The Virgin Book Of British Hit Singles Volume 2

Download or read book The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles written by Martin Roach and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Arctic Monkeys and ABBA to the Zutons and Ziggy Stardust, from 'Anarchy in the UK' to 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' - and over 30,000 hit singles in between - this collector's must-have contains everything you could possibly want to know about every single to reach the charts since 1952. Packed full of charts, lists, facts and timelines as well as up-to-date information, extensive cross references and analysis from Martin Roach this is the perfect book for music buffs, downloaders glued to iPods and budding Mark Ronsons. This new edition, previously published by Guinness World Records, is the first to be published under the Virgin brand with a whole new look. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history from industry-insider Martin Roach, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.

Download or read book The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles written by Occ and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in this new series, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is the most-up-to-date and comprehensive record of the music charts available today and a perfect, collectable complement to The Virgin Book of Hit Albums and The Virgin Book of Top 40 Charts. Now improved and fine-tuned, and drawn from the Official Charts Company Data since 1956, The Virgin Book of Hit Singles features the most comprehensive, easy to read, and accessible music chart data and information. It's all here--expanded artist biographies, side notes of interest, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on chart, and weeks at number one. The Virgin Book of Hit Singles is essential reading, and reference, for any music lover.

Download or read book Hit Singles written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side, month by month showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated, it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing, readers will find important facts such as the artist's name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the other side of the pond. Includes an alphabetical listing of song titles with artists, and an alphabetical listing of artists with song titles and chart-entry dates, enabling easy cross-referencing to help you track down any Top 20 record since 1954.

Download or read book British Hit Singles written by Paul Gambaccini and published by Billboard Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Top 40 Charts written by and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1055 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music.

Download or read book Anatomy of a Song written by Marc Myers and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A winning look at the stories behind 45 pop, punk, folk, soul and country classics” in the words of Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper and more (The Washington Post). Every great song has a fascinating backstory. And here, writer and music historian Marc Myers brings to life five decades of music through oral histories of forty-five era-defining hits woven from interviews with the artists who created them, including such legendary tunes as the Isley Brothers’ Shout, Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love, Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz, and R.E.M’s Losing My Religion. After receiving his discharge from the army in 1968, John Fogerty did a handstand—and reworked Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony to come up with Proud Mary. Joni Mitchell remembers living in a cave on Crete with the mean old daddy who inspired her 1971 hit Carey. Elvis Costello talks about writing (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes in ten minutes on the train to Liverpool. And Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Rod Stewart, the Clash, Jimmy Cliff, Roger Waters, Stevie Wonder, Keith Richards, Cyndi Lauper, and many other leading artists reveal the emotions, inspirations, and techniques behind their influential works. Anatomy of a Song is a love letter to the songs that have defined generations of listeners and “a rich history of both the music industry and the baby boomer era” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Download or read book The Official Albums Charts - The Eighties written by Graham Betts and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Official Albums Charts: The Eighties is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week - full Top 75s, chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts, as curated today by the Official Charts Company and available at OfficialCharts.com - and including the Official Compilation Albums Charts from 14 January 1989.This is the first time these Top 75s and Top 100s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Eighties. Additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.