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Dr. Martens: The Story of an Icon
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Martin Roach
For decades now, Dr. Martens and youth subculture have been inextricably linked, just as music and youth culture have been close partners in crime since the advent of rock 'n' roll. The story of the development of British pop music and popular culture, and of Doctor Martens, is thus shared to a remarkable degree. This book tells that story, from ...
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Justin Timberlake: The Unofficial Book
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Martin Roach
In 2002 Justin Timberlake went from being a teen sensation in record-breaking boy-band NSync to being a successful solo artist. He emerged from the shadow of a major band and a long-term relationship with superstar Britney Spears to establish himself in his own right and this book charts his rise to fame. It looks at his life and career from his ...
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Morphing the Blues: The White Stripes and the Strange Relevance of Detroit
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The history of the White Stripes and how Detroit's music scene fostered their development is explored for the first time in this intriguing band historiography. Full-length biographies of both band members track their success from their early days in Detroit to worldwide fame and recognition. Key interviews with people close to the band describe ...
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Music Facts and Trivia
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Martin Roach
Music: Facts and Trivia is the book you've been looking for. A massive compendium of intriguing, unbelievable, absurd, surprising and shocking facts from the world of music. This fun and infromative book is an easy-to-read goldmine - dipping into it will delight music lovers, fact-finders and anyone excited by a passion for miscellany.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Inside the Veins of the Velvet Groove. the Unauthorised Biography
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Martin Roach
This look at the hard-rocking, funky Red Hot Chili Peppers examines their continued vitality after more than 20 years as a band. Interviews with ex-band members and musicians who have played and toured with them tell a classic rock and roll story of music, drugs, and death and provide insights into the longevity and ongoing relevance of the Chili ...
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So You Want to Be a Pop Star: How to Make Your Dreams of Fame Come True
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Martin Roach, Louis Walsh
Imagine: you're a pop star. Your limo takes you from designer clothes shops to TV appearances. Your face stares out from magazine covers. Could it really happen to you? Achieving the dream of becoming a pop star is riddled with complex difficulties and frustrating obstacles. This book offers a useful guide for every aspiring superstar. It's a long ...
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The Prodigy: The Fat of the Land
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Martin Roach
Published to coincide with the release of their new album, this is the photo story of the country's biggest alternative act. The Prodigy had two number one singles in 1996 and have sold over 5 million records worldwide. Written by the band, it includes 125 colour photographs and reveals, in entirely the band's own words, the thinking behind such ...
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Damon Albarn: "Blur", the "Gorillaz" and Other Fables
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Martin Roach
Damon Albarn was the frontman of Blur and the face of Britpop. While his peers have gradually fallen by the wayside, Albarn has survived Britpop to completely re-invent himself as the mastermind behind the global phenomenon that is The Gorillaz. With his eclectic solo projects - such as the currently much-revered "The Good", "The Bad and the Queen ...
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Coldplay: Nobody Said It Was Easy
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Martin Roach
Coldplay's debut album "Parachutes" was a collection of direct, soulful songs stripped right back to expose an unusual level of raw emotion. It sold nearly five million copies world-wide, winning a clutch of NME and Q awards, two Brits and the Grammy for Best Alternative Album. Martin Roach reveals how the band first met, their early gigs, their ...
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The Prodigy: Electronic Punks: The Official Story
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Martin Roach
A biography of the hard dance band, The Prodigy. This official history contains lengthy and extensive interviews with the band, exclusive and previously unpublished photographs from the band's own personal albums, and a full discography.
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The Right to Imagination & Madness: An Essential Collection of Candid Interviews with U. K. Top Alternative Songwriters
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Martin Roach
This work aims to provide a platform for the UK's top alternative songwriters to opinionate, ridicule and explain the role they play and how they play it. It consists of 35 interviews, each with a biography and 3 recommended tracks to be proffered by the writer.
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This Is It: The First Biography of the Strokes
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Martin Roach
The Strokes arrived on the scene surrounded by rumour and myth but they also made a blistering album - Is This It - and left no one in any doubt that rock 'n' roll is alive and well and living in New York City. Their album subsequently wom the NME Album of the Year Award. Julian, Fabrizio, Albert, Nick and Nokolai had built the group painstakingly ...
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The eight legged atomic dustbin will eat itself
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Martin Roach
A detailed account of bands from Stourbridge, including Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Wonder Stuff and Pop Will Eat Itself. It contains hitherto unpublished photographs, interviews, complete discographies and select reviews.
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Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations
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Griffiths Marti, Martin Griffiths, Steven C Roach
Now in its second edition, "Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations" has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory, and English School, as well as a range of new thinkers. They include: Samuel Huntington; ...
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Blur: The Whole Story
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Martin Roach
Combining interviews, quotes, news reports and pictures, this work provides a review of pop heart-throbs Blur. It also includes details of live performances and gives a month-by-month account of life with the boys.
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"Nme" Top 100 Singles: the Definitive Chart of the Uks Best-Selling Songs-Ever
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Martin Roach
November 14th 2002 is the 50th anniversary of the first official Top 20 chart; it's also the NME's 50th anniversary. To celebrate these two iconic events in British rock and pop music history, and for the first time ever, the OCC (the Official UK Singles Chart) have produced the definitive list of the UK's favourite singles. This, the official ...
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It Is What It Is: The Autobiography
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David Coulthard, Martin Roach
From his quiet beginnings in rural Scotland to his multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo, where he owns one of the most luxurious hotels in the principality, David Coulthard's life story is an extraordinary one. He got his breakthrough into Formula One in the tragic circumstances of Ayrton Senna's death in 1994, and quickly established ...
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The Mission : names are for tombstones, baby
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Martin Roach, Neil Perry
The official story of the band, The Mission. It has been researched through numerous interviews with the band and their associates.
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Take That: Now and Then
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Martin Roach
This book recounts the entire story of the most successful British band since The Beatles. From their humble beginnings to the break-up that shook the pop world, to their explosive and successful come-back tour a decade later, TAKE THAT -- NOW AND THEN exposes the intimate details of the band that changed pop history. Containing hot behind-the ...
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Mega City Four : tall stories & creepy crawlies
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Martin Roach
A biography of the group Mega City Four. It features exclusive interviews with the band, as well as previously unpublished photographs taken from the band's personal collection. A complete collector's discography concludes this detailed history of the band.
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More Maximum Eminem: The Unauthorised Biography of Eminem
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Martin Roach, Sian Jones
These audio biographies chart the lives and work of some of rock's most memorable acts, from their early days to their rise to fame. Each CD includes comments and interview material by the artist and is accompanied by an eight-page illustrated booklet and fold-out poster.
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Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations
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Martin Griffiths
Brought right up to date for an era of economic globalization and the War on Terror, this new edition of the best-selling "Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations" explores the lives and works of fifty important thinkers and writers on the increasingly fraught issue of global diplomacy. Containing new entries on Noam Chomsky, Samuel ...
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Undefeated: Old Ironsides in the War of 1812
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John C. Roach (Illustrator), Tyrone G. Martin
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The 'Streets
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Martin Roach
Mike Skinner aka The Streets is arguably the most acclaimed new talent to emerge in the UK in the past five years. A Birmingham native who later ventured into the the murky depths of the capital's garage scene, Skinner was an unlikely nominee for Britain's answer to Eminem. Brought up on tough estates on a diet of cheap beer, hip-hop, house and ...
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Dr. Martens : AirWair with bouncing soles
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