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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson
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Roy Orbison's sudden death in 1988 was regarded by many as the last scene in a tragedy that had already seen his first wife and two eldest sons taken in separate accidents in the mid 1960s.Yet Orbison's life was as triumphant as it was sorrowful. Possessing a soaring, cowboy-operatic baritone, and an immobile, entrancing stage presence, the man Elvis Presley called "the greatest singer in the... Continue »
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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson
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- Released December 6, 2005
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Death Discs is about our fascination with tragedy in song and those artists whose success has been enhanced when they died too young. You would never have believed death could be so much fun.
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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson & Jacqueline Ryan
Music / Radio Book
- Released January 2, 2007
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The full sad, mad, funny story of the ultimate British garage band...The Troggs were the original bad boys of rock: as famous for their expletive-packed exchanges in the studio - 137 swear words in a few short minutes, as captured on the legendary "Troggs Tapes" - as the proto-punk-metal of their classic three chord garage anthems like "Wild Thing" - the ultimate in dumb rock 'n' roll.While other... Continue »
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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson
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- Released December 1, 2005
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An intimate and fascinating account of The Yardbirds' rise from the quiet suburbs of south London to R&B/rock immortality is related with unique style and perspective by music historian and long-time Yardbirds fan Alan Clayson. It covers not just the group's five years of frenetic activity and considerable success in the Sixties, but the subsequent careers of its individual members - including... Continue »
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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson
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- Released June 23, 2006
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This book takes the entire live, loves, art and career of Yoko Ono as its subject matter, and for the first time tells her complete story - from her upbringings in a post nuclear Japan, through schooling in New York and her entry into that city's modern art community, through her move to London in the 1960s and her first meeting there with John Lennon. The "Lennon Years" are covered in detail as... Continue »
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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson
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- Released December 9, 2005
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While Keith Moon will always be known first as The Wild Man of Rock and second as contemporary music's most unique and energetic drummer, such descriptions are far from conclusive. So where previous works have concentrated largely on these aspects of Moon's character, Instant Party: Musings, Memories and Minutiae takes a more rounded view of the man and the circumstances that affected his... Continue »
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Author: Alan Clayson
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By Alan Clayson & Spencer Leigh
Music / Radio Book
- Released March 1, 2005
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It seems that everyone's a "Beatles Expert" these days. And for every one who can reel off the catalogue numbers of all their records as released in Papau New Guinea, there's another who'll claim to know the names, addresses and home phone numbers of all those who attended their first appearance at the Cavern. However, as even a cursory glance through this tome will reveal, much of what has been... Continue »
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By Alan Clayson
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- Released August 28, 2007
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No book on the Rolling Stones is ever considered complete without an overview - even if brief - of the impulses, cicrcumstances and influences that brought the group together. Yet until now, there has never been a study devoted solely to that often ghostly period, detailing what it took for The Greatest Rock'N'Roll Band In The World to smolder into form.Finishing at a point where most Stones... Continue »
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