Saturday, 24 September 2011

Epoch Moments and Secrets: John Lennon and The Beatles at the Mirror of Man's Destiny (The Beatles Trilogy Ser. : The Last Concerts) (Hardcover)

Epoch Moments and Secrets: John Lennon and The Beatles at the Mirror of Man's Destiny (The Beatles Trilogy Ser. : The Last Concerts)
Epoch Moments and Secrets: John Lennon and The Beatles at the Mirror of Man's Destiny (The Beatles Trilogy Ser. : The Last Concerts) (Hardcover)
By Richard Warren Lipack

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EPOCH MOMENTS AND SECRETS - JOHN LENNON AND THE BEATLES AT THE MIRROR OF MAN'S DESTINY, with the help of the author, will take you on a journey THEN [The Sixties], NOW, and into the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

THE BEATLES have affected mankind. The total Trilogy work will expose the real story - the life and times [THEN & NOW] of THE BEATLES' legacy, and of their history - and how it is woven into the fabric of what is being reported by media, newsgroups, government, universities, internet and discussed by world citizens.

While all the other BEATLES books TALK about the parties, TALK about the drugs and TALK about the band's life backstage and on the road, Richard Warren Lipack's THE LAST CONCERTS, the first installment in THE BEATLES' TRILOGY - SHOWS IT - with no holds barred!

EPOCH MOMENTS AND SECRETS is drawn from the single most important extant photograph collection on THE BEATLES in the world. Many of the incredible photographs in this book are reproduced for the first time ever. There are well over 150 photos alone - all BEHIND-THE-SCENES - of THE BEATLES during the last days of their live performing career - up to that moment they retired from the concert stage, in August of 1966.

It is significant to note that comprised within the monumental 367 page coffee-table book: THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY, released by THE BEATLES and APPLE in the year 2000, only a scant TWO (2) photographs are reproduced treating the period of the band's 1966 last concert. These consisted of previously published images by San Francisco lensman Jim Marshall.

Within the present realm and scope of THE BEATLES own vast and mighty resources, it is absolutely amazing that so little treating the time of the band's last concert came to be gathered and reproduced in THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY - in an effort to tell this part of the story of what is obviously the epitome of their live performing career!

The Trilogy work however makes the reader witness to the odyssey of a major pivotal event in history as it ACTUALLY unfolds! This is done through the painstaking state-of-the-art digitally enhanced reproduction of action photographs arranged in sequential order according to the sequence of the negative film frames - all as they had been clicked-off by the roving camera - over the tour period. The methods employed to reproduce these images include the rare and lost art of maintaining the halftone dot in the shadow area comprised within the black and white photographs found in EPOCH MOMENTS AND SECRETS.

As well, a special "Quadtone Process" is used to make black and white images into those of striking colors and hues. This is all in an effort to re-create for the reader's eye the vividness of like what THE BEATLES themselves saw during this historic vector-point in time - as they found themselves heading towards destiny and their last live stage show ever - while under the influence of the illicit drug L.S.D. 25.

There are some 35 out of 45 FULL COLOR images reproduced in EPOCH MOMENTS AND SECRETS that show THE BEATLES during the period of their last concerts, while THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY only shows but one!

The text to THE LAST CONCERTS segment of EPOCH MOMENTS AND SECRETS has been researched and executed over a span of nineteen years. And with this, no stone has been left unturned. Here for the first time, the reader and devotee of THE BEATLES can begin to understand their effect on modern society. Read more


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Saturday, 17 September 2011

LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour (Hardcover)

LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour
LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour (Hardcover)
By Stephen Davis

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A revealing account of Led Zepplin's 1975 North American tour including all- new interviews with-and insider information about-the band, from the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods.

