From Jim Marchese's informal backstage shots during the European leg of the 1980 "The River" tour to Neal Preston's amazing documentation of the "Born in the U.S.A." days to Pam Springsteen's portraits showing a side of the musician rarely seen by the public, this is the most intimate look at Bruce Springsteen ever published. The photos and lyrics are accompanied by original commentary by Springsteen, in which he reflects on the songs, the performances, and the quarter-century career that for many defines the American dream.

    In search of the truth about Alma and Alexander Zemlinsky, Antony Beaumont read them and found what he was looking for. But he found far more: the authentic saga of one of the century's most charismatic personalities. The Diaries depict in intimate detail the four years during which Alma grew from adolescence into womanhood. Opening with her first, heady affair with Gustav Klimt, they break off shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler. "To me," writes Beaumont, "reading The Diaries is like raising a curtain, behind which stands the Vienna of 1900 in all its majesty, and so close that one can almost reach out and touch it. The vitality of everyday life, eye-witness accounts of significant artistic events, unique insights into the behavioral patterns and linguistic conventions of homo austriacus all these serve to make the book unique."Having come to grips with Alma's handwriting, Beaumont and his coeditor for the German edition, Susanne Rode-Breymann, added meticulously researched commentaries and annotations. The German edition was published in the autumn of 1997."

    Unfortunately it didn't happen that way. A series of dreadful career decisions, financial blunders and bad records left Otway down but not out. This is his true story in his own words. It is the story of a man who has never repaid a record company advance in his life, once put on a benefit concert for his record company after they had cancelled his contract, and signed himself to the mighty Warner Bros label simply by pressing his own records with the WB logo. This book is Otway's hilarious yet moving account of his insane assault on the music industry, a tale of blind ambition and rank incompetence, and a salutary lesson for aspiring musicians on how not to achieve greatness.

    Yet, while their contemporaries such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash have had their comparatively short careers turned into biographies, the Stranglers' controversial career has remained undocumented. Until now.NO MERCY traces the band's career from their beginnings on the mid-70s' pub rock circuit, to the success of their breakthrough album Rattus Norvegicus in 1977, through the experimental Raven and Meninblack albums, to their early 80s' commercial high point with the beautiful hymn to heroin 'Golden Brown'. Exclusively, the book tells the true story of the departure of lead vocalist Hugh Cornwell in the summer of 1990 before detailing the band's recent career with new vocalist Paul Roberts, as well as revealing the true date of birth (and real name) of the band's drummer, Jet Black, the self-styled oldest man in British rock!David Buckley also looks in detail at some of the darker themes which have recurred throughout the band's career, at their alleged misogyny and their fixation with the colour black, and a macabre negativity which cast a shadow over the group in the early 1980s.Drawing on exclusive photographic material, extensive interviews with the band members themselves, and with those who have worked with them during their twenty-two year career, David Buckley's biography tells the complete and uncensored story of one of the most creative and controversial bands in rock history."

    New material reflects on the tragic death of Carl Wilson and documents the rejuvenated Brian’s return to the boards.

    This is the official book of the Oasis Was, There, Then British-European photo tour, featuring more than 150 color and duotone images. In the few short years since Oasis began their steady ascent to the top, they have become one of the most powerful and popular bands of the decade. The subject of constant media attention, Liam and Noel Gallagher are two of the most recognized faces in the music world. In the midst of this media storm, award-winning photographer Jill Furmanovsky has spent the past two years calmly capturing the band on film: on the road in America in 1995, at their monumental outdoor performances in 1996, in Europe, and in the recording studio during the making of their third album, ``Be There Now.'' Her fly-on-the-wall pictures, along with editorial input from the Gallaghers, reveal a very different story from the usual hysterical headlines. 144 pp 8 1/2 x 10 150 color & duotone photos