Peter Doggett
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The first ever biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America--in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Woodstock and the formation of the band itself. "The first-ever biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of rock's first supergroup,...
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Vintage
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2016.
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"Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down the street, how we face ourselves in the mirror, and how we handle the world around us. It has influenced our morals and social mores; it has transformed our attitudes towards race and gender, religion and politics. Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the first recording in the 1890s to the early pop superstars of the twentieth century and the omnipresence...
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"Peter Doggett's book about the Beatles' split is a real page-turner." - Annie Lennox
"Enthralling… Impossible to put down." - The Independent
Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett recounts the previously untold story of the dramatic final chapter in the lives, loves, and legal battles of John, Paul, George, and Ringo-aka The Beatles-from their breakup in 1969 to the present day. Called "refreshingly straightforward and highly readable" by The Daily...
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Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul music fueled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti,...
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Un elegante, ameno y completo panorama de la música popular: desde el ragtime hasta el rock.
Hay una lista autorizada de los más importantes eventos de la historia musical, que todos coincidimos en reconocer y una galería de álbumes clásicos y de singles capaces de cambiarnos la vida, de géneros vitales, de añoradas eras -eternamente nuevas, eternamente maduras- listas para ser descubiertas.
¿Qué escucha la gente? ¿De dónde viene lo que...
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The Man Who Sold the World is a critical study of David Bowie's most inventive and influential decade, from his first hit, "Space Oddity," in 1969, to the release of the LP Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) in 1980. Viewing the artist through the lens of his music and his many guises, the acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett offers a detailed analysis-musical, lyrical, conceptual, social-of every song Bowie wrote and recorded during that period, as...