As a young music journalist in 1975, Stephen Davis got the opportunity of a lifetime: an invitation to cover the sold-out 1975 North American tour of Led Zeppelin, the biggest and most secretive rock band in the world, for a national magazine. He received a backstage pass, was granted interviews with band members, and even got a prized seat on the band's luxurious tour jet, The Starship. While on duty, he chronicled the Zeppelin tour in three notebooks, but after writing his article in 1975 he misplaced them. After three decades of searching, in 2005 he finally found the notebooks, on the covers of which he had scribbled the words "LZ-'75," and unearthed an amazing amount of new information from the tour including:

• Lost interviews with canny vocalist Robert Plant and the brilliant guitarist Jimmy Page

• Information on the rock icon who moonlighted as a heroin dealer

• Revelations about the identity of the lover about whom Robert Plant sings in "What Is and What Should Never Be" and "Black Country Woman"

• A detailed chronicle of each performance from a musical perspective, and a vivid account of the band members' extravagant, and often troubled, lives on tour

Tied together by Davis's entertaining narrative, and including more than forty never-before-published photographs, LZ-'75 is an unprecedented and comprehensive personal portrait of the greatest (and most notoriously press-shy) rock band in history at its apex. Read more


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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Prelude to Hemlock (Paperback)

Prelude to Hemlock
Prelude to Hemlock (Paperback)
By Steven D Vivian

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"Prelude to Hemlock" is a black comedy that follows the fortunes of the young narrator, Jeffrey Edwards. A contrarian by nature and libertine by choice, Jeff is charming, caustic, fiercely intelligent...and fiercely self-destructive. Jeff writes lyrics for his sister Kim, a gifted rock musician, and as Kim's musical star rises, the siblings become entangled in events both comic and appalling. Along the way, Jeff contends with his pill-popping mother; his breezy and scheming father; and his dope-smoking girlfriend, Tall Patty. As these characters intertwine and collide, Kim's career approaches the bright brink of success--even as she and Jeff approach the darkest brink of disaster. Jeff understands that "what the righteous really dread is a world with no sinners", but he and Kim cannot quite grasp the cost of truly living as they please. "A witch's brew, part J.D. Salinger, part Nabokov, with a dose of Poe. If you ever wondered what kind of culture created Kurt Cobain--and killed him--buckle up." -- Phillip Gardner "Prelude to Hemlock is a distrubing and darkly funny novel told in a pitch perfect voice." Olga G. Galvin Read more


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Monday, 5 September 2011

Tasty Girl (Kindle Edition)

Tasty Girl
Tasty Girl (Kindle Edition)
By Cathy Roy

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Twenty-one year old Eleanor Lindstrom’s life has been turned upside down. She’s been hired as an intern for San Francisco’s top underground radio station in 1978, KTST- Tasty, and is now one of the infamous Tasty Girls. A Tasty dj, one of the top ten bachelors in San Francisco is chasing after her. Keith Underwood is slick, handsome, mysterious and everything her mother warned her about. Between dating a super stud, attending classes, being a dj at the Stanford radio station (KZSU), and interning at Tasty – she hardly has time for sleep.
Her scholarship money is about to run out, so she lets her best friend at Stanford talk her into running a sports ring on Stanford’s big game, betting against her alma mater so that she could win her tuition money in one big sweep. Her uncle has sent two mafia types to keep an eye on her betting; needless to say, they don’t blend in with the Stanford students. If that wasn’t crazy enough, another Stanford student, who’s from Los Angeles with gobs of money is also chasing after her. What’s a girl from Vermillion, South Dakota to do?
Which boy will she choose? Will she win the money to stay at Stanford? They weren’t joking about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll when she became a Tasty Girl.
Twenty-one year old Eleanor Lindstrom’s life has been turned upside down. She’s been hired as an intern for San Francisco’s top underground radio station in 1978, KTST- Tasty, and is now one of the infamous Tasty Girls. A Tasty dj, one of the top ten bachelors in San Francisco is chasing after her. Keith Underwood is slick, handsome, mysterious and everything her mother warned her about. Between dating a super stud, attending classes, being a dj at the Stanford radio station (KZSU), and interning at Tasty – she hardly has time for sleep.
Her scholarship money is about to run out, so she lets her best friend at Stanford talk her into running a sports ring on Stanford’s big game, betting against her alma mater so that she could win her tuition money in one big sweep. Her uncle has sent two mafia types to keep an eye on her betting; needless to say, they don’t blend in with the Stanford students. If that wasn’t crazy enough, another Stanford student, who’s from Los Angeles with gobs of money is also chasing after her. What’s a girl from Vermillion, South Dakota to do?
Which boy will she choose? Will she win the money to stay at Stanford? They weren’t joking about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll when she became a Tasty Girl.
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