epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Pitilli, Lawrence;

So, How Do You Make a Living Singing and Producing Doo-Wop Acappella? As the Brill Building was the epicenter of the pop and rock-and-roll world of the late 1950s and ...

mobi |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:James McBride

“You gotta remember, me growing up in the sixties and seventies, he was more than just a hot artist to me,” Sharpton explains. “He was black history. He was so ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-04 | Author:James McBride

He steps inside the tattered screen door of Brooker’s soul food restaurant in Barnwell, South Carolina, like he owns it. And in a way, he does. He’s an old-timer. Miss ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Greenfield

3 During the two-year period after Atlantic had been sold, Ahmet and Wexler continued to run the label as partners while setting off in distinctly different directions to pursue their ...

epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Berry Gordy [Gordy, Berry]

WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO After Manchester, the Supremes sang “You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You” at each performance, and as audiences began to like it more and more ...

epub |eng | 2005-10-18 | Author:Peter Guralnick [Guralnick, Peter]

TWO WEEKS LATER, after a brief series of engagements in Nassau and the Bahamas, he started on another Henry Wynn Supersonic tour, accompanied once again by such familiar performers as ...

epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Ray Charles & David Ritz [Charles, Ray & Ritz, David]

how, my manager didn’t quite get the message, ‘cause two years later I was the last one to discover that he and Pat were keeping house.) Many years later, I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-02 | Author:Julia Blackburn

* Jimmy Rowles was born in 1918 and died in 1996. An obituary by John Fordham in the Guardian described him as ‘a subtle, laconic and all-but-psychic pianist, who elevated ...

mobi |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Bobby Womack [Womack, Bobby]

CHAPTER 12 FIRE AND RAIN After splitting with Ray Charles in 1968, I was on my own, fending for myself. I didn’t have my brothers around me so I became ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Paolo Hewitt

Thirteen Liam Gallagher entered Mark Coyle’s bedroom in the Monnow Valley Studios in South Wales and told him to get the fuck up. ‘We’ve been waiting half an hour, you ...

mobi |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:George Clinton

Musically, Motor Booty Affair was an extension of Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome: funk as we had designed and refined it, but with an even greater sense of its own ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-28 | Author:Greil Marcus

Money (That’s What I Want) 1959 • 1963 Money Changes Everything 1978•1983•2008•2005 All rock ’n’ roll songs about money, from the Drifters’ “Money Honey” to Rubella Ballet’s punk chant “Money ...

epub |deu | | Author:Mark Bego

KAPITEL ACHT MIT VOLLGAS ZURÜCK AN DIE SPITZE Obwohl Jump to It Arethas Karriere enorm beflügelt hatte, war das brillante Who’s Zoomin’ Who? von 1985 ihr eigentliches Comeback-Album. Damit gelangte ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Nelson George

Disco would have a variety of impacts on black music. While rawer-sounding records never went away (with bands like Parliament-Funkadelic, Slave, the Bar-Kays, and Cameo staying true to the funk), ...

epub |eng | 2005-10-11 | Author:Gerald Posner [Posner, Gerald]

A young Berry Gordy in front of Motown’s first million-selling record, “Shop Around,” by the Miracles. (Courtesy of Peter Benjaminson) Hitsville, Motown’s original headquarters, at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in ...