“Jeff Tamarkin is an able guide through the tangled history of one of the Sixties' most musically visionary bands.” — Rolling Stone From a renowned music journalist, a close-up portrait of Jefferson Airplane, chronicling the band's origins in 1965 San Francisco and their role in defining the sound and culture of 1960s and 1970s rock 'n' roll. The most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" virtually invented the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music and, during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, came to personify the decade's radical counterculture and paved the way for other Bay Area music greats, including the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. Having worked closely with Jefferson Airplane for more than a decade, Tamarkin had unprecedented access to the band members, their families, friends, lovers, crew members, fellow musicians, cultural luminaries, even the highest-ranking politicians of the time. More than just a definitive history, Got a Revolution! is a rock legend unto itself.

Internationally known singer/songwriter and guitarist Janis Ian has been writing and recording music since the 1960s. As a teenager, she released her first hit single, the controversial Society's Child." Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Janis Ian had several hit songs, both in the U.S. and abroad, including the Grammy Award-winning "At Seventeen." A respected songwriter, her songs have been covered by Joan Baez, Mel Torme, Cher, and many others. After a nine year hiatus between 1983 and 1992, Janis Ian returned, releasing Breaking Silence. Her most recent record, Folk Is the New Black, was released in 2006, which she supported with a worldwide tour. The Janis Ian Guitar Songbook features 14 of Janis Ian's biggest hits. This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs included. Titles: At Seventeen * Fly Too High * From Me to You * I Hear You Sing Again * In the Winter * Jesse * Joy * Love Is Blind * Ride Me Like a Wave * Society's Child * Stars * Tattoo * The Last Train * The Other Side of the Sun."

Here is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel—and the musicians who bring the music to life. Hentoff has not only loved music all his life, he has lived it by being friends with many of the musicians he writes about in this collection. Hentoff poignantly describes the early days of Roy Eldridge and the last years of Billie Holiday and Bird. He tells amazing stories of the Count, Duke, and Dizzy. "Full of insightful behind-the-scenes encounters" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Listen to the Stories covers new recordings and old legends, remarkable lives and unforgettable music.

To celebrate the centennial of the great American composing team George and Ira Gershwin, we proudly present a resplendent Warren Barker treatment of some of the Gershwin's fabulous hits, including Fascinating Rhythm, Embraceable You, Somebody Loves Me, Someone To Watch Over Me and I Got Rhythm. Splashes of color, charismatic textures, and all of the Barker 'trademarks' are here. A stunning rendition! (duration 6: 40)

Twelve great new songs: Better Off Dead * Big Hat, No Cattle * Every Time It Rains * Going Home * The Great Nations of Europe * I Miss You * I Want Everyone to Like Me * I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It) * My Country * The One You Love * Shame * The World Isn't Fair. Photos of Randy Newman included.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Babs' celebrated CD produced by Diana Krall was a labor of love for both. This folio features fascinating notes on the production, color photos, and 13 beloved romantic standards: Gentle Rain * Here's That Rainy Day * Here's to Life * If You Go Away * In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning * Love Dance * Make Someone Happy * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * Some Other Time * Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most * A Time for Love * Where Do You Start? * You Must Believe in Spring.

Includes a dozen wonderfully sentimental love songs from Barbra's beautiful 1999 album, including: I've Dreamed of You * If I Never Met You * Isn't It a Pity * It Must Be You * Just One Lifetime * Love like Ours * The Island * The Music That Makes Me Dance * Wait * and more. Features Barbra's comments on each of the songs, and lovely full-color photos.

(Vocal Score). The complete vocal score with 15 songs: Chop Suey * Don't Marry Me * Fan Tan Fannie * Finale * Flower Drum Song * Gliding Through My Memoree * Grant Avenue * A Hundred Million Miracles * I Am Going to like It Here * I Enjoy Being a Girl * Like a God * Love, Look Away * The Other Generation * Ta's Dream * You Are Beautiful.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Our matching folio to the 2001 release by this golden-voiced superstar Streisand's first Christmas record in three-and-a-half decades features emotional renditions of a dozen holiday favorites. Includes "I Remember," reworked for Barbra by composer Stephen Sondheim, and: Ave Maria * A Christmas Love Song * Christmas Lullaby * Christmas Mem'ries * Closer * Grown-Up Christmas List * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It Must Have Been the Mistletoe * One God * Snowbound * What Are You Doing New Year's Eve'. Includes photos and an introductory note from Barbra.

