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David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as i ...Show more
David Bowie - A Life by Dylan Jones
Category: Film
** Shortlisted for the NME Best Music Book Award 2018 ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The definitive book on Bowie' The Times Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and ...Show more
David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
Category: Performing Arts
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as i ...Show more
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones
Category: Music
Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded magazine detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to st ...Show more
From the Ground Up: U2 360 Tour by JONES DYLAN
Category: Music
U2 360degree by numbers 7,100,000 fans saw the show; 10 million people watched a live stream of U2 360degree at the Rose Bowl on YouTube; 320,000 fans saw 360degree in Mexico City; 9,760 guitar strings utilized; 7,100 miles - approximate distance travelled by space station while talking with U2; 5,200 y ...Show more
IPod, Therefore I Am : A Personal Journey Through Music by Dylan Jones
Category: Fiction
Personal odyssey of iPod-owner Dylan Jones, an obsession about music made possible by new technology and fuelled by fashion. Since 1972, when he was eleven, Dylan Jones has been regularly buying records in a 30-year binge of glam rock, punk, disco and rap. His life is full of disparate pop stars and ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
Loaded - The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
Category: Performing Arts
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this "monumental origin story" celebrates the legacy of the Velvet Underground, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century (New York Times bes ...Show more
London Sartorial: Men's Style from Street to Bespoke by Dylan Jones
Category: Fashion
Combining the unique heritage of gentlemen s tailoring with a progressive approach to street style, London is fast becoming the world s capital of men s fashion. For this book, Dylan Jones presents a discerning sartorialist s guide to the capital, from London s coolest neighbourhoods to the studios of i ...Show more
Mr Jones' Rules for the Modern Man by Dylan Jones
Category: Fashion
This is a witty, stylish and indispensable guide to being a modern man. It is tough being a man in the twenty-first century. First there are the big dilemmas, like how to get a pay rise and how to suck up to your boss. Then there are the minor irritations: how do you beat jet-lag, and how do you stop yo ...Show more
Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison by Dylan Jones
Category: Music
In Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immort ...Show more
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s by Dylan Jones
Category: Music
'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo 'Fascinating' New Statesman The '80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid r ...Show more