Most pop stars' fame used to end with their 25th birthday, but Adam Faith just kept on being interesting until the day he died aged 62. Born Terry Nelhams in working-class Acton, he defined post-war aspiration. Though his vocal talents were limited, he enjoyed an unprecedented run of seven top five hits. His chiselled features were a gift to TV ......
This fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache provides original, first-hand insight into one of the industrys most important pioneers. Guy Blache was not only the worlds first female director, producing and directing hundreds of films, but in 1896, she became the first of either sex to direct a fictional film.
A work-by-work guide to the composers groundbreaking music Robert Wannamakers monumental two-volume study explores the influential music and ideas of American composer, theorist, writer, performer, and educator James Tenney.
In this book the author analyzes the autobiographies of Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins by integrating social, psychological, and literary theories. He argues that the autobiographies of New Orleans jazz musicians construct a sense of self and the collective grounded in ideas about authenticity.
The first detailed and in-depth researched biography of the acclaimed British actor Dennis Price, charting his rise to fame, his most famous roles, his battle with depression, alcohol and the tax man ... and how he outshone everything and everyone around him.
If The Cavern in Liverpool was the birthplace of the Mersey beat, then the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, where the Stones played their first gigs, was at the heart of British rhythm and blues. Formed in 1962 this tells their incredible story including profiles of the past and present members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood ......
A self-defined "seductress of beautiful women" and the by-product of an immense fortune, lesbian activist Mercedes de Acosta (born in 1892) was descended from Spain's Dukes of Alba and a beneficiary of the best education and best social skills that her parents' Gilded Age fortune could buy. From her perch within the aristocracy of the Belle ......
From the creator of Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Biography and Neverland: The Michael Jackson Graphic comes the small format edition of an explosive graphic novel about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols.