When Bob Dylan crooned, "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind," it turned out a lot of people thought he had declared an odd but worthy allegiance to tiny creatures in trouble: "The ants are my friends, blowin' in the wind!" Word lovers, pun lovers, music lovers, slaphappy kids, and everyone with a sense of humor will groan mightily at this collection of just such misunderstood, borrowed, fractured, and pun-filled versions of song lyrics, compiled by two talented humorists, both former International Punsters of the Year.

The must-read music book of the year—and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s. Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars—and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after World War II? The prequel to Bob Stanley’s celebrated Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! , this new volume is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Covering superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra, alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together. Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life—from ragtime, blues, and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning, and beyond— Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers. "An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the twentieth century."—Neil Tennant (The Pet Shop Boys)

Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Memphis, a night in a haunted studio in upstate New York, and a doomed haircut in Thailand to a madcap misunderstanding in a Japanese ski resort, a family feud on a remote coral atoll, and an all-too-revealing appearance for a Sydney charity. PRAISE FOR KILLING TIME: "A moving and deeply felt kaleidoscope of life, love, family, music, friendship and the fragility of time. Barnes proved his storytelling mettle with his memoirs. But in Killing Time he has refined his unique voice with this wildly entertaining suite of tales, anecdotes, observations and reflections that can have you laughing out loud on one page and moved to tears on the next. It is all here, the joys and fears of parenthood, the search for your sense of place, fortune-tellers, the loss of beloved pets, bad golf, ghosts, backstage stories, celebrities, the homeless, and the wonder of being alive, all told with searing honesty. What sets Barnes's writing above the rest is that it comes from an authentic and soulful place. His work cannot help but ring true, like the strike of a tuning fork." Matt Condon "Jimmy Barnes is never a bystander. Stories happen to him. He not only remembers every circumstance, he has the ability to distil the moment in a way that's both poetic and uncontrived. He's funny, chaotic, insightful and heartbreaking. Jimmy is truly a natural-born storyteller. It's like writing has just been waiting for him to arrive. And now, he's here." Mandy Nolan

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The book covers the songs and projects undertaken by the Beatles shortly after completion of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in April 1967. In following ten months, the group wrote and recorded the song "All You Need Is Love" for the Our World TV program that was broadcast by satellite throughout the world, wrote the songs for and filmed the TV spectacular Magical Mystery Tour , wrote the songs for their feature length cartoon film Yellow Submarine , and recorded the songs "Lady Madonna" and "Across The Universe" before heading to India to study transcendental meditation in mid-February 1968. The book covers these remarkable achievements from the British, American, and Canadian perspectives, and includes chapters on the packaging of the albums and the writing and recording of the songs. It also has chapters on how the Beatles influenced our world, the friendly rivalry between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Beatles Saturday morning cartoons, dozens of fan recollections, and more. The book has over 150 images.

(Piano Solo Songbook). 37 contemporary composers chose a song by Stephen Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece. Contents below: Akiho: Into the Woods (Act I Opening Into the Woods ) Bates: Very Put Together ("Putting it Together" Sunday in the Park with George ) Beglarian: Perpetual Happiness ("Happiness" Passion ) Bermel: Sorry/Grateful ("Sorry-Grateful" Company ) Bischoff: The Ballad of Guiteau ("The Ballad of Guiteau" Assassins ) Bolcom: A Little Night Fughetta ("Anyone Can Whistle" Anyone Can Whistle and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Brown: Birds of Victorian England ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird" Sweeney Todd ) Bunch: The Demon Barber ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" Sweeney Todd ) Childs: Now ("Now," "Later" and "Soon" A Little Night Music ) Daugherty: Everybody's Got the Right ("Everybody's Got the Right" Assassins ) de Mare: Sunday in the Park - Passages ( Sunday in the Park with George ) Golub: A Child of Children and Art ("Children and Art" Sunday in the Park with George ) Gordon: Every Day a Little Death ("Every Day a Little Death" A Little Night Music ) Gosfield: A Bowler Hat ("A Bowler Hat" Pacific Overtures ) Heggie: I'm Excited. No, You're Not. ("A Weekend in the Country" A Little Night Music ) Hersch: No One Is Alone ("No One Is Alone" Into the Woods ) Iverson: Send in the Clowns ("Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Kahane: Being Alive ("Being Alive" Company ) Kline: Paraphrase (Someone in a Tree) ("Someone in a Tree" Pacific Overtures ) Leon: going . . . gone ("Good Thing Going" Merrily We Roll Along ) Lorenz: The Worst Empanadas in London ("The Worst Pies in London" and "A Little Priest" Sweeney Todd ) Marsalis: That Old Piano Roll ("That Old Piano Roll" Follies ) Moravec: I Think About You ("Losing My Mind" Follies ) Muhly: Color and Light ("Color and Light" Sunday in the Park with George ) Musto: Epiphany ( Sweeney Todd ) Newman: Not While I'm Around ("Not While I'm Around" Sweeney Todd ) Rakowski: The Ladies Who Lunch ("The Ladies Who Lunch" Company ) Reich: Finishing the Hat - 2 Pianos ("Finishing the Hat" Sunday in the Park with George ) Rockwell: You Could Drive a Person Crazy ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy" Company ) Roumain: Another Hundred People ("Another Hundred People" Company ) Rzewski: I'm Still Here ("I'm Still Here" Follies ) Sharman: Notes on "Beautiful" ("Beautiful" Sunday in the Park with George ) Sheik: Johanna in Space ("Johanna" Sweeney Todd ) Shire: Love Is in the Air ("Love Is in The Air" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ) Speach: In and Out of Love ("Liaisons" and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Turnage: Pretty Women ("Pretty Women" Sweeney Todd ) Vigeland: Merrily We Roll Along ("Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Hills of Tomorrow" Merrily We Roll Along )

