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The Complete Kylie (25th Anniversary Edition)
The Complete Kylie (25th Anniversary Edition)
by Simon Sheridan
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The Complete Kylie Minogue gives the most definitive overview of the performer's career ever published. From her days as a young TV actress and movie star through to her worldwide domination of the music charts as one of the globe's best-selling, and... (read more)

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The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio with CD (Audio)
The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio with CD (Audio)
by Ben Fong Torres
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This lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such renowned radio personalities and programmers as Casey... (read more)

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The Pop Piano Book
The Pop Piano Book
by Mark Harrison
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This cutting-edge keyboard method is a total step-by-step approach to creating keyboard parts spontaneously. Rhythmic and harmonic concepts are applied in all keys, and are then used as a basis for developing specific solutions in rock, pop, ballad, funk,... (read more)

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Lyrics, 1962-2001 (05 Edition)
Lyrics, 1962-2001 (05 Edition)
by Bob Dylan
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This collection contains Bob Dylan's lyrics, from his first album, Bob Dylan, to 2001's "Love and Theft."... (read more)

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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
by Randy Schmidt
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Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act... (read more)

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Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin
Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin
by David Evanier
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A sensitive, startling portrait of the legendary singer — timed to hit stores just as the Kevin Spacey movie Beyond the Sea has kindled intense new interest in every aspect of Darin's life and tragically early death. By age 8 Bobby Darin knew he... (read more)

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That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin
That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin
by Ricci Martin
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As fascination with the Rat Pack thrives in films and on television, Dean Martin remains one of the group's most enigmatic members. The Hollywood image of Martin with a martini in one hand and a woman in the other continues to dominate public perception.... (read more)

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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Horoscopes
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Horoscopes
by Madeline Gerwick-brodeur
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Does reading your daily horoscope leave you wanting more? Do you look up to the heavens and wonder what the stars reveal about your personality, your relationships, and your work? Have you secretly longed to have your birth chart interpreted? Don't stop... (read more)

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Reading Lyrics (00 Edition)
Reading Lyrics (00 Edition)
by Gottlieb
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Featuring the works of more than 100 American and British song writers from 1900 to 1975, this anthology is a magnificent gathering of lyrics whose power to stir memories of longing and desire, to evoke romance, remains undiminished.... (read more)

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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
by Simon Reynolds
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One of The Telegraphs Best Music Books 2011  We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute... (read more)

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Journey: Piano Sheet Music Anthology (Sheet Music Anthology)
Journey: Piano Sheet Music Anthology (Sheet Music Anthology)
by Alfred Publishing (cor)
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For pianists who love Journey, this collection is a dream come true. More than 150 pages of piano/vocal arrangements detail 28 of the band's standout songs for unlimited hours of fun at the keys. Complete lyrics and vocal melodies are included, along... (read more)

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American Idol: Where Are They Now?: Every Finalist from the First 10 Years
American Idol: Where Are They Now?: Every Finalist from the First 10 Years
by People Magazine (cor)
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The fame, the shame and how life changed: American Idol: Where Are They Now?, Tenth Anniversary Edition, catches up with ALL 134 TOP 12 finalists from the talent show that became a star-making phenomenon. Who made $22 million last year? (Hello, Carrie... (read more)

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Bobby Darin: A Life
Bobby Darin: A Life
by Michael Starr
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Bobby Darin fit more into his 37 years alive than most people fit into longer lifetimes. By the age of 22, Darin was a pop idol with chart-toppers Splish Splash and Dream Lovers. A year later, he reinvented himself as a Sinatra-style crooner with Mack... (read more)

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Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde
by Bernard Gordron
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, popular music was considered nothing but vulgar entertainment. Today, jazz and rock music are seen as forms of art, and their practitioners are regularly accorded a status on par with the cultural... (read more)

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A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
by Will Friedwald
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Will Friedwald's illuminating, opinionated essays--provocative, funny, and personal--on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants... (read more)

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Sweet Soul Music (99 Edition)
Sweet Soul Music (99 Edition)
by Peter Guralnick
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SWEET SOUL MUSIC profiles the legendary artists--among them Sam Cook, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues. "The best history of '60s soul music. . . . Sooner or later, it is going to be... (read more)

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This Is Pop in Search of the Elusive A
This Is Pop in Search of the Elusive A
by Eric Weisbard
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cluttered with treasures as a good music store.... (read more)

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Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (01 Edition)
Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization (01 Edition)
by Charles A. Perrone
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This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. It focuses on how traditional Brazilian musical styles have been influenced by international popular music to form new hybrids. Since... (read more)

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Careless Whispers: The Life and Career of George Michael
Careless Whispers: The Life and Career of George Michael
by Robert Steele
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Here is a riveting account of the highs and lows of the life and career of one of pop music's top solo artists. Covers the formation of Wham! in the early 80s with friend Andrew Ridgley, their success with hits including "Young Guns (Go For It... (read more)

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American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy To MP3 - With 2 CD's (3RD 10 Edition)
American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy To MP3 - With 2 CD's (3RD 10 Edition)
by Larry Starr
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In American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Second Edition, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman examine popular music in the United States from its beginnings into the 21st century, offering a comprehensive look at the music, the cultural history... (read more)

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