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Bowie on Bowie - Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie by Sean Egan (Editor)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Over the Rainbow Selection 2016David Bowie has been one of pop music's greatest interviewees since January 1972, when he famously risked career death by asserting to Melody Maker that he was gay. Although he wasn't yet a big star, it was a groundbreaking moment. And over the years, Bowie has failed to g ...Show more
Clash on the Clash by EGAN SEAN
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
The Clash thought they could change the world. They never did, but they created some of the greatest rock music of all time in the attempt. Clash interviews were mesmerizing. Infused with the messianic punk spirit, the Clash engaged with the press like no rock group before or since, treating interviews ...Show more
Coltrane on Coltrane - The John Coltrane Interviews by Chris DeVito
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Named one of the best jazz books of 2010 by Jazz Times's reader pollJohn Coltrane created a new sound, a music that had nothing to do with anyone except himself. The path he chose was difficult and risky. Nevertheless, he persisted, and his recordings now stand among the greatest of all jazz achievement ...Show more
Dolly on Dolly - Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton by Randy L. Schmidt
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
"Nobody knows Dolly like Dolly," declares Dolly Parton. Dolly's is a rags-to-riches tale like no other. A dirt-poor Smoky Mountain childhood paved the way for the buxom blonde butterfly's metamorphosis from singer-songwriter to international music superstar. The undisputed "Queen of Country Music," Doll ...Show more
Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters by Jeff Burger (Editor)
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Dylan can be as evasive and abstruse as he is witty. But in the right moments, he offers candid, revealing commentary about his groundbreaking music and creative process. Dylan on Dylan is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of interviews, speeches, and press conferences, as well as exc ...Show more
Dylan on Dylan - Interviews and Encounters by Jeff Burger (Editor)
Category: Rock & Roll | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Bob Dylan proclaimed, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, he has spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world, given numerous press conferences, and even answered listeners' questions ...Show more
George Harrison on George Harrison - Interviews and Encounters by Ashley Kahn
Category: Film | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Grammy-winning author Ashley Kahn has received widespread critical acclaim for A Love Supreme: The Making of John Coltrane's Signature Album and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. Book jacket.
Hendrix on Hendrix : Interviews and Encounters by ROBY STEVEN
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Hendrix on Hendrix includes the most important interviews from the peak of Jimi Hendrix s career, carefully selected by one of the world s leading Hendrix historians. In this book Hendrix recalls for reporters his heartbreaking childhood and his grueling nights on the Chitlin Circuit. He jokes with the ...Show more
Joni on Joni - Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell by Susan Whitall (Editor)
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Few artists are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive poet. She often said she ...Show more
Joni on Joni - Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell by Susan Whitall (Editor)
Category: Biography | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
Joni Mitchell was a solidly middle-class bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive soul. Her earthy, poetic lyrics and the unusual melodic intervals traced by ...Show more
Neil Young on Neil Young - Interviews and Encounters by Arthur Lizie
Category: Music | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
The life of rock's most durable troubadour in his own wordsNeil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty years of conversations, feature stories, and press c ...Show more
Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters by Aidan Levy (Editor)
Category: Biography | Series: Musicians in Their Own Words Ser.
From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," the irreverent opening line to Horses, her 1975 debut album, the punk movement had found its dissident intellectual voice. Yet outside the recording studio--Smith has released eleven studio albums- ...Show more