This is book one of three, exploring and explaining a period that is by very definition lesser-known: the formative pre-fame years, the teenage years, the Liverpool and Hamburg years – in many ways the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. The Beatles come together here in all their originality, attitude, style, speed, charisma, appeal, daring and honesty, the tools with which they’re about to reshape the world. It’s the Beatles in their own time, an amazing story of the ultimate rock band, a focused and colorful telling that builds and builds to leave four sharp lads from Liverpool on the very brink of a whole new kind of fame.
They Just Seem a Little Weird – How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz remade Rock and Roll (tvrdi uvez)
It was the age when heavy footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard rock landscape.
Carly Simon: Boys in the Trees – A Memoir (tvrdi uvez)
A rhapsodic, beautifully composed memoir of a young woman’s coming of age amongst the glamorous literati and intelligentsia of Manhattan, a reflection on a life begun amidst secrets and shame, and a powerful story of the strength to leave that all behind and forge a path of art, music and love in the Golden Age of folk and rock.
Set Phasers to Stun – 50 Years of Star Trek
With wit, insight and a huge pile of DVDs, Marcus Berkmann seeks to answer all the important questions –
Why did Kirk’s shirt always get torn when he had a fist fight?
What’s the most number of times Uhura said ‘Hailing frequencies open, sir’ in a single episode?
And what’s the worst imaginable insult in Klingon?
Bring It on Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond – The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager
The late Peter Grant managed Led Zeppelin to global stardom. But his life story was every bit as extraordinary and dramatic as the musicians he looked after.
It is the first biography to reveal the truth behind Led Zeppelin’s demise, Grant’s subsequent fall from grace amid death threats and the shadow of organised crime, and his final days as a man who shunned the excesses of the music industry in favour of his friends and family.
The Little Big Book of Breasts (tvrdi uvez)
So Much For So Little!
Adults only!
Little People, Big Dreams: My first Ella Fitzgerald
Little People, Big Dreams series: This board book version of Ella Fitzgerald introduces the youngest dreamers to the First Lady of Song, from her early singing days on the streets of Harlem to her success as a jazz legend. Ella Fitzgerald grew up near Harlem, in New York, where she was surrounded by music and dance. …
Little People, Big Dreams: My first Audrey Hepburn
Little People, Big Dreams series: Audrey Hepburn grew up in Arnhem in the Netherlands. After living through the hardships of World War Two, she moved to study ballet in London. She went on to star in plays and films, eventually becoming one of the most iconic actresses of all time. Babies and toddlers will love …
The Little Big Butt Book (tvrdi uvez)
Big Butts, Small Scale!
Adults only!
The Little Big Book of Pussy (tvrdi uvez)
Her coat is so warm, and now so affordable!
Adults only!