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The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Morley

12. He is writing as the Actor some sleeve notes to Hunky Dory, but leaving most of what’s going on open to interpretation. He’s only giving so much away because ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 15,2017 )
Piano Notes by Charles Rosen
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Rosen

CHAPTER SIX RECORDING THE PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE of recording differs in one important way from that of a recital. You begin a concert with the adrenaline of stage fright coursing through ...
( Category: Music January 14,2017 )
Who's Your City? by Richard Florida
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-12 | Author:Richard Florida [Florida, Richard]

People who live in Calgary don’t talk about their city for long before the conversation turns to the mountain biking, the skiing, the hiking, and the fact that the city ...
( Category: Economic Conditions January 13,2017 )
Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs by Mary McCarthy
epub |eng | | Author:Mary McCarthy [McCarthy, Mary]

4 WHEN I WENT THAT FALL as a boarder to Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma, my uncle’s friend Mark had offered to write to me. His letters did not start ...
( Category: Authors January 9,2017 )
Evelyn Waugh by Philip Eade
epub |eng | 2016-08-27 | Author:Philip Eade

* Originally entitled ‘Mr Cruttwell’s Little Outing’, which would not have been wholly inappropriate as Cruttwell was to end his life insane. * Many years later, Diana Cooper wrote to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 9,2017 )
The Complete History of Black Sabbath: What Evil Lurks by Joel McIver
epub |eng | 2016-01-08 | Author:Joel McIver

Metallica, fronted by James Hetfield, opened for Ozzy’s band during the Ultimate Sin tour. PARENTAL ADVISORY Less amusing developments were in store for Ozzy in 1986. One of his old ...
( Category: Popular January 9,2017 )
Travels with Henry James by Henry James
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Henry James

THE AFTER-SEASON AT ROME May 20, 1873 The Spanish Steps, ca. 1908. ONE MAY SAY WITHOUT INJUSTICE TO ANY BODY THAT THE state of mind of a great many foreigners ...
( Category: Travel Writing January 8,2017 )
Chopin by Adam Zamoyski
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Zamoyski

* * * *Chopin’s expletives are typical of the unguarded way he wrote to his close friends, and should certainly not be taken, as they might be today, to denote ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians January 8,2017 )
Mozart: The Man Revealed by John Suchet
epub |eng | 2016-09-28 | Author:John Suchet [Suchet, John]

Wolfgang is in love, and sure enough the storm is unleashed. Leopold is utterly appalled. He pours the guilt onto Wolfgang’s shoulders. We have done everything to make you happier ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2017 )
The Purple Diaries by Joseph Egan
epub |eng | 2016-10-30 | Author:Joseph Egan [Egan, Joseph]

• • • The press also reported that Kaufman had made a plane reservation for a “quick dash back to New York” where, according to Kaufman, New York “would seem ...
( Category: Rich & Famous January 8,2017 )
Still on the Road by Clinton Heylin
epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Clinton Heylin

{460} FOOT OF PRIDE Published lyric/s: Lyrics 85; Lyrics 04. [Recorded version: Words Fill My Head.] Known studio recordings: Power Station Studios, NYC, April 22, 1983—9 takes; April 23—17 takes; ...
( Category: Music January 8,2017 )
Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
epub |eng | | Author:Kyo Maclear

• • • In May, one night, while thinking about falling I came across a funny and melancholy dance by Pina Bausch on YouTube. Early into the performance (1980—A Piece ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 8,2017 )
Angels Dance and Angels Die by Patricia Butler
epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Patricia Butler [Butler, Patricia]

Pamela’s business card from Themis. “I thought it was the most extravagant gift a man could give a woman,” says Bill Siddons, of his first visit to the store. “And ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2017 )
Dreams of Exile by Ian Bell
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Bell

10 1880–1884 Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in ...
( Category: Authors January 8,2017 )
Fool the World by Josh Frank
epub |eng | | Author:Josh Frank

CHAPTER TEN VAMOS: ALL OVER THE WORLD (1989) As soon as the Doolittle sessions were finished the band jetted back to Europe for a tour titled “Sex and Death.” Although ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 12,2016 )

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