Simon: 5480 books
by Simon Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
He came from Outer Space...
It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music – the rock god who came from the stars – which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens.
When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy...
Bring the Noise
20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists-Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead-with...
Live At the Brixton Academy
A riotous life in the music business
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid £1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. And now he's telling his story: full of fond - and wild - reminiscences of the famous musicians who played at the venue,...
Rip It Up and Start Again
Postpunk 1978-1984
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations...
Energy Flash
A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.
England, Germany,...
The People's Artist
Prokofiev's Soviet Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Sergey Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century's greatest composers--and one of its greatest mysteries. Until now. In The People's Artist, Simon Morrison draws on groundbreaking research to illuminate the life of this major composer, deftly analyzing Prokofiev's music in light of new archival discoveries....
Everyday Things
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In...
The World Laughs in Flowers
A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In...
The Stone Roses
War and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection.
The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album went double platinum. It was a recording that is still often listed as one of the best albums...
Retromania
Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
One of The Telegraph's 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 albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens...
by Simon Beckett
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Bestsellerautor Simon Beckett von seiner besten Seite: Psychologische Hochspannung der Meisterklasse! Ein abgelegener, heruntergekommener Hof in Südfrankreich. Es ist brütend heiß. Fliegen umschwirren die grunzenden, halbwilden Schweine, die im Dreck nach Futter stöbern. In der baufälligen Scheune...
Mozart in Vienna
The Final Decade
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781–1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes in Mozart's...
How Bizarre
Pauly Fuemana and the Song That Stormed the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
A single song catapulted 26-year-old Pauly Fuemana from the mean streets of South Auckland to global fame, and more money than he'd ever dreamt of. But behind OMC's huge international hit "How Bizarre" and its singer lurked a darker story, fully told here for the first time. Throughout most...
by Simon Critchley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Simon Critchley first encountered David Bowie in the early seventies, when the singer appeared on Britain’s most-watched music show, Top of the Pops. His performance of Starman” mesmerized Critchley: it was so sexual, so knowing, so strange.” Two days later Critchley’s mum bought a copy...