book is not for you. Gamekeepers - this book is not for you. (Not even for the poachers...) The curators - this book is not for you. The left, the right - this book is not for you. The list-makers - lists are for shoppers not rockers, and this book is not for you. This is not a list - this is a manifesto, and this book is for ... the Freaks. Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock 'n' roll wars - only to lose to the rise of Cool Britannia and TV 'talent' shows that turned the strange and the outsiders into fodder for laughter. In this ultimate celebration of freakdom, Haines tells the story of pivotal freaks - including Johnnie Ray, Gene Vincent, Hank Marvin, Syd Barrett, the Incredible String Band and Big Youth - through the prism of rock 'n' roll and explains how freaks infiltrated wider culture through history in the form of the Cathars, the Ranters, Hells Angels and the Yippies. Part memoir, part manifesto, Freaks Out! is a righteous alternate history of rock 'n' roll.