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Music, stage & screen
Ban This Filth!
By Ben Thompson
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
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Train in the Night
By Nick Coleman
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? This book offers an account of one man's struggle to recover from loss of his greatest passion - and go one further than that: to restore his ability not only to hear but to think about and feel music, by going back to the series of big bangs which kicked off his musical universe.
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Dawn of the Dumb
By Charlie Brooker
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Published 01-Nov-2007
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Polite, pensive, mature, reserved... Charlie Brooker is none of these things and less. Picking up where "Screen Burn" left off, this work collects the best of Charlie Brooker's TV writing, together with spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects - tackling topics ranging from David Cameron to human hair.
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Life
By Keith Richards
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Published 08-Jan-2011
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Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.
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Electric Eden
By Rob Young
Paperback
Published 05-Aug-2010
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Documents one of the great untold stories of British music over the past century. This title surveys the visionary, topographic and esoteric impulses that have driven the margins of British visionary folk music from Vaughan Williams and Holst to The Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, John Martyn and Aphex Twin.
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How Music Works
By John Powell
Paperback
Published 26-Aug-2010
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Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're improvising? Or why certain notes sound great together and others clash? This title lets you discover the answers to these questions.
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Thomas Ades: Full of Noises
By Thomas Ades
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Thomas Ades is feted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more than any other living composer to connect contemporary music with wider audiences. This title offers insight into the crucible of his composition.
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Under Milk Wood
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Published 02-Apr-2001
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The 1963 radio dramatization, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices", about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
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Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
By Mark Kermode
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? This title is for anyone who has ever sat in an undermanned, overpriced cinema and wondered: How the hell did things get to be this terrible?
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Full Service
By Scotty Bowers
Paperback
Published 01-Feb-2013
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This bestselling book contains the jaw-dropping confessions of the man who fulfilled the secret sexual fantasies of Hollywood's most glittering stars and royalty.
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