Matching folio with 12 songs, including: Dance with the Angels * Falling in Love * Firecracker * Furious Rose * How * I Do * This * Truthfully * and more.

Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, vinyl, and the music press, to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, from Rock Around the Clock to Crazy In Love. It was more than just music - it could be your whole life. Yeah Yeah Yeah covers the birth of rock, soul, punk, disco, hip hop, indie, house and techno. It also includes the rise and fall of the home stereo, Top Of The Pops, Smash Hits and "this week's highest new entry". Yeah Yeah Yeah is the first book to look back at the entire era: what we gained, what we lost, and the foundations we laid for future generations. There have been many books on pop but none have attempted to bring the whole story to life, from Billy Fury and Roxy Music to TLC and Britney via Led Zeppelin and Donna Summer. Audacious and addictive, Yeah Yeah Yeah is essential reading for all music lovers. It will remind you why you fell in love with pop music in the first place.

Voice, piano and guitar (chords only) By Wilco. Arranged by Dan Fox. Pop Rock and Alternative Rock. Songbook. With vocal melody, lyrics, piano accompaniment, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. 152 pages. Published by Carl Fischer Text: Jeff Tweedy. This anthology has 2 of the band's popular titles arranged for piano, guitar, and voice. The songs contained in this 152-page collection come from the five classic Wilco studio albums: A.M., Being There, Summerteeth, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born. The Wilco Songbook is the first time the band's tunes have been available in print form and includes such hits as Box Full of Letters, Casino Queen, The Lonely 1, Via Chicago, Jesus, I'm the Man Who Loves You, and Hummingbird.

"The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking is a masterclass for music lovers. In interviews originally conducted and published in French, Rosen's friend Catherine Temerson asks carefully crafted questions to elicit his insights on the evolution of music-not to mention painting, theater, science, and modernism. Rosen touches on the usefulness of aesthetic reflection, the pleasure of overcoming stage fright, and the drama of conquering a technically difficult passage. He tells vivid stories on composers from Chopin and Wagner to Stravinsky and Elliott Carter. In Temerson's questions and Rosen's responses arise conundrums both practical and metaphysical. Is it possible to understand a work without analyzing it? Does music exist if it isn't played? Rosen takes readers to the heart of the musical matter. 'Music is a way of instructing the soul, making it more sensitive,' he says, 'but it is useful only insofar as it is pleasurable. This pleasure is manifest to anyone who experiences music as an inexorable need of body and mind.'"--

Features 18 songs from the fabulous live millennium New Year's concert event by the incomparable Ms. Streisand, plus her thoughts and reminiscences, and great full-color photos. Includes: Alfie * At the Same Time * Auld Lang Syne * Cry Me a River * Evergreen * Happy Days Are Here Again * I've Dreamed of You * Lover, Come Back to Me * Miss Marmelstein * On a Clear Day * People * Putting It Together * Send in the Clowns * Simple Pleasures * A Sleepin' Bee * Something Wonderful/Being Alive * The Way We Were.

1989, oversize paperback title, Warner Bros. Publications, Miami, FL. 320 pages. Complete song sheets for one of our most important lyricists. Lovely 4-page b&w photo montage, displaying the song writer with some of the most impressive people in the industry. When you talk about songbooks, there aren't many who can come up with All the Way, Be My Love, Because You're Mine, Call Me Irresponsible, Come Blow Your Horn, Come Fly With Me, Day By Day, High Hopes, I'll Walk Alone, It's Magic, The Long Hot Summer, Only the Lonely, Our Town, The Second Time Around, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Tender Trap, Until the Real Thing Comes Along, Where Love Has Gone, and more, lots more. But they're all in here, celebrating the career of a musical giant.