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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A track-by-track history of Michael Jackson's recorded work, Book Two of three - from The Jacksons' 1976 Epic debut to the group's own quiet, valedictory close in 1989 - with the stories behind the songs, the performances that made them legend, and their place in the culture that made, and was made by, them.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A track-by-track history of Michael Jackson's recorded work, Book Three of three - from Off the Wall to Invincible, and the legacy of a body of work - with the stories behind the songs, the performances that made them legend, and their place in the culture that made, and was made by, them.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A track-by-track history of Michael Jackson's recorded work, Book One of three - from the Jackson 5's 1969 Motown debut to the group's bitter 1975 split from the label - with the stories behind the songs, the performances that made them legend, and their place in the culture that made, and was made by, them.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In September 2026 Songs in the Key of Life turned fifty, and Stevie Wonder announced he would play it in full in arenas across Europe and America. This is the story of the nine years that made it possible, told one recording at a time.Between 1971 and 1980, Stevie Wonder did something the music industry had been built to prevent. At twenty-one he cancelled every contract he had signed as a child, walked away from Motown's assembly line, and came back with total control of his own recordings. What he did with it is eight albums that are still being argued about fifty years later.A Promise Made Out Loud examines every one of those recordings in the order it appeared, in the tradition of Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head. Every song gets the facts of its making, the story behind it, what it is actually about, what the music is doing underneath the surface, and what was happening in the world outside the studio door.Along the way it corrects a good deal of what everybody thinks they know. Jeff Beck does not play on 'Superstition.' The logging truck was probably empty. Four of these albums carry no American sales certification, and it has nothing to do with how they sold. 'Knocks Me Off My Feet' is in C major, and what it hides under that unhurried surface would keep a conservatory busy. The plants album did not destroy his career, and the reasons it was rejected have less to do with plants than with what the industry had just stopped being willing to carry.This is a book that takes the music seriously enough to say when a record is not good, and takes the politics seriously enough to explain why the angriest song of the decade was sung over a doo-wop chorus by the Jackson 5.At its centre is one question. How did a man who described the American racial order more precisely than almost anyone still make music you cannot sit still to The answer is that he refused, for nine years, to accept that a life divides into the part that matters and the part that is merely private.A wish is private and costs nothing. A promise is made in public, to somebody, and can be held against you afterwards. For nine years Stevie Wonder made one, out loud, in a form you could dance to, on records that went to number one. This is the story of what it was and what it cost him.Anybody can tell you the world is broken. It takes no particular gift and it costs nothing. What Wonder did was harder: he told you the world was broken, in more detail and with better evidence than almost anyone, and then he made you want to dance. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Amy Winehouse released two albums in her lifetime. Since her death, everybody has owned a piece of her.An estate, a record label, two feature films, a statue, a hologram tour that never happened and a market in her likeness have all claimed her songs, her face and her story. This book goes back to the one part of her she chose to leave: the recordings.Amy Winehouse, Song by Song takes all fifty-one in order, one entry each: who played, where and when, what the song does and what was happening around it. It runs from Frank, the jazz debut she half disowned, through Back to Black, the record that turned her life into daily news, to Lioness, the posthumous album she never sequenced. The B-sides, covers, duets and demos are here too.Five essays carry the argument between the songs. They move from the Anglo-Jewish north London that gave her the songbook, to the Daptone band and the analogue sound that made her a star, to the camera phones that recorded her decline. The last essay asks the question in the title and names the one kind of ownership that was hers alone: deciding what was finished and what was released.The book ends with the confession said on the Day of Atonement, set against her songs.An independent critical study in the tradition of Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, published for the twentieth anniversary of Back to Black. Not authorised by the estate. No lyrics are reproduced.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.