"August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his remarkable fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year in his life, the album marked a departure from Dylan's socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution toward other directions. Few people outside Dylan's immediate family have ever been closer than Victor Maymudes, who was Dylan's tour manager, personal friend, and travelling companion...

Explores the unlikely bond between the famous Austrian composer and his pet starling, providing an unexpected window into human-animal friendships, music, and the nature of creative inspiration.

In this biography the author explores the facets of Cohen's life from his early childhood in Montreal, to his entree into the worlds of literature and music, his immersion in Jewish culture, obsession with Christian imagery, and deep commitment to Buddhist detachment, including the five years he spent at a monastery outside of Los Angeles and his ordainment as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Monk.

Nine Disney standards arranged for beginning piano students to enjoy, including: Alice in Wonderland * Best of Friends * Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) * Heigh-Ho * Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) * Little April Shower * Some Day My Prince Will Come * Whistle While You Work * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!.

A visual journey though decades of Def Leppard history from one of rock's most legendary photographers-includes commentary from the band. Def Leppard's unstoppable hard rock anthems have sold tens of millions of albums worldwide and won the band a legion of dedicated fans. This fully authorized visual history follows them from the new wave of British heavy metal to their massive Pyromania and Hysteria albums to the sustained power of their records...

It was, and it remains, the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, a giant from the moment of its inception until long after its demise. Even today, more than 30 years after its final flight, Led Zeppelin offers the final word in rock innovation - the one band that so many try to emulate and so few come even close to catching. If You Like Led Zeppelin... is the unique story of how Led Zeppelin came together not just as players, but as influences...

This winning collection falls easily under the hands, yet preserves the spirit and expressive harmonies of the originals. Includes: Beauty and the Beast * Circle of Life * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * I'm Late * Little April Shower * A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme) * You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! * You'll Be in My Heart.

The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at 34. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cultural insights of a social critic, and the narrative...

Colm Tóibín on Joni Mitchell • James Wood on The Who • Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush • Daniel Handler on Eurythmics • Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders • Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives. In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an...

Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned bleak urban realties inside out with distinctive, danceable, downright irresistible music. Funk hasn't received the critical attention that rock, jazz, and the blues have-until now. Colorful, intelligent, and in-you-face, Rickey Vincent's Funk celebrates...